Today i have put the watt meter on to the system to try and measure just how many watts these Q6600 Quad core chips are pulling.
I started of with all settings at stock so at 2.4 gig my system booted up and was unloaded at 216 watts, then i ran sp2004 on all for core and this loaded output when up-to 300watts, so a gain of 84 watts from unloaded to fully loaded.
I then measurer the wattage at 4.4 gig with 1.625 volts as this was needed to run prime stable, unloaded there where 246 watts being drawn and fully loaded again on all four cores where 450 watts, so a gain of 204 from unloaded to fully loaded wattage.
So if we look at what we have here from stock settings to overclocked and overvolted the stock unloaded wattage was 216watts and overclocked wattage was 450watts this tells me that from stock unloaded to overclocked/overvolts loaded there has been a gain of 234 watts being drawn from this Q6600 Quad core chip.
I have not done any workings out on the rest of the system, as you know i have two ATI2900XTX cards and Asus P5K3 motherboard and an Antec 1000watt PSU.
But if we take it that a fully loaded unclocked Q6600 runs at 95watts, then the rest of my system is pulling around the 205watt mark, which does not relate to the above as this would mean that i am pulling 245 watts on this Q6600 chip at full load and overclocked/overvolts
So i think it would be safe to say that these chips are pulling anywhere around the 230watt to 250 watt mark when overclocked/overvolts.
I started of with all settings at stock so at 2.4 gig my system booted up and was unloaded at 216 watts, then i ran sp2004 on all for core and this loaded output when up-to 300watts, so a gain of 84 watts from unloaded to fully loaded.
I then measurer the wattage at 4.4 gig with 1.625 volts as this was needed to run prime stable, unloaded there where 246 watts being drawn and fully loaded again on all four cores where 450 watts, so a gain of 204 from unloaded to fully loaded wattage.
So if we look at what we have here from stock settings to overclocked and overvolted the stock unloaded wattage was 216watts and overclocked wattage was 450watts this tells me that from stock unloaded to overclocked/overvolts loaded there has been a gain of 234 watts being drawn from this Q6600 Quad core chip.
I have not done any workings out on the rest of the system, as you know i have two ATI2900XTX cards and Asus P5K3 motherboard and an Antec 1000watt PSU.
But if we take it that a fully loaded unclocked Q6600 runs at 95watts, then the rest of my system is pulling around the 205watt mark, which does not relate to the above as this would mean that i am pulling 245 watts on this Q6600 chip at full load and overclocked/overvolts
So i think it would be safe to say that these chips are pulling anywhere around the 230watt to 250 watt mark when overclocked/overvolts.
