Originally posted by: Schmide
I give the chip 4 months...
Originally posted by: Reven
I've actually had the chip since 2007 and its served me well. I dont see why you'd feel it will die in 4 months, after all its not as if the PC is at 100% load the entire time and most of the time its under 75C. Even then, in games I dont think all 4 cores are used...
The G0 stepping is still a 65nm quad-core. As I recall, the Intel "safe-range" spec has an upper-bound of 1.50V.
I've had my B3-stepping twisted up to around 1.43+, and others -- still here and among us -- told me back in late '07 that you COULD risk frying the chip for going about 1.47V. [But the very honorable sage who told me this seemed to have more fried motherboards and memory modules, and still swears he never killed a CPU with his extreme overclocking.]
Now as to Reven's temperatures. You're peaking out at near 80C from the core sensors, which would make me a little uncomfortable. However, the thermal spec is based on the TCASE sensor, and the TCASE sensor should be reporting around 10C lower than the core-temperature average.
I'd have to go back and check to see how much the thermal spec of the G0 differs from the B3 -- the latter being around 63C. But I THOUGHT that the G0's thermal spec is closer to 72C. I KNOW that 72C is the thermal spec for Wolfies and Yorkies. You should check it out. The G0 has a TDP thermal wattage of about 95C -- lower than the B3.
I'd say that staying within the voltage spec and staying within the thermal spec -- you should get a lot more than four months -- likely more than four years.
But that's no certainty, and that's the risk we take, dude!
EDIT: UPDATE: Here you have it, Dude.
Q6600 G0 spec summary
71C is the TCASE thermal spec, and the voltage range tops out at 1.5V.