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Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:53:20 GMT

Recently i had a discussion with a friend regarding his intel CPU. He claims his Core2 Q6600 only has 2 cores, and that this is some kind of special early release of the q6600. I was under the impression that the Q in Q6600 was an abbrevation of the word Quad and thus the CPU would always be a Quad Core and not a Dual.

Can anyone officially tell if there has ever been a Q6600 dual core cpu on the market? And if yes, why it was named so.

And on a side note, if there never was a q6600 dual core, what would make him believe so? Why are 2 cores disabled?

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:52:29 GMT

Can anyone answer this please?

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:51:42 GMT

Hi,

there is an e6600 which has two cores and there is anIntel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600 which has 4 cores.

There has not been a q6600 with 2 cores. There has never been a q6600 with 2 cores disabled, unless you have bought it form someone dodgy.

"And on a side note, if there never was a q6600 dual core, what would make him believe so?" erm not being funny..well maybe but shouldn't you be asking him that?it's not like we can mind read.....

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:48:02 GMT

hehe i wasnt asking you to read minds =P. i thought maybe there was some sort of hardware issue that would make it seem like 2 cores instead of 4 etc.

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:11:04 GMT

if the CPU was faulty then yes but otherwise no.

Maybe something in the manufaturing as in they make a q6600 but one of the cores is a bit unstable so they disable two and sell it as an e6600....

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:13:24 GMT

But if they had done it officially, the cpu would be marked e6600 and not q6600 right ?

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:59:01 GMT

Yep definately.

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:36:32 GMT

Assuming you had purchased the system at a fair-price, you likely have this Q6600: http://processorfinder.intel.com/Details.aspx?sSpec=SLACR http://processorfinder.intel.com/Details.aspx?sSpec=SLACR

According to the AMD folks, the Q6600 was a dual-dual-core CPU - IE, 2 duo-die-silicon CPU's on 1 chip, oppose to the Core2Quad 8xxx and 9xxx series which are supposed to be 4 logic cores on 1 piece of silicon.

Take this with a grain of salt as it is from AMD... it doesn't change the fact that the Q6600 is still a quad-core CPU.

A friend of mine has had this same chip since it was hot out of the oven, and it's still doing fine.

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:30:08 GMT

Thas interesting =P, but yea regardless of how it was made it would still be a quad core. Are there any officials reading this thread?

I would love to have a definitive answer.

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:16:29 GMT

It is DEFINATELY 4 cores not two i can confirm tthat 100%, it's just that i don't have a signature saying that i work for AMD??!!!

4 chips 1 die

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:59:24 GMT

I believe you mate, and what you are saying is exactly what i have been saying in my discussion. However to be able to "prove" to my friend that there has never

been a dual core q6600, i think i would need someone with that actually signature (intel not AMD prefered =) )

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:11:30 GMT

Q6600 = 4 cores (hence the Q)

There has never been a q6600 with 2 cores

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Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:12:06 GMT

Any better?

The only problem is...how do oyu know i am not lying?

Btw you most prob won't get any one elseposting on this thread as it has been solved and answered.

Furtehrmore you could got to http://processorfinder.intel.com/ or http://ark.intel.com/ and look for the Q6600, or if you really want the q6600 and see the specs there... i mean if that ain't official!!!

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:30:37 GMT

hehe you think almost like me =P. I have already linked this page to him. He claims it's a special edition or something of that drawer, and thus wont be on the general lists.

Im sorry if you felt that i was saying your word isnt good, or that the answers you gave were bad. I agree with you 100%, i was just looking for definitive proof in the matter.

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:46:30 GMT

Don't worry i do actually work for intel and the tech support.

and also ALL the CPUs are in ark, all of them except engineering samples.

And they don't make special CPUs, specially why would they make a q6600 down to a dual core?what would be the point? and if what he was talkng about was an ES, then it would have been a faulty one.

no probs, i haven't had such fun in a thread for a while.

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

MWong22 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:51:07 GMT

i have a Q6600 Es version. all the long, i have been observing this thread for days..

attually Q6600 is truelly a Quad Core. there is no bullshit that Q6600 is call Dual core.. i hope your friend get the fact right.

even if the one if the 4 cores fail to work. it rendered the entire processor fail meaning. the processor will not boot up if one of the core fail because the cores work in series and parallel. bi directional way

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:45:37 GMT

Processor 1 ID = 0

Number of cores 2 (max 2)

Number of threads 2 (max 2)

Name Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600

Codename Conroe

Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

Package (platform ID) Socket 775 LGA (0x0)

CPUID 6.F.6

Extended CPUID 6.F

Core Stepping B2

Technology 65 nm

Core Speed 1596.0 MHz

Multiplier x FSB 6.0 x 266.0 MHz

Rated Bus speed 1064.0 MHz

Stock frequency 2400 MHz

Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T, VT-x

L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

L1 Instruction cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

FID/VID Control yes

FID range 6.0x - 9.0x

Max VID 1.325 V

This is the DXdiag file.

I was under the impression that the b2 stepping was from the e6600? Or is that universal?

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:11:53 GMT

what SL number is that CPU supposed to be? and where did you get it?

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

MWong22 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:23:34 GMT

pls post a picture of the processorhere..

i am very keen to see whats going on ... hehehe

Re: Q6600 Quad or Dual cpu?

idata — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:03:49 GMT

Its not my CPU, a friend owns it and i am trying to convince him that all q6600 are quads. Im afraid i dont have a picture of the pysical cpu, but he tells me it says q6600 on it. SL? im afraid i dont know the term