Quote - Nice numbers and thats a good deal. I paid $100 used for my Q6600.

I'm sure that DDR3 helps a bit too. what speed is it?

 

I can't for the life of me remember what speed it is, 10666 or 13333.  Regardless, I have it running at 1460 MHz since I had to crank the CPU frequency up so high (locked multiplier). Since the RAM freq is lower than stock I decreased my latency timings to compensate.  I'm using the OCZ memory and it is junk, won't go over 1600 MHz for anything and I think it is not very stable.

I am VERY surprised I was able to beat your times, since we are clock-for-clock.  The Q6600 was a better CPU than mine IMO, it was the competitor to the Phenom IIs.  What do your RAM settings look like?  Even at DDR2 I would think that wouldn't make a big enough difference since the scene was small.  Also, I don't know what your bus frequencies are, but it may help to raise those, then lower your CPU multiplier to compensate if 3.6 is your upper limit. Sorry I can't better explain what I'm talking about, I don't have as much experience overclocking Intels as I do AMD.