Comments on: My new silent computer (Intel Quad Core Q6600)

By: anon

anon — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:10:11 +0000

You shouldn’t get air from the back it will be hotter because of the psu

Air should come from the front and/or sides and out the back and/or top

By: nima0102

nima0102 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:44:21 +0000

Hi
Thanks for sharing your experiences
I want to buy new system that its CPU is q6600. of course my purpose for buying this system is low price :) Are there many differences between this model with new model from Intel company ?
in addition to, usage of this system is as desktop with some virtulization for running 2 or 3 OS simultaneous (Xen technology)
Thanks for any guide or suggestion :)

By: Prashanth

Prashanth — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So, I’ve also been thinking about replacing my 3 year old desktop and I priced out your configuration in the US and it looks to be within my budget. Can you let me know (directly or via your blog) what OS (if Linux, what flavor) you installed and issues you may have encountered? Also, I’m quite interested to know how the quad core performs. Up to now, I’ve always built AMD based machines (better price/performance), but I think Intel has surpassed AMD at this point. Thanks and I look forward to hearing more about your new machine. Oh, BTW, pictures would be awesome too.

By: Jkx

Jkx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I run Ubuntu 7.04 (now 7.10), and Windows XP SP2

I run into issue with the ethernet, the audio, and the ATI of course (for linux) but this will be a future post.

The quad core perform quite well.. it's really a speedy box. It run WoW at max quality (1680x1050) for 50FPS.. and this is really pretty. On the linux side, using 4 core is great, but now the OS need to be tweaked in that way. I can't compare with AMD cause the only one I get in hand right now is a AMD64 (single core) so ..

As said, I will post a more detailled info on the motherboard as soon as possible, and pictures should be on the road too. Wait 2/3 days => use the RSS feed :)

Bye bye

By: tyjer

tyjer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Jkx. Hâte de voir tes photos. Un disque SATA sous nunux est énuméré comme un IDE, (hda par ex) ou SCSI ou c'est une autre désignation ?

@bientôt

By: dav

dav — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

your cpu heatsink is on backwards..

By: Jkx

Jkx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To Dav, I know that in fact.

The supply fan pull the air out of the box.. and the cpu fan push air from the back hole to CPU. It's work fine like this and avoid to heard the air flow. The CPU is really fresh anyway, the main issue for that config, is the GPU which is a little hot.

By: jove

jove — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,

You have engineered an interesting combo. Actually, I was also thinking of using a quad core Intel Q6600. I am using Debian, so I hope it works as well as Ubuntu (unless they have made distribution specific changes to the kernel?). You mentioned the kernel needed some tweaking. Where are you thinking of? Do you use a precompiled kernel? (Sometimes I see people refer to the AMD64 kernel for Intel quad cores?!?)

I will stay tuned for more experience notes from your hand.

Thanks.

By: Jkx

Jkx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To Jove: The generic Kernel works fine on this mobo. In fact, the latest Ubuntu Kernel 2.6.22 fixes the sound issues. There is still a bug with Windows which disable the nic, but this can be fixed on the windows side ..

A lot of people talks about AMD64 kernel on the Q6600, because they want to use it in 64bits mode.. so they need to use a 64bits distro. And the only one on the debian world is AMD64 one. So they install the AMD64 distro version on the Q6600, but this way the kernel handle the 64bits, and the userland stuff too. That's it. In fact the AMD64 distro has a wrong name, it should be i386-64 .. Check the debian page for more explains..

Another tips, I bought the V1 of this mobo, but take care that the V2 is a bit different..

By: Drill

Drill — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'm looking to build a similar system myself, based on Ubuntu 7.10.

I wasn't sure about getting an ATI card though due to previously reported compatibility issues with Compiz etc.

How much did this setup cost you?

TIA