Just Got a Q6600! Anything I should know?

Just wondering what people think of their Q6600 and what I should expect. Wanted to get an E8400, but my motherboard couldn't support 45 nm technology.

As long as you have the G0 stepping, I have seen it COMFORTABLY overclocked to 3.6 Ghz with the proper cooling.

I myself have said CPU, but am running it at stock speeds only because it runs great for me at factory settings. Though it would be no issue to overclock because the ABIT IP35 Pro MOBO I have it mounted on allows on the fly overclocking via a dashboard within Windows (but I am hesitant because of the stock cooler on it, even though some have said it will clock to 2.8-3.2 with factory cooler and well cooled/ventilated case, I am skeptical).

But as for the CPU itself, very stable almost whatever you do to it.

I was wondering if I would be able to watch Blu Ray movies. I have a OC 9600GT, 2 gigs of DDR2 ram, Vista 32-bit and now a Q6600. I was looking at some Blu Ray drives on New Egg. I was going to buy one, but wanted to make sure my current rig could handle it.srbbnd

Yeah, in fact i think your GPU would take care of all the work.

Ironically the GPU taking care of it as mentioned above by JSDempsey, is actually the weakest link in your system (I am not putting the card down, it is a good card at a great price), so you should have nothing to worry about. Unless your Motherboard only supports a very slow bus speed you are good.

And if you are considering a BluRay drive, there are combo drives out there that will read BluRay, HDBVDDVD, DVD and CD, and burn BluRay and normal DVD and CD, and at a decent price too. NewEgg has them a LOT cheaper than you would expect.

Seriously, should be no problem whatsoever.

Sweetness. Thanks