Retail QX9650 on water results!

[fallwind]

See my sig for the test setup. All results are atleast 30min quad Prime stable, no suicide CPU-z or 1M runs here. CPU was purchased as OEM and is a week 39A. Ambient temp is 20c.

stock idle temps:
http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/stock_idle.JPG

stock load temps(small FFT):
http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/stock_load.JPG

I'm not sure what it up with core 0 temp being 5c higher. I'll reseat the block later on.

3600MHz at stock vcore:
http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/3600.JPG

Just installed this CPU like an hour ago so definitely stay tuned for more! :up:

[Movieman]

Congrats! You know what I want to see..
What will it do loaded 24/7 on water?:D
Best of Luck with this!:up:

[georgesod]

How much m8? Wish u a 4400 for 24/7

[fallwind]

Absolutely MM! :) This thing has got to fold 24/7 or it's of no use to me...lol!

georgesod,
$1170 Canadian which is about the same in USD. Only 1 or 2 places in Canada got stock of these so I scooped one up quick at launch.

[Movieman]

Absolutely MM! :) This thing has got to fold 24/7 or it's of no use to me...lol!

georgesod,
$1170 Canadian which is about the same in USD. Only 1 or 2 places in Canada got stock of these so I scooped one up quick at launch.

My guess is at 4000 it will do close to 20K a day in WCG..
At 4500 it will out do my clovers at 3000..
That's what I think, not know.
Your job, Mr.Phelps, should you decide to accept it(Mission Impossible) is to see if my thinking is right or in the toilet!:D

[Yoxxy]

I have mine running at 4200 stable on water. They start to get very hot over 4000 mhz.

[fallwind]

My guess is at 4000 it will do close to 20K a day in WCG..
At 4500 it will out do my clovers at 3000..
That's what I think, not know.
Your job, Mr.Phelps, should you decide to accept it(Mission Impossible) is to see if my thinking is right or in the toilet!:D


I'll post some BOINC benches with XP Pro and Vista x64 once the OC is finalized.

[JAG87]

lets see some >4 ghz prime stable shots!

[Movieman]

I have mine running at 4200 stable on water. They start to get very hot over 4000 mhz.
WCG?:D I know, I'm a persistant SOB but I'm honest about it!:wasntme:

I'll post some BOINC benches with XP Pro and Vista x64 once the OC is finalized.

good luck!:up:

[BNDMOD]

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[CrashOv3r1De]

Looks like this going to be an interesting thread, good luck with the cpu :toast:

Looking for some > 4Ghz 24/7 stable and some 3dmark runs

[fallwind]

3800MHZ, had to bump vcore a tad.

http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/3800.JPG

[iadstudio]

can you run some sort of bench so we can see what it'll do as it scales?

[nachthymnen]

Go go:up:
Next week I'll receive mine:D
Can't wait 1 more week:(

[Omastar]

I wish I was getting this for Christmas, but I'd rather not ask for one very expensive present like that. ;)

Good luck, I'm sure it'll do 4GHz PRIME stable.

[dinos22]

I wish I was getting this for Christmas, but I'd rather not ask for one very expensive present like that. ;)

Good luck, I'm sure it'll do 4GHz PRIME stable.

easy

probably top out around 4.2-4.3 range :D depending on how much voltage he wants to give but they will take just about anything heheheh
if he is prepared for more then 4.4 wouldn't be out of the question if the chip is very good :)

[Omastar]

Do they really get significantly hotter over 4GHz, dinos? In your experience, that is.

[fallwind]

4000MHZ, vcore set to 1.35 in BIOS. I'll save the benches and Pi runs for later when I bring the FSB and RAM up to speed. Right now I'm concentrating on what the CPU can do.

[dinos22]

Do they really get significantly hotter over 4GHz, dinos? In your experience, that is.

no they don't
not sure who told you that

but i benched mine on single stage (ES one) and compared to E6750 it idles lower by 1C and under load it's about 1C higher (evap temps i am talking about)

we are talking about 4.8Ghz OC here with 1.76V in both CPUs :shocked:

the chip is REALLY cool :up:

[dinos22]

4000MHZ, vcore set to 1.35 in BIOS. I'll save the benches and Pi runs for later when I bring the FSB and RAM up to speed. Right now I'm concentrating on what the CPU can do.

impressive to say the least :clap: :up:

[nachthymnen]

This chip is cold:D
Did you "touch" the GTL voltages?

[fallwind]

Board voltages are all stock for now. 4.2 is giving me some headache because core 1 keeps crapping out. I'll keep pushing though.

[Yoxxy]

no they don't
not sure who told you that

but i benched mine on single stage (ES one) and compared to E6750 it idles lower by 1C and under load it's about 1C higher (evap temps i am talking about)

we are talking about 4.8Ghz OC here with 1.76V in both CPUs :shocked:

the chip is REALLY cool :up:

Not on single stage, I am saying they start to get core hot over 4.1-4.2 ghz. The heatload isn't the problem. That is easy to maintain, but for AIR/Water the coretemps start to get high 50's low 60's over 4.1+ ghz with 1.40v+.

Tested 3 chips and all have exhibited the same characteristics.

[Crazypinoy9]

this is awesome....my ss phase is gonna love this chip!

anyone looking for a QX6850 or a QX6700? LOL!!!! j/k

[dinos22]

Not on single stage, I am saying they start to get core hot over 4.1-4.2 ghz. The heatload isn't the problem. That is easy to maintain, but for AIR/Water the coretemps start to get high 50's low 60's over 4.1+ ghz with 1.40v+.

Tested 3 chips and all have exhibited the same characteristics.

i understand

that is still very cool yoxxy considering the overclock but i see where you're coming from :)

lucky bugger tested 3 already heh :)

[metro.cl]

Really nice test 4.2GHz for stability

[Nate P.]

Oooo, awesome results! Penryn is looking REALLY good right now...

[DarthBeavis]

If they would release a Striker Extreme bios update I will pop mine in a see how far I can push it . . .no cascade tho . . .only single stage.

[egandt]

I ahve one on water running at 3.88 at 1.3125 or 1.295 in Windows XP x64 stable for over 4 hours with 4x copies of Prime95, my problem is that my MB a Maximus Formula will not allow me to set the CPU ratio in bios, jusr does not show the option, so I'm stuck with 9x430 which is a problem, both for RAM speed and also for stability as any FSB over 434 causes prime95 to instantly crash, although super pie 16M works fine at that speed.

I've gotten Windows to boot at 1.325V as high as 4400, but then I encountered the multipler problem, have have not been able to switch back to 11x on the CPU yet.

ERIC

[CrashOv3r1De]

Awesome results my man :toast: i was originally going to get a q600 for my new rig but now i want a penryn

[CoW]8(0)]

Since when did MBM support 4 cores?

[GAR]

wow, 4ghz with 1.3v??? thats insane!!!!!

[fallwind]

^^Since someone wrote a coretemp plugin for it. Google should be able to find it for you.

4200 looks like the end of the road as far as Prime stable goes. I'm up to 1.4625v in BIOS, 1.45v failed after 20min. Core 1 is the weak link. The other 3 will prime away happily even at 4400! :(

[CrashOv3r1De]

2GB or 4GB ram?

[fallwind]

^^2gb.

4200MHz, end of the road as I don't feel comfortable pushing the vcore or temps any higher. 1.4625v BIOS, 1.42v real, seems like I may have run into a CPU-z bug in that regards.

Check out the FSB and multi though! :D Now I'm off to setup the RAM OC and make sure it'll pass some large FFT as well. Benchmarks to follow.

[rbsmontemor]

That's great!!! What's max. fsb??

3dmark06 now hahahah

Congratz.

Rbs.
:wave:

[dinos22]

^^2gb.

4200MHz, end of the road as I don't feel comfortable pushing the vcore or temps any higher. 1.4625v BIOS, 1.42v real, seems like I may have run into a CPU-z bug in that regards.

Check out the FSB and multi though! :D Now I'm off to setup the RAM OC and make sure it'll pass some large FFT as well. Benchmarks to follow.

excellent
bump the vcore to 1.47v for 4.3Ghz now :D

[fallwind]

I tried 489FSB and it wouldn't even post, atleast not with stock MB voltages. So it looks like these 45nm quads have similar FSB limits as the 65nm Kentsfields.

[JAG87]

nice results

looks like 4.4ghz is a long shot. might be doable with more voltage, but it isn't really safe.

[rbsmontemor]

I tried 489FSB and it wouldn't even post, atleast not with stock MB voltages. So it looks like these 45nm quads have similar FSB limits as the 65nm Kentsfields.

Sad :( I have no money for one of those babes. Going to buy a Q9550...8,5x multi :(

Rbs.
:wave:

[Movieman]

I tried 489FSB and it wouldn't even post, atleast not with stock MB voltages. So it looks like these 45nm quads have similar FSB limits as the 65nm Kentsfields.

Hey, 4200 ain't bad..Like a Kents at 4600+ and thats nothing to sneeze at.
My Q6600 will do almost 4100, maybe more with a more knowledgeable person doing the tweaking and you kill it's performance with that Yorkie!:up:

[hecktic]

go sub zero temps now!

[DarthBeavis]

I can't even get to boot into windows . . .BSOD over and over . . .try to manually set the Vcore in bios and the bios freezes . . .need new bios!!!!

[kmtyb]

I have mine running prime stable at 4.2GHz with core voltage around 1.49 with core temp not going higher than 68.

[ShambleS]

were the ones using a Q6600 previously able to run at the same fsb when overclocked on the QX9650.
Or does one of them have a lower FSB?
(does the extra multiple on the QX9650 get hindered by a lower max fsb?)

And has any one used the QX9650 on a 800mhz system and if so what was the overclock you managed to achieve?

Nice over clock by the way, I only ever managed 3.9 on my pentium D and then it wouldnt boot windows. so ended up with 3.705.
My Q6600 i cant get above 300x9. " i think 300mhz on the cpu maxes out my boards fsb."

[nachthymnen]

I tried 489FSB and it wouldn't even post, atleast not with stock MB voltages. So it looks like these 45nm quads have similar FSB limits as the 65nm Kentsfields.

Well 489FSB for a quad it's :eek: :up:

[chatmaster]

great work, I'm loving the yields on these new chips. cant wait till the mainstream chips come.

do you know what the heatspreader is like? is it flat? or ...

[Family man 72]

How about trying multi 11 and lower fsb??

[fallwind]

Well, 467x9 wasn't stable either. As soon as I fired up large FFT's it BSOD'd and corrupted my OS! :shakes: Took most of the night to get it back working again. 420x10 is no problem so I'll stick with that. I'm off to bed, gonna let it run Prime in blend mode and then run some benchmarks later on.

[CrashOv3r1De]

Very nice results. 4.2Ghz is great for day to day use who we kidding and those load temps are fine for daily use as well. Congrats m8 :toast:

What were your ram settings/timings/etc while you were testing the cpu out

[fallwind]

RAM was 1:1 5-5-5-15 2T, so it's way underclocked. At 420x10 my best option is 1050MHz with the 4:5 divider and using the 266MHz FSB strap.

[CrashOv3r1De]

Thanks for the info, let me know what the new timings will be and what cpu clock you will be running for 24/7

[Slay0r]

Cpu-z 1.41 (http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-141.zip) should be able to read vcores above 1.4

good clocking :up:

[kiwi]

Non XE quads will be starving for high FSB. 9x is minimum for these

[JAG87]

4.2 Ghz is nothing to sneeze at. I would say its the average for these retail XE chips, with some of them hitting a bit higher if one is willing to give it more than 1.45v. It comes down to how much 1000 dollars is worth to you :)

ps. kiwi I heart your avatar

[egandt]

Mine on Water does about 4070MHz Prime95 Stable at 1.375 (1.360 under load), I was unwilling to go any higher on the voltage. As for Super PI I can complete that at the same voltage as above at up to 4300MHz, but prime95 crashes after about 1 second, as soon as I exceed 4070MHz

ERIC

[fallwind]

Time for more screen shots! :D The pics are pretty big so I'll just link 'em.

First out the gate is 15 hours of P95 on blend at 4200MHz. (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/15h_prime.JPG)

Then some Super Pi action! (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/superpi.JPG)

Gaming benchmarks:

3DMark05 (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/3d05.JPG)
3DMark06 (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/3d06.JPG)
Crysis GPU and CPU benches (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/crysis.JPG) 1920x1200 all high settings, no AA.

Sisoft Sandra benchmarks

Arithmetic (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/arithmatic.JPG)
Memory Bandwidth (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/bandwidth.JPG)
Intercore Bandwidth (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/intercore.JPG)
Memory Latency (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/latency.JPG)

BOINC Benchmarks:

XP Pro SP2 x86 (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/boinc_bench_x86.JPG)
Vista Ultimate x64 (http://www.tempo-topaz-performance.com/QX9650/boinc_bench_x64.jpg)

[hiwa]

cool one :shrug: :shrug:

[CrashOv3r1De]

Awesome, hope you're happy with it!

[Dede99]

45nm is really great hope they come soon out here in EU :) gues I'll get one.
Have fun with it BRO

[CERO]

nothing to disappointing about it, great clock for 24/7 use, very promising those Yorkies, not so long ago the g0 kentfield impressed me and now the yorkies takes the quad cores to a new level:shocked: