Nice results! Can you somebody tell me for what is VID ? What does it tell? On my E6400 I have VID 1.3250V. Is that good, bad,...? Sorry for offtopic.
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Nice results! Can you somebody tell me for what is VID ? What does it tell? On my E6400 I have VID 1.3250V. Is that good, bad,...? Sorry for offtopic.
VID is the stock voltage that intel assigned for stock clocks. If yours is 1.3250v then if you set Vcore in bios to AUTO then the motherboard will read VID and use Vcore = 1.3250v.
well i guess 4GHz is a bit too much to ask from an 8x multi CPU ... but many E6600 cant even get 3.6GHz stable ...
guys what you think will go best a e6600 or a e6420 in a dfi 965-s with crosair balltix 6400 ?
with how bad the e6600 are clocking right now go with the e6420
ah! well... yes, if a 6420 clocks better, it makes more sense.
Both e6420 and e6600 are based on the conroe core. There aren't any differences in featureset or anything. Just "binning" and different multiplier. What you're going on is the hope that the e6420's you can get a hold of are coming from better batches than the e6600's in supply at the moment. However, once e6600 supplies move to the same batch as the current e6420's, then there shouldn't be all too much difference, and theoretically, the e6600's should be better binned. So saying the e6420 is a better cpu than the e6600 is a complete fallacy.
That said, it looks like these e6420's we're seeing at launch are capable of roughly 3.5-3.6 with roughly 1.45-1.5ish volts. Not the greatest results, but better than a lot of what we've been seeing lately, and well welcomed, especially for the price it's coming at.
My e6420 seems to only do 3.1ghz at 1.5v, what a crock of ####. Well at least my ballistix does DDR1050 @ 4-4-4.
I think the problem may be more related to my board than anything. Even when I drop the multi to 6x and try to go above 425 mhz the board wont even POST.
e6420
Asus P5n-e SLi
Crucial Ballistix PC8000
Scythe Ninja, Dual Instances of Prime95 @56C.
my friend got one today , here are the results :
E6420
Watercooled
dfi infinity 965-s
Vcore : 1.50v
http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/1410/6420db3.jpg
:D
update
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9962/3900000fb5.jpg
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=188973
This thread makes me sad :(
Mine was a week 44 G, what are you all getting?
Please post the steppings you guys are getting.
dont feel sad :D , cuz I got just about the same result as yours (also 44G), very stable @ 3.2ghz on my P5B-D (Orthos ran over 8 hours) . Anything higher than that will fail orthos after 5 minutes or less. Only thing I like this cpu is it's running very cool, other than that .. very dissappointed.
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...6420at3200.jpg
the shop where my 2 friends got their E6420 the batch are l651b518
both of them run 3600mhz @ 1.50v 100% stable
and one of them already 3909mhz@1.62v (32c/30c coretemp) Watercooled
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2261/6420bj5.jpg
this batch run very cold
with a simple WC kit at 3700mhz 1.50v (22c/24c coretemp)
regards
Friggin G's :(
I decided to screw performance with this little beast so I clocked down to 3 GHZ with 1.45 set in the BIOS (1.36v LOAD) and I am passivly cooling with a Scythe Ninja, and two Scythe 800rpm case fans. 63 C load dual Prime 95.
My crucial Ballistix is at DDR1000 @ 4-4-4
genuinly respect for that 6420 that is quite cool and has ne mixes power for time the CPU will change
Very surprized to see FEDEX truck here at 10AM...anyhow, I got one from the L644G465 batch. Right now it is runnig orthos blend at 375x8. Temps are ridiculously low at 40C with 1.4vcore. When I first booted this up BIOS indicated 9C and by the time I got into Windows at 1.25vcore coretemp read 14C.
For the hell of it I tried booting at 450x8 at 1.6vcore, NO DICE!!!
I am going to run at 3GHz orthos blend for a while and try again later.
EDIT:::the absolute best I can do is 3.24GHz at 1.475vcore. Any more voltage does nothing. 1.11GHz improvement is nothing to laugh at but still pales in comparison to my Xeon3060.