E8500 Q740A493T retail chips on Corsair Nautilus water and Single Stage quick tests

G'Day guys

Here's a couple more Aussie E8500 little battlers in addition to eva2000's thread as they are the same stepping ;)

just a bunch of randon benchmarks to give ya some idea where they're at :)

Test Configuration:
Asus P5E3 DLX DDR3 Motherboard (0903 bios) R.I.P. :(:(:(:(:(:(
Gigabyte X38-DQ6 DDR2 Motherboard (F3 bios) on Single Stage
2x Intel Core2 Duo E8500 Q740A493T
2GB DDR3 1800MHz CAS7 Corsair Dominators
2GB DDR2 1250MHz CAS5 Corsiar Dominators
Single 8800GT PCIe 2.0 512MB Graphics Card (Stock cooler)
Corsair HX620 Power Supply
Corsair Nautilus 500 Water on CPU
Blackbox C-BuZz SS Rotary on second part of the tests
80GB SATA Hard Drive
Windows XP Pro 32bit



here's my first chip in Aussie summer ambients ;)



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HAVE A LOOK AT THE SECOND CHIP I BOUGHT :D >> looks at the vcore :shocked: :D


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some interesting results on SS Rotary

i took screens of the vcore drop and temps during 3DMARK06 CPU tests at 5050Mhz with 1.58v loaded :D

SS cooled -43C on evap load -45C idle

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absolute best FSB i can get out of SS cooling and 9xmulti

need that half a multi :(

45K efficiency too :D

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just trying to get a chip that can give me the FSB for some 5.7GHz + action
SO FAR NO LUCK FINDING THE RIGHT FSB CHIP :(
LET ME KNOW IF YOU'VE GOT ONE

I would give someone my E8500 gem chip in exchange for high FSB one >> need 580+ 32M SuperPi air stable chip 20C+ ambient minimum

Hi dinos,

nice cpu (the second), can you tell me the batch and vid? (CoreTemp 0.96) :)

Regards
Chris

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Hi dinos,

nice cpu (the second), can you tell me the batch and vid? (CoreTemp 0.96) :)

Regards
Chris

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batch was the same

VID i donno i think it was 1.112 or something like that

will check it out next time i bench

A beautiful chip you have there very nice pi score :slobber:

Thanks for sharing.

Did the better chip bench 3d stable at 5.2Ghz?

how you get .5 Multi is it the board?

Nice dinos... shame you can't use 9.5x multi :(

Tried using crystalcpuid's intel speedstep control to change ratio in windows ?

For VID in coretemp it ain't accurate as VID value changes with cpu multiplier used heh

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Thanks for sharing.

Did the better chip bench 3d stable at 5.2Ghz?

how you get .5 Multi is it the board?

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i need half multies and it will bench past that easy but still no reliable bios from GB

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Originally Posted by eva2000

Nice dinos... shame you can't use 9.5x multi :(

Tried using crystalcpuid's intel speedstep control to change ratio in windows ?

For VID in coretemp it ain't accurate as VID value changes with cpu multiplier used heh

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it doesn't work if i select FSB in bios only in stock with new modded bios files i got from GB

lol basically a E8400 for now, the second chip looks incredible.

Try it on a Foxconn Mars i got 20MHz more than on my P5K3 Deluxe on the FSB.

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Originally Posted by metro.cl

lol basically a E8400 for now, the second chip looks incredible.

Try it on a Foxconn Mars i got 20MHz more than on my P5K3 Deluxe on the FSB.

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funny you should mention Foxconn Mars
T_M is trying to bench an E6750 i had on SS with my gigabyte board past 600 (actual 2D/3D benchmarks) and he only managed a suicide screen on Mars at 578MHz :rofl: ...that's a good 30-40MHz below this board :D

so for now no thanks for Foxconn Mars for me
hopefully they have a better X48 board heh

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funny you should mention Foxconn Mars
T_M is trying to bench an E6750 i had on SS with my gigabyte board past 600 (actual 2D/3D benchmarks) and he only managed a suicide screen on Mars at 578MHz :rofl: ...that's a good 30-40MHz below this board :D

so for now no thanks for Foxconn Mars for me
hopefully they have a better X48 board heh

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hmm weird, maybe Mars is tunned better for 45nm parts. I have had so many nightmares with Gigabyte i wont ever use them again :shakes:

P.D. you can always try

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hmm weird, maybe Mars is tunned better for 45nm parts. I have had so many nightmares with Gigabyte i wont ever use them again :shakes:

P.D. you can always try

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yes you really need to know what bios to use

i've had a lot of experience with them now and i can tell you GB boards lose no respect next to any other top performers

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i need half multies and it will bench past that easy but still no reliable bios from GB

it doesn't work if i select FSB in bios only in stock with new modded bios files i got from GB

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so why not use new modded bioses ???

btw how long did you run 4000mhz at 1.232v orthos for eventually >5min ?

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so why not use new modded bioses ???

btw how long did you run 4000mhz at 1.232v orthos for eventually >5min ?

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i have the new modded ones but the half multi doesn't stick in windows if i select FSB in bios :down:

i didn't run orthos any longer than the 32M run

it was just quick testing that's all before it moves to SS
but if it fails in an hour or so it's still a remarkable chip that would only need a small bump

when i get a chance i will try to do some more testing on water

as soon as i get a half multi board i'll throw this little sucker on the chip

F1 eXtreme Edition CPU pot by k|ngp|n

WHAT A POT PPL :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

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work of art from Vince what can i say :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Wow looking good, nice POT :) Looking forward to see what yopu can do with the .5 multis

Dino... I'd like to speak with you on messenger sometime soon I think ;)

Seems Australia is one of the only places you can get 'em E8500's, and they're at 349 Australian $, thats the price of E8400 in Denmark... :(

I think I'd like such a CPU if you can pick one up for me ;)

PM me your messenger if possible, catch you in the morning then (+1GMT)

australia has zero stock in all shops now from my conversation with one store this morning :(

looks like Intel is punishing us for early retail sales :shrug: :( or maybe just lack of stock worldwide donno

Same here in Romania... all sold out. I was lucky i found the last one today :D

Do you remember how much SPI 1M clock you could give it on air? I was wondering how your Q740 compares to my Q745.

Edit: forgot you are stuck at 9x multi...

I wanna see M.beier bench that e8500 he's attempting to buy combined with this fine example of ram overclocking he previously did.
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dinos that pot is smoking! pun intended :slobber:

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australia has zero stock in all shops now from my conversation with one store this morning :(

looks like Intel is punishing us for early retail sales :shrug: :( or maybe just lack of stock worldwide donno

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yes stock in oz dried up.. still some E8500 around if you want to pay AUD$390 for them though heh

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yes stock in oz dried up.. still some E8500 around if you want to pay AUD$390 for them though heh

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who'd want to encourage thieves

i'm sure they'll still sell them quick :down:

Thank you trans am :toast:

dinos & Eva
hehe, just FYI 390$ is more then 35 AUD cheaper then what it'll cost in DK :(

E8400 is about 310 AUD in DK... Horrible HW contry..

But Im probaly gonna buy one, a HW store claim they got them stock today (25th, but its 4AM - just me being up late)

Then I'll just buy one... Eventhough its extraordinary expensive :/
and I just got a.... 1000 AUD ticket... Might even loose my licens... Freaking civil police caught me with about 60% past the limit on the highway :shrug:

Life's a b1tch, but hey, one kinda gets use to it :rolleyes:

got another board to test these on

this one's a bit of a mutant :D

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OMG, is that a X48 DQ6 labeled as a X38 board? I bet that ain't a retail board.

If I remember correctly, the first X48 boards used the PCBs of the existing X38 boards, and there were stickers put on them to label them as "X48".
Maybe they developed a new X48 PCB and use it for their X38 boards too, in my opinion it doesn't make sense to produce two PCBs for almost the same chipset, and all functions that are different between X38 and X48 boards depend on the binning of the chipset.

Maybe dinos22 can shed some light on it!

they were expecting to retail X48 soon hence the new PCB
but this is an X38 board and chances are if you buy one today you will most likely end up with the same board ;)

I over clocked E8400 @ 4.2ghz Vcore 1.60, NB @ 1.65, SB @ 1.20 the rams 1240mhz @ 5-5-5-18 2.32v dual prime95 4 hrs stable.This set-up work very well effectively. The concern is why at 1.60 vcore? I've seen overclockers doing less vcore at this Ghz speed i.e vcore 1.40-1.55? Is there something I'm missing or is possible I need a new PSU single rail @ 90amps? Check Sig below:) :)

not all CPUs overclock the same

some need more volts than others besically

your chips is not that great if it needs some much voltage

but hey 4GHz+ is awesome isn't it :D

Seriously? The goal is to hit 4.5ghz which probably requires 1.75v!! or more! I'm beginning to feel the heat up here. How can I have a bad CPU? maybe a new BIOS might help?:shocked: