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what kind of phase chang do you have?
cascade.
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Were did you get the cpu if I may ask or did you get it from a Dell or something?
from the newegg refurbs about 2-3 weeks ago.
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What kind of cascade? Does someone have one off in Alaska or did you buy one?
2 stage. nope, came all the way from las vegas. long trip.
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what temps did you get under load?
No idea, the Abit AS8, doesn't read below zero temps, and I don't have a temp meter at the moment, like I said, just kinda winging it at the moment.
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is that a chilly1 cascade?
it sure is. hell of a machine too.
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Any plans of changing the board?
honestly, I don't know yet. I need a lower multiplier CPU so I can find out what the real limits of this motherboard are, cause with high multipliers, I can definatly say its a great board, but needs alot of mods to get good.
at stock, this board is one hell of a piece of junk, worst droop I ever saw on any board, ever.
luckily, most of the mods for this board are extremely easy. ;)
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Is that a retail chip? what does it do on default vcore? and whered ya get it, egg? and last, hows the performance with no HT?
lots of questions, give me a second here.
no it's not retail, it's OEM, came with nothing, just a plain white box.
I don't know what it does on default Vcore, but I can say, the very first time this CPU booted up, I said "what the hell" and took it from 20x133, to 20x200 at 4 ghz, default vcore, and installed windows, on air, no problems.
I barely mess with default Vcore so far.
yes it came from newegg, in the refurbs.
performance without HT is lacking in some benchmarks, like PCMark2004, Cinebench and a few others, so it's kinda disappointing in those, but overall, I can barely tell the difference between this CPU, and another with hyperthreading, so honestly I really don't miss it.
Update from today.
just spent the last 6 hours messing with a broken 6800.
it has a missing cap, and doesn't overclock for a damn without the cap.
I got this card in a trade, so I am rather pissed a the moment.
the card works, but does not mod to 16 pipelines without checkerboard effect, and it doesn't overclock at all, 340 on the core, and 800 on mem is all it does... extremely disappointed.
I still have a AIW 9700 pro here, but that card really isn't any fun to play with. but this broken 6800 is definatly on its way back...
so I dont have much to show for 3d other then a CPU bench I did of 3dmark2003 in which I got a 1217 at 5.1 ghz with the 5:4 divider, on the 9700 pro...
so not much new to show...
really bummed about this DOA 6800.
I really need to get a decent videocard.... that works.
I can do 20x250 and get some really great car scores.
so I am definatly impressed with this CPU, but the videocards are another story all together.... :(
