QX9650 vs LN2 Round One

[Johnny Bravo]

Had some free time tonite to do a little pre testing of my QX9650 - ups and downs all round

First thing fist chosen rig for tonite is the Asus P5K Premium - running the 204 BIOS for 45nm boost

Mods

• Vcore
• Vdroop
• VDDR
• VPLL
• VNB

2GB Team Group - X300 - alot of Deltas

First hurdle was a MASSIVE cold bug issue - cpu won't boot lower than -76oC cold bug is at around -90oC which limited my overclocks alot

Good news - the cpu itself is pretty damn good clocked up to 5.8GHz

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=390531

Lets get some benching done!

1M


Pifast


WPrime 32M
http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=754760

Wprime 1024M
http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=754764

So it's done well on this platform for the limitation of the coldbug - I may try it on a 790i board to see if I can squeeze out anything more as the P5K does not have any GTL controls which should free up the FSB somewhat.

Stay tuned

John

[sobih25]

Good results. I've played with one qx9650, coldboot -65, so your chip isn't worst ever ;-).

[ataruz]

luck chip Johnny congrats..

[[XC] gomeler]

Very nice chip there! That coldbug isn't too shabby especially given the performance. I have to fight for 5400MHz with my QX

[Oliver]

Sweet work bro...

Sad about cb and cbb..

Keep pushing it...

[TheKarmakazi]

nice going! pretty good efficiency too. waiting to see how GTL helps

[fasttruck860]

Cold boot issues and still 5.8 wow. I wouldn't cry about this chip. Nice pi time.

[scooter.jay]

Waiting for round two see to what happens.