First of all I have really to thank my friend Rollo, for his QX6700 (ES B0)...he was curious of what it was capable of with a s.s. phase cooling...and I always love to bench...
Test setup:
mainboard: BFG nForce 680i, bios P25
CPU: Rollo's QX6700
RAM: 2x1gb Teamgroup SuperOC
VGA: BFG 8800 GTX OC
HDD: Barracuda 7200.7 80 Gb
Cooling:
Dimastech s.s. phase on CPU
Ybris K-7 + Microcool chipsink on 8800 GTX
fans everywhere..
I'm quite happy about this number: I spent my small free time during weekend getting angry on insulations, on the 8800 GTX that seemed not to clock so well as I expected, on the QX which is limited to 310 Mhz FSB and 13x Multi (damn...if I set 14x or above mobo doesn't want to boot at all...) and to understand where was the limit of the Quadcore i haven't tested yet.
Yesterday evening everything was quite good. I made some previous tests to understand the max. frequency of the Quad (damned CPU test of 3dm06 asked me for 1.65V -1.6 real- to run smoothly), then I put on the 8800 GTX and started.
qx@3900 (300x13) and VGA@default = 12700...ok..seems it's in average...let'see where we can go.
I began from 650/1100, the top i measured before, even if it seems to me that 650 is really a low GPU freq.
Well...asnwer is: more than 14000 pts...wonderful..
so i began clocking the core again....and finally the limit is 685 Mhz
I push the quad to 4013 and that's all folks:
I'm really happy....even if yesterday i was 14th on hwbot, and today only 15th...but if I take a look here:
I see many "legends" before me and staying, even for a while between the top 20 is a nice feeling, after months passed by.
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