Old + New - Conroe E6600 + X850XT

[mike]

Tonight I wanted to have some good ol' oc'ing action , with my still favorite videocard - the X850XT PE.

Conore + new drivers help this "ancient" X850XT PE to shine yet again:


M/B: Gigabyte G-965-DQ6
CPU: X6600 B1 STEP 5
CPU Cooling: Single Stage Chilly1 Phasechange
Memory: 2x1024MB
VGA: X850XT PE 672/642
VGA VCore+Vdimm = 1.57V / Stock Vdimm
VGA cooling: Stock ATI fan/heatsink
Power Supply: OCZ 520
Vcore: 1.580V Vdimm: 2.3V, Vmch: 1.6V(BIOS), OS: Windows XP PRO



3DMark05: 9,288 points ( 486FSB- 4374.2MHZ )



3Dmark01: 55,787 points ( 486FSB- 4374.2MHZ )

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9016767







Tomorrow I think I will do the Vdd and Vddq mods - and give the core some decent cooling. Hopefully scores will dramaticaly improve!

So much fun benching this rig!!!

Here a comparo to a Conroe @ 4.4GHZ with dual 7900GTX SLI'd. X850 is not looking too shabby in this case!