680i chipsets is still awesome >> powering on the quad core era >> XFX 680i vs. Q6600

[dinos22]

G'day fellas

nvidia sent over a new XFX 680i board with D00 revision chipset a few weeks ago. I've been pretty busy with so many different things and whatnot and had not time to stick it on the bench table to see what it's made of

since this board chipset revison was supposedly tweaked for quad cores i thought it would be fitting to test it with a newly acquired Q6600 Quad core G0 stepping

i didn't know what to expect and certainly didn't have high hopes (best way to enter a bench session for surprise factor ).....i had a quick test with the P5B DLX and P5KC boards with this CPU but both boards were FSB limited to around MAX 400.....P35 chipset was a little better so i didn't think i would be able to do much with nvidia chipset paricularly against P35 i thought.

BOY OF BOY was i wrong

here is what i mean

>>> symphy thanks for the vcore pencil mod champ (no droop at all now...or very small one depending on voltage setting in bios.... say 1.568 > 1.560 when set in bios at 1.58x



TEST SETUP:

• Q6600 G0 L727Axxx
• XFX 680i SLI Motherboard
• 2GB Corsair PC10000 DDR2 RAM
• PCI Geforce MX400 GFX Card
• 60GB IDE Drive
• Corsair HX620 PSU >> 620W
• Thermaltake Big Typhoon air cooler
• Windows XP Pro Lite

since i'm not a big 3D bencher (well nvidia graphics card people don't like me i guess ) i tested wPrime which is a nifty little program that loads all cores to 100%.....pretty taxing under load if you've ever benched subzero in particular

So i came up with this

4GHz 1024M wPrime
4.1GHz 32M wPrime

Q6600 L727Axxx

Thermaltake Big Typhoon

20.5-22.5 ambient

Motherboard > XFX 680i D00 revision killer board

also on another note the power supply (Corsair HX620) did not move from 12.07v idle or load even at 4.1Ghz 1.64v going through a quad . Now that's what i call a stable PSU >>> i've also benched high clocks under DICE with dual core and quads ....really like this PSU
















great work XFX & Nvidia