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[knopflerbruce]

Oh well, I always wanted to wait until I had like a gazillion insane clocks to show off before making a thread, but because NO bench session can take place without problems that probably won't happen So... I'll just post what I got this weekend, and add more stuff later. I guess that's the best way to do it But first:

Special thanks to:

Michael and Jasmin for being my "CPU slaves" in Germany.

Mr. X for being my "CPU slave" in the States. He should also be given credit for his taste in clothes as he shipped me a VERY nice t-shirt with an AMD logo on it (I'll see if I can post a pic of that one later)

Imsochobo for fixing dryice, a location and lots of other stuff I don't remember right now.

The benching was AM2 only this time, no time for 939 action - will do that later Since AOD didn't work at all with my LP UT M2R I had to use an ASUS Crosshair and a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6. However, the Gigabyte didn't like vcore above 1.6v and can't feed the memory sticks with more than 2.45v or so, so I had to do it old school style with the NF590 board WHich wasn't so easy, as I kept getting bluescreens because of memory problems. Reason: new BIOS wouldn't give more than 1.9v to the sticks, no matter how high you set the voltage. After spending even more time figuring out how to use the /f command while flashing, it was FINALLY possible to run some benchmarks. Here are the scores:

LE-1600 @ 4022MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492744 WR
LE-1640 @ 4017MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492745 WR
LE-1620 @ 3990MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492734 2nd
X2 5200+ Windsor @ 3906MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492742 WR
X2 5000+ Windsor @ 3763MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492746 WR
BE2400 @ 3571MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492157 WR
3200+ Orleans @ 3277MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492732 WR

All of these were on water, except LE1640 (dice), but with snow/ice in the bucket I used as a res No sub-zero temps, but the scores were pretty good anyway. Not so happy with that LE-1620, but I think I can lower the temps just a bit more, as I could run pretty high on 11 multi. Just 5-10 degrees would be enough to kick it above the limit

Some other tests I did:

Pifast:

LE-1600, 31.61s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815532 WR
X2 5200+ Windsor, 32.47s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815543 WR

Superpi 1m:

LE-1600, 21.687s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=783943 WR
X2 5200+ Windsor, 22.172s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815542 WR

Superpi 32m:

X2 5200+ Windsor, 19m 38.078s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815545 WR

I ran out of time (had quite a few chips to test to see if they had potential), so didn't have time for more 32m. However, I think the 790FX boards are a bit faster than this NF590 so perhaps I'll get better times if I can make the DQ6 work properly I did more pifast/superpi than this, but these are the best. Even some wprime32m, but I need vista to get some nice times there. I need like 350mhz more in xp lol.

PS: there are like a million drive strengths in the BIOS of this board, but I have really no clue about what I should set them to Anyone knows what works best for d9gmh/d9gkx? These values go from like 2.00x down to 1.00x (something like that).