So the other day I took my friend to microcenter to purchase a new video card to replace his aging X1900XTX and stumbled across a pretty decent deal for an i3 530 for $99. well thats $25 cheaper than the egg, so i picked one up

anyway on to some specifics about this chip. its batch is L939B674 with a pack date of 12/07/09. stock voltage according to what my bios defaulted is 1.1875v and at stock speeds, it idles at 25c in a 21c ambient room under a corsair H50 with 2 fans in push pull.

right now im doing some stock voltage overclocking just to see how far it will go. currently testing the following:

145x22 (3.193ghz)
1.1875v Vcore
1.05v VTT
1.8v PLL
ram at DDR3 870 8-8-8-24 1.65v
Idle temp: 25c/25c
Load temp: 40c/40c

passed 13 minutes of Prime95 in place large FFTs. moving on up 266mhz on the core speed

Linky to a screen shot

32nm is pretty awesome right now! cant wait to see how far it'll go! be back later for some more