Initial 955XE PCMark05 results

[mike]

Very nice chip FCG- TY!! Doesn't do too well on air ( Miami tropical air...) - compared to the other 2 I see here on XS - but under cold it does fairly well.

I haven't even touched the limits - since I basically can't get a reboot done @ -40C without the motherboard going on strike. Not sure if it is the 606 bios - or the board is just a dud- well was a egg refurb - will have to look for another one soon...

Incredible chip - so far it has been the most exciting CPU I have been playing with in a while. The overclocking potential is just amazing.

Compared to an X2 @ 3.3GHZ the chip is doing about 400-600 points more PCmarks wise - but like I said - I don't think that this is nearly the limit of clocks that I reached so far and the differnce could become bigger.

I have a feeling 3DMarks wise the X2 could potentially be stronger- but I will look into that in the next few days.

The HDD socres were I-RAM but can be beaten with a serious U320 array and some deep tweaking - which also helps more on virus scan than I-RAM. My 2nd channel died for some reason and now 40mb/s is max I could get on XP start-up - until I get the LSI repaired...

The ram - can't talk too much about it yet - but i can go to a much higher level if pushed on voltage some more - 1040mhz DDR2 was the max @ 4.3.2.4.2 with 2.25V ( Bios 2.3V) on the stock mobo



SuperPI should be easily in the 20s and lower- was not optimzed just a quick run to see how far I could go