NBBWE 0608 GPMW

2820 @ 1.5v 35c - This is 24/7 level. Rock steady at this setting, primes all nite, but more importantly, plays oblivion at max settings 1600*1200 for 16 hours straight on the weekend. (this game is gonna eat my life) --- I don't have a screenie of this setting but I included one of 2800@1.46v (I upped the voltage to guarantee stability and added 2 mhz on the FSB just to get even numbers with the dividers - not sure if that makes any difference tho)


3000 @ 1.7v - 32m prime stable, can't say if it could withstand anything else. There's no way I was gonna run this voltage for hours to test stability/load temps. Hitting 3.0 GHz was like an obsession to me. It ate me up inside until I could think of nothing else. Strangely though, once I hit that magic number I realized how meaningless it is and I will never run that high again with this chip.



Overall Impression -- In a word, WOW. I prefer this chip over my old opty 165. My opty was not the best stepping. It would do 2.6GHz 24/7, but was quite hot and did not run oblivion as well as the venice. Many people rave about the quickness and multi-tasking of the dual-cores but for me, it's a non-issue. I have so many computers lying around that I have one setup for each task. I just moved so my network is completely down (except oblivion - that was priority ) but my previous setup was one file server that holds my mp3s and movies, One HTPC for the stereo and TV, and one for intensive, time-consuming tasks (burning, decoding etc,) -- why bother with two cores when you can have 2 (or more) whole computers?