looks like a bunch of us who got the first batch of shipments in the US ended up with L718A chips. thought it might be useful to see what kind of results we're getting out of this batch.
L718A190, pack date 6/27/07 - have to admit i am fairly underwhelmed so far. first stabilizing at 9*400=3.6Ghz. chip can survive basic usage at voltages as low as 1.35V but won't stand a chance in a long torture test (dual orthos + 3dmark06 loop + hdspeed). needs about 1.425V before torture tests pasts, and i haven't even had a chance to verify that past about 4 hours yet. so far this could pass for a decent E6700.
gets fairly hot too - core reaches some 58C after hours of torturing, of course that is on air and in closed case, as those are my constraints for this system.
oddly enough it looks like it can stand torture at 9*367=3.3Ghz at nice low voltages e.g. 1.275V, which gives some much better temps. for some reason this thing seems to want exponential increases to voltage past 3.3Ghz. but there is a lot of tweaking still to be done so i won't be writing it off yet.
other results?
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