680i chipsets is still awesome >> powering on the quad core era >> XFX 680i vs. Q6600

[dinos22]

G'day fellas

nvidia sent over a new XFX 680i board with D00 revision chipset a few weeks ago. I've been pretty busy with so many different things and whatnot and had not time to stick it on the bench table to see what it's made of

since this board chipset revison was supposedly tweaked for quad cores i thought it would be fitting to test it with a newly acquired Q6600 Quad core G0 stepping

i didn't know what to expect and certainly didn't have high hopes (best way to enter a bench session for surprise factor ).....i had a quick test with the P5B DLX and P5KC boards with this CPU but both boards were FSB limited to around MAX 400.....P35 chipset was a little better so i didn't think i would be able to do much with nvidia chipset paricularly against P35 i thought.

BOY OF BOY was i wrong

here is what i mean

>>> symphy thanks for the vcore pencil mod champ (no droop at all now...or very small one depending on voltage setting in bios.... say 1.568 > 1.560 when set in bios at 1.58x



TEST SETUP:

• Q6600 G0 L727Axxx
• XFX 680i SLI Motherboard
• 2GB Corsair PC10000 DDR2 RAM
• PCI Geforce MX400 GFX Card
• 60GB IDE Drive
• Corsair HX620 PSU >> 620W
• Thermaltake Big Typhoon air cooler
• Windows XP Pro Lite

since i'm not a big 3D bencher (well nvidia graphics card people don't like me i guess ) i tested wPrime which is a nifty little program that loads all cores to 100%.....pretty taxing under load if you've ever benched subzero in particular

So i came up with this

4GHz 1024M wPrime
4.1GHz 32M wPrime

Q6600 L727Axxx

Thermaltake Big Typhoon

20.5-22.5 ambient

Motherboard > XFX 680i D00 revision killer board

also on another note the power supply (Corsair HX620) did not move from 12.07v idle or load even at 4.1Ghz 1.64v going through a quad . Now that's what i call a stable PSU >>> i've also benched high clocks under DICE with dual core and quads ....really like this PSU
















great work XFX & Nvidia

[dinos22]

i stuck a dual core chip in this motherboard and thought i update here

this chip clocked higher on this board than any intel i tried it on so far

Anyways so i just wanted to roughly get an idea where it's stable at 4GHz clocks















and then i bumped it to 4.3GHz and did a 32M SuperPi

[doghouse]

Nice work Dino, my Rev A1 EVGA 680i is chugging along beautifully with my 3.9ghz G0 Q6600, only needs 1.475v to be 3dm06 stable. Whats more the volt mod has worked like a charm . To get 4.0ghz stable takes a big jump in volts to 1.57-1.59v, ah well, Im not complaining

[dinos22]

Nice work Dino, my Rev A1 EVGA 680i is chugging along beautifully with my 3.9ghz G0 Q6600, only needs 1.475v to be 3dm06 stable. Whats more the volt mod has worked like a charm . To get 4.0ghz stable takes a big jump in volts to 1.57-1.59v, ah well, Im not complaining

nice man you have a lovely CPU

post some screenshots

you board's a bit of a squealer yeah have you tried to find out here whether you can do some mods to stop it from squeeling under load >>> my one is not making any noises at all.......but the LT version of XFX i tested earlier in the year did squeal....

[doghouse]

Will do, gotta run some benchies this evening, looks like I will be trying WPrime for the first time.

[dinos22]

Will do, gotta run some benchies this evening, looks like I will be trying WPrime for the first time.

and then submit some scores for the i4memory HWBOT Team

[justin_c]

when will this board be out? (to the public)

[dinos22]

when will this board be out? (to the public)

D00 has been out for ages man lol

D00 and A1 revisions are quad core optimised

[Ic3man]

N1 Dinos!

I take it you have seen this thread

Lots of good advice in here which you could share - not an EVGA you have got but all reference boards are the same.

[dinos22]

i guess if i had any advice it would be not to overdo voltages.....give just enough

i'll share mine when i boot the machine on next bench session...atm some family priorities are more important

[Chosen.]

TEST SETUP:

• Q6600 G0 L627Axxx

Is this correct? Were there G0's back in July last summer?

Nice cpu though

[justin_c]

WHAT! I thought the only revisions were A1, TR, T1 (OEM).

[shimmishim]

WHAT! I thought the only revisions were A1, TR, T1 (OEM).

you're thinking of eVGA boards.

[shimmishim]

@dino is your board the -ISH or -ILT? and do you think there would be a difference assuming the same revision?

[Don_Dan]

That is exactly the kind of thread I want to see!

Keep it coming!

[pmp]

G'day fellas

nvidia sent over a new XFX 680i board with D00 revision chipset a few weeks ago. I've been pretty busy with so many different things and whatnot and had not time to stick it on the bench table to see what it's made of

since this board chipset revison was supposedly tweaked for quad cores i thought it would be fitting to test it with a newly acquired Q6600 Quad core G0 stepping

Nothing really impressive
http://strony.aster.pl/pmpcfg/PC/ASU..._FSB458x11.jpg

[Leeghoofd]

mad pmp, any news of Striker 1401 bios ?

[dinos22]

Is this correct? Were there G0's back in July last summer?

Nice cpu though

hahaha LOL looks like you are the only one reading my thread hahahahahh need to fix that

@dino is your board the -ISH or -ILT? and do you think there would be a difference assuming the same revision?

i am not sure what you mean >>> if you mean whether it is a full version or LT i say FULL

That is exactly the kind of thread I want to see!

Keep it coming!

cheers

[dinos22]

Nothing really impressive
http://strony.aster.pl/pmpcfg/PC/ASU..._FSB458x11.jpg

air cooled

[shimmishim]

yes dino i was asking if it's the regular one or the LT one... i guess it's the regular one!

[dinos22]

yes dino i was asking if it's the regular one or the LT one... i guess it's the regular one!

i tested the other one too LT >> it was a piece of shyte heheh

[annaconda]

I see in the first picture you have couple of CPUs under the monitor and one of them is lapped. What are those ? Quads ?

How can i found out that my XFX 680i is DO, it is their version of EVGA's A+.

Can you post the settings of your BIOS?

[dinos22]

will do when i fire it up next time

but i can tell you now that you have to me careful how you set volts to get sorts of results

i couldn't do much past 3.6/3.7 when i went all out initially


also those CPUs you see are my monster E6700 which i will write about some more in a few days and the other is Celeron460ES i haven't had time to test just yet

[noroger]

What temps are you getting @ 4GHz?

[dinos22]

What temps are you getting @ 4GHz?

i think from memory around 65-68 loaded with wprime