Nicely done Charles

Last night I was playing around trying to get some sort of result out of my cards after two previous nights of wasted benching time and motherboard horrors with beta BIOSes trying to get something stable with the Yorkfield + high FSB.

Everything came crashing apart night before last when the GA-X38T-DQ6 went out with a pop and it's soul puffed out into the surrounding atmosphere.

So last night, pissed off and just wanting results, I swapped in the GA-X38-DQ6 with the F5h BIOS loaded and cranked the multiplier just to get something happening with this setup. Here's what happened:


System:

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 @ 4.66GHz cooled by Frozen SS phase cooler
GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 with BIOS F5h
Corsair Dominator PC2-10000 @ 533MHz (DDR2-1066) 4-4-4-4
NVIDIA reference 8800GT @ 760/1701/1025 (2050 effective) with stock cooling and 169.01 drivers
Silverstone OP1000 PSU
Western Digital Raptor-X HDD

3DMark06 result: 16,357



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Casualties:

1x GA-X38T-DQ6 replaced with GA-X38-DQ6



After getting angry with having no results the platform was moved to the GA-X38-DQ6. Further wanting to simply get results, I avoided the annoyance of FSB overclocking and instability and just cranked the multiplier for some quick results. The memory and general bandwidth of this sytem is quite low for this reason.

There is a lot of efficiency and general extra speed to be gained from this setup. Next step is to get some volt mods happening and get some dry ice on these cards - they're great fun

Due to currently being on deadline at work (AtomicMPC magazine) I hadn't a chance until just now to see these results and had thought I'd scored myself a WR but you certainly showed me up mate

Hopefully I'll get another chance with the gear over the weekend and can get some decent FSB and memory frequencies happening.

BTW, what BIOS did you run on the P5E3 Deluxe? I got the 0508 BIOS earlier in the week but am yet to test it. If it's a winner I'll make a swap to that board for weekend benching with a set of Patriot PC3-15000 modules or the Corsair PC3-14400 that just arrived an hour ago