Quote Originally Posted by raju View Post
If Intel send me a Q6600 I'll be happy to test one, we are at Intel's mercy. I run Prime95 Torture Test (not small fft or even large fft only but BLEND) and state 8 hour test pass limits and provide the bios info (just as I did in the review on page 11). Everyone has their own stability regimen, I run Prime95 for 8 hours on blend for that stuff. The rest is for users who are not concerned about Prime95, like many of the more extreme guys, so it's all about doing a little for everyone. That's all I have time to do (I can't work more than 20 hours a day), with the reviews being so comprehensive. There's only so many people we can keep happy. Sorry if this does not please you, but we have to draw the line on each section of testing based upon time, I think we are already exceeding most. Not only that, but we also realise that no matter how much we do there will always be someone who wants more or someone who wants it in faster time with less overall info (yes we do get requests both ways).

regards
Raja
I do fully appreciate your work, no doubt. Prime95 Blend is a good test for all the subsystem stability. Thought you were on small or large FFT which won't enlighten the weakness of the RAM-board at high overclocks. So it is just great.

No need for a Q6600, I can understand it. But as you do, your QX6800 at 9x multiplier is the best choice you did to satisfy all the performance thursty, but poor people not affording an extreme CPU, we all are. So, it is just great how you bench and the CPU/test bed you used

The only thing, I'd like to find in your tests, is the maximum stable overclock, not only a useless unstable maximum FSB at a low CPU clock. But again, it is "what I like", and you do the best you can already. So, just take it as a constructive comment, a suggestion, and I fully respect all your decisions