in a nutshell, the Pro board is good as the IX38....almost same clock for clock as far as overclocking...the Pro is holding its own.
i wasn't able to bench very much on the IX38 before i killed it!
i guess the biggest surprise is that there is no idle Vdrop on these 45nm processors...the 16.b03 bios is not indicating and reading the correct vcore...BUT...Uguru is spot on with setting and reading the actual vcore.
the only Vdroop was when i was running a bench like wPrime 1024M which is like a mini P95 run...it puts all 4 cores to 100% while running the computation.
the Vdroop for the Pro was smaller at the lower end of vcore and grew ever so sligthly as i increased the vcore...the IX38 had a 0.03 vdrop pretty much across the spectrum of vcore values...during a bench, the pro had 0.04v load Vdroop while benching at 4.0Ghz...the idle vcore was 1.28v...when i was up to 1.55v, the Vdroop was 0.05.
really not bad and i presume similar results will be attained for the Q9xxx series processors...probably even better for the dual core 8xxx series.
NOTE: i used the 8800 GTS video card at default clocks..otherwise, i would have busted 70K on 3D2001 bench
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