camouflage's first impressions of a godlike QX9650 week 39

[neoman]

That is insane! Lucky bastard

[camouflage]

That is insane! Lucky bastard

Haha - c'm on mate, had always bad luck before picking up the crappy ones or paying too much for pretested.

So I think it is time for me............

[3oh6]

Haha - c'm on mate, had always bad luck before picking up the crappy ones or paying too much for pretested.

So I think it is time for me............

i hear ya. everyone deserves a good chip once in a while and i have had an un-usually long and bountiful string of un-lucky chips...hopefully that changes with E8500/E8600s. you just happened to get lucky with the right chip...nothing could be worse than spending a G on a CPU and getting a dud.

BTW, any idea of what max FSB is on air/water with your beast? i don't think i have seen any screens showing that particularly but may have missed it.

[heydo6]

did i read you have 1.47v and 1.4v under load ? does your board have that bad of vdroop ? i thought asus has damper or something that stops vdroop ?

if so that is where your prime stable problems are .

nice chip !!!!

[JAG87]

that is not totally accurate!...you can still have a successful run with P95 and fail in playing games and folding...P95 is NO guarantee that you are TRULY stable!

many failures like, BSOD or a freeze can be caused by memory issues, ie, timing or insufficient voltage.

i can tell you are a Prime 95 fanatic!

hehe, I don't overclock ram, ever. for me its either the cpu or the motherboard, and it rarely is the motherboard. when you run small FFT, its either the CPU or the mosfets that are bombing, both of which mean I gotta turn it down a notch on the cpu. I never push my motherboard to high FSB levels, I am very conservative I just increase the FSB to open up the memory bandwidth a bit.

so you can see where my P95 fanaticism comes from. if its small fft stable, its stable

[camouflage]

i hear ya. everyone deserves a good chip once in a while and i have had an un-usually long and bountiful string of un-lucky chips...hopefully that changes with E8500/E8600s. you just happened to get lucky with the right chip...nothing could be worse than spending a G on a CPU and getting a dud.

BTW, any idea of what max FSB is on air/water with your beast? i don't think i have seen any screens showing that particularly but may have missed it.

Yep - just one quick test with 1.400 volts for You - not maxed out... :

did i read you have 1.47v and 1.4v under load ? does your board have that bad of vdroop ? i thought asus has damper or something that stops vdroop ?

if so that is where your prime stable problems are .

nice chip !!!!

Nope - no Vdroop in da house....., where did You get this from? So far I did not feed the chip above 1.448 volts at all......

[Den Leiw]

lawl it says socket 370

but congrats on that chip, it really is a gem

[camouflage]

lawl it says socket 370

but congrats on that chip, it really is a gem

Yep - also lost L2 cache............

[camouflage]

Here's another nice one - 460FSB / 4.6Ghz / 1.440 Vcore :



Finally broke 11GB/s Copy.............

[M3kk]

Use this : http://www.lavalys.com:8081/beta/eve...fj4k0xzqsg.zip .

Nice chip.

[camouflage]

Use this : http://www.lavalys.com:8081/beta/eve...fj4k0xzqsg.zip .

Nice chip.

Thanks for the link !

[KTE]

Very nice bro.

What was your stock voltage and VID?

What's the idle and load stock power consumption?

Stock idle and load temps (cooling/case/fan speeds/ambient)?

4GHz how many volts are needed for 8hr P95 stability and the temps?

I hope 4GHz sub 1.45V 24/7 solid is achievable. Worth the price then.

[Hornet331]

nice chip, mine sucks ass.
heats like a mofo and need tons of voltage, anyways what version of coretmep your using x.x.6 or x.x.4?
When it is x.x.4 add 5K to your temp readings.

[nachthymnen]

Good chip
Same batch as mine

A fast test with liquidcooling, not push the cpu to the limit:


This is with Tuniq Tower:

[Hornet331]

1,632V at air... hmm, care to show everest core temps?

btw. mine is a L739A648 and is a "dog", batch says crap about how this cpu perform.

[KTE]

4.8GHz at 1.6 air

1,632V at air... hmm, care to show everest core temps?

LOL, I'm going to ditto this

[Justifire]

Haha, same italian ebay shop?

[xgman]

Good chip
Same batch as mine

A fast test with liquidcooling, not push the cpu to the limit:

What vdimm are you running your ram at to get 4-4-4 stable?

[camouflage]

Very nice bro.

What was your stock voltage and VID?

1.2500 stock and 1.1375 VID

What's the idle and load stock power consumption?

Never ran the chip at stock speed..., first boot 10 x400

Stock idle and load temps (cooling/case/fan speeds/ambient)?

See above

4GHz how many volts are needed for 8hr P95 stability and the temps?

Didn't try it so far - but I'll check it one day - btw I usually run 3-4 hours........

I hope 4GHz sub 1.45V 24/7 solid is achievable. Worth the price then.

I can run 4.6GHz at 1.44 - not prime, but stable for working so I see no problem in a 4GHz run prime sub 1.25.

[KTE]

Well there's your luck made: it's all in the stock VID.

Try and do a power consumption test idle/load at whatever speed/volts please. Also if 4GHz is that easy you may do the P95 3-4hr at those MHz, why not

You made a good observation about CoreTemps. People are using it whilst its reading lower than ambient with these new chips which is obviously wrong. I saw a review saying Wolfdale was 22C idle air with 25C ambient, LOL.
It would be minimum 10C higher if even that.

Thanks for the feedback!

[camouflage]

O.K., how about 10.5x450 at 1.488 volts........ :



Sadly only 1M - but I'm working on it. Happy new year party to all ppl here around...

[Hornet331]

lol so much crap running in the backgorund, disable it and im sure you can get a better time with spi.

[camouflage]

lol so much crap running in the backgorund, disable it and im sure you can get a better time with spi.

Sure - no 1M time hunting yet, need stability for 32M...........

[Hornet331]

i see, good luck with it.

[marauder16]

hehe, I don't overclock ram, ever. for me its either the cpu or the motherboard, and it rarely is the motherboard. when you run small FFT, its either the CPU or the mosfets that are bombing, both of which mean I gotta turn it down a notch on the cpu. I never push my motherboard to high FSB levels, I am very conservative I just increase the FSB to open up the memory bandwidth a bit.

so you can see where my P95 fanaticism comes from. if its small fft stable, its stable

hm, that is not true completely. I ran 8*443 for testing and it would pass an hour of small fft but would block at running half an hour of DotA


camouflage, man sub 10sec SPi with so little work , it really is you get what you pay for, of course there's a bit of luck there.
when you get sober after the new year-party give it more volts and test it a bit more for stability
enjoy your miracle chip