Quote Originally Posted by waytoosmall View Post
I will be interested to see temps and how you mount this...
Will post some pictures ASAP. Temps will be available after the weekend, I hope.

Quote Originally Posted by mcoffey View Post
gl on that 5.0 Ghz mark. If you make it, you'll be the first one on water. 4.0-4.2 is pretty easy, but the clocks don't scale very well with added voltage over that. I can't see 5.0 happening on water no matter what rad you use, but I'm egar to see you do it.

Be careful you don't fry the CPU trying. Anything over 1.60-1.65 and your on risky ground, and I don't think you'll touch 5.0 with that. Even that voltage would scare the hell out of me. I have mine at 4.2 @ 1.448 volts, and that's as far as I'm going to puch it for 24/7 use.

gl,

andyc
Thanks for your input, andyc, 5GHz is not a goal to run with WC stable 24/7 (IMO it is impossible with WC), I just want to try to reach that limit, but it will be definitely limited by the power supply voltage, I will not go over 1.7V for that result - whatever it will be possible to reach is going to be fine.
And it will be just a test result, I am going to run the CPU at 4.2-4.5 GHz 24/7 ... depends on the voltage results.

I have found quite interesting info on the power consumption of QX9650, my assumptions were wrong, it consumes <150W only before 4 GHz, after that it consumes significantly more.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=3184&p=2

Quote Originally Posted by disruptfam View Post
thought it was stable but need extra V.so i backed it down to 670mhz on the core. stable now
Thanks, that what I have seen for others ... I will definitely try to run it at 670.