Quote Originally Posted by gmcg View Post
Will post some pictures ASAP. Temps will be available after the weekend, I hope.


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


Thanks, that what I have seen for others ... I will definitely try to run it at 670.
technically, transistors don't reach the magic 5 ghz on water unless the chip is under 0 degrees celcius under load, no matter how much voltage.