Quote Originally Posted by mrcape View Post
Mav451 - Unfortunately I jacked the chip a bit up and I can't get that data from the perspective of a fresh, undamaged Q745A576 chip. I'm sure that before it was damaged it could do 4.3ghz with one more notch, maybe 1.29v. I say that based on the way it scaled up to 4.7 only needing 1.41v max.

All I can present for results are what I recorded before or after it degraded. 4.25ghz with 1.28v was the highest point where I stress tested the fresh chip. Now that same clock takes about 1.32v to be prime stable, but it is Priority 9 10k fft stable for hours. The reason for the drop is because I drank beer and beat on it one night trying to get the most out of some 3dmark. pfff

The gobs of voltage thing makes me cringe every time I see it! Some of those probably would have been stellar if treated properly. But to each his own you gotta do it to get the hwboints.

I'm already on the hunt for another Q745 still in the box unopened.

Eh? What vcore and mhz caused it to degrade? I thought anything below 1.4v load was supposed to be safe?