Either I am blind or the information about this runaway amp thing is not in this thread. How does it show practically?
I just finished my X58 roundup. I tested for max BCLK and measured CPU and memory voltage idle and load. Didnt notice anything suspicious, but when I used the 965 for WCG, it didnt produce a single wrong calculation for 16 hours then suddenly restarted, which is pretty odd as temps were even lower than the day before.
Surprisingly the MSI and Biostar board git the highest BCLK. Biostar up to 222 MHz for 1M, 218 MHz Prime 95. MSI hit 220 MHz Prime stable and 1M stable at the same speed. Asus boards were close. 215 MHz stable, 218 MHz 1M, Rampage II Extreme being slightly worse than P6T. Intel board sucked big time: 185 MHz 1M and 180 MHz Prime. The Gigabyte board refused to boot after making any changes in the BIOS with the 965, while it ran fine on 920. Bad sample I guess, didnt do any further testing.
I cant remember the performance numbers, but P6T was fastest on 32M. 1M was close on all boards. The Biostar was pretty fast for 3D, so was the RIIE.




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