Quote Originally Posted by LarsMarkelson View Post
Nice chip Sam... X5650, that's exactly what I want for the SR-2

I may have missed this but how much did that cost you?

Also, any special reason for running 22x multiplier? Looking on wiki it looks like the X5650 can do 23x... odd > even, or so I've heard...
SR-2 was the plan, but it is not out yet.

Yeah, according to Intel this has a "Max Turbo Frequency"=3.06 GHz and this means 133x23 Multi, but my BIOS says max x22. So either the retail CPU has changed, or it is a BIOS-issue. I would really like to try x23, but can't select it for some reason.

Cores seams to be easy to control and stabilize with low-volts, but the challenge is to stabilizing the Uncore for high BCLK>200 without too much VVT for 24/7 use. Because the Uncore is locked on x20 on this CPU (at least it seams so for now). So higher multi with x23 would be a great help for getting these chips in high frequency, actually.