Official Intel Gulftown (Westmere) Overclocking and Batch Tracking Thread

[Sam_oslo]

^^ You have several good points there.

Benching is always fun and good to push it to the edge, but it is not a good Idea to push the system to the limits for 24/7 use, specially for heavy duty systems, because you get some extra power-usage and heat overhead to deal with.

These 6C/12T CPUs are monsters even at moderate OC, and it is always a good idea to play safe until we get to know these chips, and what kind of torture they can take for 24/7.

I've been doing some overnight 3D-rendering on my X5650 @3.8Ghz 1.21v VVT=1.32v, and it is much faster than my good old w3250 @4.2GHz 1.20v. And now, the Load-temp is almost the same as the Idle-temp as before
These X56xx chips will shine in a double socket MB, and I'm waiting for EVGA RS2 before I seriously try to kill it.