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A quick go with a Q6700 GO stepping...(inconcusive) not 56k friendly ..

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A quick go with a Q6700 GO stepping...(inconclusive) not 56k friendly ..

I briefly had my hands on a Q6700 GO stepping last night (by mistake, but thats another story) :p .

I thought it would bit rude not to give it a very quick test, though it didnt go so well tbh.


My pc wouldn't turn on initially with it, all I got was mobo capacitor squeels and then the pc turned off. I threw my E2160 back in and updated my vanilla P5K to the latest 0603 bios and then it booted fine. Even though it is a Q6700 (10x266) it ran on my pc at 9x266 by default thouht it let me raise it to 10x in the bios :confused:

Here I fired it up at 3.2Ghz and ran a little prime to see the temps.
It was going a few minutes before I remembered I had a quad core and dual prime wasnt going to push it lol

Shot at 2007-07-12
 
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A quick go with a Q6700 GO stepping...(inconclusive) not 56k friendly ..

The highest it would load to windows with stock volts was 3.5Ghz, it failed to a 3.6Ghz.

I raised the vcore to 1.45v and it loaded windows fine so I thought I would try some quad prime, this is where I found a weird bug which I didnt have time to figure out how to fix.

All ready to go with the priming @ 3.6Ghz


Shot at 2007-07-12

Here it is priming, but notice the clock speed, its gone back to stock clocks , its like a reversed speedstep :confused:


Shot at 2007-07-12

I tried many different speeds and it always did this. With any kind of load the speed fluctuated between stock and the set speed.
 
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I ran a few benchmarks and it underperformed for the clockspeed.

Nuclearus


Shot at 2007-07-12

IT should really be at the top of the leaderboard in this thread.


I ran a 3D mark 06 too with my 8800 GTX running 620/2000 and got 13267 marks Which again is kinda low compared to similar spec in THIS thread.


You will probably want to know that the highest I could boot at was 4Ghz but this wasnt even stable enough to take a screen shot, the highest I have proof of is 3.96Ghz. I don't think curing any of my problems would make this any better, i think its just the limit of the chip...



So pretty inconclusive, i hoped to have a better night with it but the speed problems spoiled that, Its most probably a bios issue though rather than the chip though.

I don't have the chip anymore to do anymore testing.
 
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Gonzo0 said:
Was this ran under stock cooling or your water cooling?
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This was under water cooling. I really wanted to see the temps compared to the B3 stepping but because it seemed to be changing clock speed I doubt mine are correct.
 
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soo 3.9Ghz stable eh? not bad. I was expecting it t break the 4Ghz mark stable but 3.9 is plenty fast :p

Definately an improvement over the current revision :)
 
Gonzo0 said:
soo 3.9Ghz stable eh? not bad. I was expecting it t break the 4Ghz mark stable but 3.9 is plenty fast :p

Definately an improvement over the current revision :)
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3.9Ghz was not fully stable, it was good enough to run super_pi etc but rebooted with 3D mark 06 :p

It seemed relatively stable at 3.78Ghz but i couldnt test with orthos, plus the volts were quite high ;)

I didnt seem to need much vcore to get to 3.6Ghz but over that and it needed far too much.
 
Jokester said:
Hmm that's disappointing then.

Jokester
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Definately not what some people were suggesting they could do, then again mine could be a dud, but most ES chips are usually amongst the best clockers.
 
Devious said:
Definately not what some people were suggesting they could do, then again mine could be a dud, but most ES chips are usually amongst the best clockers.
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Some of guys over at XS were saying that they're ES chips weren't any faster than the retail ones they had hold of, it could just be down to a flaky BIOS I suppose.

Jokester
 
Could this G0 revision just be a marketing ploy by intel to try and boost sales (not that they need it). People are going to think "ooo a new revision i bet its better than the old one" then it turns out to be performing the same as the current revision.
 
Gonzo0 said:
Could this G0 revision just be a marketing ploy by intel to try and boost sales (not that they need it). People are going to think "ooo a new revision i bet its better than the old one" then it turns out to be performing the same as the current revision.
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Im sure it will bring temps down a bit but I think people are expecting them to also clock much higher but Im not sure thats the case. The dual core 6*50 chips seem to have benefited more from the new stepping.
 
Devious said:
Im sure it will bring temps down a bit but I think people are expecting them to also clock much higher but Im not sure thats the case. The dual core 6*50 chips seem to have benefited more from the new stepping.
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Are they:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17753617

If you ask me them temps in that thread are pretty high to be honest, especially for water cooling.
 
Could just a non flat IHS again I suppose. It should be reasonable to expect 4GHz prime stable on the E6850 under water looking at some of the results posted.

Jokester
 
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