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CONROE 6600 P5WDG2 WS Pro

vapor matt

vapor matt

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well my new M/board arrived today, didnt want the 4 X PCIE version as i run SCSI raid in PCI-X so it was the best board for me.

conroe 6600 L628A wk28 1.35v bios reading. 3.6G

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memory is 2 Gig supertalent DDR2 fat body D9 chips! 2.3v


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gona let it bed in for a few days then i will push some more.

gota love this asus board as it offers 6 to 20 multi with a beta bios 0005

glad i waited this time instead of jumping straight in when first released!
 
Nice clocks there for default :eek:

Is that stable at that vcore (Prime/orthos)? Mine can boot windows at 3.6 but fails prime immidiatley. Either way thats a great chip :cool:
 
Hi.

Well no phase change here! iam on water useing a polaflow TT cpu block DD X1900 XTX w/block and yes it primed all night at that speed so its stable!

theres a lot more in this CPU yet i belive. iam off to silverstone racing the weekend so it will have to wait till i get back to push it further.

this asus board it also great, no v droop like the old WS board, and the beta bios unlocks all the multi's aswell.
 
vapor matt said:
yeap i sure can. 6 to 20 on the multi.
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Retail and ES chips won't go over their stock multiplier regardless of what it says in the BIOS, trust me :)

It might say 6 - 20, but it'll be 6 - 9 on an E6600.
 
Orthos is a better torture test than Prime95 for dual core, my E6600 was prime stable at 3.5Ghz but failed Orthos within seconds.

Orthos is stable @3.3Ghz on air, best i can do is 3.36 but i like to back it off slightly for 24/7.
 
Digikill said:
Orthos is a better torture test than Prime95 for dual core, my E6600 was prime stable at 3.5Ghz but failed Orthos within seconds.

Orthos is stable @3.3Ghz on air, best i can do is 3.36 but i like to back it off slightly for 24/7.
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I disagree, Orthos is a beta piece of software. Prime 95 v24.14 Large FTT's is optimised for dual core and is a stable release. Who knows if it's a bug in Orthos or whether prime has actually failed.
 
Roger that, i was using an earlier version of prime95 for single core hence my high stable o/c, my mistake. I will try the new version.

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Ok, tried version 24.14 prime 95 using large ftt's and proccessor loads are between 40% & 60% on each core with Prime 95. Orthos however demands a full 100% load on each core raising my core temps much higher under load.
I think i'm going to stick with my original opinion, in that Orthos is a better(or more demanding) torture test for dual core.

Surely testing for stabilty with 100% CPU loads is more reliable in the long run IMO.
 
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are you using 2 instances of prime95 24.14??? it sounds like you aren't.

the reason orthos is using the full 100% on each core is because it's designed for dual core whereas the older prime95 is single core based so you need to run 2 instances of it and assign each core to 1 program.

i'm with smids too ....i'd rather run 2xprime95 as i know it's reliable ;)
 
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marscay said:
are you using 2 instances of prime95 24.14?

the reason orthos is using the full 100% on each core is because it's designed for dual core whereas the older prime95 is single core based so you need to run 2 instances of it and assign each core to 1 program.

i'm with smids too ....i'd rather run 2xprime95 as i know it's reliable ;)
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As above - you haven't set it up for DC usage. You need to run 2 separate instances (i.e. the program runs twice) and then set up each prime to run on a specific core. It's really simple to do - extremely and takes about 2 minutes.
 
Ok guys, thanks. I wasn't using two instances, i will heed your advice.

With me running on air cooling it's my CPU load temps that are tripping up my system, my max load temps are stable below 56c only

Are you guys suggesting that Orthos is known not to be reliable in some way?
 
First Vapor matt - sorry for derailing your thread, but hey, you're getting free bumps :) :D.

@Digikill: well, it is beta software as it states and I've seen some comments over at xtremesystems regarding its reliability. I prefer to use the unmodified proven program.
 
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