Intel’s Price Reduction on July 22

Tom|Nbk · 16 Jun 2007 at 01:37

easyrider said:
Thin line down the middle of the IHS

Thats what I did when I seated it originally, I heard the credit card application spreading it thinly across the CPU is good?.

easyrider · 16 Jun 2007 at 01:38

Tom|Nbk said:
Thats what I did when I seated it originally, I heard the credit card application spreading it thinly across the CPU is good?.

no

lay-z-boy · 16 Jun 2007 at 01:39

From my exp. that used up more paste, resulted in terrible temps, was impossible to remove the heatsink and i didn't feel great about a cpu with what looked like a slab of butter on the top.

Tom|Nbk · 16 Jun 2007 at 01:44

Rock ... Hard Place

fornowagain · 16 Jun 2007 at 02:31

Whats the contact area like? Maybe a spot of lapping? My Tuniq was flat but rough as hell, needed lapping to remove the milling marks.

Tom|Nbk · 16 Jun 2007 at 02:43

fornowagain said:
Whats the contact area like? Maybe a spot of lapping? My Tuniq was flat but rough as hell, needed lapping to remove the milling marks.

Is this when you noticed a temperature drop?

Participant · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:39

easyrider said:
However I have posted many clocks on XS and have suggested if people want to post clocks of their 6400's @ 3.8ghz like mine they do it with 8 hrs shots of orthos

Your word don't make it law. People can post what they damn well want to, so climb down sucker.

easyrider · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:46

Robbie G said:
Your word don't make it law. People can post what they damn well want to, so climb down sucker.

If they want Epeen shots without stabilty then thats up to them

If people want to put fake unstable CPU speeds in their sigs to impress others in forums thats just sad.

So climb down yourself Robert

Deluxe1 · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:49

Tried to get 3.6 out of my E6600 last night but it failed after 5 hours,voltage was set at 1.5000 in my bios but with vdroop it dropped to 1.424.

Temps were hitting 64 at full load which i guess isnt that bad on air,might try again tonight to see if i can get to pass the "magic" 8 hours.

lay-z-boy · 16 Jun 2007 at 13:50

I don't consider 8 hours stable at all, hell my oc failed at 8hrs 46mins.

12-24hrs = stable, anything less is not.

Mattus · 16 Jun 2007 at 14:02

Why should 24 hours of Orthos mean your CPU is stable, when 8 hours doesn't?

How do you know your CPU wasn't about to error out after 24 hours 1 minute?

james.miller · 16 Jun 2007 at 14:06

personally i think orthos should be run from the minute the cpu is installed.

its the only way to be sure

Mattus · 16 Jun 2007 at 14:10

What irritates me is when people do 8 hours of Orthos at 2.6Ghz, then 8 hours at 2.8, 8 hours at 3.0, 8 more at 3.1...

What's the point? Why don't you just clock it until it fails within minutes, then back down 50MHz and then try for an 8 hour run? Working up to it is such a waste of time; find the point of instability and then work down.

lay-z-boy · 16 Jun 2007 at 14:12

Mattus said:
Why should 24 hours of Orthos mean your CPU is stable, when 8 hours doesn't?

How do you know your CPU wasn't about to error out after 24 hours 1 minute?

Because none of my applications crash.

Supreme commander crashed 40 minutes into a turtle game when i was 8hr 46 stable.

Deluxe1 · 16 Jun 2007 at 15:02

lay-z-boy said:
Because none of my applications crash.

Supreme commander crashed 40 minutes into a turtle game when i was 8hr 46 stable.

How do you know that the crash was directly linked to a unstable overclock?

fornowagain · 16 Jun 2007 at 15:07

Tom|Nbk said:
Is this when you noticed a temperature drop?

I lapped it straight from the box, after I checked the flatness on an industrial table. It looked like a farmers field, but pretty flat.

Tom|Nbk · 16 Jun 2007 at 15:19

easyrider said:
If they want Epeen shots without stabilty then thats up to them

If people want to put fake unstable CPU speeds in their sigs to impress others in forums thats just sad.

So climb down yourself Robert

Easy get a grip, I was under the impression my CPU was stable from the preliminary stress test I had conducted, but I know know in future, Master Easy, I wont do it again honest.

. As has been said before get off your high horse.

EDIT : Clocked at 3.5Ghz, 1.45 In bios 1.4v after droop, stress testing with blend priority 9, done 2 hours and a half so far

lay-z-boy · 16 Jun 2007 at 19:58

Deluxe1 said:
How do you know that the crash was directly linked to a unstable overclock?

Because it does the same thing when it crashes due to overclock, it doesn't crash at all when stable.

Slam62 · 16 Jun 2007 at 20:05

Robbie G said:
Your word don't make it law. People can post what they damn well want to, so climb down sucker.

post of the year tbh - brilliant!!!

Noto · 16 Jun 2007 at 22:01

im sure its been mentioned but why are these price reductions coming in?

is it because Penryn is coming out?