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New Quad Core G0 Variants
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Why are the G0's still shown as pre-orders?
A day or so the ETA, the ETA got removed, and my order is still listed as 'in warehouse queue'!!!
Not too happy considering i ordered right at the beginning of this month!
And why have OCUK charged me before its even been shipped?
I was hoping to have it all up and running by wednesday, but aparentely not now!
A day or so the ETA, the ETA got removed, and my order is still listed as 'in warehouse queue'!!!
Not too happy considering i ordered right at the beginning of this month!
And why have OCUK charged me before its even been shipped?
I was hoping to have it all up and running by wednesday, but aparentely not now!
Some early testing results. I'm writing this at 3.2Ghz with a Vcore of 1.25 which i ran through prime95 for bout 30Mins no probs. Idle temps are ranging from 25 to 30 100% load approx 47 with core temp .95. I can get into windows and run super pi @ 3.7Ghz Vcore 1.375 but that fails prime 95 after bout 5 mins. These are only very early results so will do some more testing tonight/tomorrow and provide screenies.
Testing continues !
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Do not know if this has been posted already, but the folks at the review site, www.anandtech.com have compared the two versions of the Q6600 and you can find it here.
just quoting the conclusion of the article linked above
"Power consumption of the new G0 cores is not only better than their predecessors, but it seems to scale better with clock speed. As we overclocked our Q6600s total system power consumption increased at a slightly lower rate with the new G0 stepping than with the previous B3 cores. The power savings aren't tremendous, we're talking on the order of 3 - 6% depending on clock speed, but it is a measurable improvement.
The impact on overclocking is a little less clear, at least with the quad-core Q6600. We were able to reach a higher maximum overclock with the SLACR stepping Q6600, but our highest stable overclock was not that much more than our original B3 stepping. If we look at percentages, our G0 part managed a 3 - 6% better overclock, putting overclocking potential in line with the power savings we noted. It's not a tremendously better overclocker but we suspect that on a whole it will yield tangible benefits.
There's no doubt that the new G0 stepping cores represent the latest improvements in the Core 2 lineup, but it's worthwhile to keep expectations in line with reality. If you're looking for a huge change in power consumption/overclocking headroom, you may have to wait for Intel's 45nm Penryn cores."
For me this means if you can get a G0 Q6600, good, but if you get the B3 your not really missing out that much. That is just my opinion based on the above conclusion.
Hope this information helps.
HD
just quoting the conclusion of the article linked above
"Power consumption of the new G0 cores is not only better than their predecessors, but it seems to scale better with clock speed. As we overclocked our Q6600s total system power consumption increased at a slightly lower rate with the new G0 stepping than with the previous B3 cores. The power savings aren't tremendous, we're talking on the order of 3 - 6% depending on clock speed, but it is a measurable improvement.
The impact on overclocking is a little less clear, at least with the quad-core Q6600. We were able to reach a higher maximum overclock with the SLACR stepping Q6600, but our highest stable overclock was not that much more than our original B3 stepping. If we look at percentages, our G0 part managed a 3 - 6% better overclock, putting overclocking potential in line with the power savings we noted. It's not a tremendously better overclocker but we suspect that on a whole it will yield tangible benefits.
There's no doubt that the new G0 stepping cores represent the latest improvements in the Core 2 lineup, but it's worthwhile to keep expectations in line with reality. If you're looking for a huge change in power consumption/overclocking headroom, you may have to wait for Intel's 45nm Penryn cores."
For me this means if you can get a G0 Q6600, good, but if you get the B3 your not really missing out that much. That is just my opinion based on the above conclusion.
Hope this information helps.
HD
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HarleyDave77 said:
Excellent conclusion there I think.
I look at G0 as the cherry on top of a very nice cake. Even if you don't get a slice with the cherry, then you've still got a good slab of cake!
Not sure cake analogies work when talking about cpu's, but you know what I mean...
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Having read on the Anandtech review, that the (SLACR) 'B's dont really clock much better than the B3 Steppers, it would interesting to see results posted here from anyone with a 'B'.
Can anyone at OcUk (Gibbo?) confirm wether the 'G0's due in are the 'A' or 'B'. I personally think the 'A's might be worth the extra OcUk are asking at the minute, but other places are starting to do the 'B' versions now, and for a fair bit cheaper.
Can anyone at OcUk (Gibbo?) confirm wether the 'G0's due in are the 'A' or 'B'. I personally think the 'A's might be worth the extra OcUk are asking at the minute, but other places are starting to do the 'B' versions now, and for a fair bit cheaper.