**Official Socket F Overclocking Thread**

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As far as it goes :( .

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:confused: i thought Santa Rosa was an Intel mobile platform thing (a la centrino?)

Edit: ahh i see same codenames :\ not really paid attention to such things of late.
 
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Just CPU-Z getting confused. Load temps were strange, one core was always about 5-10C hotter than the other on each CPU so it wasn't poor contact. Hottest temps were low 50s (on water).

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Notice any difference if you changed the HTT up rather than the multiplier? Should give you higher benches.

Also, now you've got the system up and running and been playing with it for a while - how do you feel it compares to a quad core intel system?
 
Back to using my Kentsfield on the Asus P5K Deluxe. Far better even though I'm down to one 8800GTX in the meanwhile.

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Yeah, since the system is a bit of an underdog I was hoping it had some kind of redeeming feature to it.

I guess the only thing it has going for it is you can fit a LOT of memory in it...

Edit : How ever do you cope with only one 8800 GTX? :P
 
It's only redeeming feature at the moment is that it'll take a K10 chip or two when they're are released in a couple of months, but even then they'll have to do something special with Penryn just round the corner.

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So the board will take 2 quad cores? And Penryn is just a core shrink to 45nm from Intel, which will mean their quad cores should get up to higher speeds?

(Yes this is a bit above my head).
 
Yeah it'll take 2 quad cores, though having 8 cores seems utterly pointless at the moment for anything other than specialist uses.

Penryn is a bit more than a mere die shrink, apparently it'll be 10% faster than Conroe cores clock for clock (with Conroe being something like 20% faster than A64).

The big question is whether it also overclocks further than the Conroe. A die shrink suggests that there's no reason why not, but at the same time AMDs die shrink to 65nm did nothing for the overclockability of their chips. Making clock per clock improvements as well may indicate that they won't overclock as well, due squeezing in more performace per clock and leaving less slack for higher clock rates.

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This board will actually take Opteron chips and by all accounts let you use them with standard DDR2 RAM so that is another benefit.

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At 3.05GHz, Kentsfield at 3.6GHz gets about 20-25% more in the CPU benchmark. Can get more out of it but not much.

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ouch!

that is an appauling 3dmak score for such a system :O

ok see why you stopped selling them lol
 
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