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QX9650 Results and Tips Thread

SimonMaltby

SimonMaltby

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Arrived at last, the long awaited .45nm Quad core :)

If you thought the cost a bit steep, lets just look at what you get.

1. A very big box... the box is twice as big as a normal C2D box
2. A very big Heatsink... still useless cos who used the stock HS
3. A tiny piece of silcone.

Anyone else mad enough to have brought one of these, please post your findings in here :)

Let me start...
My aim is to be able to run day to day at 4ghz with a nice quiet system. But to be able to crank up the setup for some killer benchmarks. Within half an hour i think i have already achieved my aims..

Currently running Prime (30 minutes in so far) Small FFT at 10x400 = 4Ghz with 1.3v true (so thats 0.5 over volts - std is 1.25). Temps are at 58c full load... This with very poor water, probably no better than standard air cos i'm water cooling the PU, Chipset and 2x GPU's in one loop.

Super-Pi 1M at 4Ghz gave me circa 11.6 score... thats a full 1 second lower than the equivilent clock on my q6600 - so this shows the effect the extra L2 Cache has on this benchmark.

Idle temps are sat at 27c - 30c


I had a quick go at a bigger clock with these results...
To keep things simple i just increased the Multi to 11 leaving everything else the same. To get into windows i had to increase the vcore to 1.4v This was still not prime stable, but i dont want to go higher just yet.

In this I ran a 3dmark2006 test and scored 21.5k beating my previous best by 1.5k

I then increased the FSB to 410 while in windows so 4.5Ghz and ran SuperPi = 10.33

So early days and i really need to sort my water cooling out first but initial impressions are FANTATIC and despite the cost, well worth the money.

Latest Screen Shots last updated 4/12/07 5:50PM
First 4ghz low voltage Prime Stable for 1 Hour
primeqx9650@4ghz.jpg


Next - Max Overclock with Sub 10sec SuperPi
 
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Are these Penryns? I noticed that you can get these, albeit for about £600, but how come these are out in advance of the more mainstream ones? Cashing in on the real enthusiast?
 
Lovely clocks m8. Insane price for the CPU!, but you are never one to skimp on new stuff :D
 
SimonMaltby said:
but initial impressions are FANTATIC
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:p

Seem to run a lot cooler than the current quads despite the clock increase. Dunno if i would fork out £500+ notes on one though. :eek: Knowing my luck with cooling though id probably average 10-15c over what everyone else gets like i usually do. :rolleyes::mad:
 
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Surprised you went for that one, the immature person in me laughed at this...
1 second lower than the equivilent **** on my q6600
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Looks like some very nice results, but I disagree with the part where you say you should be doing work. You should get more results and pictures, it's what you really want to do... :p
 
Gerard said:
:p

Seem to run a lot cooler than the current quads despite the clock increase. Dunno if i would fork out £500+ notes on one though. :eek:
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Here is my thinking...

When Penryn is fully launched i dont think we are going to see very high clocks because the multi's are goign to be set too low.

Penryns will be set to run default at 1333 or 1600 FSB (333 or 400) and with the multi locked (on non Extreme Editions) you will struggle to get a high clock speed on the CPU unless motherboards get significantly better - which is not on the cards as i see it.

For example a stock 2.4 chip will be stock 333x7 or a 2.66 333x8 and so on.
Now to get the really good clocks i.e. 4Ghz you will need to run your motherboard at say 571x7 or 500x8 which means the board will fall over long before the CPU does.

So... by my logic, it may be expensive but it should last a long time and hold its value because its going to be very sort after in the overclocking comunity.

Unless Intel bring out a 266FSB version or motherboards cope with 500FSB + all day long then i think this is the only way to go.
 
w3bbo said:
Great results. Make sure you enter it in the superpi table and Quad database!
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will do, but fancy getting sub 10 seconds first :)

I have some more substantial water cooling kit in front of me, but am waiting for some 3/8 splitters before i can set it up... they are due tomorrow.
 
Nice one simon keep us posted. The chip looks amazing. Would be nice if it could bench all day at 4.5. Might have to treat myself.
You are right about the FSB of mobos I think we are going to need the unlocked multi unless some super mobo comes out, in red pants and blue tights
 
Been poking around a lot of the reviews seems almost all of the review samples at least of this chip clock to around 4ghz or more. Just wonder how wel that equals to chips off the shelf clocking to that speed.
 
wow that's mental... very nice indeed

sort out the cooling and try for 4.8ghz =D
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
whats the point of these though if they cost a ton and are hardly any quicker than chips u can oc yourself for a lot cheaper?
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Did you read the thread?

Go find a quadcore that will do 4.5GHz on an average waterloop for a low price.

The current chips struggle to really go past 4 without insane cooling, and the lower end Q9***s will struggle to go that high because of the fsb limits.
 
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