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*Drool* new CPU
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:12 am
by cris keys
Ahhh time to kiss goodbye to 1.2K a day and welcome to 2.5K RAC. Got my new processor today and its a peach of a chip. 3.15 GHz on high end air cooling :D most quads will only do 3 GHz ^^ God bless the G0 revision.
See you in the top 5 soon
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:45 pm
by UBT - Terry
Nice I'm jealous but hope to get one myself soon 8)
Terry
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:37 pm
by cris keys
A few more tweaks done :D 3.42 GHz at stock voltage 8)
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:15 am
by UBT - Timbo
cris keys wrote:A few more tweaks done :D 3.42 GHz at stock voltage 8)
Hi Cris,
That's good....how did you achieve this and what memory and heatsink are you using.
I have a Q6600 (G0) as well and would love to increase it's crunching ability.
regards
Tim
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:32 pm
by cris keys
I have a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P motherboard which is a great overclocker.
Cheap Crucial RAM DDR2 PC2-4200 (DDR2 533) 2x 1Gb
My heatsink is a Zalmann CNPS9700LED runs the CPU at 60C under full load.
CPU voltage is stock but the FSB and RAM is over volted by 0.1V it seems to help with my mobo.
Its all in a nicely vented Lian Li case.
Mostly I think I have got a great chip. The Quad is just 2 Core 2 Duo's bolted together, so you have to get lucky with both CPU dies. Kind of cuts the chances of finding a peach chip.
Oh and you need a good power supply. At 3.4GHz the CPU is using 125W so use a 600W PSU at the minimum, 800W if you have a high end GFx card as well.
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:57 pm
by MikeMarsUK
cris keys wrote:...
Oh and you need a good power supply. At 3.4GHz the CPU is using 125W so use a 600W PSU at the minimum, 800W if you have a high end GFx card as well.
Nice system and CPU, not sure that the power requirements are so high if you're still on stock voltage though?
I'm using a 420W 85% efficiency PSU with the Q6600's voltage upped by 0.05v (the old B3 stepping). (Obviously a lower efficiency PSU would need a higher wattage).
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:55 pm
by cris keys
OK *slight* exaggeration
At its standard 2.6 GHz uses 83W under full load so at 3.4GHz it should ~110W.
I still stand by using a 600W PSU anything less and you are straining components. Never a good thing on such a vital piece of kit. I blew a PSU once and it took my RAID array mobo and GFx card with it.