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A little Phenom II X2 benching.
(A little copy/paste action)
I've had this X2 550 for a while now, but nowhere to put it... ASUS Nordic were kind enough to send a Crosshair III Formula my way along with the OC Station and once I got rid of that buzzing, I got a few decent results in at least. The mobo feels like it was done for LN2 benching, and LN2 benching only. OC Station would've been a bit more fun if you had access to set the voltages as high you do in BIOS, but you can't have everything... The rig: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/74/rigjls.jpg ASUS Crosshair III Formula AMD Phenom II X2 550 BE Crucial PC16000 C9 HIS HD 4890 w/ Zerotherm cooler (crappy sample, hence the clocks below) Ryba's Semi-Solid rev 4 CPU pot PCP&C Turbo-Cool 860W The results: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4907/3dm05.jpg http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5619/550pi.jpg Sorry for using Imageshack, not much else to use right now... I didn't make it a too long bench session, and there weren't that many pics, but at least it's something. I'll probably continue tomorrow night. Lastly, the CPU dumps: http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/screenshot/598123.png http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=598123 |
Sweet, new toys :D
5ghz+ runs @ around 1.5v is pretty sweet. |
CPU-Z reports the wrong voltages, unfortunately. The sweetspot was at around 1.8V, which I used for the runs above. :)
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Oh man I really got to get mine on Extreme cooling :)
I know it might be n00bish to ask, but what kind of air clocks do you get? Also any luck playing with 4 cores, and what week chip do you have? |
The chip is a 0913. I have no idea about air clocks, I don't bother overclocking on air anymore. :)
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LOL yah i figured you extreme clockers types forget about your roots.
lol jk week 13, wow... is that an ES or something? Earliest I have seen so far is 20. Hmm, decisions decisions, another 550 or save up for a 965... |
nice one! but i was expecting better x2 chips from amd :) maybe better than 9** series on clocks.. btw, anybody tried 250 on ln2 ?? it was better than 550 on air ;)
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It is a retail chip, but it came from AMD itself. No ES or anything, that would've been in the CPU name string. :)
The X2's are just "broken" X4's, so I wasn't expecting anything more than this anyways. :) |
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How many 4+GHz dual cores does AMD have? This chip is my first time at 4GHz on AMD or Intel. (air cooling) |
Very nice results. AMD must be so fun to bench. Just fill the pot and go to town. :D
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Yeah, I bet the results would've been a bit better if I would've had my F1 EE at home, I'm benching on a budget pot as it is right now. It's relaxing not having to bother with LN2 levels, just fill it up. :)
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And some updates:
A little Pi 1M finetuning was what my evening was about. Still, can't get it right in Pi, so I thought I'd make a mess of other things, such as Pi 32M, which went horribly wrong. Also did wPrime 1024M for the first time in my life, almost fell asleep. http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/824/pi11531.jpg http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8346/pi32m5720.jpg At least the RAM access time is pretty impressive... http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3289/352ns.jpg http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/9017/5720wprime.jpg That's it for tonight. I was planning on some more boring benching, i.e. PCMark 2005, but the OCZ Throttle only gave me 22MB/s during the XP startup bench... Tried switching to my IRAM, but my XP USB install didn't wanna co-operate, so I gave up. Oh, and yeah, no 3D results as the MSI N285GTX Superpipe OC didn't like me. |
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