View Full Version : Few early results from my new C2D setup.
I have recently moved to the dark side and got myself a 6600 conroe. Anyways i have started playing and heres a few results. Not sure how much further i can go as i am on some elcheapo memory till my gskill arrives, whenever that maybe. :roll:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/screenies/3.jpg
Part way through 32m pi just as a quick \"how stable is it?\" test.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/screenies/piresults31.jpg
Results for 1M and 32M @3.15ghz
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/screenies/am3.jpg
3.15ghz again stock gfx.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/screenies/3d063.jpg
Will add more as and when i get them.
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Hehe toys :twisted: yes well it is christmas, and i am very generous when it comes to buying me presents at christmas.
Stock speed is 2.4ghz
Well 1M superpi is around twice as fast as the oppy.
Cpu score for 3d06 on the oppy was around 1900.
So yeah quite a big power increase :twisted:
those are some good numbers..
I wish I'd had the money to buy a better board for my 6400. The highest I can get out of it with this motherboard is 2.4ghz. I know its capable of more than that, as its rock stable and that at stock voltage too.
Its a problem with the motherboard tho. Noone who owns one can get it to post above 299mhz fsb without setting the pci bus to sync'd instead of locked. and I dont want to risk my data! ;) All it will take is a bios update!
But yeah, keep us posted with what you get out of it - there should be a bit more in it yet! ;)
Anyway - heres something to aim for ;)
Link (http://www.liquidninjas.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=110620)
Intel QX6700 @ 4ghz/core. :D
Cheers Aaron i'll be aiming for around 3.5ghz or 400mhz fsb today so expect some updates soon (i don't expect much higher than that till the new ram turns up), pity about your mobo, what make / model is it? I know those 6400's are good for 3+ghz too a couple of chaps i know on another forum have had well over 3ghz 3.4 iirc. Though i totally understand your reluctance to push the pci bus.
Ok we now have 3.4ish ghz so a few more screenies.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/pi3.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/3d063.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/am3.jpg
Temps seem ok mid 50's according to core temp beta on full load.
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[quote:272b3201e2=\"mac124\"]pity about your mobo, what make / model is it?[/quote:272b3201e2]
Its an ASRock ConRoe945G-DVI, so its a bit of a budget board anyway, but I thought it would have a bit more potential in it than it really does.
oh for a bios update.....
[quote:876b1b83a0=\"Aaron\"][quote:876b1b83a0=\"mac124\"]pity about your mobo, what make / model is it?[/quote:876b1b83a0]
Its an ASRock ConRoe945G-DVI, so its a bit of a budget board anyway, but I thought it would have a bit more potential in it than it really does.
oh for a bios update.....[/quote:876b1b83a0]
Yeah not a fan of asrock personally, you aren't the first person i have heard about whos had issues with one of their mobo's. Fingers crossed they bring out a decent bios update.
[quote:876b1b83a0=\"PrivatePyle@Work\"]On air or water mac?[/quote:876b1b83a0]
Water, thermaltake 745 setup, though i am only currently using a single rad, it comes with a single and dual rad so i can add the other rad in should i feel its needed.
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Decent water cooling would definately be better than the best air cooling but my water setup is by no means \"top end\" and i would expect a scythe ninga / tuniq tower or similar quality heatsink to get close to my cooling though it is set to \"quiet\" mode and i have alot left on the fan speed.
I can definately recommend the 745 / 735? kit for beginners if you were toying with the idea.
Got bored so went for a bit more, 3600mhz, think i'll leave it there, nice round number 50% overclock and all that.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/screenies/pi3600.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/screenies/am3600mhz.jpg
3.6Ghz - nice place to stop!! :D
What are your temps like?
PP, I may be about to teach you to suck eggs, so apologies if I am! The thing to remember about watercooling is that its still about taking heat away from the cpu and dumping it into the air somewhere else. You'll never be able to achieve lower temps than your ambient room/case temp (depending where you have the rad situated).
One of the main advantages for watercooling is that it is far more efficient at removing the heat and so you are able to get the lower temps. It's normally quieter too, using only 1 or 2 fans on the rad to get the same effect as using many many more fans (vacuum cleaner noises ;)) with purely air cooling. Its good fun tho :D
Hehe thanks i thought so :D
According to \"core temp beta\" ( linky (http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/) ) which is highly regarded as the most accurate temp reading prog as it uses the sensor on the cpu die the temps are high 50's at 100% load which is getting a little high but no where near the shutdown temp of 85c. I am seriously considering adding the extra rad in the loop now though.
Oh and don't you believe water cooling systems are any quieter than air cooled setups, they can be but aren't always.
In the 50's @ 3.6ghz on 'non top end water cooling' is nothing to be sneezed at tho! but yeah, the 2nd rad might be an idea! Cant hurt anyway!
I know watercooling can be louder, I was just mentioning the noise thing as its one reason why people choose to watercool over air cooling.
Keep us posted with what you manage to get - i'm interested in this, as you can probably tell! ;) hehe
Yep i think i'll be fitting it at some point, got to open it up to fit an xfi card and reinstall the physx card sometime over xmas so i might look into it then.
I can run this almost silent but for the sake of the temps i tend to run it flat out, not a major problem though as when i game i wear headphones so i can't hear it :wink:
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Bit of an update, got the xfi and physx cards in now and i fitted the new memory yesterday and have been a tweaking. Got the memory (CellShock DDR800) running at 1000mhz now @ cas4 which is nice and also means my benchies have improved somewhat.
11100+ 3d06
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/11149crop.jpg
14.25second 1M super pi
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/14_25superpi.jpg
197k Aquamark for those still using it.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/am3600mhz1000mhzmem.jpg
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None taken mate and i pretty much agree, never paid for it though :twisted:
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Got given it to review :D
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Not quite so blunt as that, it does make quite a difference to games that support it, however they are few and far between, biggest title being Ghost Recon
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Cell factor demo? Yeah you could BUT it only had a few of the physx abilities, iirc it only ran at low detail, or something like that, it didn't have stuff like cloth effects or liquid effects.
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Arch_Stanton
18-01-07, 01:34
I got a Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme from Aria 'cos I like to do 3D graphics and extensive Photoshop work and don't like the long waits on some renders/filters I had with my P4 3GHz system, in some animations I mean days :?
The Quad-Core comes alive in these applications, even blowing overclocked X6800 Extreme Editions into the weeds.
One forum has a benchmark of sorts, being a set JPEG image loaded into Photoshop, which was then processed with Blur filter, Radial setting on max quality.
Here's a small snapshot of some figures, they speak for themselves. Best money I ever spent, even though I couldn't really afford it :wink:
Pentium M 1.86 2 mins 15 secs
AMD athlon 2800XP 2mins 2secs
AMD 64 3200+ @ 2.3GHz) 1 min 13 secs
AMD 64 3000+ 1GB RAM 1:31:2 secs
AMD x2 4200+ 2.2ghz/core on CS2 37secs
C2D E6300 @ 3.29 ghz 25 secs
FX57 @ 2.8 23.5 sec
Macpro dual-dualcore 2.66ghz, 4gb ram 16.3 secs
XQ6700 @ 3450MHz 12.4secs
(for info, on CS3, same test, QX6700 @ 3251MHz... 8.6 secs :shock:
Yeah for a few apps, PS and a couple of video / audio editing progs i gather, quad core does come into its own but for the majority of people who just use their pc's for gaming / general use at the moment its really not worth the extra £££ imho. When / if games start to utilise more than 2 cores, and even now alot don't, or they get alot cheaper then i'll fork out the exta £££ and get one 8)
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