qx9650 OC @ 6.0ghz!!!

[Nemesis 1]

Really nice. 6GHz on a new transitor process. Wait till intel tunes up these 45nm cpu's + the transitor process itself . Really exciting stuff. We seen what intel did with the Go chip. No reason to not to exspect even better results from the 45nm cpu.Considering Its a new born transitor still an infant.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Ya these 2core wolfs are nice and intel WILL improve them more with a little time. Same as AMD will improve K10 clocks over time. From Xbit

Actually, our tests showed that Wolfdale responds very good to Vcore increase. But we didn?t aim for record-breaking speeds, so we only increased the processor Vcore in the BIOS Setup to 1.5V that resulted into the actual 1.42-1.46V taking into account Vdroop. This voltage increase is relatively harmless for a processor using an efficient air cooler and is acceptable for systems running 24/7. However, even in this case our Core 2 Duo E8500 didn?t disappoint us at all.



We managed to get this processor to run stably at 4.37GHz. No doubt: Wolfdale CPUs will become another overclockers? favorite, because Conroe processors could hardly hit these speeds at extremely high voltages and with special cooing systems involved. By the way, our processor running at 4.37GHz retained quite acceptable thermal mode of only 70°C under workload.

 

[secretanchitman]

holy crap WTF 6.0Ghz quad-core?????

and i thought 4Ghz was fast enough.....

 

[Dadofamunky]

Hmmm 70C under load is kinda scary to me with a 45nm... I'd do everything I could to avoid that, even at the cost of cycles.

 

[The-Noid]

Originally posted by: Nemesis 1
Ya these 2core wolfs are nice and intel WILL improve them more with a little time. Same as AMD will improve K10 clocks over time. From Xbit

Actually, our tests showed that Wolfdale responds very good to Vcore increase. But we didn?t aim for record-breaking speeds, so we only increased the processor Vcore in the BIOS Setup to 1.5V that resulted into the actual 1.42-1.46V taking into account Vdroop. This voltage increase is relatively harmless for a processor using an efficient air cooler and is acceptable for systems running 24/7. However, even in this case our Core 2 Duo E8500 didn?t disappoint us at all.



We managed to get this processor to run stably at 4.37GHz. No doubt: Wolfdale CPUs will become another overclockers? favorite, because Conroe processors could hardly hit these speeds at extremely high voltages and with special cooing systems involved. By the way, our processor running at 4.37GHz retained quite acceptable thermal mode of only 70°C under workload.

imo > 1.40v is problematic long-term.
> 1.45v is problematic short-term
> 1.50v is asking for problems on 45nm.

High-K process doesn't have enough empirical evidence to prove what is going to happen.

That is why I am running my chip at 1.51v 24/7 to see what will happen.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Yoxxy
oh.

There is absolutely no chance of hitting 4.5 ghz stable on air.

Max is going to be around 4.1 to 4.2 and even then you are talking about ideal conditions and an open bench.

Anand got to 4.4Ghz on air.