ROFL...
ive killed 8 C2D Wolfdales, and 5 Yorkies C2Q, and 0 Kentsfield and 0 bloomfields!
Kentsfield + bloomfield was by far intel's most robusttankerr cpu..
Which is why he was known back in the day as the Gulftown Killer. With these cheap Xeons on the loose, it was inevitable that a rash of copycats would appear. ;-)
good lord....
some of your voltages hurt... seriously.. it hurts...
i probably have the best ambient cooling out of all of you, and i refuse to push my voltage past 1.4v for gulftown.
Example of my board setup:
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Infact id much rather have it sit at 1.375 as absolute top, with VTT no higher then 1.3V
due to the fact that i have killed 2 gulftowns already by pushing 1.4V VTT and 1.45Vcore.
Of course they were loaded 100% of the time, which not many of u guys will do, but, non the less ive killed 2.
Also at 1.45-1.5vcore.... the cpu is pushing arround 200-300W.
P/V = A = +/- 137AMPS! :O
Are you guys aware of how much amps that is though your board socket?
The type of mosfets one will require, your boards will not last unless ur running one hell of a beefy board, with awesome cooling on the mosfets.
And im talking about a very durable board...
I hope you guys don't intend to keep that chip longer then 6-8 months, as already im seeing those chips on borrowed time.
I don't think you can kill a Bloomfield.
Simple, CB displays the chips default multiplier of 21X (look at it's posted Speed 21X183 = 3843). My bclk was higher..
CB displays (from chip info) default multiplier (even if we're above that). Results are accurate, displayed speed isn't.
If you'd set adaptive voltage & up bclk to 190, Cinebench would report you at 4GHz, you'd really be @ 4370 with 23 locked Your score would be higher.
You would have to up the voltage. That's why I like 95 watt, easier to cool. An X5675 locked @ 25 x 200 = 5GHz would be a beast & should last a few yrs (under water).
You do realize Gulftowns are 130 watt.. You're not gonna hurt the Xeon @ 130..