Yeah, Thermolab Trinity maxed out at 4.1Ghz with +/- 70 centigrade (HT enabled) OCCT Linpack test; fairly good for daily use.I exceed 1.35 everyday, better if ya don't have too.
I doubt 1.35 gonna make it breathe too hard if you have decent cooling on there though, I've had the X5680 up to 1.6 just playing around, but I do not leave it there.
You're not likely to break anything as long as your temps look OK short term at any rate.
Not sure wth a Thermolab Trinity is to be honest myself if that is the cooler.
I just cleaned my HSF & applied some Arctic Silver Ceramique 2, and dropped my temps an honest 6c.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100017
Chip doesn't throttle @ 210 bclk any more, like it used to..
You can get water cooling if you want, but I've found air cooling will handle a LOT of power.
Just finished building my new old X5650 system, with any peripherals that available at nearby classifieds.
My options & budget are extremely limited so whatever parts that looked good i took it, fortunately it quite paid off.
X5650 @4.1Ghz 1.3v (OCCT Linpack 1h AUTO - passed)
Thermolab Trinity w/ stock fan
Desktopboard DX58OG
VGEN PC12800 3x 4GB @1600+ CL9 1T (hynix FFR)
Sapphire 7950 Dual-X
SSD370 128GB
2 TB HDD
FSP KingCraft 1000W (old 'n freakin' loud)
Just one question, is it totally safe to exceed 1.35v for vcore ?
I have plans to push more Mhz by activating Turbo and grab a decent watercooling but i do not want to do something stupid that could degrade the cpu.
Bleh... mine's become unstable. Maybe I need better thermal paste... *sigh*
Dialed it back to 21x 145
Update: I gave up and went back to my old 920 and it's working smooth as glass again. What a freakin' waste.
Heck, even if I don't have a "golden chip" that hits 200+, it's still crazy fast.
Bleh... mine's become unstable. Maybe I need better thermal paste... *sigh*
Dialed it back to 21x 145
Oh hell, it's not even running smooth at stock anymore. Something's wrong here... I need a more detailed utility than CPU-z to monitor temps or something... it worked great for the last couple weeks and all day today, then this...
CoreTemp pegs each core at under 30 Celcius! Jeez... so it's not's overheating... wonder why this thing is so dang slow now?
Damn, damn, damn... why would it just stop working like this???? My games now run crazy slow and my WEI scores all went UP to 7.9 .... even my hard drive score went up from 5.9 (standard for mechanical drives) to 6.3 -- just weird as hell!!
Update: I gave up and went back to my old 920 and it's working smooth as glass again. What a freakin' waste.
Whoa.. what happened?
Maybe, like other said, you have bios-related issues or just remounted your chip.
Four days ago i had problem with 3rd memory slot. It gave me a huge headache, i tought that 3rd slot was dead.
So every i put a ddr3 stick there and all of sudden my system refused to boot. It gave "Ib" or "16" code on debug LED, with annoying beeps.
Few days later i found a discussion about similar issue, and they pointed broken / dented cpu contact pin(s).
I remembered that before encountered mem slot problem i was installing rear casing fan and accidently hit my Trinity HSF. Presumably the cpu got a micro dislocation due to unbalanced pressure.
Reluctantly i uninstalled the Trinity and checked LGA pins thoroughly, but everything looks right without anything odd.
After carefully reseated the x5650 and also the Trinity.... After a few bios loop..
Voilaaa... its triple channel now works flawlessly.
My first lesson: Extra careful with LGA 1366, their pins are really sensitive.
I think a full-blown BIOS reset may be in order... the older 920 CPU is working as it should at stock but WEI scores are still way too high for the hard drive and that has me concerned.
Think a mere press of the Clear CMOS button is enough or should I do a full-blown BIOS download/reinstall? (I've already got the last version made for my Gigabyte board.)
Just a reset.. Low WEI hard drive scores are indicative of a failing drive. Too high or too low?