[KurtS]

oh man - those Macs are fast!!

[-Adrian]

Yes, the new 45nm Xeons are awesome. I first wondered if it was an error, but now as more results come in, the awesomeness is apparent.

[Burkhard]

New one: 1.61 / 64bit

MacbookPro

2,6 Ghz Intel Core2Duo
4 GB RAM

Benchmark: 275,18
Time: 39,01


Can't upload so I'll inform here.

Burkhard

[-Adrian]

I've added your entry for you, i hope that's ok.
4GB in a notebook is nifty, i have ½.

[sandykoufax]

wow, q9300 show great performance too.

It's not overclocked but defeats ooverclocked q6600.

[-Adrian]

Yeah that looks pretty decent. My hometown store is now offering the Q6600 for 190€, that's as cheap as major online dealers. I might just pick it up.

[sandykoufax]

Yeah that looks pretty decent. My hometown store is now offering the Q6600 for 190€, that's as cheap as major online dealers. I might just pick it up.

In korea, we can buy a Q6600 for about 148€ and Q9300 for about 195€ at online shop.

[Eric Lagman]

I just bought a q9450 and will be finished building my system in the next few days. I plan to try and overclock it to around 3.4. 3.6 if possible. This is my first build and attempt at overclocking so wish me luck. I have been doing a lot of reading online so I should be ok I think.

My thought from seeing where that 9300 is on benchwell is that these new 45nm chips that use the new sse 4.1 instructions are able to be taken advantage of by maxwell and provide an extra boost of speed. I will let everyone know what I find out once I get everything set up and running stable.

[Bubbaloo]

Don't fry it!

[sandykoufax]

Don't fry it!

Don frye ??


Nowadays, overclocking is nothing special for anyone.

But if this is your first attempt to overclocking, please be carefull.

I don't wanna see a thread like "Damm it, my cpu was fried!!!"

Good luck to you and I'm so curious to know the benchwell result.

[Eric Lagman]

Ok drum roll please. I think we have a new champion over the q6600. Granted the q6600 is $100.00 less than a Q9450 so its not really apples to apples.

Here are my findings with the q9450.

1. I ran it at stock 2.66ghz and it came in at 585 in 18:30 sec right behind the q9300 at stock. This is puzzling since the 9300 stock is 2.5ghz. Anyway this proves that these new 45nm quads are about 400mhz faster on each core than the older 65nm chips. At least thats what it seems when you look at what the kkm's result with the 9300 and mine with the q9450.

2. I started overclocking and it looks like I will probably land around 3.4ghz-3.6ghz without breaking a sweat. Its the x8multi and fsb wall that stops it there pretty much. Im stress testing it right now at 3.4ghz and my temps max out at 55c on an air cooling which is nowhere near the danger zone of 70c. I also have 8gb of ram which is making the overclock a little harder than if I just had 4gb. I may have to drop down to 4gb or ram if I want to reach 3.6. I am having to crank the voltage up everywhere to get the 8gb stable on my abit 1p35-Pro motherboard.

3. So if I can get 3.6ghz which it looks like could happen thats like a q6600 overclocked to 4.0ghz. That should put my benchmark right at the bottom of the octo-cores which is pretty amazing for a single quad core chip.

Let me just say also, that as of about a month ago the only thing I had done inside a computer is put in ram and a video card here or there. So with lots of reading and resarch you can save yourself a lot of cash by building your own system and overclocking it. I spent $1,000 for all the components and I am pretty excited how it is turning out. Im keeping my fingers crossed that it will pass the stress test at 3.4ghz right now.

In 3 months we have new champion quad core at budged build price

[numerobis]

good start Eric - looks promising! congrats!

i would never run a system at stock speed today. 10-20% oc is always possible and save - and normally even 20-50%.

In 3 months we have new champion quad core at budged build price

...in 3 months we have a new champion OCTO core at budged build price - i'm working on it ...i hope to see 8x3,4GHz for ~1300-1500€

[Maximus3D]

I just ran Benchwell on my rig, haven't tested it since these latest cpu and ram upgrades. And oh dear what a difference they made my rig is slightly more than twice as fast now as my old dualcore was hehe ..i'm definately satisfied with this, yay!

New score: 22min 45secs @ benchmark 471,63
Old score: 46min 56secs @ benchmark 228,76

/ Max

[Gary]

can anyone advise if you can over-clock a octo mac?

Thanks,

Gary

[numerobis]

yes, you can bsel-mod them ...only isolate a pin on the proc and it's switched from fsb 1333 to fsb 1600 (2,5 >3,0 GHz for harpertown 5420.)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... p?t=180818

And beside this you can raise the fsb - if the board is supporting it...

i have not done it for now ...but i will do it in a few weeks when i build my new octocore