Got the QX9650 other night...
Came in a nice big box and had some nice info on the outside...
Pack Date: 11/16/07
BATCH: L739A643
Also this is the special 24mb cache version only available to australians
So i popped it in, although it wasnt quite that simple with my phase insulating - made it a bit more than a 5 min job!
Once we were already to go i fired it up and headed into BIOS, initial BIOS temps indicated that indeed the QX9650 is far cooler than my 65nm predecessor and that i definitely didnt have a bad mount :th_SmlyROFL:
Tonight i put it through some initial testing and just started to get familiar with this chip and its characteristics. I was amazed at how much faster these processors are, and how little heat they put out! Also this processor scaled to over 4Ghz for me on just over stock voltages(1.275v)!
Anyways here are some of the initial results, hopefulyy over the next few days i can do more testing and explore its tendencies...
Best SuperPi:
(unofrtunately no cpu-z or anything with that one, i forgot)
SuperPi with CPU-Z etc:
3dMark03:
Quite a nice night of testing and very impressed, hopefully we can see some sub 9 second superpi tomorrow
frupert
P.S Robilar the 720w is only used when im not running the graphics cards, and it is the most stable, robust PSU i have.... Beats out some of my 1200w PSU's...