Been Busy Benching
Over the last couple of days I’ve been preparing for a contest by re-tuning and testing my current cascade. It’s a very crude 2x 1HP cascade with propane in the 1st stage and a blend of propane and carbon dioxide in the second stage, capable of pulling down to around -70C and -65C loaded with my Q6600. Yesterday was a great day as I finally had a chance to test this Q6600 and it looks like I’ve managed to get another awesome chip. 4707MHz with 1.65vcore was unstable, 4605MHz was Super Pi 1M stable and wPrime 32M stable so it looks like 4800MHz to 4900MHz will be possible if my incoming board can hold up under the load. Sadly no pictures yet as they are all still on my camera, which refuses to operate with OS X, but I’ll update later in the week with the final results. Want to know the best part? Pulling 1900 watts from the wall split between the cascade(1450w), the computer(400w), and the peripherals(50w). I feel confident in labeling myself as extreme now. Here’s a screenshot at 4605MHz, sadly not my fastest time with SuperPi but it was untweaked on a bloated operating system. Might be able to crush 10 seconds on Tuesday.
