Look @ this beauty:

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
What does CPU-z say the stepping is? I've been waiting for someone to get one of them, what's the VID?

Here are my X3350 CPU-Z screenshots

At idle
At load

SLAX2 MALAY
2.66GHZ/12M/1333/05A
L803A756

I can't figure out why my v-core is slightly higher when under load (Prime95) compared to when it is idle. Motherboard is a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R F2 BIOS.

And for those who are curious, the out of the box BIOS, F1, recognized the X3350 right away.

 

[TheJian]

Originally posted by: JAG87

Originally posted by: tenax

Originally posted by: JAG87

Originally posted by: tenax
tough day at the office, JAG?

I don't know where you live but it's Good Friday here in Canada.

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Sounds like you got it all figured out then JAG.

I am just reporting the facts, rather than making up stories.

i'm in canada as well..so, neither one of us have any excuse for being grumpy right?
why not lighten up a bit, man i know you're just reporting the facts, but you don't need to sound so angry doing it..

here's something for you to get at chapters and read over the long weekend..i think it would be good for you:

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/...onal+intelligence%2527

I sound angry? What gives that idea? I think I am just writing in English without any tone associated.

Do I have to start putting 500 smiling emoticons in every one of my posts to deviate people from thinking I am angry?

I dunno.. help me out.



is that better?

You'll get this every time you tell people their full of BS and prove it Get used to it. If you disagree and give them the details of why, and they can't squirm out of it (and you've got benchmarks to prove it...LOL), you've attacked them no matter what...LOL. I think there's so many people in here (not talking specifically about this thread) that say things without any data to back them up, and normally it just gets swallowed as fact that they are completely shattered when someone corrects them. Its as if 1000+ posts next to their name is a free pass on BS. When someone comes along and tells them, you get "calm down", or "quit arguing", "you angry or what?" etc...No, you just did your homework...LOL.

Here come the flames, here come the flames...:evil: :evil: :evil:...:shocked:

 

[bhatch]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: Idontcare
What does CPU-z say the stepping is? I've been waiting for someone to get one of them, what's the VID?

Here are my X3350 CPU-Z screenshots

At idle
At load

SLAX2 MALAY
2.66GHZ/12M/1333/05A
L803A756

I can't figure out why my v-core is slightly higher when under load (Prime95) compared to when it is idle. Motherboard is a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R F2 BIOS.

And for those who are curious, the out of the box BIOS, F1, recognized the X3350 right away.

I have the same Batch number as you. I just got it on my desk this morning can't wait to put it into my GA-X38-DS4.

 

[kyzen]

Where'd you get it from?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: kyzen
Where'd you get it from?

I got mine at NCIX.com in Canada. A tad expensive though at $390+tax and a Q6600 was $150 cheaper. Nice to have the latest CPU for once though

 

[TheJian]

wobble, don't forget it's faster clock for clock that Q6600 by about 5-7% avg. Also you get SSE4.1 (if it ever becomes common place to use it in apps). So it's not like you just wasted some money. It's all good

Feel better?...:beer:

 

[CurseTheSky]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: Idontcare
What does CPU-z say the stepping is? I've been waiting for someone to get one of them, what's the VID?

Here are my X3350 CPU-Z screenshots

At idle
At load

SLAX2 MALAY
2.66GHZ/12M/1333/05A
L803A756

I can't figure out why my v-core is slightly higher when under load (Prime95) compared to when it is idle. Motherboard is a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R F2 BIOS.

And for those who are curious, the out of the box BIOS, F1, recognized the X3350 right away.

In the first screenshot: 2.0GHz, 6x multi. Second screenshot is at 8x multi.

You have speedstep (or one of the similar power-saving features) enabled. Disable it in BIOS, and it should run at a constant speed and voltage (before vdroop).

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

I can't figure out why my v-core is slightly higher when under load (Prime95) compared to when it is idle. Motherboard is a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R F2 BIOS.

And for those who are curious, the out of the box BIOS, F1, recognized the X3350 right away.

is speedstep or EIST on?

When it throttles, the voltage will drop.

DOE.... Cursed beat me to it. LOL..

good going!

 

[ghost recon88]

so the real question is, how does it overclock?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: CurseTheSky

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: Idontcare
What does CPU-z say the stepping is? I've been waiting for someone to get one of them, what's the VID?

Here are my X3350 CPU-Z screenshots

At idle
At load

SLAX2 MALAY
2.66GHZ/12M/1333/05A
L803A756

I can't figure out why my v-core is slightly higher when under load (Prime95) compared to when it is idle. Motherboard is a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R F2 BIOS.

And for those who are curious, the out of the box BIOS, F1, recognized the X3350 right away.

In the first screenshot: 2.0GHz, 6x multi. Second screenshot is at 8x multi.

You have speedstep (or one of the similar power-saving features) enabled. Disable it in BIOS, and it should run at a constant speed and voltage (before vdroop).

Oops, actually what I meant was why is my idle voltage higher than my load voltage?

I notice that CPU-Z reports my voltages quite a bit lower than what is set in the BIOS. My BIOS reports that my stock voltage is 1.1625V while CPU-Z reports 1.088V. If I bump it up to say 1.325V, CPU-Z reports 1.2V, BIOS 1.3V. I wonder if CPU-Z has issues reading the proper v-core or if that's just how the actual voltage I get?

I'm tinkering with overclocking right now. Not going hard core into it since my setup is geared towards quietness.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: TheJian
wobble, don't forget it's faster clock for clock that Q6600 by about 5-7% avg. Also you get SSE4.1 (if it ever becomes common place to use it in apps). So it's not like you just wasted some money. It's all good

Feel better?...:beer:

the Q9300 is 7% faster clock/clock with only 6mb cache. Q9450 and higher should be a few % better than that with the extra 6mb I would think.

@wobble, that's calld vdroop. You actual vcore is almost always lower than what it is set at in the bios. Better boards have smaller vdroops. Quads generally create much more vdroop than duals, I've seen .1v or more posted here many many times. High end asus boards have an anti-vdroop feature, check it out in the mobo section.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
Oops, actually what I meant was why is my idle voltage higher than my load voltage?

I notice that CPU-Z reports my voltages quite a bit lower than what is set in the BIOS. My BIOS reports that my stock voltage is 1.1625V while CPU-Z reports 1.088V. If I bump it up to say 1.325V, CPU-Z reports 1.2V, BIOS 1.3V. I wonder if CPU-Z has issues reading the proper v-core or if that's just how the actual voltage I get?

I'm tinkering with overclocking right now. Not going hard core into it since my setup is geared towards quietness.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=3184&p=5

CPU-Z is as correct as any software-based voltage monitor I have seen. That's not to say it is correct, but I have not seen anything better come along. What you are seeing is in-line with expectation.

What you see CPU-Z reporting at idle is the Vcore voltage after Voffset has occurred. See the graph in the middle of the page I linked above.

The voltage further "droops" when the system is loaded. CPU-Z will reflect this drooping Vcore as well.

It would appear, based on the data you are giving above, that all is functioning correctly in your system.