I ordered an Intel e6850 from NCIX on the 22nd and it came yesterday and I spent some time pulling out my original e6600, which will go to my wife, to install the e6850. The batch says L722A.
Anyhow I am certainly no professional reviewer nor do I have the experience to provide a detailed assessment of this new CPU, but all I can say is I am very pleased with its performance but most of all its ability to OC.
My original e6600, which was a L29, was decent. I could get it close to 3200 Mhz or so give or take with 1.42-1.45V. I always thought that pretty much all e6600 could do 3600mhz but mine never could and in fact to go anything over 3200 mhz the amount of Voltage I had to pump through it was simply too much. I was able to run it at 3400mhz for a week or two but I had to run it close to 1.55 to keep it stable.
I have the original eVGA 680i SLI AR version -- the one that was replaced by eVGA for the A1 to give better oc'ing wth quad cores. I never bothered returning the board quite simply because it worked so very well -- never had any issues, never hung, never BSOD, never froze never gave me errors etc etc etc. I never thought it was my board that was limiting my OC with my e6600 so I kept it.
Also I am using 4 sticks (4 GIG total) of Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 4-4-4-12 DDR2.
So anyhow I slapped the e6850 in, applied some AS5, placed my trusty Tunic Tower... placed the board back in the case, etc etc... and it booted right away.
I just used stock values for everything to start, FSB and voltage wise. I ran some tests, Orthos, 3dMark5 and 6 and it was rock steady. Only weird thing is that on Core Temp .95 or TAT it shows my temps as 19c which I know cannot be. I did some reading and hopefully we will get some more info from Intel about this, which will allow maybe a newer version of CoreTemp to give a more accurate reading. Right now with the 19c temp reading I would say it must be a good 12c-15c lower of what it should be. In Bios it showed 32c.
After an hour of messing around I decided to OC the CPU. Went in the bios... set the FSB to 385 (or roughly 3500 Mhz on my board), kept the CPU's voltage to stock, 1.35 (which actually shows less on my board in the bios after it's set), and set all other voltages to their lowest except Vcore which I placed at 1.3 instead of the lowest, 1.2. My RAM says 2.1V but I have always ran it fine at 1.9-1.95 and never had any issues.
Anyhow booted up thinking it would never last and would you look at that... Orthos stable for over 4.5 hours till I decided to just turn it off. The TAT and Coretemp readings actually were hovering between 33-37c which I would assume were probably more in the lines of 50+c which ain't bad. Anyhow then before going to bed I went back in the bios, set the FSB to 415 or 3700 Mhz roughly? upped the voltage to 1.40, and the other voltages up one notch just to be sure. Booted fine? ran Orthos.. temps were about the same maybe a wee bit more. Got up this morning.. STILL running no worries. Wow. So this 3Ghz chip has no issues running 3700mhz on air. I just wish I really knew what my temps were? since I would hate to find out my new CPU has been running at 70c or something crazy like that.
I have not even tried to lower the voltage just figured it would need 1.4 or thereabouts.. but tonight I will try lowering it.
Anyhow I am certainly no professional reviewer nor do I have the experience to provide a detailed assessment of this new CPU, but all I can say is I am very pleased with its performance but most of all its ability to OC.
My original e6600, which was a L29, was decent. I could get it close to 3200 Mhz or so give or take with 1.42-1.45V. I always thought that pretty much all e6600 could do 3600mhz but mine never could and in fact to go anything over 3200 mhz the amount of Voltage I had to pump through it was simply too much. I was able to run it at 3400mhz for a week or two but I had to run it close to 1.55 to keep it stable.
I have the original eVGA 680i SLI AR version -- the one that was replaced by eVGA for the A1 to give better oc'ing wth quad cores. I never bothered returning the board quite simply because it worked so very well -- never had any issues, never hung, never BSOD, never froze never gave me errors etc etc etc. I never thought it was my board that was limiting my OC with my e6600 so I kept it.
Also I am using 4 sticks (4 GIG total) of Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 4-4-4-12 DDR2.
So anyhow I slapped the e6850 in, applied some AS5, placed my trusty Tunic Tower... placed the board back in the case, etc etc... and it booted right away.
I just used stock values for everything to start, FSB and voltage wise. I ran some tests, Orthos, 3dMark5 and 6 and it was rock steady. Only weird thing is that on Core Temp .95 or TAT it shows my temps as 19c which I know cannot be. I did some reading and hopefully we will get some more info from Intel about this, which will allow maybe a newer version of CoreTemp to give a more accurate reading. Right now with the 19c temp reading I would say it must be a good 12c-15c lower of what it should be. In Bios it showed 32c.
After an hour of messing around I decided to OC the CPU. Went in the bios... set the FSB to 385 (or roughly 3500 Mhz on my board), kept the CPU's voltage to stock, 1.35 (which actually shows less on my board in the bios after it's set), and set all other voltages to their lowest except Vcore which I placed at 1.3 instead of the lowest, 1.2. My RAM says 2.1V but I have always ran it fine at 1.9-1.95 and never had any issues.
Anyhow booted up thinking it would never last and would you look at that... Orthos stable for over 4.5 hours till I decided to just turn it off. The TAT and Coretemp readings actually were hovering between 33-37c which I would assume were probably more in the lines of 50+c which ain't bad. Anyhow then before going to bed I went back in the bios, set the FSB to 415 or 3700 Mhz roughly? upped the voltage to 1.40, and the other voltages up one notch just to be sure. Booted fine? ran Orthos.. temps were about the same maybe a wee bit more. Got up this morning.. STILL running no worries. Wow. So this 3Ghz chip has no issues running 3700mhz on air. I just wish I really knew what my temps were? since I would hate to find out my new CPU has been running at 70c or something crazy like that.
I have not even tried to lower the voltage just figured it would need 1.4 or thereabouts.. but tonight I will try lowering it.
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