Leonardo
F@H Reign of Terror is back!
14,696 Posts
2 Jul 2008, 4:27am
best I've seen out of a B3 is probably Leo's 3.5
This Leo, me? I've got one Q6600 B3, which I run at full load at no higher than 3.2GHz. It's one hot sucker, too hot and too power hungry for safe 3.2+ operation. I did run it for a while at 3.4GHz, but good sense got the better of me.
It looks like AMD has made some progress, but given the huge power consumption difference between quad 2.4 and the 2.6, it leads me to be believe there is very little headroom available beyond the 2.6GHz bin. 3.1GHz is not what I would call a lot of headroom.
Maybe AMD is very slowly closely the performance gap, I don't know. I certainly hope so.
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