Xeon X3350 OC and Review (WIP)

[Thanatos421]

I still find it amazing that the X3350 adjusts the voltage automatically up to around 3.6Ghz. Gotta love that 😀

I have to ask what you mean by that? Do you leave your vcore on auto??

 

[Evilonigiri]

A setting of auto will always increase the voltage along with the cpu clock speed (or fsb?). It is generally a poor idea to leave voltages on auto because more often than not, the bios always overshoot, giving the cpus more than voltage than necessary.

Ex:
Auto voltage for 3Ghz Q6600: ~1.40v

Minimized voltage for 3GHz: 1.30v

 

[Evilonigiri]

A setting of auto will always increase the voltage along with the cpu clock speed (or fsb?). It is generally a poor idea to leave voltages on auto because more often than not, the bios always overshoot, giving the cpus more than voltage than necessary.

Ex:
Auto voltage for 3Ghz Q6600: ~1.40v

Minimized voltage for 3GHz: 1.30v

 

[Thanatos421]

Agreed. Auto will always show green on your onboard LEDs if that's what you're going by. But as Evil said, it will always pump way too much voltage into the proc for the desired speed.

 

[Thanatos421]

Everyone that seems to be getting great OCs on the Penryn quads are (in my experiences) using Nvidia 780/790i chipsets. Seems Nvidia scored on that one very well.

I would be interested to see anyone out there with X38/X48 chipsets OC for the Penryn quads. If it's just a chipset limitation, I may splurge and buy one. I have an Nvidia card anyway and wouldn't cost much to SLI the 8800 GT. Might be an option!

 

[dmanick]

I am running:
Gigabytes EP35-DS3R Motherboard.
4Gb G.Skill DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 Memory
Geforce 8800GTS 512Mb 730MhZ / 1065Mhz Mem.
Xeon X3350 12Mb Core 2 Quad 2.67 > @ 3.42Ghz With out even trying to push it. (I am using Stock CPU Cooler off the 65Nm Dual Core Proc. =)

I get 43.22 Frames per Sec AVG on Crysis 1280X1024 High Detail No AAs

Runs very stable and smooth.
I only got $1,200.00 invested in entire computer.

Thanks plenty good enough for me.

I have been running World of war Craft for hours on end with no issues plus my computer is so amazingly quiet I cannot hear it.

 

[dmanick]

Also, I get 15,636 on 3D Mark 06 at 1280X1024

CPU Score is 5617
Sm2.0 Score 6510
SM3.0 Score 6254


GT1 Return to P.. 54FPS
GT2 Forest... 54 FPS
Canyon... 61 FPS
Deep Freeze 63 FPS
CPU1 1.86FPS
CPU2 2.71 FPS

Also I only run Window XP Pro.