Power consumption at both idle and load are noticeably lower:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...id=68&Itemid=1
4GHZ was also reached with some mild tweaking it seems using air cooling.
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Power consumption at both idle and load are noticeably lower:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...id=68&Itemid=1
4GHZ was also reached with some mild tweaking it seems using air cooling.
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I think the article was pulled because it broke the NDA:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/forum/vi...php?f=3&t=2720
To sum the article up idle power consumption dropped by a third and load power consumption decreased bya round 10 watts.
Here is the working link to the review:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...id=68&Itemid=1
Some more reviews have come out:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/phenom...-review-test/1
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...be-c3-review/1
http://news.firingsquad.com/hardware...5w/default.asp
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-965,2468.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...ii_2ndcorerev/
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...2_965_refresh/
Improvements include lower power consumption,better overclockability and an better memory controller which can now use 4 sticks of DDR3 at 1333MHZ.
Some reviews like toms and techreport mention only savings of 9-10 watts on load, yet others like bit-tech show around 30-40 watts difference. :/ Not very consistent!
It seems that a C3 stepping of the X4 945 is also out:
http://en.inpai.com.cn/doc/enshowcont.asp?id=7358
This is already a 95W processor so hopefully there will be some more idle and peak power consumption savings.
i have 4+ stable, what would you like cat?
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...lock111109.jpg
temps are 28deg idle in a warmish room, 50deg load (see speedfan), voltage is 1.46 and the cooler is a corsair H50
just as a footnote, this is obviously the quick and dirty way to do it, ill be fiddleing with the fsb probably tomorrow as it makes quite a difference to the overall speed. im hopeful of getting a stable 4.06-4.08 kind of area without any more voltage as well, will have to see
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...lock121109.jpg
clever overclocking is now underway. drop the cpu in mhz, bump the NB and HT and then creep it back up using fsb. stable and faster than last night - RAM has been fiddled too, mucho bettero
actually managed to get down to 1.45v too, havent tried lower but it may go a bit
Nice man. That is a hot (not literally) cpu.