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Date Posted: October 12, 2001

CPUID

(left) 1.4GHz (1.75v, 10.5x133) and (right) 1.6GHz (1.85v, 12x133)

(left) 1.61GHz (1.85v, 12x134) and (right) 1.61GHz (1.85v, 11.5x140)

I mentioned earlier that the in-between overclocking attempts worked, but extreme overclocking didn't. I posted the fastest scores that were able to allow me to play Quake 3 for about two 20 minute maps, and run the SiSoft benchmarks. Like I said, vCore was kept at 1.85v, but I didn't mes around with memory timings since I wanted an even playing field. Temps never passed 53C on the Swiftech MC462A.

12x155 - Did not Post
12x145, 12x141 - Post, Reboot at NTLDR
11.5x155, 11.5x141 - Post, Stop Error
11x 150, 10x155 - Post, Windows lock at Log on

As you may know, one of copper's assets is it's ability to absorb heat. I read on , that at initial power on, since there is a tremendous blast of it, the copper-base Swiftech was able to handle it, and allow the CPU to initially post at some crazy speeds. Too bad I couldn't get further.

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