i used a
bios set
vcore of 1.456v, which is about 1.42 to 1.425 actual
vcore on my board at 4335 mhz...under 100% load it drops down by 0.025...in real terms, about 1.39v for
vcore to hold Prime 95 at 4335 mhz.
i dropped back to F4H
bios since F5A was giving me memory timing fits at 530 and above for
FSB...530 puts it about 1696 Mhz on the memory speed (rated for 1600 mhz)...saw over in my thread at XS that BenchZowner says that F4D is the best
bios for him.
as far as 3d2006 score...i am off by about 800 points (lower) that the QX9650 score...not a whole lot for only being 1/4th the price of a QX9650....AND, the VC is not overclocked and the driver is only set to max performance...also, i did not increase the PCIe bus speed or touch the video performance mode in the
bios.