BSEL Mod (Xeon Overclocking) Failed - Any Observations?

[cal6n]

4 x 2 GHz = 8 GHz

8 x 1.866 GHz = 14.9 GHz

14.9 GHz/8 GHz = 1.866 =87%

I know such maths is too simplistic to represent the reality but it gives us a ballpark idea of CPU resources. Allowing for some overheads, your observation of a 60% increase is of the right magnitude tends to support your idea.

Additionally, my powerfractal score on 8 x 2.66 GHz is around 70 -72 GFlops. This scales to around 49-51 GFlops for 8 x 1.866 GHz. I'd say you're right.

 

[spetznatz]

Ah. Stangboy was correct. Here's windows sys info and CPU-Z

Note the cores are running at just under 2 GHz. When I run a really big unsharp mask, they do intermittently jump up to 2.3 GHz...

However, The PowerFractal scores are a bit odd...And I'd have liked a bigger render speed jump...must do more testing.

Thanks to everyone who helped/contributed on this...I can put my old procs on eBay now...

BTW, Cal, what nucleotide is that?

 

[cal6n]

lol

It's not a nucleotide, although I can see the similarities.

It's my favourite stimulant, caffeine.

 

[65StangBoy]

Good to hear the BSEL worked. Your Power Fractal does look a little low though. I just ran it with other things going in the background and got 61,000.