Yes that's right gents, your eyes are not deceiving you! Fresh in is the QX9650 in our testing lab! And we can only say - it's a monster! From the 3Ghz default clock speeds we've managed to clock it right up to a decent 4.42Ghz on air cooling via a Scythe Andy !

Voltage options available in BIOS

Option Values
CPU Voltage

0.85V - 1.7V (In steps of 0.00625V)
CPU PLL Voltage 1.5V - 2.78V (In steps of 0.02V)
FSB Termination Voltage 1.2V - 1.5V (In Steps of 0.02V)
DRAM Voltage 1.5V - 2.78V (In Steps of 0.02V)
NB Voltage 1.25V - 1.91V (In Steps of 0.02V)
SB Voltage 1.05V - 1.2V (in steps of 0.15V)
Clock Overcharging Voltage 0.7V - 1.0V (In Steps of 0.1V)
   
CPU GTL Voltage Ref 0.57x 0.59x 0.61x 0.63x
NB GTL Voltage Ref 0.61x 0.67x

Test Bed :

  • CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9650 (Default @ 3Ghz)
  • Board : Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFI-AP@n
  • Ram : 2 x 1GB DDR3 1333mhz Kingston HyperX @ 7-7-7-20 2T
  • HDD : Seagate 80GB 7200.7 SATA
  • Graphics : Asus HD 2900XT 512mb GDDR3
  • PSI : Enermax  Galaxy1000W
  • Display : Dell 3007 WFP 30" LCD @ 2560x1600 Native Resolution

And here are the results!

3D Mark 06 @ 1280 x 1024  CPU score, the CPU really shined when it came to overclocking! the board was able to push past the 7K CPU mark !

 

3D Mark 03's difference was much more substantial , with the 4.42Ghz QX9650 leading the score by amost 2000 points based on CPU frequency increments alone.

Super Pi showed the tremendous increase in CPU processing power. At 4.42ghz, the 8mb calculations finished almost 50 seconds faster!

COHOF yielded mediocre results. Average of 3 FPS performance increase.

World in Conflict saw not much increase in FPS, we suspect it could be more GPU intensive instead of focusing on CPU operations.

Call of Juarez yielded more noticeable results! But again we can see the limitation of the GPUs at higher resolutions!