Two more golds: TAGG sets two new records for the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
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Two more golds: TAGG sets two new records for the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Austrian overclocker TAGG took home two golds in the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 rankings after pushing the chip to 4505 MHz.

Less than a day has passed since his last post, and Austrian overclocker TAGG is already back with two solid new results on the LGA 775 platform. A lot has changed since yesterday, though: first, the humble Celeron 430 made way for a quad-core Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, and second, the premium ASUS Rampage Extreme was swapped for a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-Extreme motherboard.

Armed with a highly capable Yorkfield golden sample, the Austrian pushed it to 4505 MHz (a 59.19% overclock), landing two gold medals in the Core 2 Quad Q9550 rankings for wPrime - 32m and wPrime - 1024m.

Benchmark:

Result:

CPU frequency:

wPrime - 32m

7s 500ms

4505 MHz

wPrime - 1024m

4m 3s 109ms

4505 MHz

He used a phase-change cooling setup. Here is a look at TAGG's test bench:

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TAGG also explained why he switched to a simpler motherboard: his high-end ASUS Rampage Extreme died during a previous benchmarking session. This forced him to take a step back and move to the DDR2-based GIGABYTE GA-EP45-Extreme.

Source: Overclocker's profile on HWBot