q9300@ 3.2 to 2500K stock and OC comparisons

[Utmost]

I upgraded to the 2500K from my q9300 and I have an SSD for my boot drive and apps now. Here are the scores.

 

Heaven v1 q9300 @ 3.2 : 970

 

Had to DL v2.5 for the 2500K stock : 888

4.7 : 896

 

All runs had settings of Shaders = high

Tess = extreme

Anistropy = 4

AA = 4

 

So yah, performance tanked with the upgrade, and got a paltry 3 tenths of a FPS better going from 3.3 to 4.7. On to Futuremark stuffs

 

 

3Dmark06:

 

q9300: 16839

2500K stock: 26012

2500K @ 4.7: 31457

 

Ok finally not utterly pissed anymore, but still wondering if this is worth the 500$.

 

 

3DmarkVantage:

 

q9300: 22287

2500K stock: 22964

2500K @ 4.7: 24470

 

Need feedback on this please.

 

 

3Dmark11:

 

q9300: 2888

2500K stock: 5830

2500K @ 4.7: 5919

 

Well the upgrade helped alot in this benchmark, but the OC seems useless, also at that 4.7 I'm still well below what looked to be average.

I'll run a cinebench here too and post that

 

Cinebench 11.5

 

q9300: 3.82

2500K @ 4.7: 7.37

 

better indeed.

Edited April 10, 2011 by Utmost

[IVIYTH0S]

how much voltages and degrees for that OC??

[Utmost]

1.415v and blend p95 hit 72 on one core over 12 hours, other 3 were 62-66.

[IVIYTH0S]

Good stuff

[Waco]

I upgraded to the 2500K from my q9300 and I have an SSD for my boot drive and apps now. Here are the scores.

 

Heaven v1 q9300 @ 3.2 : 970

 

Had to DL v2.5 for the 2500K stock : 888

4.7 : 896

 

All runs had settings of Shaders = high

Tess = extreme

Anistropy = 4

AA = 4

 

So yah, performance tanked with the upgrade, and got a paltry 3 tenths of a FPS better going from 3.3 to 4.7. On to Futuremark stuffs

IIRC scores between versions aren't comparable, especially not from v1 to version 2.5. It's entirely likely you would have seen a much lower score with your Q9300 on version 2.5.

[Utmost]

I was wondering about that Waco, thx for the post. Makes me feel a bit better. Think the other numbers look decent?

[Waco]

I was wondering about that Waco, thx for the post. Makes me feel a bit better. Think the other numbers look decent?

They do to me! I wish my CPU could clock anywhere near that...I'm stuck barely 200 MHz over your stock speed and mine is nowhere near as fast at the same clock speed.