Cooling Efficiency Tests

Inside a closed system case using the “weakest” cooling system of the two we managed to overclock our 45nm quad-core processor to 3.9GHz (+30%). The nominal processor Vcore was increased to 1.55V in the mainboard BIOS (+24%):

According to the monitoring utilities, the CPU core voltage was a little lower than was set in the mainboard BIOS, namely it was around 1.51~1.52V:

The benchmark results are summed upon the diagram below: