EVGA water board runs memory at 1320 MHz

Preview: OCZ DDR2 PC2-9200 FlexXLC, Quad core at 3575 MHz

We already showed you what EVGA 680i black pearl board looks like. you can read more here. Our board is one of the first samples of this EVGA water cooled motherboard and we spent some quality time with the setup. The
first impressions are impressive as we managed to break the 1300 MHz score with
the memory. To be more precise we managed to run the memory at 1320 MHz but it
was not stable at all times. The motherboard has four water blocks in total and
it is meant for single slot cards only. EVGA prefers that whoever buys this
board uses their water cooled card as the dual slot air cooled card simply won't
fit inside. 

EVGA uses
high quality Innovatek water blocks and this is an ideal setup for a quiet but
overclocked PC. The company water cools the Northbridge, Southbridge chips and the CPU, and
the Mosfets.  

This is
the final setup with a Quad core QX6700 at 3575MHz and FBS at 1300 MHz.
everything was water cooled as you can see, apart from the graphics card. We used
EVGA's 8600 GTS card simply because it is one of the few single slot cards. 

Now you can even buy Flexx 9600 but we didn't get our hands on it. We tested the good old 9200 and we scored some great results. You do need to use 2.5V for this memory, but the warranty supports even such a high voltage. This is probably the best you can do as far as memory goes. 

We tested Everest at 1300 MHz 5-5-5-18 and you can clearly see that you get
much better scores at this speed. This is the first time we managed to score
1300 MHz and get any test stable. It is even stable at 1300 MHz with
SuperPi. 

Our setup
included CPU QX6700 ( at 3575MHz w. FSB at 1300 MHz), OCZ Flex 9200 (at 1300 MHz) EVGA
8600GTS and even at this high overclocking the board worked at a modest 48
Celsius and the Quad core Intel worked at 59 Celsius, while the cores were running
at 70 Celsius.  

This was not enough for us and we tried to push it even more. We managed to
work in Windows, but SuperPi was not stable at 660 or 1320 MHz which is the absolute
record for us.  

Here is
the happy family picture. the only problem with this board is its cost. It will
include Innovatek's water cooling but in total it will cost a hefty €500. This is
the best overclocking board for us but it does cost some serious money. Quad
core at almost 3.6 GHz with FSB 1300 definitely tells you how the stuff
will perform in the future. When we think about it, this is exactly what we expect from the
Yorkfield, 45 nm parts when they appear in some six plus month time. I think that Quad
core can do even more.

So we finally touched DDR3 speeds. Stay tuned for more as this is just part two.