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Tried to get it up an friday and I'm stuck @ about 2.8. CPU was just at -20 °C, but it didn't show any scaling before so it was just for safety reasons.

Thanks, just reupped the images.

Just got contacted regarding the prize. Thanks again Massman and hwbot for your commitment to overclocking. Sure was a nice contest - a lot of work, but fun as always.

Memory overclocking is getting very popular in the last 2 years. Additionally the move to integrated graphics and their improved performance forces faster memory in general. Guess that helps too and will finally bring us a good benchmark tool.

Subscribed! I have the same problem with my cpu. Stuck on 5735 MHz, no matter what. I already tried using 100% Load calibration, because people kept saying, this is the solution.

Sam, 10x is also possible on my MIIIF. Never tried 11x. splmann, wow, great CPU regarding bclock. Is that the cpu used for your last memory clock result?

Nice fight! 8) VTT? PCIe? Any details?

Hehe, those two megahertz! Let's see if I get myself to do another session today. ln2 is short as well.

It's a new lynnfield retail chip with an old batch. Wanted to test it since weeks and finally got the time. It's for sure not my best chip, but it takes 116 MHz PCIe and nearly 1,56 Volt IMC.

... and I guess they keep asking you to give awards every once in a while and try to convice you, that awards will bring you so much more hits to your website, because they will backlink you on several sites. Scores and too many different awards are useless in my opinion because hardware has very indivual use cases. What is perfect for one setup, can be a senseless upgrade for another. So instead of letting the reader be lazy and take scores and awards for granted, they should always have to read the conclusion. We - as writers or/and editors - should take care of that! As a wise man said: "With great power, comes great responsibilty". Hardwareheaven.net obviously did not watch Spiderman ...

How did you get your multiplier to 49x?

That's "good news everybody"

1156 would be much more fun than the limited sandy socket.

I would not say that. But with air cooling the additional loadline calibration settings can reduce maximum voltage.

Little bit below 1,6 Volts. Thanks.

Those are really small shops in Austria and they are known to be ... lets say for trying to make their way with the help of these comparison platforms. With all the problems that normally includes. So I would not say that these prices are very accurate.

Sam, I guess I am still CPU limited + memory is still on air. But I don't remember any details of that result ... it was for ASUS 1156 competition and I was in a hurry. Have to test bclock limit and vtt scaling again.

Nice one! Very good cpu.

About 1,87 Volts ... the modules did not like more without cold.

107,6 MHz BClock, nearly 2300 MHz CL7-7-6 1T on air and still stable for all the benches. O_o Yes, memory benching seems much easier with the ASUS boards at the moment. They return from cold boot with any bclock setting. Good work there ASUS!

Very nice result ... again! 30 GB/s finally done! That is already a good cpu, I can tell you. Tested 5 until now and only one chip could do 108 BClock, but only with low cpu frequency. Higher frequencies on cpu and ram should need more VCCIO ... as much as the chip can take. Same as it was with Lynnfield. Your voltages are really strange. Couldn't touch VCCSA on the UD7, because the whole system got unstable. VCCIO is very low for your memory frequency and timings.

Wow! Very nice work, SF3D ... altough it seems easy to do something like this with Sandy Bridge - it's not! From my point of view CPUs and mainboards are pretty difficult to handle on this platform, especially with the limited bclock. So congrats again!

Sick! Just the right CPU.

Is this the drama Sampa is talking about?

Sampsa and SF3D in Vienna @ Lange Nacht der Forschung 2009