BenchZowner

Session 1: Normal, nothing extreme ( like pushing 2V through the CPU for example ) Session 2: Extreme push, hopefully not farewell session You'll bench Vantage at 6.3GHz or you'll die

A few days ago Sophocles ( sofos1990 ) asked me if I wanted to bench with him and his cr@ppy Core i7 980X, he purchased a Sparkle GTX 480 and wanted to get some numbers down with that setup before selling that bloody 980X of his. So I said "sure, why not", I haven't had an LN2 session in the last few... months and I needed some of that benching adrenaline, after some phone calls all the details were taken care of and we had a date : I picked his brand new card and my Palit GTX 480 as well and gave them a nice conformal spray bath. Since sofos1990's 980X was better ( despite being a cr@ppy CPU ) than my best 980X ( how typical ) I decided to take down some numbers with my card as well, my HWbot account needed a refresh. The numbers we nailed down that day aren't actually worth mentioning, his 980X geezer was barely capable of running AquaMark 3 near 6100MHz and 3D Mark03 around 6GHz. Sofo's VGA was also better than mine, and thanks to the decent clocks his card managed to go through in 3D Mark03 sofo's grabbed the 6th place in the 3D Mark03 single card rankings with his 136.886 3D Mark03 run ( CPU 6GHz, GPU/MEM 1250/1050 ). He also captured a ~421k ( 420.937 ) AquaMark 3, and a ~52k 3D Mark05 ( 51872 ) with our last drops of LN2 ( barely made it to the save score window ). So was this long story worth reading ? Maybe not, but the following paragraph probably is I'm pretty sure that sofo's would kill himself for not saving some LN2 that day to try my newest 980X ( which was taking a nap on my 24/7 classified setup : ) :rofl: 2 days ago, I gathered 14L of LN2 and a lil' friend of mine, AMDnord to help me out. To my surprise, the 980X ( 3005F210 ) was a good chip ( not what I'd love to have and fall in love with, but considering my... bad luck & karma, I should be happy for having this one ). We started the testing with the usual CB & CBB testing in dual channel memory mode, the numbers ? No coldbug at all, and -154C cold boot bug Then we did some 3D Mark Vantage CPU TEST(S)ing, 1.6V 5.4GHz done, 1.7V 5.7GHz done, 1.8V 5.95GHz done. Then we tried AquaMark 3 as we had just a few liters of LN2, 6450MHz AquaMark done at 1.85V ( success! Borat said :rofl: ). Tried to raise the UnCore then, but had limited success with that, I think the 73 BIOS for the X58 Classified E760 isn't exactly mature for 980X UnCore clocking yet, anyway, 6450MHz CPU and 4.5GHz or so UnCore = done too. I was planning to keep 1-2L of LN2 to try the lovely GTX3 triple channel memory kit Corsair sent me on LN2 aiming for DDR3-3000 triple channel, but the happiness my 980X gave me with its clocking made me lose track of time and LN2 supply and the session ended unexpectedly during a 3D Mark Vantage run ( which was run with an old driver which we used for AQ3 since it was the best of the ones I've tested before, so we missed 1.5-2.0k for that ), we ran out of LN2 during the second CPU test, and the system BSODed right after AMDnord pressed the save score button I'm preparing myself and my new hardware for more LN2 sessions, and if my plans pan out well, I'll have 2 more LN2 sessions ( 55L of LN2 each ) by this weekend I'll leave you with some screenshots/pictures while I'm leaving the room to insulate the new VGAs Many many thanks to: for the awesome RAM, thanks Alex, Mike & Peter. for the TruePower Quattro 1200, thanks Korinna & Maurice! [ click on the pics ORB URL's ]

Nice work Alv Funny thread title though... 655k @ 3990MHz ?!

Next time use WinXP x86 and 257.21 or 258.96 Cal ;-) You'll be surprised by the huge score jump. Go go go!

Thanks Phil We rushed through most of the benches ( only 14lt of LN2 ) just to find how the CPU fares in most benchmarks, didn't push or test the uncore thoroughly, had to flash the BIOS to the newest version which supposedly fixes the Gulftown B1 UnCore ratios and co, but I didn't When sofos comes back in a few days we'll get 100+ Lt of LN2 and go bench at mine or his place, and of course you're more than welcome to join us

Nice work Phil. Wish I could've made it yesterday Next session at my place or yours if my stomach is ok ( 55L LN2 from me or even more )

Yes, just use a wire to connect those two legs ( pins )

Try this alternative mod for the CBB issue guys: [ obviously, you have to undo the original CBB mod shown by Kinc ]

It's not even a half a$s score, but thanks mate Both our GTX 480's seem to be able to do much better, but there seems to be an issue with 2D clocks and temps. Need to fix that bloody thing and then 3D Mark03 @ 1300MHz+ should be a poc ( piece of cake )

Use FAT32 filesystem on both partitions ( OS/SuperPi & CopyWaza ). Fixed-size pagefile on SSD/Acard should help ( not sure though ).

I don't think the chl8266 firmware has anything to do with the artifacts. For the rest I'll have to test them on another GTX480 as soon as possible and come back to you.

Like sofos1990's stepping ?

3013A421 I think.

Nothing and nobody should be against adding new benchmarks ( whatever those may be ) unless the benchmark is crap.

Holy cow, look at the Vcore. Damn dude!

Yes, you can use whatever you want, as long as it's bootable in pure DOS mode.

lol @ Sam OCX @Kal-El It's an old result, I re-upped. Done with my good 950 before I found out that it could run even colder and sold it to subzero. I kinda feel the urge to get it back and re-bench it, as I'm quite sure that it can run 3D @ 5.75GHz+ with the help of more voltage and lower temps, unfortunately subzero sold it to a random person after he benched it on his cascade I can find the batch if you guys want it @ Shahryar: It's an A0 AYSB E.S. Don't ask me what AYSB is, it's the stepping of course, and in my opinion those are the acronyms for AndreYang Sucks Balls

I agree. No CPU & VGA sharing at all.

CPU & VGA is what I meant.

Since a processor affects the 3D benchmarks and not just the 2D benchmarks, I'd recommend to disallow hardware sharing totally.

I'm sorry to interrupt you guys, but how the Rage Pro Turbo isn't a DirectX 9 graphics card. How did you ran AquaMark 3 with it ? And wtf is that screenshot, that's barely proof.

Sorry, forgot to add this to the post, most of the times you need to define a target device ( which device to flash ) by using the -t switch So try chlflash -t chl8266 chillocp.txt

It can be done, but the "gains" for the manufacturers simply aren't there, and there's no reasoning for them to do it, especially in a good, secure way.

TBH a sharing/selling hardware rule is not really enforceable right now, unless the manufacturers ( and the bench developers act accordingly ) start "hardcoding" serial numbers and an "owner information" system on the HW ( far fetched huh ? )

He had a buy-back clause Elano