BenchZowner
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Nice start man
If you post a review of them make sure you switch the sticker on the DIMMs with the one found inside the blister package
I just finished cleaning up my Classified and put some ice cubes in the freezer ( my good CPU needs to be close to 0C to hit any BCLK over 212MHz in dual/triple channel ) and then I'll join the club
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Thanks Petri
I will try to get more LN2 next week and push things the proper way this time.
Here's the CPU info in case you guys want to hunt down the same batch of 950s:
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I can't believe this is true, but fortunately ( for me
: ) it is A few days ago... ok, ok! 2 days ago, I tested a Core i7 950 that did 4.8GHz SuperPi 32M on ice ( the regular one, not dry ice ) [ CoreTemp 37C/35C/36C/33C ] and the results were very encouraging ( 5.4GHz-something SuperPi 1M, 5.3GHz AquaMark 3, 5.16GHz Pi32M @ -58Cpot_temp, wPrime at 5.05GHz ).
Today I had a few liters of LN2 ( 12 to be precise ).
Yesterday I started preparing some Windows images with Norton Ghost ( something that made me waste a lot LN2 today :shakes: ) and then recovered the HDD to an all-around Windows XP Pro SP3 installation.
I wanted to test the CPU, but I got tempted to do some AquaMark 3 with a LN2 cooled 5870, so I prepped both the mobo & the VGA for LN2.
I started with CPU on LN2 and an empty Tek-9 3.0 "Fatbody"-cooled 5870 @ stock to check the overclocking capabilities & the "coldbug/coldboot" of the CPU.
I didn't try hard, neither really paid any attention ( I had an old friend here and we had some good laughs during this benching session
) so there might be more or even more than a lot of OC headroom left ( we shall find out soon )After fooling around in Windows XP I decided to load the Windows 7 x64 image to get some higher AquaMark 3 & 3D Mark03 numbers, but that wasn't the best of ideas I must admit
:Norton Ghost 14 had problems restoring my image, and after 2 tries and lots of waiting, I decided to give Windows Backup a go.
Finally, after 3 minutes or so the image was finally restored and we were ready to go.
Well... that's when I realized that I lost a few scores & screenshots because I forgot to transfer them from the HDD to my USB stick...
I was bored and didn't mod the 5870, so it was SmartDoctor & Afterburner.
Well, the result was 1287MHz / GDDR5-5224 AquaMark 3 @... -179C ( -180C = coldbug
: ) @ 1.45Vsomething.I didn't push the UnCore, nor the RAM ( slacky 8-8-8-28 80 tRFC and 2/8 divider, B2B 12(!) ) just the CPU clock
I lost a nice 393k AQ3 with the card at 900/1200 and 5.54G CPU while saving the screenshot ( damn GPU-z lol and lack of LN2
).I also benched SuperPi 1M @ 5.5GHz / DDR3-2400 8-8-8-28 Triple Channel just for fun
I really need a cascade to spend some time testing the CPU and finding the best clocks/timings & settings
I'll leave you with a few screenshots ( well... some of the saved ones
)One of the cb lost screenies
A cr*ppy AQ3 ( full screenie, yay
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A... not so tweaked ( just LSC ) SuperPi 32M on dice
5.57GHz 4cores/8threads CPU-z validation ( pending, x86-secret is down
)I shall be back soon
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LOL Isaie, it's DANCING IN THE RAIN, not BENCHING in the rain
You should leave the system exposed to the rain, and hybrid cool the system ( water...cooling & air-cooling in the mix ).
Now all we need is a... RickRoll
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massmansucks
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MIP runs are accepted on ORB ( doesn't detect it ) AFAIK.
So yes, it is possible.
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Every CPU will have performance issues if it's unstable or throttling due to high voltage or temperatures.
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Shouldn't as long as you don't motivate it to be a jerk
if you keep it cool and fed with the appropriate voltage and BIOS settings it should be fine and play along.
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That sounds like an unstable overclock.
nearly 1GHz higher clock and less performance indicates that.
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We need more information.
Which preset did you run ? The performance preset ?
How much did you OC your CPU ?
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haha, never thought of that.
Disabling post-processing is so lame.
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D-PP ?
Say what ?
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We have AMD steppings too. It would be great if there was a system that worked for both stepping/batch systems.
AMD ? Who ? ( just kidding
)A drop-down menu to select AMD or Intel would be nice, and useful to quickly tie the batch numbers with the manufacturer instead of linking them with the processor name.
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I'd say a single alphanumeric value ( e.g. L741A485 )
And don't limit the input characters, because there are longer batches out there, like the ones ending with a T ( e.g. L741A485T
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No Andre he's not talking about OVP ( obviously you misread that
), he wants the OCP ( OverCurrent Protection ) mod.OCP should be kicking in at around 1.15GHz GPU regardless of the voltage applied to the GPU ( I could be wrong, I haven't tried any 5870 on LN2 yet )
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You didn't get my point man.
Let me make this clear ( although I wouldn't like to mention this at all, but... ):
I'm a smart cheater ( that's an example, not speaking about myself lol ), so I visit HWbot and check the wPrime 1024m rankings.
I found a Dual Xeon system clocked at 4050MHz with X amount of RAM clocked at Y MHz, scoring 100s.
I find a screenshot of wPrime 1024m with two CPUz windows open, I open it up in paint, change the results in the wPrime window, change the details in the CPUz windows to nearby/similar frequencies and then post the score.
Yes, here's my Dual Xeon system at 4010MHz with X amount of RAM clocked at Y-z MHz, scoring 101s
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You can see the test details on speedhacked 3D Marks and spot a cheat.
With a plain screenshot, how will you be able to detect if for example I edit the wPrime v1.55 result window and copy paste edited CPU-z windows with altered info ?
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If somebody wants to cheat he can cheat.
But screenshot only is making it way easier.
How difficult do you think it is to ms paint a score and alter the cpuz numbers ?
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...or just ask for screenshots instead of using online validation.
I don't want my 250-300 wPrime runs to be worthless.
I don't trust screenshots
This issue with wPrime has been going since early August if I'm not mistaken.
When's RB coming back again ?
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Come on guys something must be done here.
Dare I say "drop the whole wPrime db & start a new one with the latest version of wPrime only" ?
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Attention!
Now that I have your attention, listen up folks:
It's your time to react.
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Gautam played a nasty April's fools day trick with ya
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what forums do you guys flee 2 when XS is down? its like nowhere to go, no lifeguard boats, we all sink with the titanic.
I try to focus on completing the semi-completed reviews and watch some movies in my HC room
Unfortunately I can't think of another forum with the same kind of population and activity of XS for Xtreme Overclocking addicts.
Everybody's welcome at my place and site, but if you want to register you must first bother into fixing my forums database corruption issue that prevents you from registering
( I really need to fix that, but the reviews are on the top of the queue under high priority and full affinity -
Yeah, I've already reported the score and Stelaras banned the jackass from team H.O.T.
It's probably a kiddie wanting to win the GOOC 2009 Greek qualifiers by cheating... well... play with the fire and you'll get burned
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Monstrukill
... CPU temp got under -55C and lost the... +60MHz validation & Pi1M.
Don't worry though, I'll be back soon