I.nfraR.ed

I can sell you one XT for 300€

Yes, I didn't actually benched mine on cold due to lack of time, but they have coldslow. Don't know if a coldslow bios exists for DarkKnight. I wanted to see if I can mod one myself, based on e.g. 9800 CS bios, but didn't get to it. Still have my card modded though and will eventually bench it in the future.

Yes, it's because the category is new. Back when I benched mine (980, non-Ti) on chilled water, there was only H2O category: I.nfraR.ed`s 3DMark11 - Performance score: 21864 marks with a GeForce GTX 980 But it is clear this core clock is not possible with normal room temperatures. @Mr\.Scott is right though - it's up to the submitter to enter all details, so we rely solely on his honesty.

Windsors generally have lower CB, I think. Maybe because they are hotter than Brisbanes. Haven't tested too many chips though. But it can be all across the board for them too. Many chips will boot with SS temps and 200MHz HTT, but when you increase the HTT the fun begins A black edition Brisbane is a possible variant, since you can increase the multi, lower the temperature and keep the HTT close to stock. Chances with non-BE Brisbane are smaller. At 200MHz you have one CB, at 280 it is different. And you have to find the sweet spot between voltage (affects core temperature), HTT and cooler temperature. Generally speaking hotter your cpu is, higher HTT it can do. This is also how mainboard ref clock records for K8 are done - CPU temp goes up to the limit of thermal shutdown to lift HTT wall. PS: Apparently I was wrong about all AMDs being soldered. It seems APUs are not.

You need to cool them down. All high "water/air" results you see in the database are actually done in winter And they also start to scale at about 1.55-1.6V, but you need a really good cooling, otherwise it will overheat. My 6000+ F3 is hot as hell, but scales with cold. It overheats with stock cooling. Starting from AM2, all AMDs have soldered IHS. Also... don't push volts too high, they can't handle e.g. 1.9V It depends on the chip, but usually around 1.6 - 1.7 is best with good cooling (chilled water/air, SS, DI, LN2). You need to balance between temperature, frequency, voltage and HTT. I believe the most common reason for these to coldbug is the IMC. Statistically speaking, you would have a better chance to hit 4GHz+ with Windows F3, although if you find a gold Brisbane, then you can match the best F3s. I don't know much about steppings though - Knut (knopflerbruce) and Sam (TaPaKaH) have much more knowledge than me.

To me this is wrong in the part for socket 939 Opterons. These are desktop CPUs. For server you would need s.940. If I remember correctly certain dual-cpu s.939 boards with nF4 chipset exist, which support Athlon64/Sempron CPUs, so going by this logic you should ban them too. As long as a s.939 Opteron is used, I don't see a problem. Why allow Skulltrail, but no s.939 Opterons that are basically the same as their Athlon64 counterparts. Can you elaborate on the subject why these specific Opterons are not allowed. Maybe there's something I don't know or missed in the discussion. PS: And sorry if I ask the same question, but did not find an answer by searching the thread. I know we (participants) are annoying at times .

Generally speaking, I consider anything under -15 as a good CB The best AM2 chip I have in terms of CB is my 6000+ F3 which was performing well at about -48C on the SS, but for max validation I would probably need higher temperature and LN2 to control it. You all might try disabling one core (from windows) and see if it helps with validation.

FX, being unlocked, need to be clocked with low FSB to fight the coldbug as much as possible and reach maximum frequency. Good job!

Sadly, this is going more and more into the direction "kill the small teams". In the past, I could manage many stages on my own, now it seems impossible.

This is called "0% fat" .

Can I get it as well? I don't have a MSI card at the moment (sold my 7970 Lightning), but you never know. And we don't have a local rep. I've tried to contact some rep in EU several times in the past and either get no answer, or something like "download the regular version from our website".

I use original motherboard boxes, or boxes from another mobo, sometimes stacked and padded 2 or 3 motherboards in the same box. For VGA either original boxes or for bare cards esd bags, then bubble-wrap and stacked in larger boxes. For CPUs - some in original plastic holders, some (the s.A) stacked inside a cardbord boxes, some in hard plastic trays (blue ones). For RAM - most are in plastic trays, others in esd bags.

11 was/is considered faster and more stable, but I think it had been related to something specific to bioses/chipset revisions back then. To me 5 is faster on my boards and bioses I use (self-modded latest offcial bioses for my boards). For me 5 > 7 > 9 > 11, exactly how it should be. BTW, nice score! I should have played safe and just use the chiller.

Long story Check comments in Stelaras' 3dmark01 submission. Great job everyone and nice competition.

I had all needed weapons: Windows 2000, AGP freq at 99MHz, Ti 4600 that does 440/820 on LN2 (I think mem freq would help more than AGP 8x on other cards), an XP-M able to bench Pi 32M at 3.5GHz, a board that does at least 260MHz stable FSB. And I didn't even make a single score... It is my fault, because due to lack of time I postponed this until the very end and it always happens like this. The SS was refilled 2 times already without any luck. It was dropping temps very slowly. I left it idle with system turned off and the evap temp dropped to -55. As soon as I start the system temperature keeps rising, CPU temp too. So I don't know...it's either clogged or lost gas again.

Bad luck, but not better for me either. I have no score. SS seems to not hold at all (losing 1 deg per second on the evap), otherwise I could run at 3.2-3.3 just on phase. Also problems with boards, because several CPUs did not post in AN7 and when I hooked up the chiller in the last hour, windows wouldn't start. Not a bad score though. And you win the competition as well Congrats!

@zafiropo: Don't worry, the 3DMark01 stage is yours (Stelaras). I had only 2-3L LN2 in the dewar. Not sure what is left, but definitely not enough and I haven't benched it yet .

I am aiming at 3+ GHz, but have to change the second CPU. Didn't want to put my best CPU on that board, but maybe I will have to... Or it might be the board, since both CPUs were kind of equally good when I tested them on AN7 in the past. At 2.9+ GHz and 2.05V set, the voltage drop is enormous... Anyway, I will try one more time, but also need to bench for 1st stage.

Let's see what Greeks have prepared for us

Why do you guys keep running on the wrong OS?

Great one. Dedication pays off!

No, 150x18 is not stable on stock cooling and 1.8V (max 1.85V set in bios). But definitely will improve it soon. Could probably run 138x19 or 140x19.

Nope. But tried about 15 runs at 1990 12-11-28 220 1T and no 743.

@Strunkenbold that's a bad experience. Reminds me not to put my best CPUs in there. The one I got have 2 MPs to get me running and see how the board behaves. FSB is limited, but pinmod shoud be possible for multipliers above 12.5x. @Mr\.Scott it would be very generous, since I don't find anything meaningful on the net Actually find one page: http://www.emboss.co.nz/k7d/

@Mr\.Scott Any good or do I really need the Asus board that I can't find anywhere at decent price?