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WOW! Crazy chip, congrats!

Isn't the C6H T-top? And since the IMC can't sensibly run more frequency (limited by fclk ratio) moving to 4 dimms or Dual Rank dimms could be a possibility for a little bit more performance maybe?

Decent uncore for ambient ;) DR Hyper seems like an odd choice for memory frequency though...

Has anyone tried running Dual Rank memory, since its the FCLK and not the memory controller that's limiting here?

oh sweet, press sample board? Haven't seen that one in a while... Wonder if the PLX is causing issues here...

I see, you are having fun with that one Also, how many testbenches can you fit into a single picture?

No I delidded it after it died to check if the die cracked and then i noticed that nightmare of a solderjob...

i7 920 common data: - batches 3845A to 3849A are the typically binned chips. Best chips I've seen so far of these batches can do 4.5/1.24V 32M on air or water, 230-240 BCLK air and scale to 5.4 (though thats really rare) -batch sorry enough people are buying this batch now so I’m removing all data I can is a more exotic batch that I recently stumbled over; as far as I could tell by limited data nobody besides me seriously binned this range. I've so far found a W3520 and an i7 920 that are both doing 4.5/1.2-1.21V on air for 32M; the W3520 scaled to 5.53 32M 1.45V easy on Cascade and is probably not at its limit. The 920 I tried testing on LN2 but it was, at least for me, far too hungry to be controllable at all. 5.45 1M at 1.45V was the max I managed with about 15L of LN2 in maybe 1 1/2 hours (chip is insanely leaky - heats up the pot by 20° with an F1 pot during 1M). Gonna test that chip on a strong cascade when I get around to it again. So far had about 4 chips in this range and all did 5.2+ and seemed to scale to ~1.55-1.61V depending on the temperature (the lower the less voltage scaling). The W3520 also does 5.3 GHz uncore at 1.55V VTT on Cascade which seems quite nice. With 45nm there seem to be a lot of chips that don't seem to scale with voltage at all (even with the good batches), some not even scaling beyond 1.5V on LN2. Have seen a couple chips that did 4.5/1.3V air and could barely do or couldn't even manage 5GHz on LN2. Much later chips can sometimes be quite nice but those you would need to bin a lot of. Of my 12 W3530s (all 3040-3150 batches) I had one chip validate >5.3 and scale with a ton of voltage (saw scaling up to 1.8V during post and 1.75V booting up).

I guess this explains how the first 2 cores died and probably also why it died on me now... No blame on the seller, I knew I was buying a defective chip.

chip is limiting because this R2E seems to suck at BCLK. Time to get the W3680 to work which has a better IMC

Jup plenty time, good luck

did you try raising PCIe frequency for more BCLK? 221 lines up with the pcie at 100 wall... You can estimate the required PCIE with ~targetBCLK*0.452 (on asus with good chips typically the max postable is 261 and 118, at least with 32nm (45nm can post higher PCIe for some reason). '10 32nm usully manages 225-255 BCLK on ambient, '11 chips can be more capable (max I've seen on ambient was 273 though I'm sure there are better ones out there). Haven't seen chips that were IMC limited at the 10x mem multi for 32nm yet.

100% Board limit no gain from -60 to -140 (no pll mod on this board)... Would‘ve probably managed the same score on dice with this chip and this board.

benching with Shaggy and Tagg :D Its good to have plenty of redundancy :D

G-die would be 1 or 2 GB sticks, so this gotta be D-die. Chip looks strong for SS!

windows time is 12:08 and 12:11 which does appear a little odd

I mean... they could be running with the pot just standing on the CPU (I've done that before binning) and since the runs are at basically at stock it doesn't seem impossible I guess. Just gonna try seeing a way its plausible. I'm 99% sure they'll rerun if enough people complain, its not like either score is particularly impressive. Edit: Also joining the complaining party since I wanna see runs that aren't basically stock...

comps usually require the mobo tab.

Indiana Yos on the hunt for the loophole

I mean for those there are at least IMCs that can use udimms as well as rdimms without any issue, sometimes even on the same boards (x99 especially). Pretty sure that doesn't apply to any platforms with FBdimms or do I remember it wrong?

All the 32Ms! Keep it up! :D

High QPI is just as good as more core clock Seems like you have found another stupid chip

Insane chip for dice :D Pretty sure there is more in it, we need to get this chip on LN2 some time ;)

Anyone here has experience getting hyper to run with 32nm 1156 chips? We have a couple 650s and 550s here that won't post with hyper at anything beyond 800 MHz if even that while handling PSC at >1050 or so... edit: and once again noting that almost nobody else running high QPI which makes it easy

Quick suggestion gauging interest - would it be more popular if its 2C/4T/8T instead of 4c8t for all 3 subs (which would be unavoidable otherwise)? Not sure how that would go for moderation though... Either way, I'm happy to see 1156