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Also wondering if tighter memory timings would help. I have one P5E3-Premium that works best at CL6...

Gotta say here, December is really impractical for a lot of people, at least for me it is. A longer gap between TC and CC also won't hurt tbh. Just my opinion here, agree or disagree.

Is there a good guide to reflash the SPD on Hypers? I'm not sure if its the issue but before writing them off I would rather try it before throwing them out. I have a kit of 1866c7 2GB Hypers that were at first misbehaving (only being recognised as half capacity - 1 stick booted up was being recognised as 1GB, 2 sticks as 2GB) and then stopped working completely while a buddy of mine has a pair of GTX2s that went from working perfectly fine to not working at all. How to reflash SPD without messing them up? I've tried with Rweverything manually copying over from a working stick but that didn't work, now I have no idea what else could work - at least I couldn't get SPDtool to work yet / couldn't figure out how exactly it works...

Yeah that thing was awesome! Thanks for loaning it out

Thats some crazy clocks for Dice, wow! Considered taking the NB cold too?

black magic, benchmate or something else?

sweet!

I think if you are spending 80+shipping on 775 chips you are most likely looking for a chip thats good for gold on cold too which kinda defeats the purpose ^^ Good luck with sale anyways.

There you go!

After login I also end up on this page (safari and chrome) also erroring out if not logged in. https://hwbot.org/user/ground1556/ (confirmed by people in US and Germany). It appears that not everyone is running into this issue. Maybe something messed up with the database? Edit: Looking at other broken profiles, it seems to only affect team captains. Been checking through all the top 10 teams and all the captains are bugged out.

Have you benched anything on cold? If not, start with something cheap first... I know a fair lot of people who learned that the hard way. Plastidip is a pain to remove if not applied in a thick enough layer (spent half a day trying to remove leftovers from an x58a-oc recently), and even then it can be stuck under components and hard to remove. Eraser - depending on how flat the surface you are insulating is, can be fairly alright to remove but not exactly fun. Vaseline - not too hard to remove with liquid Shop towel - nothing on the board basically, but I've never had much luck with this, always had condensation issues after a little while

woah thats some bdie oO

impressive.

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.