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Agreed, great score!

Holding first and second on the platform now, huh?

Awesome!

3321B batch

certainly better then expected for a chip this late :D

nevermind

. Chip is absolutely stupid and in no way maxed. We were running >5.5 32m later but the effi sucked, probably messed the OS up. At ambient the chip does this at 1.33V: Uncore at 4.0 with 1.26V: Chip also does >5 GHz uncore (I've ran pifast at 5.5 core 5.4 uncore on Dry Ice a while back, but since it didn't scale didn't bother subbing). Stops scaling at 1.6V which we hadn't quite reached. Wouldn‘t surprise me if this chip is capable of 5.6 benchable in the right hands...

@Leeghoofd weren't you looking for a 3770k? Could that be a candidate?

Doable if we find a gigabyte board that plays well with my E5640 or I find more tweaks

Thanks everyone! Special thanks to Tagg and Shaggy who helped a lot during the session/did some extra binning/provided extra boards/etc, Tapakah, Jokot and T.Rex for doing some cold(-ish) testing and/or providing extra information, the r/overclocking and warp9 guys with their patience with me on my journey to this note: I think I still have a better CPU with a lower coldbug, but that would require me to get it running properly on a gigabyte board, all 4 we had during the session refused cooperating with me sadly. With the boards we had the maximum achievable due to the pcie wall would be 305-310, but I don‘t think I‘ve found that CPU yet... this is where we starting celebrating https://valid.x86.fr/hd3vw2

@Nanok Agreed, x58 is indeed fun Thanks for the high bar

Jup, from the session with tagg and shaggy, plenty more stuff to try today too. This score is a fairly hard board limit (both with single and dual CPU), limited by a pcie wall at 114. If I could figure out whats holding pcie back I wouldn‘t even be surprised by 260+ on ambient because this is at stock voltages and these CPUs are binned for that.

make sure to test different drives (IDE and SATA). Just randomly decided to throw a Sata drive on my board (rampage II) and it suddenly starts posting 130+ (though boot fails as sata still drops out above 122...) Rampage II Extreme: Max(coldboot): 118 Max(ide boot): 118-120 Max(ide boot + setfsb): 138-141 (depends on OS) (138 benchable) Max(sata post): 135 Max(sata boot): 122 Max(sata boot + setfsb): 137-138 (136 benchable)

Hypers seem to scale pretty well with voltage in general

Has to be the Doglike Gaming, though probably some ES version considering the USB port at the bottom.

Oh, quick note too - if your sticks are dead/badly degraded the trick from d9 times of throwing them in the freezer over night or longer might work. Got 3 (out of 4, last remains unable to boot) 2000 c8 dimms that didn’t manage XMP, JEDEC boot or post at all before back to where they belong around 2000 7-7-6 at 1.66V.

Keep the contacts on the sticks clean, I thought one of my sticks had degraded badly, cleaned the contacts and it went from 1025 7-7-6 at 1.85V to 1100 7-7-6 at the same voltage, now testing less voltage (tRCD wall at 1100)

I think the 478 to 775 adapter has been dealt with, good luck finding the asus thingy

Performance and compatibility with older stuff perhaps? It also seems to rely on HPET... its available for free in the microsoft store, works well in win 10.

Pricedrop on the Rampage IV Formula, 140€. Still taking offers.

Needs a wrapper for sure, just as easy to exploit as R15. With wrapper and proper windows 7 compatibility it could be interesting.

are there any other reports of this issue? Haven't seen anyone else report hyper dying on am3(+). Good luck finding new kits!

Okay, same behavior as gigabyte boards on your R3E then, thanks! Gonna have to see if I can find one that can do 136 for myself

Please test with setfsb too! I’ve yet to see an asus board that couldn’t do 138 with setfsb

134 should be about enough for 298, but good luck finding a CPU capable of that