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Don't wanna derail this, but what makes the Rampage III Black so special? It's certainly not BCLK as far as I can tell, I can beat that with a Rampage II... Edit: also missing the Z170M OCF?

Exact same clocks for RAM and CPU, interesting, hope you guys keep on going for a while longer with this

Its like you saw the future

Can we pay to remove others valid scores?

Got really lucky with a couple sets of Adata Vitesta, 6 out of 10 sticks did at least 675 5-5-5 (loose) at 2.3V on my P5Q Deluxe for 8M, loaned the best pair of them to Quiekmew for a while as I'm currently not feeling like benching DDR2 stuff . I'll do more testing once I get a new board and the sticks back.

They exist I guess, but aren't common, doubt those who have one want to sell theirs.

I had that combo a while back, don't really have much of the data anymore, but you can check the BIOS version in one of my valids. Have you tried clearing CMOS by removing the BIOS battery too? http://valid.x86.fr/npaaqr

Nice DnteCⓇ✝️Xeo]ⓇBPU :D

775?

Pretty sure its about the intel nucs.

Also no matter how/if its getting changed, modern intel will dominate with x299, 1151 v1 and 1151 v2 being a thing

Can baseclock be percentage over stock? Some platforms run much higher BCLK at stock

Perfect score for this stage :D

Sticks run 5-8-5 at 1.84V, not any less, runs 6-8-6 easy at 1.64V. Also some score difference between the two.

Ever tried going with 5-6-4 or similar? Also considered trying to find some interesting BBSE? I have some sticks that can do 5-8-5 at 2000 MHz at ambient given the right CPU+board combination (excuse the garbage efficiency, wasn‘t running an optimised OS for that, just testing if the sticks could handle 32m at those timings without crashes, sadly didn‘t get around tuning subtimings before the CPU died in a board accident)

How good or bad are the binning rejects? Are you keeping any of the 1 GB sticks for max frequency?

Should put them on a high MHz PCB then

Uncore and RAM are clocked surprisingly low tbh...

No weird shenanigans there, had messaged Rich a while back about the issue but didn't get a response If I reply directly on a Result I always show up as Rusty JS. No idea whats going on with your Black Edition board, but if you solve it I'll gladly take that information, I have similar issues with a DFI x58 Board I picked up a while back Which PCIe clock are you booting at? Have you tried using Setfsb? Did you play with clock skews? Though 255 under LN2 isn't an unrealistic max usable BCLK even for a 32nm CPU, its about average for batches from '10 (I had much more luck with '11 batches averaging ~250 on air)

Yeah, that should be it, you aren't the first one to run into it. CPU is actually running the higher frequency, its just CPU-z freaking out. I think @TAGG did some testing on that. Can't your board boot higher BCLK/can you try controlling the multi from within Windows? Booting up to 260 BCLK should be doable on most boards (if not limited by the CPU off course)

Is there a chance you are booting with the 22x multi and adjusting BCLK once booted up? The score seems higher then expected for the clocks, but it would be realistic with the 22x multi. I ran into the same issue while benching my E5649, pretty sure its a bug with CPU-z.

All my binning data is here (needs to be cleaned up, haven't updated the starting post in a while), but in short the following things appear relevant (as far as I can tell): 1 - max BCLK the CPU can handle 2 - max PCIe clock the board can handle 3 - max PCIe clock the board can boot 4 - max BCLK the board can handle 5 - max BCLK the board can boot 6 - temperature 7 - "baseline" BCLK of the board. Requires a CPU tested with as many different boards as possible. Tested at ambient lacking cold for some boards. In these cases I had these: x58a-oc: 1 - >=287 (unknown) 2 - 138 3 - 132 4 - >=287 (unknown) 5 - >=286 (unknown) 6 - dice temps with MX2, currently don't have a probe, guess -60°C? 7 - 266 (98.6%) Rampage II Extreme: 1 - >280 (ran 283 before the x58a-oc got wet) 2 - 138 3 - 118 (this is what I expect to be the limiting factor here, together with #6) 4 - >=285 (E5606 did this much, but the valids failed sadly) 5 - 261 6 - dice temps with MX2, currently don't have a probe, guess -60°C? 7 - 269.65 (100%) (main reason I was hopeful in this board, sadly failed me) EX58-UD3R: 1 - >280 2 - 125 3 - 126 4 - <286 5 - <286 6 - ambient ~20°C 7 - 267.3 (99.1%) Best 5 CPUs on "baseline board" Rampage II at ambient: E5606 - 273.6 E5640 - 273 E5649 - 269.65 E5640 - 265 E5606 - 264

Pretty sure @Jokot has a better one, might send him one of the CPUs I ran the next couple weeks to do more testing. The x58a-oc I have on hand currently is a little worse at ambient, but can boot significantly higher PCIe clocks as well as more BCLK. I suspect thats the only reason it got further then the Rampage II here. Not sure when I'll get around more testing. Need more boards to compare Other scores from that session: E5640 - 863 cb (R15); highest quad core score on the platform. Limited by time, CPU wasn't maxed out sadly E5640 - 5836.16 MHz - limited by board and CPU not playing well if upping BCLK in OS. x58a-oc got wet before I could go for a max frequency run there. E5649 - 1251 cb (R15); highest non-LN2'ed six core score on the platform. Limited by the board and CPU-z bugging out. CPU does 280 BCLK on Dice, so with the right board more is certainly possible. x58a-oc - 287.22 MHz - CPU, me or board limited, not quite sure. I suspect the board because it handled far worse at ambient the the Rampage II (~2% worse). Gonna pick up more boards to confirm. Just as the last one I ran this one can't run the E5606, my best CPU for maxing BCLK Also spent about 2 hours getting my good w3520 to run properly, but it only caused troubles. Gonna need to try that one again.

Amazing heatsink mounting! :D