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No, my head is just shrinked like usual. That is why I am shouting " This is not a place for kids" wtf?

Well, you could have them quite easily

Why you would need any backplate, when you can just put rods to original socket. The threads and rods are both 4mm. At least in this event there was no need to do it other way. Mobo's did not bend or anything. Yeah, shame about CPU's, but retails should do better anyway.

Once again it was time to travel to Sweden and have some first touch with new hardware. This time it was obviously SB-E chips + X79 motherboards (ASUS Rampage IV Extreme) There was Sampsa and me from Finalnd. Henry, Öjvind and new Marcus from Sweden + Thomas Melzer from Intel and Marcus Hultin from Asus. These are the best guys around, cause they always find time to organize this event, even they are very busy with other things. So, we have35 ES SB-E chips. 400 liters of ln2 and a lot of other hardware. All did what they liked to do there. I focused on binning chips with Henry and we went through 15 chips with no luck. Then this new Marcus took one chip from tray and started to test it. It was the best of them all, but still far far away from the best we have seen lately. So, i guess this new guy passed his first test. He have the only useful feature for overclocker --> golden hand. I did some 3D tests with that chip and I used 2 x MARS II cards, just to make sure, that the setup is ridiculous enough. Yeah, my most limited resource is still time, not hardware like some have thought. So haters can suck my extra large..... Here are some pictures and scores: Inflection point pot can be connected to normal socket with LGA 2011, so you dont need any backplate. Just put some armaflex behind mobo and you are fine. and scores not worth to mention: So, the ones who will have motivation to push, do it!

Looking very good Frederik! This is good improvement in many levels

Wow.. that is quite ok for LN2. Intersting to see who will hit 9GHz first

Great work! That is strong cpu and the ladies look perfetc

New video.

This time nothing went well First I got ridiculous PCI-E 8X bug and then the card literally exploded during 1350MHz run. It took 2 weeks, to get rid of the smell from that smoke. The fire was around 10cm from pbc. Cool! Congratulations Pieter! That is a good card and still alive, which is nice! P.S The pwm design is just slightly better than Nvidia reference. 6 phase design with these mosfets is just getting too hot very easily. In my case the cooling did not help, as you can see

But reducing tesselation level have a lot higher impact on image quality than just LOD. Like Maxi said, they are same kind of things on basic level, but tesselated objects are far more advanced. If we could have tool to set tesselation to 0 on both vendors there is no issue. If only vendor A can do it, but B can't, it is the issue of vendor B or their users. Then we also have to decide do we allow it to be used after all or does it take the whole idea of a benchmark away. If I could decide, reducing tesselation would not be allowed. LOD was the thing of it's time, but we should move forward.

I really love X58. There are some minor things which are annoying, but oc is fun with it. Personally SB platform have taken a lot of motivation out of this hobby. It is so boring, that even gradmothers can do it. But, I hope bulldozer will bring some light to overclocking. Full pot, 8GHz 8 cores and it is time for some 3D loving

Here are few, which were not submitted: http://hwbot.org/submission/2204942_ http://hwbot.org/submission/2204945_

Hi everyone! I'm really happy to join this crew! That is what I said 5 years a go .. well to be exact it was 4 years and 8 months, so I will celebrate my 5th bot day at the end of january 2012. Time is flying!

Yes. Here is the latest batch.. there is some of them still left. SF3DOCsales@sci.fi

So, now we have once again a thread full of crap and drama. Thanks!

Well, I can see it Internet + high tempered person = Win!

They are there just to make sure, that the pictures look ridiculous enough.

It is actually 5 PSU's. The one is hidden on the right

Now it was time to run SLI: http://hwbot.org/submission/2202288_sf3d_3dmark11___performance_2x_geforce_gtx_580_19260_marks Safe run! It could not run 1500+ so I did not bother to waste more ln2.

When 4-way is enabled something changes radically. I think it is software related issue, cause hardware can do the clockspeeds desired as easy as possible. This is first time I see this sort of issue with 4-way. DCII cards did not have it, so we need to find out what it is. If someone find out what is the issue, I would like to know the fix for it.

Ok, now someone need to help me through this issue. single, 2 way, 3-way all ok, but when there is 4 cards installed I just can not overclock anymore. If 3-way was ok up to 1400MHz why 4-way is ok only up to 1050MHz 3D peformance seems to be as good as usual. 31.1K with 1100MHz/1250MHz is ok. The cpu seems to be working well all the time. Who said single CPU is not good for 3DM11 This cpu + 1300MHz 4-way is my goal. I will not give up until it is done or new technology overtakes these parts.

I have to say the same thing what I said to PJ in assembly -"It is hard to make babies with redtube" So, we will propably need to wait a bit.

Congratulations! Now the real life begins I hope she will sleep well from the start, so we will get updates to HWbot too.

I gave up for the driver issues today and decided to run 3-way instead. I just needed to see, if the cards will act like predicted. They did work exactly like it was ment to, but after 1400MHz the load was just too hard to handle. 1400MHz run was almost finished, but GT4 crashed just before the end. There was some issue with voltage, so I could not use exactly what I liked. If that issue can be fixed as well, 1400mhz will not be a problem. Pots were the new wider versions from ryba and they are so much better than previous pots for this use. Well, next I need to run 4 way with same settings Score 22646: http://hwbot.org/submission/2200890_sf3d_3dmark11___performance_3x_geforce_gtx_580_22646_marks?recalculate=true P.S I would need to grow extra pair of hands

Very nice run! Anything left on this card?