Massman

There wasn't anything ambiguous about the thread title; it explains exactly what is going on in the thread. Subconsciously, you always wanted to open this thread ...

Not reviewing ... I'm just 'testing' them.

When the competition starts.

Seems like we need to push the temperature far into the positives to get nice memory frequencies on Sandy Bridge-E. For fun, I tested the maximum frequency with LN2 and ended up with Pi-32M stable at DDR3-2666 at 70°C ... - DDR3-2666 (1.73V) C10-12-12-31 CPU-Z Validation: click - DDR3-2666 (1.73V) C10-12-12-31 SuperPI 32M: click

What are you refering to exactly?

I ate them.

MSI wants to associate the brand name "Master Overclocking Arena" with high-end extreme overclocking. That's why the qualification requirements are so high-end too.

Rampage 4 revived, so grabbed it to do further testing. Some of the results: - DDR3-2300 (1.77V) C8-11-11-28 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2400 (1.80V) C8-12-12-30 CPU-Z Validation: click - DDR3-2634 (1.75V) C10-12-12-31 Y-Cruncher (15GB): click, click - DDR3-2640 (1.81V) C9-12-12-31 CPU-Z Validation: -- will upload later -- - DDR3-2640 (1.82V) C9-12-12-31 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2644 (1.75V) C10-12-12-31 SuperPI 32M: click I'm completely maxed out on the IMC overclocking capabilities. No additional voltage or change in memory timings can help to get me past what I've reached so far. I'm eager to see what these will do on an Ivy Bridge platform!

Quite low. Chip only needs ~ 1.12V VTT and 1.12V VCCSA.

This is so awesome, Steve! I like it as a member, I cry as a staff member ...

Obviously, I already tried doing a force recalculation of the TPP. The team ranking didn't change. I suspect the point algoritm has an underlying bug somewhere.

3D06 bug ?

http://bugs.hwbot.org/browse/HWBOT-733

Posting this as reference here too ... looking good

So, instead of R4E or EX9, I will use the MSI X79A-GD65 8D board with the new 1.7b2 bios. So far, testing is going ok. Notes: - DDR3-2300+ needs 2T timing; DDR3-2400 1T will not boot - C9-11-11 timings can be pushed to ~ DDR3-2520 - C10-12-12 timings can be pushed to ~ DDR3-2610 - board hits a hard wall at 122,5MHz BCLK with 1300+ memory (needs bios solution) Apart from that, the kit looks fairly nice. Some screenshots: DDR3-2610 was fully stable with Ycruncher. I used a custom setting to allocate as much memory as possible; in the test 15GB was being used by the benchmark. Adding another 0.125MHz BCLK made the system freeze instantly ... so much be a bios bug. By the way, this GD65 8D seems rather fine! 16GB DDR3-2600 with 162MHz BCLK

This helps?

Disabling cores is always allowed

So retail is E2 or E1?

Ya, just noticed that too. That's retail stepping!

Thanks for the report. Fixed now.

What kind of results are you getting, Petri?

Not bad! Might be Elmor pulling an Alvin indeed

Naaah. Let's not allow Ivy .

I see what you're saying. Just plugged them in the Extreme9 real quickly and it's not a straight set'n'boot. We'll see what happens when fiddling with the settings or swapping to the R4E.