Massman

Oh, to anyone who's still using 10E: 10F fixed all gear ratio issues for me . Bioses in here: http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33752

Ok, so here are my scores: Air cooling CPU clocks on air as high as on any other board given the right cooling. My cpu can do ~5GHz pi-32M without using the CPU heatsink mounting and two cores and ~4500 3d11 with all cores enabled. Bclk is mental on this board. Previous best with R4E/GD65 was around 154MHz; now I got upto 168MHz CPUZ (publish soon) and 161MHz fully 3D stable with 4x 580! On LN2 Board hits limit of CPU on nitrogen as well. There's a problem with cold that MSI is addressing at the moment. Here's the workaround: Efficiency Efficiency of the board seems fine on Pi-32M, but is slacking a little bit in physics 3dmark11. I'm going to revisit this board once the cold issue is fixed. For your information: With GD65 before: Conclusive lines All in all, the hardware seems pretty solid. The BIOS is quite snappy and very responsive; I think MSI has one of the better UEFI bioses available. There are a couple of layout problems with multi-gpu, though, like the OC buttons and pcie ceasefire being hard to reach in 4way. Imho, the #1 priority right now should be for MSI to fix the ratio problem under cold. I have the feeling this board is (hardware-wise) capable of a lot more than it's showing at the moment. Looking forward to more testing in the near future! Extra! Extra! Elmor presenting the XPowerII board

Just realized it's a frigging close battle from places 9 to 12 in the teams league. Leeghoofd (Madshrimps) just pushed the Belgians from 12 to 9 with a round of Q6600 results. Nice :nana:

Nice, closing in on 3K single GPU !

Lol, looks like you don't need a C2 ES sample for mental BCLK on this board. This CPU did ~155 on R4E and 154 on GD65-8D. Now, no more posts before NDA's up .

So cover up the brand in GPU-Z. No need to also cover up the score ...

Why the secrecy. We've already seen Shamino's 1700/2000 3DMark11 result .........

Without CPUZ screen or link it's quite difficult ...

Trying to get the board ready for 5480MHz 3D11 (like on UD7), then it's time to get rid of the 580s ...

So, Xpower-II is MSI's very first 4Way SLI board, so what better way to go for a round of 580s? . Tomorrow NDA lifts, but here's a teaser already

So, figured I might as well show what kind of balls I have and give this UD7 a real xtreme OC test. 1.6V+ vcore, 5400+ cpu speed, 3DMark11 4way and Wprime. Here's what happened ... ... ehr, nothing happened besides completing the benchmarks and giving me a result to submit to HWBOT :nana:. I was running about -40°C (IHS on CPU); no problem with CB or CBB anymore. My chip is rather picky on changing BCLK at temps lower than -25°C, which results in a 6A boot failure. Just up temp to -25°C, set the BCLK you want, save and reboot, up the ratio and bench. System: - Core i7 3960X - GIGABYTE X79-UD7 F8d bios - 4x MSI GTX 580 Lightning Extreme - 2x 2GB Gskill RipjawsX - 2x 2GB Gskill Flare - Coolermaster Silent Pro M1000 - Corsair AX1200 - Huge balls (for trying) Youtube: BIOS settings: Some pictures: So, I guess that's settled then. Onto other stuff.

Some folks had issues getting 4Way SLI to run, I heard. Just did a quick test with the F8d bios and seems to work ok.

Flashed F8d this morning and I'm not too impressed with the latest BIOSes to say the least. Recovery after failed OC is a joke as it takes so insanely much time for the board to get ready to but finetuned again. The BIOS is changing from #1 to #2 and back randomly, it takes two hard reboots to get into the bios (if it doesn't switch in between again) ... sigh. Gear ratios and CPU frequency seem fine, though, so once you get the board up and running it should work fine. But the BIOS definitely needs more work. They made great progress from F2 to F4; I hope they can repeat the same for F7 to F9 .

What if you try with Firefox or Chrome?

It is the same for all platforms ...

Since it's NY weekend, we'll go over the submissions and problems of the CC'11 ranking and post the final ranking/decisions next monday or tuesday. Happy New Year all!

Lol, of course mem gives boost. Physics is all about memory and nb.

Nono, I mean 12k physics. And I was running 4way with that 12k physics

Whoah, Andre = WR machine!

So, why no one broke 12K physics? 19.5K should be possible with air cooled cards .

Wherehouses!

Whoah! Genius!! Btw, there is a trick to get 200P/S which we'll share in the next week .

WHHHOOOAOAAAAAH!

I had 11.5K with 6900 and 3750 NB. It's not that big difference. Also, combined is too low I think. But, kudos for running the cards on LN2, mate! Top work

Lol, some people will wait for the hwbot server to break at 23h50 it seems ...