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Nice!

1 minute ago, Wingfan said:

Nice!

 

thanks. for some reason that version of ab can only go to 1100/1575 where on my other drive they can do 1122/1645. i need to redo this at some point. also the i5 was running on air  not even over 80c in 3d benches. 

5.4 on air on a Sandy Bridge, impressive! My Ivy screamed mercy at 5.0 with an AIO

hey, is there an Air cooler that would outperform my H105?

20 minutes ago, Wingfan said:

hey, is there an Air cooler that would outperform my H105?

Not that I know of.

31 minutes ago, Wingfan said:

5.4 on air on a Sandy Bridge, impressive! My Ivy screamed mercy at 5.0 with an AIO

Yeah its a shame the cpu won't go faster no matter what cooling I use as the voltage scaling is great.  I have 2 chips like this,  under 5.5ghz but very low volts.  My best one does 5.6ghz and that only needs 1.58v on cold water to keep it at 50c. 

whats holding it back?

11 hours ago, Wingfan said:

whats holding it back?

Sandy cpus just have a wall which they can't go past no matter what.  That's why it's impossible to bin them on air because no matter how good they are air on air they won't go higher than there wall.  It's also means there are a few out there that do 5.8-5.9ghz under cold water though :D. 

The other issue is they all have really low cold bug so most don't boot below - 40c. The best do - 100c but normally the cold does really help.  As long as the load temp is below 20c you can be 100% sure the chip is maxed out.