dexT

6 minutes ago, Ground said:

There is only one mode, it's basically the cheapest board you can overclock with for x58. But apparently I managed to get overclockig working again properly (at least my e5620 booted at 4 GHz, so its time to swap the L5640 in and overclock it properly this time

Seems like it was a faulty BIOS battery. The 32nm Quad Core that stayed cool at 1.5V under air - now only if it would overclock properly...

Can you disable C1E and TM to lock the max freq?

22 minutes ago, Ground said:

My board doesn't support running all cores at the max multiplier. The max I can use for benching multicore is 19...

That sucks. Even in full manual mode?

1 hour ago, Ground said:

Something seems to be wrong with either my L5640 or my board. It doesn't allow me to raise the BCLK manually, I can only raise it using the hardware switches on the board. Well, 3.4 GHz out of a 2.26 GHz chip isn't terrible, but still kinda disappointing...

That should be 4.2, 21x200.

You should make it run the OC freq fulltime when benchmarking. The time it takes to turbo up hurts the score.

19 hours ago, dfg666 said:

So you want it to be like the old days where overclocking is this "1337 crew" only thing? For the "big boys".

12 hours ago, unknownmiscreant said:

The recent one.

 

Can't remember what it was called. Don't follow LTT alot recently due to their content being somewhat below par compared to other tech channels.

I think it was some Klevv. Their DDR4 isn't as good as the DDR3 they made though.

Initial testing shows weak NB and CPU too hot for phase change on long multithreaded benches if I want a respectable score. Haven't binned the memory yet still trying to crack this BIOS 

@Ground I'm starting. This isn't just benching a daily driver and takes a lot of time especially if a new mobo. Goes like

Install Windows XP from CD

Configure OS for max performance

Download/install drivers/utilities/benchmarks

Insulate mobo

Switch cooling to phase change

Overclock CPU

Bin DDR3

Overclock memory

Benchmark(cpu oc changes depending on bench)

Submit scores to HWBOT

Post here

Mostly bench late at night and early morning, if using dry ice and acetone it's a must to wait for when my family goes to bed. Usually go and rebench the next day or days later on dice.

42 minutes ago, Ground said:

@dexT How did the Benching session go?

Dinner and drank alcohol with friends so nothing

It sucks having a social life and a family/son when it comes to bench time

1 hour ago, MageTank said:

I can't. I'll start missing my Elpida's if I go down that path again, lol. Gave mine to my buddy, he has them running 2200 C8 super tight, on an FX 8350 of all things. 

All good. I feel the same after trading a 5820K that I hit #5 Pifast, #9 SuperPi, #16 CPU frequency for that SKU.

6 minutes ago, MageTank said:

On modern Intel platforms? Yes. I purchased about 8 different DDR4 kits when I did my initial testing .Two Micron kits (one Crucial branded, the other EVGA branded), 2 SK Hynix kits (corsair and PANRAM), and several different samsung IC's ranging from B-Die all the way to E-die and everything in between. I have not found a single kit that could not reach 3000mhz. I've even walked people through overclocking laptop SO-DIMM's to 3000mhz (assuming you have a custom bios like svet or prema to OC with). 

 

Point being, DDR4 has a ton of OCing headroom. Micron tends to have the worst latency out of all of them, but it's still possible to brute force the frequency and destroy most XMP kits after some fine tweaking. Just get a Z series board, any DDR4 kit, and follow the guide in my signature. If you have questions, or find the guide to be too daunting to digest, then shoot me a PM and I'll try to help 1 on 1 until I can get you to POST with your desired speeds, and in a state that you can stress test from. 

I want your body err... I mean help with some Elpida Hyper Dom GT DDR3.

9 minutes ago, VenomZ_ said:

I gotta post my CPU collection here sometime soon it's no where as valuable as yours though 

Do it meng. Mine is really nothing compared the extreme edition collectors out there. I'm just a common bencher that got lucky over and over and happen to be one of the fastest peeps in the world.

Just now, Intelfreak said:

Ah i see. I7 920 shut be easy catch, while I7 980X is more rare cause of new price back then.

Yeah Im looking at getting a couple 920 this week. 980X is like the QX9650 I got, kinda hurts forking out that much money for a single older CPU that might not OC that far. Final CPU stepping is a must.

4 minutes ago, Intelfreak said:

You want bench result from I7 920 and I7 980X? i can provide that if yes.

I need to bench them sub-zero myself.

5 minutes ago, Ground said:

Nah, just cheap CPUs, an i7 930, Xeon E5620, E5620 and L5640. Don't really have the budget for higher end stuff; though I really want an W3680 at some point, probably sometime next year, together with some different cooling solution because air is boring

Nice, that Xeon looks awesome.

The only CPUs worth spending days benching are the 920 and 980X as these are the most popular so worth the most points on HWBOT. My 960 is going to get the treatment cause it's all I have. http://hwbot.org/user/knock/

2 minutes ago, Ground said:

@dexT And people are saying I have too many CPUs with 3 spares sitting around...

Do you have a 980X? I'd offer to give something to borrow it for a weekend but I'm kinda down to hardware I need. 

18 minutes ago, Ground said:

Nice CPU collection there

Wrong cooler though

Stock cooler is for initial post test and troubleshooting. Here's my usual coolers 

That's nothing on the CPU collection. Here's what's out being used recently

REX ina da houze

I'll do a spec list after its on the bench.

Ah we're back to having to wear gloves to run Facebook and outlook.

They should sell just the chassis for retrofitting think and ideapads lol. I'd buy.

Just lift up. Jiggle the card.

18 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

I'll sell you my golden 580 Hydrocopper. Avoid all those issues  

I wish, there's a list of people with equally baller hardware waiting to get all my money plus the random ebay impulse. You can donate it though

I'll be using at least dice/tek9 slim when I get around to it anyway.

Just now, DildorTheDecent said:

Huge blower is probably very loud at 100%. 

 

Loud and slow  

Very. It kicks up randomly when installing OS and gets me every time. Louder than a 38mm thicc ultra kaze.

3 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Looks like a wee 580 Classy right there....nice

Yep for when i get a good multicore chip again and balls to bench it. Should go well with my incoming X58 Rampage II Extreme for 1366/500 series competitions.

9 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

how do you bin these chips? can you tell which can do 8g on phase or do you have to test on ln2? 

This one was already binned by someone and I got it in a trade. It cold bugs in the -30's so a SS phase is almost a must for binning if they are all like this. I had to unplug the cooler when at low voltage for about 10sec to post. Not an expert on these so I can't really help.

Generally I bin all my chips on phase and shoot for passing Pifast and CB2003 as quick tests before moving higher then fine tune when i can't go up 50-100MHz after trying both small and large jumps in voltage higher and lower than last successful test. I test only cold because I have a few air gods that really sucked compared to "lottery losers" on ambient cooling when took to low temps.

Have to wait for a Win7/64 install to do R15

6 hours ago, Jumper118 said:

Nice one

@iamdarkyoshi gave me a bunch of pentium and celeron so maybe one of those is better.