Haswell-E 5960X first OC impressions

[patrickjp93]

Doesn't P95 pull a lot more voltage on Haswell than it's supposed to? I remember that P95 would overwhelm my NH-D15 at stock settings.

Only if you're dumb enough to use adaptive voltage.

[Najuno]

Only if you're dumb enough to use adaptive voltage.

What overclocker that has a bit common sense would have adaptive voltage activated for a synthetic stress test ?

 

Hope I never have to see this haha .

[patrickjp93]

What overclocker that has a bit common sense would have adaptive voltage activated for a synthetic stress test ?

 

Hope I never have to see this haha .

Um, a lot of people on here actually.

[Najuno]

Um, a lot of people on here actually.

Well I guess then these guys are more people that are learning how to OC. Someone that´s doing OCs and custom cooling solutions for some years already won´t make such a mistake.

[patrickjp93]

Well I guess then these guys are more people that are learning how to OC. Someone that´s doing OCs and custom cooling solutions for some years already won´t make such a mistake.

Unless they never learned how to do it right in the first place.

[Najuno]

Unless they never learned how to do it right in the first place.

As soon as they fry their first chip, and their wallet gets hurt, they´ll never forget again .

[patrickjp93]

As soon as they fry their first chip, and their wallet gets hurt, they´ll never forget again .

Eh, not guaranteed unless someone tells them it was the adaptive voltage. Otherwise they scratch their heads.

[wpirobotbuilder]

What overclocker that has a bit common sense would have adaptive voltage activated for a synthetic stress test ?

 

Hope I never have to see this haha .

We didn't have to worry about that before Haswell came along, they might have just assumed that P95 was okay for testing.

[Najuno]

We didn't have to worry about that before Haswell came along, they might have just assumed that P95 was okay for testing.

 

Yeah but usually you won´t fry your hardware right away... other than you go crazy with a standard heatsink, but in that case no one can help you hehe .

Sometimes learning can be painful and expensive, I mean I had fried GPUs and stuff when I started with OCing and custom cooling solutions years ago.

[Dadealus]

update about  5820K
 

 

Thanks for the positive comments from everyone!

I had to go out of town for business at the last minute on Monday...so that delayed my testing. Before I left I was able to run a quick overclock on the 5820k. I did not take any screen shots..

I was able to get the 5820k up to 4.5ghz at 1.25v....

I plan on doing some more testing this weekend with the H100i, but am also going to hook up a quad radiator, D5 pump, and Swiftech block and see if there is any more headroom on the 5960x...I will post screenshots of the 5820k results too..

.....and to fuel the debate on DDR4 memory.....here is a quick comparison of DDR3 on X79 and DDR4 on X99...Interesting...again take these with a grain of salt....

X79 DDR3-1866 Cas 9 Passmark memory bench = 3355
X99 DDR4-2666 Cas15 Passmark memory bench = 3028

Each with 4x4gb sticks

I sure hope mature MB bioses are waiting in the wings....

Only 7 days before launch!!

-M

[MegaDave91]

Think about it .... a 5960X @ 4.4  is the same as having TWO 4790Ks

 

 

While impressive, it's a useless fact to those of us (like myself) who wouldn't utilize that cpu's potential.

[Buckley]

Jesus those temps are worse than the 9590's