Another Ci7 965 at 5+ghz

[Slovnaft]

Did a quick dice run the other night with a pisspoor makeshift mounting kit. Just couldn't wait any longer
Got some nice results, but didn't have enough DI or time to do much, just a quick validate and SPi32M

The Setup:

Retail Core i7 965 EE batch 3836A384
ASUS Rampage II Extreme BIOS 0705
Kingston HyperX 3x1gb 2000mhz CL9
EVGA 9800gx2 (didn't get aorund to 3d yet!)
Silverstone OP1000



First off the good stuff. Didn't do much fiddling for the best qpi, and the multi adjustment on 'TweakIt' stopped working for some reason. The chip has more room to go but this is a nice start.



But SPi32M is now my favourite bench. Nelly kills it! Could've run the ram at 2200, but didn't have enough time for another run. I'm positive i could run at 5ghz.

not too shabby though.

That's all for now. More to come, like some wPrime action , when I get a legit mounting kit (duniek shipped it out fast, so should be in next week). I'll hope to get SPi32M at 5ghz / 2200mhz ram / 4.6 uclk (is that uclk reasonable? should i be shooting higher given i top out at 4.3 on air?)

This chip got runaway amp at >1.7v, crash at splash screen. Thermocouple wasn't working, but had no CB/CBB.


Updates soon.

[Gautam]

Excellent job all around. Your uclk is among the highest I've seen as well.

[bartx]

Great job my friend Nice rig

[Bullet92]

Yeah... Another one. Very nice result. Give us some serious numbers in another benches next time
But first of all want to see sub7min

[HuffPCair]

Nice work very nice results.

[Oliver]

good work and as Gautum states, your uclk is screaming

keep pushing it

[TheKarmakazi]

Awesome results bro Was wondering when I would see the topic in here

Should I plan on driving to your house to meet up Friday or will we meet at the event?

[G.Foyle]

Awesome! UCLK is
Congratulations!

[Rol-Co]

somebody know why it says rejected by cpu-z

looks fine by me.

[Gautam]

Almost all CPU-Z validations with Nehalem get rejected.

[Pt1t]

Almost all CPU-Z validations with Nehalem get rejected.

No , i saw that this afternoon with sam of canardpc. Now it works =)

965xe + EX58 Extreme
1.5v under cascade and vista ...
I did not use easytune because i had some issue to launch it under vista, But tonight i ll try it under xp and ln2.

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=458326

[Slovnaft]

Thanks all. Hopefully i'll get some more time this week, see how well these dimms scale

@Pt1t
Based on what I've seen i think it's a hit and miss kind of thing? But it looked like only clocks in the neighborhood of 5ghz were getting rejected. Anyways, looks like they might've fixed something since then.

[jabski]

very nice P11t

[MarcusFoX]

Nice setup... you dont need another card that 9800gx2 is perfect

[Brian y.]

Nice chip you got there

Now time to tweak that the 32M run

Can't wait to see more results!

[chispy]

Hey great going there Slovnaft , keep up the good work and looking forward to your next results

[TheKarmakazi]

More will be coming in soon. Slov is flying into Buffalo tomorrow, and were going to do some serious damage! We have 2 4870's, 2 4870x2's, i7 920, i7 965, Gigabyte EX-58 Extreme, Rampage II Extreme, Patriot 1600 3x1, Kingston 1800 3x1 and Kingston 2000 3x1. Some 775 stuff too, My no coldbug 8600, rampage extreme, etc etc. 50 L LN2 and 25Lbs Dry Ice

Wish us luck

[tiborrr]

Good job Slovnaft & Pt1t!

[TheKarmakazi]

Here is a teaser from our setup this afternoon... benching begins soon...

[Slovnaft]

False alarm guys.

We ran into setback after setback, from mounting hardware problems to condensation to the weirdest coldbugs ever. These chips behave pretty erratically under LN2. We benched for about 12hrs straight and didn't get too many satisfying results.

It wasn't nearly the epic session we were hoping for, but we did get some decent numbers, and I'll post them for what it's worth.

First came wPrime. I know this chip can do 5.1 on this bench, and we wanted to come back to it, but ran out of time.





1024 is really a , and really only a brief preview of how much of an ln2 hog nehalem is.









Should have redone most benches with at least 4.8, but we wanted to get to XP and SPi. Which actually never happened. We had issues with corrupted drives. So forgoing CW I started clocking on XP. The only result I have from that is a 5.3ghz validate which is somewhere on the hdd (it was 745 and my flight left at 850).

But I'll be heading back on the 24th, hopefully gtx 295 in hand, for another more successful session. and now that ifinally have a mounting kit, DICE until then.

[eva2000]

nice results there!

gtx 295s