i7 920 and some benching

[Chicken Patty]

Well, it had been a while since I stopped the rig from crunching and actually benched for a good period of time. Also I had not pushed my new D0 at all.

So here is my best results of the day, it still has more left in it, I didn't tweak the RAM, or anything. Just upped the BCLK and vcore, did this without a reboot to be honest. First time it crashed I stopped the benching.


Batch #3849A866



3dmark 06 (beat the c/f 4870' setup)
http://img.techpowerup.org/090919/Capture030.jpg

wprime
http://img.techpowerup.org/090919/Capture027.jpg

super pi
http://img.techpowerup.org/090919/Capture028.jpg

[Kal-EL]

Looking good David, seems like good clockin chip, wonder if the crunched break in had a positive effect on voltages.

[Chicken Patty]

Looking good David, seems like good clockin chip, wonder if the crunched break in had a positive effect on voltages.

Well I don't know, I bought this from it's first owner, he crunched with it, but very little I think. However, I went from 4.3 ghz up there with no reboots, I'll just add a tad of voltage everytime I upped the bclk some. THe last run rebooted, but I had set only the vcore/vtt/dram, the rest were auto. QPI was still 1.3v which at that clock, it should need more voltage, RAM was not tweaked. Lotta things, it was a lazy benching session :taunt:

[Kal-EL]

hehe, sometimes we get lucky and walk on water, other times we just drown in a pool of condensation, LOL !

[Chicken Patty]

hehe, sometimes we get lucky and walk on water, other times we just drown in a pool of condensation, LOL !
:taunt: haha, yeah man. I'll get some more time with it. I'm going to start tweaking my gx2, I know that thing has a lot more to go bro.

[Kal-EL]

I got two ek water blocks for the gx2 sitting here doing nothin, u got blocks?

[Chicken Patty]

No I don't. PM me if you want to get rid of them, I don't gaurantee I can buy them as I'm a bit down right economically, but I'll see what I can do if the price is right.

[Kal-EL]

What price u lookin for?

[Chicken Patty]

dude, give me a price bro, I don't even know what they go for

[Kal-EL]

Just name ur price, they are nickel plated

[Chicken Patty]

Just name ur price, they are nickel plated
I'll let you know by tonight? :good:

[Neuromancer]

Damn, i7 just crushes some 2D benches. At 4.6 GHz it is twice as fast as my AMD 920 in Super Pi (at ~4 GHz).

I can't wait to see what I can do in some 3d06 and Vantage with the 4890 :)

[Chicken Patty]

Damn, i7 just crushes some 2D benches. At 4.6 GHz it is twice as fast as my AMD 920 in Super Pi (at ~4 GHz).

I can't wait to see what I can do in some 3d06 and Vantage with the 4890 :)
well super pi is biased lol. AMD's do very bad. I think the most fair becnhmark for both sides is Wprime.

[Neuromancer]

Yah I know spi does better on Intel, but your wprime score is 4 seconds better than my 3.8 GHz run... clock for clock is closer, but still much better :)

[Chicken Patty]

Yah I know spi does better on Intel, but your wprime score is 4 seconds better than my 3.8 GHz run... clock for clock is closer, but still much better :)

oh yeah well the i7 is faster, even with HT off I believe.

[Kal-EL]

I'll let you know by tonight? :good:

Sounds too expensive, how bout you cover the shipping? PM the addy and I'll get it out to yah. :rockon:

[Chicken Patty]

sounds too expensive, how bout you cover the shipping? Pm the addy and i'll get it out to yah. :rockon:
yhpm

[Chicken Patty]

Well, although not my personal best, and not good for any BOINTS, now with the new PSU rig seems to be running much better and stable for benching. However, since it's in a case and not the tech station, temps had me stop here. Once I move this back out to the tech station when the AMD components arrive, we'll see. The runs definitely look promising. Still got more CPU headroom to go, but temps are already at about 85ºc. The card still has about 100-120 MHz more to clock from the core. I think this time around I can do 27k. What do you 'll think?


http://img.techpowerup.org/091211/25364 3d06.jpg

[Kal-EL]

Chicken man, can you up the dram ratio and let the mhz fly a lil then check your cpu score at the higher ram mhz for a comparison?

[Chicken Patty]

Chicken man, can you up the dram ratio and let the mhz fly a lil then check your cpu score at the higher ram mhz for a comparison?

This is DDR3 1066 bro, won't run at that clock with a mult of 8x.

The CPU score ain't bad is it?

[Kal-EL]

This is DDR3 1066 bro, won't run at that clock with a mult of 8x.

The CPU score ain't bad is it?

Nah, its not bad, just seems like you should be hitting higher at that speed. I'll try and dig up a similar clock 3D06 score to make sure. Nope, looks about right http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/Corei7/3d06/22434.JPG
Altho I dunno what teh mem speeds were on that run.

[Chicken Patty]

hitting higher as in overall score?

[Kal-EL]

No, I was talkin the cpu score.

[Chicken Patty]

No, I was talkin the cpu score.

Pretty sure it can improve, don't think it's off a lot though.

[Chicken Patty]

I have removed the rig I had on the tech station from it. Going to take apart my precious build to put it on the tech station. Making room for the new toys coming soon :) But it also allows me to bench the i7 again :)

[Chicken Patty]

Little Bench Session. Figured out how to go higher on BCLK, now to try wprime with my newly found secrets (secrets to me, sure lots of you know it) But i'll try it tomorrow or something.

Don't think the super pi run will get me any boints, but the wprime will get me about another boint or so.


Best Wprime of the night, but this was before I found out how to go above that clock.
http://img.techpowerup.org/091212/Capture248.jpg

Best Super pi
http://img.techpowerup.org/091212/Capture258.jpg

Both are personal bests for me.

I was able to get the RAM to run with a divider of 8, but failed after a pass or two of super pi. I'll work on that next as well.

http://img.techpowerup.org/091212/Capture252.jpg


Also my highest validation

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=878245

[Kal-EL]

Very nice work Chicken Patty. Glad you found the secret ;)
Unlike soups who pumped excesses of IOH Vcore past 1.5v :blush:
I'm a noob4life :D

[Chicken Patty]

Very nice work Chicken Patty. Glad you found the secret ;)
Unlike soups who pumped excesses of IOH Vcore past 1.5v :blush:
I'm a noob4life :D

I knew this a while ago, but never tried it. I either forgot at the time of benches, or just I don't know, was scared maybe. It only took raising the PCI-E Frequency from 100 to 102.4 via eleet. I figured it out after wprime run though, I'll give wprime another run tomorrow. Time to go submit results :)


BTW, 1.5v on the IOH :ohcrap:

[RomDominance]

Hey duder try feeding that board a bit more nb v.
I/O to 1.575 and IOHvcore to 1.325.....may help tighten things up a bit.;)

[Chicken Patty]

Hey duder try feeding that board a bit more nb v.
I/O to 1.575 and IOHvcore to 1.325.....may help tighten things up a bit.;)

Thanks Rom, my next time around benching I'll give that a shot. I think it's enough for tonight, I dont' even know if I can sleep, i'm excited LOL

[DrNip]

I never had to put extra IOH VCore 1.1v past its default or ICH VCore 1.05v past its default and I did benching up to 5.2ghz. I think those are unnecessary volts to be adjusting.

Maybe this will help you out but this is what I was using at 5.153ghz in SuperPi32m under DICE. Just comparison sakes.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_SuperPi32m.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/SuperPi32m.jpg)

I actually started using less vcore in the end. I wanna say around 1.45-1.48v.

[69_Goat]

What ram are you running CP?
It seems there is something hinky with your ram settings, as 1 SS is reporting 6 GB dual channel and the other 2 are reporting 4 GB single channel. It should be showing 6 GB triple channel.

[Chicken Patty]

I never had to put extra IOH VCore 1.1v past its default or ICH VCore 1.05v past its default and I did benching up to 5.2ghz. I think those are unnecessary volts to be adjusting.

Maybe this will help you out but this is what I was using at 5.153ghz in SuperPi32m under DICE. Just comparison sakes.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_SuperPi32m.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/SuperPi32m.jpg)

I actually started using less vcore in the end. I wanna say around 1.45-1.48v.

Thanks Dr! For me however, anything over 4.2ish if i don't bump the IOH it won't be stable. I probably bumped the IOH more than I should've there though.

What ram are you running CP?
It seems there is something hinky with your ram settings, as 1 SS is reporting 6 GB dual channel and the other 2 are reporting 4 GB single channel. It should be showing 6 GB triple channel.

I am using Nanya 3X2GB DDR3 1066. The reason that you see 4GB on one screen shot and 6GB on the other is because I was trying different RAM configs. I started off using all three sticks. Then I removed them and swapped them out for a 2X1GB of Corsair's, DDR3 1333. But I only had 1GB usable so benches were actually slower. So I put back my 3X2GB kit, but only with two sticks. Only 2GB were usable in windows. I have set my Memory Low Gap before and no matter what I set it at when I have all three sticks installed it uses 2GB for the card and stuff. only 3.99 useable in windows.

[DrNip]

Well there is two separate IOH VCores now. An IOH Vcore 1.1v and an IOH/ICH I/O Voltage 1.5v. You have to bump them both up?

[Chicken Patty]

Well there is two separate IOH VCores now. An IOH Vcore 1.1v and an IOH/ICH I/O Voltage 1.5v. You have to bump them both up?

just the IOH.

I usually leave the IOH/ICH/I/O one on auto as I don't know what it does.

[Neuromancer]

ioh.ich i/o it is good to give it some juice when 3D benching or running more than one video card.

Cant believe you got past 222 BCLK. Going to give it one more try before I Ebay my i7 setup.

[Chicken Patty]

ioh.ich i/o it is good to give it some juice when 3D benching or running more than one video card.

Cant believe you got past 222 BCLK. Going to give it one more try before I Ebay my i7 setup.

What does that voltage do exactly?

Anyhow, let us know if you can get past that bro, up the PCI-E frequency a mhz or two.

[Neuromancer]

I have run up to 110 PCIE freq trying to pass 222, but did not try something as low as 102, will try it again and see if a specific freq opens it up or not.

[Chicken Patty]

I have run up to 110 PCIE freq trying to pass 222, but did not try something as low as 102, will try it again and see if a specific freq opens it up or not.

102-103 did it for me :)

[Chicken Patty]

Posting from the phone. Currently running 3dmark 06. Previous run already got me about a boint or so, this run if it finishes will be better. I'll post my results from tonight after this run. It'll be my last run of the night, gotta go to bed.

[Chicken Patty]

This will definitely get me a boint or two. just passed fellow OCaholic with the same set up :)

http://img.techpowerup.org/091213/Capture269834.jpg

[Assassin48]

You beat my personal best thats for sure

Congrats !

[Chicken Patty]

Thanks Juan, I am still amazed that I was able to run 3dmArk for about two hours without it crAshing once at those settings :D

[Chicken Patty]

I picked up dual 4850's. Let's see how they do paired with my i7 :toast:

[Kal-EL]

I picked up dual 4850's. Let's see how they do paired with my i7 :toast:
Sahweet bro, post up a bench log as you go, I'm interested on how they overclock and score. :good:

[Chicken Patty]

Sahweet bro, post up a bench log as you go, I'm interested on how they overclock and score. :good:

Should I make a new thread, or just here?

[Kal-EL]

I'd title it accordingly like "4850 Benching" or something to that effect :)

[Chicken Patty]

I'd title it accordingly like "4850 Benching" or something to that effect :)

You got it bro :toast:

[Neuromancer]

Sweet. I gotta get my rig together and bench this 280 quick. I have two 1950 pros coming next in 2 weeks also :) Cheap enough I will have no compunction about busting out the soldering iron :)

Which 4850s you getting? I had a lot of love with my HIS, no love at all with the sapphire.

[Chicken Patty]

I got the ASUS Top 4850's.

[Neuromancer]

Sweet :)

[Chicken Patty]

Just popped them in, pics soon :)

[Chicken Patty]

4850's :toast:

http://img.techpowerup.org/091213/PC134353resized.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/091213/PC134355resized.jpg

[Kal-EL]

Oh that is some sexy ass hardware right there :good:

[Chicken Patty]

Thanks Kal. I got a sweet deal. Got them both for $125 local pick up :)

[Chicken Patty]

The GX2 in 3DMark 05

http://img.techpowerup.org/091216/Capture282.jpg

[Kal-EL]

The 9800GX2 was my favorite card for a while, till I killed two of them doing this:
http://www.x-cade.com/uploads/Supes/Superman/TEMP/Jankpot/JankTested012.jpg

Noob didn't insulate the GPU one lick. Benched it around 12 different times all frosted up like this without it dying and got a false sense of security. I believe the cards ran like 800/1200 without v-mods.

[Neuromancer]

LOL that is sick :)

[Chicken Patty]

That looks soooo good!! I need to try the cold!