i7 980X on the rocks ( palinkaaaaaa shots! )

[BenchZowner]

A few days ago Sophocles ( sofos1990 ) asked me if I wanted to bench with him and his cr@ppy Core i7 980X, he purchased a Sparkle GTX 480 and wanted to get some numbers down with that setup before selling that bloody 980X of his.
So I said "sure, why not", I haven't had an LN2 session in the last few... months and I needed some of that benching adrenaline, after some phone calls all the details were taken care of and we had a date :p:
I picked his brand new card and my Palit GTX 480 as well and gave them a nice conformal spray bath.
Since sofos1990's 980X was better ( despite being a cr@ppy CPU ) than my best 980X ( how typical :D ) I decided to take down some numbers with my card as well, my HWbot account needed a refresh.

The numbers we nailed down that day aren't actually worth mentioning, his 980X geezer was barely capable of running AquaMark 3 near 6100MHz and 3D Mark03 around 6GHz.
Sofo's VGA was also better than mine, and thanks to the decent clocks his card managed to go through in 3D Mark03 sofo's grabbed the 6th place in the 3D Mark03 single card rankings with his 136.886 3D Mark03 run ( CPU 6GHz, GPU/MEM 1250/1050 ).
He also captured a ~421k ( 420.937 ) AquaMark 3, and a ~52k 3D Mark05 ( 51872 ) with our last drops of LN2 ( barely made it to the save score window :D ).

So was this long story worth reading ? Maybe not, but the following paragraph probably is :D

I'm pretty sure that sofo's would kill himself for not saving some LN2 that day to try my newest 980X ( which was taking a nap on my 24/7 classified setup :p: ) :rofl:
2 days ago, I gathered 14L of LN2 and a lil' friend of mine, AMDnord (http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/member.php?u=125655) to help me out.
To my surprise, the 980X ( 3005F210 ) was a good chip ( not what I'd love to have and fall in love with, but considering my... bad luck & karma, I should be happy for having this one ).
We started the testing with the usual CB & CBB testing in dual channel memory mode, the numbers ? No coldbug at all, and -154C cold boot bug :D
Then we did some 3D Mark Vantage CPU TEST(S)ing, 1.6V 5.4GHz done, 1.7V 5.7GHz done, 1.8V 5.95GHz done.
Then we tried AquaMark 3 as we had just a few liters of LN2, 6450MHz AquaMark done at 1.85V ( success! Borat said :rofl: ).
Tried to raise the UnCore then, but had limited success with that, I think the 73 BIOS for the X58 Classified E760 isn't exactly mature for 980X UnCore clocking yet, anyway, 6450MHz CPU and 4.5GHz or so UnCore = done too.
I was planning to keep 1-2L of LN2 to try the lovely GTX3 triple channel memory kit Corsair sent me on LN2 aiming for DDR3-3000 triple channel, but the happiness my 980X gave me with its clocking made me lose track of time and LN2 supply and the session ended unexpectedly during a 3D Mark Vantage run ( which was run with an old driver which we used for AQ3 since it was the best of the ones I've tested before, so we missed 1.5-2.0k for that ), we ran out of LN2 during the second CPU test, and the system BSODed right after AMDnord pressed the save score button :D

I'm preparing myself and my new hardware for more LN2 sessions, and if my plans pan out well, I'll have 2 more LN2 sessions ( 55L of LN2 each ) by this weekend :)

I'll leave you with some screenshots/pictures while I'm leaving the room to insulate the new VGAs :D

Many many thanks to:

http://www.benchzone.com/forum/images/ranks/corsair.png for the awesome RAM, thanks Alex, Mike & Peter.

http://www.benchzone.com/forum/images/ranks/antec.png for the TruePower Quattro 1200, thanks Korinna & Maurice!

[ click on the pics ORB URL's ]

http://i36.tinypic.com/2vltrf5.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2449k77.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2hxluhe.jpg (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2401669)

http://i33.tinypic.com/2zi6mn7.png (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=5268428)

[RomDominance]

Congrats on a nice chip finally. I would acquire a R3E if I were u. That sweet of a 980x would prolly vantage @ 5.9+ for 54k+on that board. Gl bud

[Kal-EL]

Enjoyed reading your account of the bench session, sounds like you guys had a blast benching them chips.

Was teh AQ3 done in dual channel? (yep) WTG SOFOS! :)

[BenchZowner]

Congrats on a nice chip finally. I would acquire a R3E if I were u. That sweet of a 980x would prolly vantage @ 5.9+ for 54k+on that board. Gl bud

It did 5.95GHz on my Classified.
I'm... still waiting for my R3E sample from Asus... but I have sofos's R3E here, but I'm willing to bet anything, that the R3E won't come close to my max clocks on the classified ;)

Enjoyed reading your account of the bench session, sounds like you guys had a blast benching them chips.

Was teh AQ3 done in dual channel? (yep) WTG SOFOS! :)

Yeap, all the benchmarks were done in DC mode.

[RomDominance]

I will take that bet BZ. My money is on the asus board...this after extensive benchin on the 760 and 762 with the same chip...

[Hondacity]

the r3e has two kinds.....the coldbug free (steponz and v2-v3 are lucky owners)

and cb sheety r3e( hc)

good luck with your r3e...and insulate the chil (bodar and some otherguy recommends it)


**very detailed session....

so sofos and amddude speaks english or you speak greek?

[BenchZowner]

the r3e has two kinds.....the coldbug free (steponz and v2-v3 are lucky owners)

and cb sheety r3e( hc)

I've heard about this before.
Maybe that's why Asus was taking its time to send the samples to various people ( I don't count myself, my sample is still coming since March 2010 :p ).

**very detailed session....

so sofos and amddude speaks english or you speak greek?[/QUOTE]

I speak greek, sofos's english... suck :D

[sofos1990]

:D
Sweet numbers Bill :)
It was my pleasure to bench with you buddy :D

[Splave]

great job men, BZ I hate you 6450 aq3 is goddamn dream man :)

[Patch]

Nice session and nice scores guys!

[HITandRUN]

Nice session and a great chip you got there. :eek: :good:

[Hondacity]

oh yeah go easy on the voltage those "f" batches like to die fast....

screenshot of everything...coz if you don't ..that cpu will die in vain :D

[DrNip]

F batch says it all.

[BenchZowner]

This one seems to be saying "F*cking good", and something like "6500MHz+ with HT disabled" AquaMark 3 :p ( as soon as I find out why the system won't boot with HT disabled :D )

[DrNip]

Enjoy man. Rest of will sit here and be jealous! HAHA :D

[GFDuke]

Nice benchin guys. Sounds like a blast to actually have someone there with ya benchin. Someday i'll have a benchin buddy.

[RomDominance]

You got one now brother! Just say the word!

[BenchZowner]

Looks like my thread title was a psychic prediction... PALINKA.
One shot drink, drop-down.

The CPU has at least degraded or is about to die ( or just my mobo got f*cked up )
The 2 alive MGH-E from my 3ple channel A-data kit seem to be dead
My classified seems to be dead after some poof and a tad smoke.

All in all, I might be out of CPU, RAM, Mobo now...

Stupid F batch CPU, 1 session with only a few liters of LN2, real voltages under 1.86V, and already degraded ?
F*ck this sh1t.

[lesstutrey]

ouch, sorry for your loss(es)

[Kal-EL]

EEK! :scared:

[kikicoco1334]

sweet chip bro

[Hondacity]

drats. my warning ....sorta busted balls..

xs deleted my comment with francois regarding 32nm degradation....its really fucked up...

sorry for your loss man...

***what was vdimm? vtt?

[BenchZowner]

1.7Vddr
+250 to +275mV Vtt

[Hondacity]

wait...your classy smoked? that prolly took out the cpu....were you able to bench at all?

i see you booted @ -100c/-125c with 1.85v.....thats enough damage even with 7boot or xpboot for that matters.

[Splave]

Only the good die young

[BenchZowner]

wait...your classy smoked? that prolly took out the cpu....were you able to bench at all?

i see you booted @ -100c/-125c with 1.85v.....thats enough damage even with 7boot or xpboot for that matters.

It worked after the mobo went poo poo, but it was already not clocking even remotely close to what it used to do in the first session.
From the beginning, the 1st POST of its second LN2 session it showed signs of degradation or warnings of an incoming death, lower clocks per voltage and in general, sometimes losing a memory channel, etc.

[Hondacity]

CPU won't POST on sofo's Rampage III Extreme, and won't POST on my 2nd classified E760 as well.

Stupid MGH-E sticks died for no apparent reason, they were chillin' the last 2-3 months ( I wasn't benching at all ) on the 24/7 x58 setup at DDR3-... hold your breath...1066 8-8-8-31 at 1.57V
Suddenly the system would see 4GB instead of 6GB in most reboots/POSTs, then I tried each stick alone and found out that 1 of them wouldn't work at all.
I thought the other 2 were ok, so I didn't try to push them at all, but the other 2 DIMMs could've been damaged the whole time since that day and I didn't notice that since I wasn't overclocking them at all.

All I know is that I'm out of the most crucial parts in overclocking, I won't be able to find another MGH-E kit, and surely not even close to what those DIMMs could do, another 6.4G+ B1 retail 980X ? A joke with my luck.
I'd be lucky if my graphics card didn't get harmed in the process and still clocks like it did a few days ago.

p.s. Yes, I did barr3l, but didn't work, looks like the ICs are damaged...
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not sure how good the rma process for the a-data's are..but we can source you mgh-e's from super talents...

[BenchZowner]

Can't RMA them, they're samples :-(
Cherrypicked samples actually :-(

MGH-E-equipped or not, what can I do with a good set of RAM without a decent CPU ?
Nothing.

So I'm out for a good CPU again, not willing to spend 5 grand to get 5 pieces to try my luck or Intel's RMA :p so... it's RMA & 1 piece... I'm expecting 5.8GHz CPU-z validation chip :p

[Splave]

thats what I got pretty much, rma'd a no CB tripple channel 980x wprimed over 6ghz to play the rma lotto got a -110cb 6ghz valid chip

[Hondacity]

when you get your intel rma ..you know who to ask :D

[BenchZowner]

Ask who for what ?

[Hondacity]

disregard my previous post

have fun :)

[Kal-EL]

Honda, he has ADHD sometimes and just posts the wanderings of his mind.
@Honda, please put your tin foil hat back on please, the aliens are communicating with you again! :alien:

[Hondacity]

no worries kal... movin on... i just thought of doing 4ghz pifast and beat sofos..