DrNip's Dedicated Sub-Zero Thread

[DrNip]

Yesterday I received my 1st ever K|ngp|n Dragon F1 Extreme Edition pot compliments of supes and I must say I am impressed with the pure mass of it. The thing was heavy. So heavy it was just $22 to ship it!!! Looks as though my drunken ant was quite fond of it too! :D

CLICKY CLICKY
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4475.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4475.jpg)http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4476.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4476.jpg)

Test platform was:

Intel Core I7 920 D0 Batch # 3845B027
EVGA Classified 759
Mushkin Acents 6GB DDR3 2000 8-8-7-24 1T
EVGA GTX260 SLI
PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200W
HSPC Tech Station

I will have to say that my CPU is a big let down for me. Might not be for others but it is for me. She is a dream on air/water as she can go high at low volts but once she hits that 240 BCLK things all fall apart. It might just be user error but don't tell me that. She also has a cold bug that starts at -50 which if you are on DICE that sux. Coldest I have had her on boot was -65 so it appears that it is at least from -50 to -65. I'm sure on LN2 she might fly as the cold bug prolly only goes so high and LN2 goes above and beyond those temps. So it was a trick at 1st but I managed to keep all my hard boots at -49 and below. Now don't get me wrong, I could get her at -50, -60 and what not and restart the computer just fine. It was just if I went into the BIOS and made a change that made the PC power down and then power back up on boot is when I was plagued by this.

Enough of the small talk here are some pics and remember clicky clicky picky picky! :D

Major modding of the tech station to accommodate the new setup.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4478.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4478.jpg)http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4481.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4481.jpg)

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4474.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4474.jpg)http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4482.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4482.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4483.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4483.jpg)http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4484.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4484.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4485.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4485.jpg)http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4489.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4489.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4491.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4491.jpg)http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4494.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4494.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4499.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4499.jpg)http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4500.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4500.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4502.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4502.jpg)


I didn't get out of this session what I planned on but I did walk away with some which will hold me until the next time. Here is what I did, soon to be uploaded to the bot.

#1 3DMark 06 GTX 260 SLI spot. Finally hit 30k with my two GTX 260's! Those are the 1st 192 shader vanilla editions at that.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_3dmark06_sli.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/3dmark06_sli.jpg)

#3 3DMark 05 GTX 260 SLI spot
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_3dmark05_sli.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/3dmark05_sli.jpg)

#27 SuperPi 1M spot. Nothin to really brag about here.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_superpi1m_1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/superpi1m_1.jpg)

#26 SuperPi 32M spot here. Nice lil gain in points when I get it uploaded.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_superpi32m_1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/superpi32m_1.jpg)

My wPrime 32m and 1024m are already uploaded to the bot and placed me:

15 points awarded for 20th - 5sec wPrime 32m
22.1 points awarded for 7th - 2min 34sec 900ms wPrime 1024M

Finally a 5ghz run for my 920. Wasn't too much more but damnit it was 5ghz!!!

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=605807

Don't think for one minute though I am going to lay down and lick my wounds. Goin to fire her back up either tonight or tomorrow night and give it a go around again. Also be on the look out for my new CPU. Hopefully it performs up to my standards. I am open to comments/ advice on benchin 5ghz and beyond.

[Chuchnit]

Nice scores to have so many issues. 30k is very nice with little old 192 260's :D Did you play around with all the settings to eliminate cold boot issues? There is a jumper on the board plus like three bios options.

[DrNip]

Oh really? Mind enlightening a noob like me on this.

Got to say on a side note, that Mushkin RAM is some sexy RAM. :leghump: That last shot I got of it was money with the blue light and all.

[Chuchnit]

Yes it is very very sexy :D

You have a jumper on the board. That I'm not too keen on so you'll need the manual for that one. You also have a setting thats I think extreme overclocking or something. In the manual it explains what temps go for which setting. Then you also have cpu impedence which is supposed to help when you are sub-zero. Read in the manual and I'll also find you a link to where shamino explained some of these and what he uses.

[Buckeye]

Looks good DrNip !

I had pretty much the same issues at times with my 920, cold bug at warm temps.

What I did to get past that and break into -130c temps was to pull out the CPU and take a blow dryer to the socket for maybe 10-15 minutes. I believe sometimes you can get a small amount of mositure underneath the socket.

That cured a lot of stability issues I had also, it was just acting very strange. I think it boiled down to just a bad mounting of the chip and insulation.

Also could just be the chip. Last time I ran my 965 it would CB if I even looked at -80c but I want to take another go it when I get it back as I think I was just doing something wrong.

Oh yes I forgot about the temp jumper on the MB, good call !

[DrNip]

What I got to read! LOL

I just couldn't believe I broke the 06 30k barrier with only two 260's on air at only 4.838ghz with loose RAM timings. Imagine if they were subzero and cpu at 5.2ghz with tighter timings.

[Chuchnit]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100528455&mpage=1&key=�

There ya go buddy. From the man, the myth, the electrical engineering genious himself :D I think here he goes through some pretty good stuff for subzero clocking.

[DrNip]

Thanx bud!

[Chuchnit]

Anytime. Now I got go read it too and take notes!! I'm shootin' for next weekend to bench.

[RomDominance]

Looks like fun Nip, gl pushin her for more....
Chuch, thats a good guide Sham put out originally on the classy......there are some pearls in there for sure.

[DrNip]

Well the #'s are in. Back at 322 points!

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Bot-1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Bot.jpg)

[Chuchnit]

Good work buddy!! Man don't you wish you could go sub-zero everyday?

[DrNip]

Dreamin away...

[Chuchnit]

Dreamin away...

:rofl:rofl

When you dream at night about filling the pot.......

[HITandRUN]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100528455&mpage=1&key=�

There ya go buddy. From the man, the myth, the electrical engineering genious himself :D I think here he goes through some pretty good stuff for subzero clocking.

Thanks for posting this mate! I will get on this board next week as well! :D

[3oh6]

great start for sure, but remember, 240BCLK might just be the limit of your chip. my W3540 isn't as friendly over 240BCLK as my 920 is. with that said, here are some screens of the BIOS settings i use when running 240+ with my 920's and the Classified that is wrote up for someone else...

Keep in mind these are the settings to achieve 250BLCK, and may not be 100% bench stable at 220 or lower, but should be. Either way, a good starting place for you...

http://3oh6photos.com/forum_post/xs/09_07/_MG_3023y.jpg

Notes for 3023y.jpg: Don't bother trying to boot over 220BCLK, well, try...but if it doesn't work just boot at 220BCLK and E-Leet your way up. Sometimes small 5 BCLK jumps helps get up high and around 250BCLK, 2 BCLK jumps work better I have found. PCI-E Frequency can be 113 or 114, if you can push higher it might be beneficial. My board will only do 113/114 with my GTX295, but will go higher for the GTX260. For all the 250BCLK runs I have posted though, I have used 113/114. The uncore multi is also something that can be raised but I generally start testing at the lowest possible, in this case 16X due to the 2:8 memory ratio, and if at 250BCLK the 2:8 ratio is likely all you can work with. If not, I want your memory and chip :)

http://3oh6photos.com/forum_post/xs/09_07/_MG_3023.jpg

Notes for 3023.jpg: VTT/CPU PWM Frequency may need adjusting. 490/940 and 610/1210 have worked for me. Some guys like 490/1333, so maybe play around with it, not sure how much of an actual effect it has. VTT voltage might need to be set to +100v (equates to 1.3v) and I would actually start there. Oh yeah, ignore the voltages in the right column in grey, they are what I am working on - memory at 1200MHz 8-9-8 :)

http://3oh6photos.com/forum_post/xs/09_07/_MG_3023x.jpg

Notes for 3023x.jpg: Nothing needs to be explained here I don't think.

Hope that helps you out but as said, this is for a couple 920's i have used and as we all know...plugging in settings isn't the key to overclocking, but hopefully the ideas behind my settings help a little bit. don't hesitate to ask for elaboration on anything either, i am around and watching :thumbsup:

[DrNip]

Yeah I fear it won't do 240 and above. I didn't jack with the vtt/cpu frequencies at all. That is part of my new approach tonight I am going to try.

[Barton]

Hey Doc,

What is the white putty type substance you used to insulate the mobo area around the socket?

Did you lacquer that area of the board first or put any thing under the white putty to keep the board clean?

How do you clean it up once your have finished the Dice run and want to change processors or even reseat the processor?

[DrNip]

It is kneaded eraser that you can find at hobby shops like Hobby Lobby. I didn't use anything else besides it and the black neoprene you can see in the pics. When done it pulls right off. It is kinda like play-do but a lil harder to work with.

[DrNip]

Cold boot problem fix with that jumper suggestion chuchnit!!!

Able to obtain a lil higher clock messin with those vtt/cpu pwm frequency volts Jody!!!

[Kal-EL]

Thx for sharing the suggestion made elsewhere Drnip, care to elaborate?

[DrNip]

Post 7 by Chuchnit. He provided a link to a thread shamino over at evga. In it, it talked of a jumper next to the ram. One setting is for normal while the other is for extreme cooling. I put it to pins 2 & 3 for extreme and no more cold bug.

[bluto]

Great 260 runs DrNip. Is that condensation after a few hours of dice benching cause there's barely any. Did you do any with HT off ? These chips behave completely different on subzero for me no matter what kinda testing on air/water I do so the one time I tried dice it was a mess :rofl So what's the new cpu you gettin ?

[DrNip]

No all runs w/Hyper Transport. Just broke 5236MHz. Got some great superpi and pifast runs in too. I will post them here shortly. That was only 7 lbs DICE used and about 3-4 hours work.

[Chuchnit]

:wt::wt: Thats awesome about the cold bug. Care to give a quick rundown of tonights session so I can know what to expect on this board?

[DrNip]

Got to give me a bit chuchnit. Run out of DICE and time tonight. Might have to wait until morning coffee for a run down as I have to go deliver the paper on my 2nd job in a bit too.

[DrNip]

I turned HT off and actually did worse!

[Chuchnit]

Got to give me a bit chuchnit. Run out of DICE and time tonight. Might have to wait until morning coffee for a run down as I have to go deliver the paper on my 2nd job in a bit too.

No hurry brudder. Just sayin' it would be nice to have your prospective about the board + subzero. I take it the F1 uses less dice?

[DrNip]

Oh I got ya!

Here is my latest runs:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Bot2-1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/Bot2.jpg)

[Chuchnit]

hehehe nice runs bro. You see my shitty little single card run? I give up on that one. Moving on to 05...

[bluto]

:clapping::clapping: Congrats on the points haul. What temp on yer 32M run if you don't mind me askin.

[DrNip]

I hooked my 8600gt's up but got nowhere with them. Tonight was a 2D night for me.

[Chuchnit]

So whats the dealio with your 4890's? You getting some other ones, or waitin' it out a little longer?

[DrNip]

Nah I sent them back. I had nothin but probs with them the 2 days I had them. Goin to get a set again but waitin to see what drops as well as the price drop due out soon. Leanin towards the Sapphire Toxics but they are out of stock everywhere. Gettin me a gtx 295 though within 2 weeks.

[DrNip]

:clapping::clapping: Congrats on the points haul. What temp on yer 32M run if you don't mind me askin.

-57 to -58. I don't think my multimeter is that accurate though as I can't get past -60 on it while others report -70 on DICE. Never seen that low.

All in all I am fairly pleased with my runs today. These are the runs I was expecting yesterday. Got rid of my cold boot. Big thanks to chuchnit for that one, I owe ya buddy. Got my CPU to 5.2ghz+. Hit 30k on my GTX 260's. Goin to have to say it was a good 2 days! Felt great to be back at it again. Oh and my RAM held its own too! I will give a run down, post pics and post my Bot scores in our bot section tomorrow mornin. Good night all.

[Chuchnit]

-57 to -58. I don't think my multimeter is that accurate though as I can't get past -60 on it while others report -70 on DICE. Never seen that low.

All in all I am fairly pleased with my runs today. These are the runs I was expecting yesterday. Got rid of my cold boot. Big thanks to chuchnit for that one, I owe ya buddy. Got my CPU to 5.2ghz+. Hit 30k on my GTX 260's. Goin to have to say it was a good 2 days! Felt great to be back at it again. Oh and my RAM held its own too! I will give a run down, post pics and post my Bot scores in our bot section tomorrow mornin. Good night all.

I just went back and looked at your runs again. Very nice :D What kinda vdimm were you shoving down those Muskins to pull off 7-7-7 ? I know you've had little "quality" time subzero with the setup, but is that all the uncore your chip likes? I'm just wondering how much your scores would pop with say 4400mhz uncore or more. 5ghz should be doable with dice temps on a strong IMC. I know that my CPU score pops with 4400mhz uncore vs. 4000mhz in 2k6.

[DrNip]

I think I had them at originally at 1.65v but bumped them up to 1.7v which was prolly too much but I just wanted to be sure I had enough. These Mushkins are some really great RAM and I still kick myself for gettin rid of them the 1st time. I'm just gettin started as I have plans of going back and tryin to improve on these runs. I will be tryin more uncore. Startin to think I don't need a new CPU yet as once thought as I got rid of the two probs I had. Cold bug and the no 5ghz blues. I had an pretty good two day run. About 75 point pick up. A great day would have been a 100 point pick up! LOL

[Jeffro64]

That is AWESOME Nip!!!! Nice setup and scores for sure!

I can't wait until I get the time to use my F1.... I'm a bit nervous but i'll start with my AMD rig to practice on just incase I fry something LOL! :D

[Neuromancer]

Sweet stuff.


That link to the Shamino post was very educational as well.

Interesting to read an educated post about over amping as well.

[Kal-EL]

That is AWESOME Nip!!!! Nice setup and scores for sure!

I can't wait until I get the time to use my F1.... I'm a bit nervous but i'll start with my AMD rig to practice on just incase I fry something LOL! :D

Oh for cryin out loud Jeff! get a warm saline warsh going and gently warsh the sand from the raw no'no place and FLOG IT!!!!!!!! :D :taunt:


Supes- cool2

Overclockaholics.......................... "Pushin nervous peeps over the edge with fight12 "

[DrNip]

Hahaha!!! Don't make me drive down to Texas Jeffro and take the trainin wheels off you myself!

[Jeffro64]

LMAO! I ain't skeered to try it... Just gotta get the time!! :D

[Kal-EL]

Nip, u submit more benches to the bot today or is it that the forum submissions kicked in some extra points? Ur at 355 now :D

[DrNip]

It's called just doin the damn thing supes. Nice lil pickup of 75 points. Expect to see me in 400 point land in August.

OK boys and girls with out further a dew here is what I did to get where I got. Pretty simple or at least it seems now. A lil special help from Chuchnit and 3oh6 got me where I needed to go. I was there but not all the way. With their advice I got my fix! :sick:

All pics are click-able!

Here is a shot of the jumper I switch to pins 2 & 3 which cured my lonely lil o cold bug. As soon as I flipped the switch my worries were gone...
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4547.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4547.jpg)

Here are my BIOS screenshots of the settings I tweaked.

Pay attention to the settings in the left column not the right. I don't have the settings saved but merely changed them for this miniature guide. Also your settings might vary. I recommend you use a multimeter to measure your volts. A setting of 1.65v DIMM nets me 1.7v in Windows.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4548.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4548.jpg)

I changed the two settings in the pic from Auto to 6.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4549.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4549.jpg)

Simple enough. I used various timings but mainly these in the end. Be warned that not all RAM is capable of running these speeds at these timings.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4550.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4550.jpg)

I booted at 220 BCLK and used eleet to get me the rest of my BCLK within Windows.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4552.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4552.jpg)

This last shot I had my QPI Frequency Selection set to 4.8 not Auto. So disregard the Auto setting.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4551.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4551.jpg)

Some benches and what not I had to tweak my VTT or Core volts up more within eleet. Sometimes I ran 115 pcie too. But in a nut shell this is what I used. After the fact I sat around and thought that I might have gotten some more MHz by changing my RAM ratio to 2:6 instead of 2:8. I will be trying this next time.

[punx223]

damn nip... very good work nip. excellent results

[Kal-EL]

Thats what I'm talkin bout, lead teh way buddy :thumbsup:

[DrNip]

Thanx guys. Just tryin to help all those in need! More testing to come as I got the itch more than ever now. Makes me want to get back in there and fire up the ol DFI and see what I can do with it again.

[HITandRUN]

Very nice results there and settings! I sure try these next week! cool2

[DrNip]

Well it is official. Ten lbs DICE and 4 hours later and nothing to show for. 1st I tired working on the SuperPi contest. That was a no go so I switched it up to the bot and my 8600gt's. That was also a no go. So I went ahead and tried my 295 and guess what, that was a no go too. I did manage a 355k Aquamark run but BLEEPING cpu-z 1.52 glitched out in the screenshot and showed me with a 20 mult instead of the 21 mult I was running which showed my BCLK incorrect. Didn't notice it until I went to upload it at the bot. These single PCB 295's aren't as good as there dual PCB brothers. They don't overclock as well and softmods don't work on them. I wish I would have known that. Of course it all could be driver related. I need to roll back a driver or two and see.

As of lately I have had more downs than ups on overclocking and hardware purchases. I need a break. Got to get away and get my head clear and come back with a new game plan. I'll be out of the overclocking office for a few days. Goin to get back into some gaming on Aug 18th with Wolfenstein. Maybe that is what I need. I just know somethin has to give.

[Kal-EL]

Well it is official. Ten lbs DICE and 4 hours later and nothing to show for. 1st I tired working on the SuperPi contest. That was a no go so I switched it up to the bot and my 8600gt's. That was also a no go. So I went ahead and tried my 295 and guess what, that was a no go too. I did manage a 355k Aquamark run but BLEEPING cpu-z 1.52 glitched out in the screenshot and showed me with a 20 mult instead of the 21 mult I was running which showed my BCLK incorrect. Didn't notice it until I went to upload it at the bot. These single PCB 295's aren't as good as there dual PCB brothers. They don't overclock as well and softmods don't work on them. I wish I would have known that. Of course it all could be driver related. I need to roll back a driver or two and see.

As of lately I have had more downs than ups on overclocking and hardware purchases. I need a break. Got to get away and get my head clear and come back with a new game plan. I'll be out of the overclocking office for a few days. Goin to get back into some gaming on Aug 18th with Wolfenstein. Maybe that is what I need. I just know somethin has to give.

On top of the increasing competition at the bot, having to deal with hardware dilemas are "SUCKOS" . Take ur break brudder Nip, I'll pick up the slack this week. :thumbsup:

[Buckeye]

Try changing your TRL to 68 on the RAM and see what that does.

[Kal-EL]

Hold the phone, can't seem to get past a 7F post code on the classy. :blink:
Here we go again...........................

Finally :D in the bios.

[RomDominance]

Sorry about your oc blues Nip,...a little vaca from benchin always seems to focus me.

Kal, keep in mind that the classy has its quarks. One is its stubborness to boot with HT on while connected to certain sata ports. So if she gives you trouble booting in a config you know should work, try the boot disc in a different sata port. Any other woes, please don't hesitate to pm or call bro.to_keep_order

[Kal-EL]

Sorry about your oc blues Nip,...a little vaca from benchin always seems to focus me.

Kal, keep in mind that the classy has its quarks. One is its stubborness to boot with HT on while connected to certain sata ports. So if she gives you trouble booting in a config you know should work, try the boot disc in a different sata port. Any other woes, please don't hesitate to pm or call bro.to_keep_order

Thx buddy, noticed 2 quirks already, wierd lil board gonna give me a run for me money but HEY, least the sucker aint dead like Asus Rampage ExtremageFail.

[DrNip]

Well I'm feeling better today. I was ready to quit it all last night! LOL There ain't nothin worse than wasting a nights worth of DICE, time and money on nothing. Well I guess I could have broke some hardware as that would have been worse.

I think I was trying to run to high of uncore last night. That and shitty drivers. New plan is to back off the uncore and use a different set of drivers.

[punx223]

soups if your getting 7F then your video has an issue, as 7f is normal and basically means its sitting on the bios screen saying press F1 to continue or DEL to enter setup :good:

[DrNip]

Almost sub 7 in 32m. AGHHHHHH. If I only would have had my Blades and they been functioning. I'm not done here.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_superpi32m_1-4.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/superpi32m_1-4.jpg)

I had a 1m run of 7.828s but screwed up on the screenshot. I didn't have my memory tab shot on cpuz. No matter what I did I couldn't run it again at this speed. This would have had me at 6th place.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_superpi1m_1-2.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/superpi1m_1-2.jpg)

So I had to settle for 7.875s and 11th place.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_superpi1m_2.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/superpi1m_2.jpg)

PiFast good enough for 2nd place. :D
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_pifast_1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/pifast_1.jpg)

[Chuchnit]

Nice runs nip. I had my first i7 dice experience today. It totallly sucked. I was having OS problems and just called it quits within two hours. I'm glad you session went well instead of like last time. Grats on the ranking.

[DrNip]

3D was a flop again. I can't call it. I was able to run 06 at 5ghz the 1st time when I scored 30k with my 260's even though it only took 4.8ghz for that run. Now I can't even run 4.75ghz on 06. I am goin to have to hook up the air again and figure out what is going on with it. Dunno. 2D's though I'm knocking them out of the park.

[Kal-EL]

Nice runs Nip, especially the 2nd place run :good:

[DrNip]

OK I finally established a base line for my 295's at high speeds. I made a few volt adjustments and seemed to have nailed it. One of the main adjustments was my VTT from 1.5v'ish to only 1.4v. I am thinking that might have been one of my biggest problems and will have to go back on all my 2D benches with lower VTT to see if I can run them higher. These 4 benches were ran straight thru back to back unlike my usual run a bench and restart my system to run the next which prolly hurt my score some. I think I have a lil more headroom on my GPU's and some more on my CPU. I have noticed these single pcb 295's don't clock as high as there double pcb counterparts. But some how they score about the same. That was one of my problems all along was I was trying to clock way too high on them. Any-hoo enough of the small chit chat and here is what I came up with that put me over 400 points. :D

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_vanatage_2.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/vanatage_2.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_06_1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/06_1.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_05_1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/05_1.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_03_1.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/03_1.jpg)

One thing I just started to do is include my Eleet utility with the volts tab showing as well a memset so I know what I ran that bench at instead of the usual page after page of notebooks I use to write them down in. Genius I tell ya.

[dinos22]

my heart jumped a little when i saw the first line

maybe time to edit it hahahahah

nice OCing mate ;)

[DrNip]

HA I just noticed that. Sub 6, lol. I wish. Its been corrected.

[Kal-EL]

I use my old screenys too for a record of what settings I ran on stuff. We need to buckle down and put together a printable settings template instead of making notes in a notebook, lol. Print 50 pages and fill in the blanks for scientific oc.

[thebanik]

Nice going there....awesome stuff with the 920....

[Chuchnit]

Nip that 920 was screaming through vantage. Did it pass the CPU test at the same speed in the screenie?

[karmakazi]

Nice stuff here man!! Glad this session went better than the last one. The single PCB 295 clocks lower probably because one PCB w/ 2 gpus gets hotter, as do all the other components. What were your loaded temps like?

I find when I start losing MHz in clocks and cant run at same speeds anymore, its usually condensation. I call it quits and tear things down and figure out if theres any water. If not then back to benching :D

[DrNip]

Nip that 920 was screaming through vantage. Did it pass the CPU test at the same speed in the screenie?

Yep. Its got more in it too.

[2chesapeakes]

Congrats Nip looks like a very productive OCing session.
Did you hit any type of wall at 4800Mhz. I seem to be stuck at the 4800 Mhz with both the 965EE and 975EE and on both mobo's the R2E and the Classy.

[DrNip]

Nope. My initial wall was 238 BCLK, roughly 5ghz. A few tweaks and I blew past it. Now my wall is around 245ish BCLK. I dunno how I hit 249 BCLK that one time but I did. I need to go back and try highest BCLK with my lower VTT trick.

You could just have two BCLK unfriendly chips there. What multiplier you trying to use and at what BCLK? I read that certain multipliers don't play nice. You can also post what settings you are using here or start a thread on it. Here are the settings I am interested in seeing that you are trying to use.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4548.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4548.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4552.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4552.jpg)
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4551.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4551.jpg)

[dinos22]

i found that actually going lower on volts will go to higher bus speed
maybe try to experient some more with lower volts as a lot of other guys are finding the same

you are doing well though no doubt

[DrNip]

Yep can't wait to snag me an ln2 dewar. Got some 775 get back to do. Hopefully this chick gets back with me on this one.

[Kal-EL]

Good show on the bios settings bro, true Overclockaholics fashion :good:

[DrNip]

HAHA decided to flip the script. Here is something I haven't done in along time and definitely not with my i7 setup. STRESS TEST. Yeah, yeah I did it a lil while back but for like 30-60 minutes at 4.2ghz. I'm going for the full 8 hours this time and with a real overclock or at least the start of one. Working on a nice clock for my gaming coming up real soon. Here is what I have so far and I know this is far from stable. I'm kinda proud of my lil cpu that could. 4.315ghz at 1.27-1.282 volts. Proud of my RAM and uncore too. Test being ran is Prime95 blend. I pass the 4.3ghz barrier I will move onto 4.4ghz! I will keep you updated.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_4315ghz_2.png (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/4315ghz_2.png)

[DrNip]

Well I had to settle for only 6 hours as I woke up this morning a lil before 2am to go to work just to realize there was one of the biggest lightening/thunder/rain/wind storms going on that I had ever seen. Not wise. True I have a nice power strip, wish it was an uninterrupted power supply, but why chance it right? So I will add that to my rule list:

Overclockaholics don't let other Overclockaholics buy cheap probes!
Wise man once said, "Check your local news/weather before going to bed when your plans are to run a stress test all night."


http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_4315ghz_3.png (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/4315ghz_3.png)

4.3ghz just ain't good enough for me as it was too easy. I need something I have to work for. 4.4ghz out! I have a feeling heat will be a factor for me as I have a low voltage/ high temp CPU.

[punx223]

Well I had to settle for only 6 hours as I woke up this morning a lil before 2am to go to work just to realize there was one of the biggest lightening/thunder/rain/wind storms going on that I had ever seen. Not wise. True I have a nice power strip, wish it was an uninterrupted power supply, but why chance it right? So I will add that to my rule list:

Overclockaholics don't let other Overclockaholics buy cheap probes!
Wise man once said, "Check your local news/weather before going to bed when your plans are to run a stress test all night."


http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_4315ghz_3.png (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/4315ghz_3.png)

4.3ghz just ain't good enough for me as it was too easy. I need something I have to work for. 4.4ghz out! I have a feeling heat will be a factor for me as I have a low voltage/ high temp CPU.

NICE!!! i wanna see the temps at your 24/7 clock once you decide on it :D

[DrNip]

Well at that speed I am cruising at mid 40's. I am also only on air. But my 24 hour clock is going to be hurt but heat I feel.

[DrNip]

Say hello to my little friends. I've been out doing a little recruiting. From left to right we have a Celeron 347, Celron 352 and a Pentium 631. Hopefully out of the three one will take me to 7ghz land! :D Looking to pick up a ASUS P5B Deluxe today if I don't get out bidded. Pick up the RAM next week and it is off to the races. I am just wondering if I will need a north bridge pot, anyone?

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4652.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4652.jpg)



And say hello to my pride and joy.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_IMG_4655.jpg (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/IMG_4655.jpg)

This dewar is bigger than what I thought it would be. I was barely able to put it in the benching closet. Just need a withdrawal device for it. Looking to pick one up in two weeks.

[Buckeye]

Nice Dewar there !!! :D

[karmakazi]

Nippy, northbridge pot will be very helpful with 965 chipsets. Look in XS LN2/DICE section, someone was selling some for like $5 + s/h

[punx223]

yeah you can get a NB pot pretty cheap or just splash the nb cooler with LN2 and it will help

[DrNip]

OK guys. I've been on vacation for a bit but time to get back on the grind. Got me a new lil toy to play with.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_965.png (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/965.png)

Already straight out the gate it is a learning curve as it sure doesn't handle like the 920 I got. The 920 is 4.315ghz stable at 1.275v wheras this one takes somewhere between 1.36-1.4v to just run idle at 4.3ghz. Crazy thing is at 4.3ghz and 1.4v it runs about the same temps as my 920 at only 1.275v!!! I will be knee deep in work for awhile in plans of running LN2 11/2 thru 11/4. Wish me luck and I hope this thing scales like a mo-fo under extreme temps.

On a side note punx, I will be sending that Asus off to you to get the hook up my friend sometime next week so be prepared or be squared and as usual there is no rush. :D

[punx223]

OK guys. I've been on vacation for a bit but time to get back on the grind. Got me a new lil toy to play with.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/th_965.png (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj55/travisjcottrell/965.png)

Already straight out the gate it is a learning curve as it sure doesn't handle like the 920 I got. The 920 is 4.315ghz stable at 1.275v wheras this one takes somewhere between 1.36-1.4v to just run idle at 4.3ghz. Crazy thing is at 4.3ghz and 1.4v it runs about the same temps as my 920 at only 1.275v!!! I will be knee deep in work for awhile in plans of running LN2 11/2 thru 11/4. Wish me luck and I hope this thing scales like a mo-fo under extreme temps.

On a side note punx, I will be sending that Asus off to you to get the hook up my friend sometime next week so be prepared or be squared and as usual there is no rush. :D



No worries bro she will not be treated nice when she arrives:ohcrap:

:morpheus:

[Splave]

nips man the bot misses you bro, time hit it! best of luck in october

[DrNip]

Well unfortunately the only thing extreme about this chip is its name as it isn't looking good. That was always the reason of me not droppin $1k on a chip in fear of it being a P.O.S.!!! Looks like I have alot more testing on it. Might have to drop some DICE on it to see if it performs better than what it is on air.

[punx223]

Well unfortunately the only thing extreme about this chip is its name as it isn't looking good. That was always the reason of me not droppin $1k on a chip in fear of it being a P.O.S.!!! Looks like I have alot more testing on it. Might have to drop some DICE on it to see if it performs better than what it is on air.

you will be very happy to know taht some chips that do very well on air/water do crappy on sub ambient, however one like you have does crappy on air/water soemtimes will do great on subzero :D


:morpheus:

[Buckeye]

Punx knows what he is talking about :scared:

[punx223]

Punx knows what he is talking about :scared:



not as well as you do bro :good:

[DrNip]

Yeah that is what I am hoping for. My air testing is complete as it is going nowhere. Can't get it past 4.6ghz for the life of me. But like I said, this thing stays unbelievably cool no matter what volts you throw at it. Had it at 4.5 something ghz with 1.5v and temps were lower 40's!

[DrNip]

The calm before the storm tomorrow.

14251426


I guess you could call it a quiet storm. God I love Mobb Deep. Here is a little throw back for ya'll hip hop lovers. 1999 out...

bvCp-N-9JEw

[Splave]

tight song and setup :)

[Gutterz]

I havent heard that in years good song for sure.

[Jeffro64]

Good luck Nip.... Thrash that thing bro!!!



Good lord Gutterz..... That avi drives me crazy!:D

[ReverendMaynard]

if fo the results...and sick tune man.

Got me on a classic trip now...

[Dentlord]

Awesome Nip, cant wait to see what you do ... represent the OKC! ;)

[Kal-EL]

Awesome Nip, cant wait to see what you do ... represent the OKC! ;)

And if that doesn't work, stop by KFC! :blink:

[DrNip]

Well 15lbs bought. Really only wanted about 10lbs as that is all I really use to get the damn thing done, but hey, more never hurt. Picking up where I left off at months ago. That being lower vtt = higher bench runs. So far half way thru Vantage at 5ghz at only 1.4v vtt and 1.525v vcore on my 920. :D

[DrNip]

Nailed it. Vantage just realized I'm his daddy. 5ghz 3D run for the 1st time on my 920. Problem before I was running 1.575 vtt and it just wasn't happening. 1.4 is the magic number. Looks like I have a low vtt chip here boys. :D

[ReverendMaynard]

nice Nippy, keep pounding it!

[DrNip]

Wish I would have set this up in the garage as room temps are a little high for the GPU to overclock too much more. Going to try though.

[DrNip]

Gone live for a bit. Join me if you like.

http://www.livestream.com/drnip_overclockaholics

[ReverendMaynard]

what card are you running today Nip?

[DrNip]

Over here now. If this doesn't work better then going to justin/tv.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drnip-overclockaholics

@rev - 5870

[Neuromancer]

Need to add that link to the OCA live feed thread :)

I will check it out later if you are still online.. I need to come up with a new login name since Neuromancer is already taken ARGH

[DrNip]

I will. Taking a break for a bit, gone crossed eyed. Be back in an hour or so with 8800gts.

[Kal-EL]

Dammit, slept thru the show! :(

[DrNip]

Well I set a little time aside for some benching this weekend. Been a bit since the last go around but what can ya do, right? Been real busy here in my part of the world. Usually I'm a early morning bencher but going to flip flop the game and do it at night this time for those that are morning risers. Saturday night on 4/24/2010 after my grill out I'm going to get it on. This is going to be strictly a 3D bench session though I'm itching to get me some 2 D in as that is my favorite. When I finally get my P5B Deluxe modded I will bust out the 2D.

Setup will be:

920
725 Classy
Mushkin Cas 8 2000MHz
PC & Power 1200W
8800 GT VModded
8800 GTS 320
8800 GTX
3870 single and Crossfire
4850
4890

I have a 4870x2 but it is pooched for the moment being so it won't be out to play. I know, I know, I know. How the hell am I going to get all those cards benched? Beats me but I'm damn sure going to try do it. My goal is just to get base runs in on all of them in every bench and then if I have time come back and tweak them to try to get more. If my schedule is free come back later on in the week and try dicing some of the cards.

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[ReverendMaynard]

I like where this is headed Nipster, rip it up!

[Chuchnit]

Good luck buddy. Do some damage. :thumbsup:

[HITandRUN]

I like where this is headed Nipster, rip it up!

Yeah thats some stash there. :D

[ocgmj]

Great line-up, have fun Nip.

[GFDuke]

Sweet. I'll check it out for sure.

[DrNip]

My ultimate goal is to get off my arse and take this 960 to sub-zero land as well as bench these Celeron and Pentium chips so I can get them on down the line. Need to get another dewar too so I can really unleash my hidden powers. Damn dice is holding me back I tell ya.

[Witchdoctor]

Rip it up Dr. ........... :thumbsup:

[FACE]

In for the winnage.... :thumbsup:

[DrNip]

Rip it up Dr. ........... :thumbsup:

Finally going to rip that 320 so you'll quit riding me! LOL Won't be able to run it as fast as I want to due to temps being hotter around here.

[Dentlord]

Finally going to rip that 320 so you'll quit riding me! LOL Won't be able to run it as fast as I want to due to temps being hotter around here.

Thats what those teks are for :P

gts 320 is massive hardware bointage

[DrNip]

Sorry guys, ran into traffic this weekend. My cookout went from 13 people to 21 and they were here till late into the night and yesterday was the deck project. I did manage to strip the mobo down of all the old eraser and get it cleaned of dust. Tonight I will re-eraser it and get the pot slapped on. Shooting for tomorrow night.

[Kal-EL]

Sorry guys, ran into traffic this weekend. My cookout went from 13 people to 21 and they were here till late into the night and yesterday was the deck project. I did manage to strip the mobo down of all the old eraser and get it cleaned of dust. Tonight I will re-eraser it and get the pot slapped on. Shooting for tomorrow night.

Kool man, cookouts are the shiznit :laughing:

[Witchdoctor]

Sorry guys, ran into traffic this weekend. My cookout went from 13 people to 21 and they were here till late into the night and yesterday was the deck project. I did manage to strip the mobo down of all the old eraser and get it cleaned of dust. Tonight I will re-eraser it and get the pot slapped on. Shooting for tomorrow night.


I see how you are, I was not even invited ........ :thumbdown:

On the rebond bro .......... :thumbsup:

[HITandRUN]

Sorry guys, ran into traffic this weekend. My cookout went from 13 people to 21 and they were here till late into the night and yesterday was the deck project. I did manage to strip the mobo down of all the old eraser and get it cleaned of dust. Tonight I will re-eraser it and get the pot slapped on. Shooting for tomorrow night.

Yeah I know how it is when real life comes in the way. I have been remodeling here and there myself on the top of work and family there is not too much time for benching. Good luck with the session.

[DrNip]

Well everything is finally setup but ran out of time again dammit! It will be here waiting when I get off work tomorrow! Felt good getting everything stripped down and set back up. Just need to shut up and put up now. Shooting for at least 200 team points tomorrow but any will do. Won't be live as I'm not set up in the computer room.

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[Kal-EL]

:shock: :thumbsup:

[Witchdoctor]

Dr.

Looks like you are all set to inflict maximum casulties on enemies of the Alliance.

:rockon:

[FACE]

Looks like time to pwn!

[kow_ciller]

Nice dolls next to your hardware :D

[FACE]

Nice dolls next to your hardware :D

ROFL, knick-knack paddy-whack!!!!

Good catch! :laughing:

[kow_ciller]

ROFL, knick-knack paddy-whack!!!!

Good catch! :laughing:

I try ;)

[DrNip]

Well I was only able to get 3 hours of benching in and one hour of it I was being stupid. Looked back and realized the training wheels were on. As soon as I got them off I started making head room. Picked up a quick 55.4 team points for us. Only managed to milk the 4850 and 4890. 4890 I was only able to get 06, 05 and aqua ran so I still have more there to do. Couldn't get Vantage to run for shit. Think it might had to do with my NB about to catch on fire. I was running with no fans on my mobo and touched the damn thing just to about get 3rd degree burn. All runs were plan jane, no tweaks back to back benching so I could at least establish base lines and base scores. Will go back once all cards are complete and tweak each.

[FACE]

Bointing it up! Maybe a constant cold air blast would give the nb the love it needs...

Old a/c mods are still useful! :Hi:

Good job, Nip!

[Kal-EL]

Good Job Doc, and the train leaves the station.........

[DrNip]

Bointing it up! Maybe a constant cold air blast would give the nb the love it needs...

Old a/c mods are still useful! :Hi:

Good job, Nip!

I fixed the prob in the end by sticking an 80mm and a 120mm fan in the hot spots. Nevermind the moonshine in the pic. Also cheap arse multimeter as it is always off by 10 degrees. Temps are really around -70. Looks like I am going to have to chisel a way at these cards a few hours here and there as I still have 5 left to bench. Slowly but surely I will get em done.

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