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Does it appear I'm baggin with those temps? I tried your exact settings and I can not get the qpi even remotely close to what you have. :Dizzy:

its heating up

No shit...that's what it does on air at this speed. I assume Kal ran his on air?

yes his on air but not on the stock cooler :ohcrap:

do you need that much volts just to run pifast ? :shock:

You know this for a fact? Volts are same as Kal's.

im asking if you need that much cuz i only use 1.44 and think i can get away with 1.4

unless the ln2 and cascade taken its toll on your cpus

rickster dont you have a water setup?

Listen up doods...voltage is only as important as your heat concerns.
I think the key to winning this is TIGHT ASS RAM, highest possible uncore or fsb, and tweaks to your os. You have to learn how to bench these tests to win this fight...pifast being the much easier of the two.

My first try, regular OS, no waza....are we supposed to use coretemp or real temp??

Real Temp for the Intel guys, there is a link on the page.
For the AMD guys, we are still figuring that out. We will decide by tonite when the background goes live.

Remember don't run any temp software during your tests, just for the screenshots.

Mo better but miles to go...

So the contest hasn't officially started? Well started as submitting results goes. As far as temp program for Phenom II there isn't one. I read +15 but even at that my temps are are only 33 degrees which seems too cool for me. Without the adjustment I am sitting at 18 degrees.

Went ahead and ordered another PSU and 1156 mounting bracket for my TRUE 120 as I have a feeling my i3 will do me better in this. Should be here in a few days.

another try with real temp....

Probability high that I just killed the 980X due to a water leak.

sad to hear, but its better that a processor goes down instead of the board, easier and quicker I believe in US to get them RMAd, btw I hope it was not a golden CPU or something.....

FYI Banik, in the RealTemp folder there is a RealTempGT.exe, which will give temps for all 6 cores.

Here's my initial testing, Asus R3Gene, Win7, no tweaks.

We've got frost warnings for this area tonite. :shock:

Confirmed - cpu is trashed. Rma is out of the question...scorched pins will not fly. It will boot but all cores show 100c....

I do not know how losing a chip is better than losing a mb. :Dizzy:

What is scorched ??

I RMA'd a chip with parts of some of the pads missing.

Dead...

I would try RMA, they may refuse it, but it's worth a shot.

Oh!!!, generally there are no physical signs of damage and RMA is pretty easy hence said that damaged CPU is better.....sad, :(

18 degress dang.

Core temp reads between 30 and 40C idle for me in a poor flow case.

If unlocked... then no, nothing reads it right.

OK Contest update.
After much discussion, we have decided to address the "ambient" temp issue.
It doesn't feel fair to penalize anyone for living in a cold environment, although I don't believe that any of our members live in a 50f degree house. ;) goat.
So we have decided that ac blowing directly on your bench rig or radiator (chilled water) is ok TO A POINT. Therefore NO submissions with a temp of lower than 15c on any core will be accepted. No warming up your system before a screenshot. Please do not f' up this contest by trying to gain an unfair advantage. Any of you can win this with good overclocking technique and a little patience. Carry on.

Holy shat that's cold. I'll be lucky to idle in the 40's, hehe.

Well I dunno what to do as mine shows to be 18 degrees. It is almost 100 degrees here and all I gots is the A/C running. Nothing special going on. Hell the room my PC is in isn't cold at all. Just know I'm not running chilled.

I have to go to work now...

BUMMER BUDDY - can you cover it under your homeowners insurance ?

Sorry about the loss buddy. Hell whats the worst they can do? Refuse RMA? Its not like they can take your b-day away.

Wallpaper is up gents. Time to get busy.

Wallpaper link is no good...

You have to right click on it and "Save as".

Works perfect if you "save image as"
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Come on no body has anything to post! We are playing the waiting game again! :D ;)

I have a few, but in office, will have to install XP or Win7 maybe to come close to goat's super pi....

Ok, I will go first. I'm still wounded over the 980X but I guess I have to carry on with what I have. Those should be easy to topple. ;)

wut times did you get rick ? also sorry about the 980x bro i know thats a big hole in the walet if it cant be rma but gl with that if you go for it you might get lucky just try to clean off the blk burnt marks ;)

and im still at work cant see the ss of runs on the pos cell

i wanna go home an bench the piss out of my 980 im going to give it all she got when i wake up tuesday so i expect the same guys :thumbsup:

Nice benching guys! I have some but I did it before the wallpaper came out so I have to redo it again. :ohcrap:

A little bumpage before bed. I'm going to get hammered in PiFast...:ohcrap:

Nothing you can't easily top Dom...:thumbsup: ( I could use a $1000 gift certificate for the Egg Brendon...hint, hint. :taunt:)