Updated mainrig

[jcool]

Since there is no real thread on this yet, I thought I'd give you all a quick heads-up on what's to come for you crunchers around the world :)

I finally got a Gulftown up and running in my mainrig, replacing the 975 that has gotten unneccessary the moment I stopped running on phase change 24/7.

Unfortunately, Gulftowns aren't really supported by a lot of mobos at the moment, and since there was no way to get it to run on my DFI x58, I had to change mobos. I picked the Rampage II Extreme despite it being Asus, because a friend of mine had very good results overclocking with Gulftowns on it.

Seems I got a dud board though, I cannot seem to breach 213mhz BCLk no matter what, it just won't post. I tried all kinds of settings and voltage ranges as well as different GPUs and ram kits, all to no avail.

So for now, I am stuck @ 4Ghz.. but then again, 4Ghz on a Gulftown ain't nothing ;)

Enough talk, here's some pics for ya all.

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/Gulftown/CIMG1677.JPG

Hey, it's Asus, but at least it looks good :rofl:

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/Gulftown/CIMG1680.JPG

Beware.. the allmighty evap! :hrhr:

I might try it under cold these days if I can make the time.

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/Gulftown/RIIEboinc.jpg

This is how it has been crunching since yesterday, perfectly stable at pretty low volts.

What is really awesome is the power consumption & heat dissipation though - it stays insanely cool, around 50C crunching on all cores crunching :shocked:
On way-too-hot water (32C) that is amazing - power consumption is equal to an i7 running 4Ghz with 50% moar cores :up:

So brace yourselves people, and save your money - monster crunchers are coming :cool:

[CyberDruid]

Your res is coming along J. Got the body glued up. Should have the face sealed on later today. Sorry it took so long.

[jcool]

What res??? :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Seriously, you must have the wrong man :D

[s0lid]

You must mean Jaco, CD?

Nice rig you have there jcool :P

[shazza]

Thanks for the preview, jcool.

[Jaco]

Your res is coming along J. Got the body glued up. Should have the face sealed on later today. Sorry it took so long.

no problem at all.


What res??? :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Seriously, you must have the wrong man :D

:D

[DAK1640]

Very nice cruncher indeed jcool:up:

[Jaco]

Try different Back-to-back CAS delay settings , that could be holding you back.
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=940

[s0lid]

This thread must :banana::banana::banana::banana: every NDA about gulftown up to the ass =P

[CyberDruid]

no problem at all.



:D

Need Coffee.:shrug:

Awesome rig...except it needs a waterfall :p:

[jcool]

Try different Back-to-back CAS delay settings , that could be holding you back.
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=940

Thanks Jaco, tried that, doesn't help. It's probably a bios issue, I am using an early alpha release bios that won't even allow me to change uncore and QPI mult.


This thread must :banana::banana::banana::banana: every NDA about gulftown up to the ass =P

Only if you sign NDAs :shrug:

[s0lid]

Only if you sign NDAs :shrug:

Yep, only then. Btw could you run some benchies? Like wPrime?

[Otis11]

That's just sweet. I want to see that PPD of this thing!

And maybe talk to the guys in the intel forum (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=232109&page=7), they seem to be getting these to crazy high speeds... (Shark-357 has his at 5062Mhz under water.)

[Jaco]

Otis , check here (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4041103&postcount=1775)


This 11 days of Supreme 09...
9/30/09 0:005:12:22:17 21,810 35
9/29/09 0:012:20:19:19 50,820 81
9/28/09 0:008:16:39:56 34,837 56
9/27/09 0:009:13:51:35 38,016 59
9/26/09 0:012:14:13:23 50,410 81
9/25/09 0:011:20:00:08 47,089 76
9/24/09 0:008:21:58:49 35,143 56
9/23/09 0:011:04:42:01 48,295 70
9/22/09 0:011:05:58:21 46,350 79
9/21/09 0:011:14:03:27 50,064 83
9/20/09 0:005:20:26:39 25,176 45

now these are early initial results , but as you can see the output is ... insane :D

[jcool]

That's just sweet. I want to see that PPD of this thing!

And maybe talk to the guys in the intel forum (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=232109&page=7), they seem to be getting these to crazy high speeds... (Shark-357 has his at 5062Mhz under water.)

Well, problem is the small multiplier on mine. I could probably get 5Ghz stable, but I'd need another type of chip (3,07Ghz stock CPUs).

What Jaco showed is my 2nd Gulftown, that has been crunching on a GB Extreme mobo for the past 2 weeks. It's currently on Scott's Account, as well as the rest of bob's and my farm. I will provide you with nubers on this one too, but it's looking very promising, like 46k at 4Ghz.

And 4Ghz cruncing can be easily attained even on air :)

[Otis11]

Those numbers are huge! :shocked:

Makes sense when you think about it, 50% more cores, 50% higher output... But still insane!

So if you managed to get that to 5Ghz, that would come out to ~57k from one CPU! :cool:

[STEvil]

bump up the pci-e frequency a bit

whats the max bclck you get on the gigabyte board?

[emuexport]

:slobber::slobber::slobber:

Nice jcool. I was just getting used to 8 Threads now this:up: simply awesome!

[Snow Crash]

So brace yourselves people, and save your money - monster crunchers are coming
I knew I would find a way to spend the money I saved from quitting smoking :up:
Thanks for bringing this to us ... I can hardly wait.

[Plan.B]

Nice Rig.

[PoppaGeek]

I knew I would find a way to spend the money I saved from quitting smoking :up:
Thanks for bringing this to us ... I can hardly wait.

Congrats. Not an easy thing to do! :up:

[123bob]

Nice rig jcool. :up:

.....and I just joined the i7 world....now I must have 12 threads...Then 24....:D

Bob

[jcool]

bump up the pci-e frequency a bit

whats the max bclck you get on the gigabyte board?

Tried that, believe me.. tried everything, to no avail. It's either a bad board or the buggy alpha bios, hopefully the latter.

GBs can usually do 222Mhz max then hit a wall, mine has funky slowdown issues after 216 specially in 3D. But you may be able to run 220 on a GB w/o mod if you're lucky and have a good one.


I knew I would find a way to spend the money I saved from quitting smoking
Thanks for bringing this to us ... I can hardly wait.

Hehe... my pleasure :)
And congratz on quitting smoking! :up:

[mreuter80]

Nice rig jcool. :up:

.....and I just joined the i7 world....now I must have 12 threads...Then 24....:D

Bob

same here

Already thinking whether I just exchange the processor or build a new rig :rofl:

[Snow Crash]

same here

Already thinking whether I just exchange the processor or build a new rig :rofl:

thinking if I crank the snot out of my current i7, which burns out first ... the mobo or the chip ... that will help me decide for sure :ROTF:

[Otis11]

thinking if I crank the snot out of my current i7, which burns out first ... the mobo or the chip ... that will help me decide for sure :ROTF:

But if it's the Mobo then you have a perfectly good chip that needs a new motherboard... And a perfectly good rig that needs building! :rofl:

[Snow Crash]

I will likely only end up with 1 system (by design, not just because I burn somehting out) so it is more like if I burn the mobo then I sell the old CPU and buy new i9 cpu + mobo (hoping they have refreshed X58 by then) or if I burn out the chip I just buy the i9 cpu and see how that does in my existing mobo.

[artemm]

So brace yourselves people, and save your money - monster crunchers are coming :cool:

So's Christmas!

Looks very good, though. Can't wait to see some comparison testing with a fully functional board/chip.