Passion with dark side - i7-4960x

Its enthusiasm of extreme OC death here? I hope not. I have not seen for a long time here results. It not must be the best, but with enthusiasm.
So my passion reflected in Dark Blue Side! Oh god, dark side and FlanK3r. But for once - because mild green/red color make me better for life :-).

Intel core i7-4960X coming, dark side was in my room for few days one for one day with LN2. I was scared.
http://i.imgur.com/2wLkLSw.jpg

i7-4960X borrowed by Intel Czech for review.It was ES QF7Z revision A.
http://i.imgur.com/RufYYBx.jpg

Hmm, I must have tested new PSU Galaxy and "old" good Rampage IV Extreme.
http://i.imgur.com/6CAmT9R.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EgmnKEk.jpg

Good isolation, one good average GPU HD 7870 (so no 3D test), poor 2400 XMP HyperX. Because my TridentX died after LN2 show at Haswell :(. Im oldman, gentleman and therefore I use

classic isolating method ,-). Gum, paper etc...
http://i.imgur.com/vjIJFAR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0FJd2eN.jpg

After many hours benchmarking I tried one 3D Mark run. At the beginning I was careful, IB-E was not mine and how it can react with temps/voltages?
http://i.imgur.com/1YdZ4jt.jpg

I was happy, no one problem with wet at board all time
http://i.imgur.com/n2agkRB.jpg

I like this area. With LLC at "ultra" was CPU-Z vcore the same as real vcore (+- 0.00xV!)
http://i.imgur.com/uYPT2t1.jpg

Every nice story ends..Next day "dark power" gone away and I could sleep :)
http://i.imgur.com/xbdeUI4.jpg

And there are few results, not good, not bad. For this monster I need next day. I was really too much careful at beginning. This chip could run hard beenchmarks around 5650-5700

MHz and 2D aprox the same as in my results of superpi.


AIDA 64 3.x.x - with strap 125 MHz is some bug...
http://i.imgur.com/Ow7xyw1.png

HWBot benchmark in java
http://i.imgur.com/HXlnnL8.png

MaXXPI 32M was quickly
http://i.imgur.com/EKTFnEY.png

And Winrar benchmark :-) 18 000KB/s +
http://i.imgur.com/3N30aZ5.png

UCBench at 5600 MHz
http://i.imgur.com/RnfoJJa.png

What about Fritzchess benchmark? Not many people testing this hard loading benchmark with LN2 :)
http://i.imgur.com/Mgh8fWX.png

Classic wprime 32/1024M, but in x64, so a bit slower
http://i.imgur.com/ZCUBCJZ.png

And Cinebench R11.5, wow. I never seen life something so fast..
http://i.imgur.com/zexHTh2.jpg

And Superpi was much easier, 6200 MHz no problem
http://i.imgur.com/BnOI5C1.png

http://i.imgur.com/QhVyM5n.png

And two videos from benchamrking. First some Cinebench R11.5 and Wprimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=x-5Zc2uAYEk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gSyvRKYsKJU


So after these crazy dark days with i7-4960X I must be dressed again in serious green/red t-shirt. FX-8350 LN2 is coming...
http://i.imgur.com/FrMTk9G.jpg

Good stuff man, thanks ! :clap:

awesome rig goods numbers my friend!

thank you guys :)

Great Job, Flank :up:
How's the top clock of IVY air-cooled ?

Well done! Push more!

Hi Mad and Slamms :). I found not maximal AIR benchmarks, but I tried only max stability in OCCT. I know 30minutes its not much for someone... But In review I have not much time for longer tests. If crashed it Im going back to BIOS changing some values and again stress test. I had few crashs. In the end I got 4700 MHz stable. Think, 4800 MHz will be doable for hard benchmarks and for light benchmarks around 5000 MHz?


air cooling IBE
http://i.imgur.com/7x4zlEw.jpg

OCCT
http://i.imgur.com/xrbVjL4.png

x264FHD at 4700 MHz
http://i.imgur.com/uPxmx97.png

Nooooo Flanker, not you! Resist the power of the dark side you must!!!

(nice clocks, btw)

wow nice clocking dude!
I have been out of the game for a while and i must say your benches have surprised and inspired me!
keep up the good work:up:

Nice Review!

So are you sith or are you Jedi? ;)

He's a dark lord for sure...

only few minutes...Green is better ,-)

Nvidia ?

No, never :)! AMD (green logo AMD or red for AMD Radeon, FX etc...)

:D Awesome work dude !!!!!! keep it up

thx :).