E8500 action on Evga 790i w/ Dice

Specs
E8500
Evga 790i Ultra (testing was on P04)
PALiT 9600GTs "vanilla" in SLI
OCZ Platinum 1600 7-7-7-20 running as close to 1000MHz as possible @ 8-7-7-24 2T
dual Raptor 74GB (16MB) in RAID 0
PC P&C 750 Crossfire Edition
XP PRO

Please feel free to add any comments or tips that you would feel useful in my screenshots

Thanks
-Ryan
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max on Dice
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Pi fast
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Super Pi 1M
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Super Pi 32M
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what was the idle load temp , may be 1.8v will be good enough for sub 8s run .:-)
really nice clock for Dice :up::up::up::up:

I don't have a temp probe yet and i forget what it was in BIOS - maybe -26? but no Idea of load temps and in windows temps as the programs I used were buggy and were reading like 256C

TheGoat Eater
32m?

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TheGoat Eater
32m?

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the SS was in another folder and I missed it...

updated - 9:53.406 @ 5405.3MHz & RAM at 995.7MHz 8-7-7-24 2T

lol
5400MHz it's ~9min! — http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=726433

yeah I only ran it once with absolutely no tweaks and I'm going to look into tweaks - got any links? as this is just the first and second runs of the processor since I opened the box

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yeah I only ran it once with absolutely no tweaks and I'm going to look into tweaks - got any links?

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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...play.php?f=165 :rolleyes:

Oh my.... thats xtreme....

I wonder if i would dare to DICE in the future, looks like quite a venture!

Kudos and thanks for adding pics of the set up!

Very nice CPU my friend! and nice benching, I wish I could play with some nforce 790 :]

Don't be afraid of giving 1.8 - 1.9v on DICE, it will be everything ok, you have very nice stepping of cpu :)

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Don't be afraid of giving 1.8 - 1.9v on DICE, it will be everything ok, you have very nice stepping of cpu :)

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mmm...be quiet with the v-core, a friend of mine has killed his 8500 @ 1,9v @ -138c:rolleyes:
Every chip is different.

Good chip goat eater:)

1 of my 45nm cpu died on 1.3v @ 4.2 GHz @ W/C (have never been under subzero) , other on stock, and my newest chip (was more under 1.8v @ phase than all others together and didn't degrade, is working extremely well :) ), what I can say from my experience, if 45nm chip is going to be dead, there is no difference whether it takes on core 1.6, 1.7, 1.8v, 1/9v and there are 45nm almost unbreakable :) e.g. No_name's, so it's lottery. It's my theory in which I believe :)

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Originally Posted by Miravo

1 of my 45nm cpu died on 1.3v @ 4.2 GHz @ W/C (have never been under subzero) , other on stock, and my newest chip (was more under 1.8v @ phase than all others together and didn't degrade, is working extremely well :) ), what I can say from my experience, if 45nm chip is going to be dead, there is no difference whether it takes on core 1.6, 1.7, 1.8v, 1/9v and there are 45nm almost unbreakable :) e.g. No_name's, so it's lottery. It's my theory in which I believe :)

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Well, can be a good theory:rolleyes::)
My QX for exaplme is runnig from 15/11/07, dayly use(1.31v), phase change(1,73v) and LN2(1,91v) and till now no problems:)
I know that someone has bench @ 1.8v on air without problems(extreme example) but I think it's a little bit on the razor's edge:D
But I think also that what you say can be true:up:

thanks a lot guys - I am more of a 3DMark guy that a Pi guy (though I love Pie :) )... I to lost a E8400 at lower voltage on water though not sure if it was the VTT voltage that killed it

Awesome `^_^

nice your WOLFIE e8500 :up:

getting anxious to figure out what it will do under phase - will be getting a unit soon :up:

congrats and nice runs!!!

Nice OC on E8500

Nice CPU..... high clocks for this VCore....
Maybe try LN2 later....

Congrat bro.. nice result.

i'm using this mobo. I need to your advice.
when high fsb overclock, what is your GTL setting?

under Dice I maxed the NB - south bridge at 1.45 and the FSB at 1.4 (I think) and left the GTL options alone as I am still new to this Bios and am vague on what exactly it is doing (HELP :up: )

Congratz

Is VTT 1.4v at bench?

Did you use nvidia tool for fsb or boot at 560??

thx

boot 560... up to around 583~ and used the nvidia tool to get 590 :up:... I varied the VTT voltage a bit for different runs just to see if I got better result... that was hit or miss... I will try to do some better documentation of voltages later but these runs I was just doing rough runs and getting to know the ropes of Dice benching - a lot of fumes but very fun and rewarding :D

congratz

This is a really nice setup... good job