i7 980X on the rocks ( palinkaaaaaa shots! )

A few days ago Sophocles ( sofos1990 ) asked me if I wanted to bench with him and his cr@ppy Core i7 980X, he purchased a Sparkle GTX 480 and wanted to get some numbers down with that setup before selling that bloody 980X of his.
So I said "sure, why not", I haven't had an LN2 session in the last few... months and I needed some of that benching adrenaline, after some phone calls all the details were taken care of and we had a date :p:
I picked his brand new card and my Palit GTX 480 as well and gave them a nice conformal spray bath.
Since sofos1990's 980X was better ( despite being a cr@ppy CPU ) than my best 980X ( how typical :D ) I decided to take down some numbers with my card as well, my HWbot account needed a refresh.

The numbers we nailed down that day aren't actually worth mentioning, his 980X geezer was barely capable of running AquaMark 3 near 6100MHz and 3D Mark03 around 6GHz.
Sofo's VGA was also better than mine, and thanks to the decent clocks his card managed to go through in 3D Mark03 sofo's grabbed the 6th place in the 3D Mark03 single card rankings with his 136.886 3D Mark03 run ( CPU 6GHz, GPU/MEM 1250/1050 ).
He also captured a ~421k ( 420.937 ) AquaMark 3, and a ~52k 3D Mark05 ( 51872 ) with our last drops of LN2 ( barely made it to the save score window :D ).

So was this long story worth reading ? Maybe not, but the following paragraph probably is :D

I'm pretty sure that sofo's would kill himself for not saving some LN2 that day to try my newest 980X ( which was taking a nap on my 24/7 classified setup :p: ) :rofl:
2 days ago, I gathered 14L of LN2 and a lil' friend of mine, AMDnord to help me out.
To my surprise, the 980X ( 3005F210 ) was a good chip ( not what I'd love to have and fall in love with, but considering my... bad luck & karma, I should be happy for having this one ).
We started the testing with the usual CB & CBB testing in dual channel memory mode, the numbers ? No coldbug at all, and -154C cold boot bug :D
Then we did some 3D Mark Vantage CPU TEST(S)ing, 1.6V 5.4GHz done, 1.7V 5.7GHz done, 1.8V 5.95GHz done.
Then we tried AquaMark 3 as we had just a few liters of LN2, 6450MHz AquaMark done at 1.85V ( success! Borat said :rofl: ).
Tried to raise the UnCore then, but had limited success with that, I think the 73 BIOS for the X58 Classified E760 isn't exactly mature for 980X UnCore clocking yet, anyway, 6450MHz CPU and 4.5GHz or so UnCore = done too.
I was planning to keep 1-2L of LN2 to try the lovely GTX3 triple channel memory kit Corsair sent me on LN2 aiming for DDR3-3000 triple channel, but the happiness my 980X gave me with its clocking made me lose track of time and LN2 supply and the session ended unexpectedly during a 3D Mark Vantage run ( which was run with an old driver which we used for AQ3 since it was the best of the ones I've tested before, so we missed 1.5-2.0k for that ), we ran out of LN2 during the second CPU test, and the system BSODed right after AMDnord pressed the save score button :D

I'm preparing myself and my new hardware for more LN2 sessions, and if my plans pan out well, I'll have 2 more LN2 sessions ( 55L of LN2 each ) by this weekend :)

I'll leave you with some screenshots/pictures while I'm leaving the room to insulate the new VGAs :D

Many many thanks to:

http://www.benchzone.com/forum/images/ranks/corsair.png for the awesome RAM, thanks Alex, Mike & Peter.

http://www.benchzone.com/forum/images/ranks/antec.png for the TruePower Quattro 1200, thanks Korinna & Maurice!

[ click on the pics ORB URL's ]

http://i36.tinypic.com/2vltrf5.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2449k77.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2hxluhe.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/2zi6mn7.png

impressive clock speed there, more rig pics though!

I love long stories :up:
Needs more pics though.

I just checked my cellphone, I don't have any pics on it, and can't find them on my PC too, I think I deleted them accidentally yesterday when I was cleaning up my desktop :(

Well done Peppito..:D
Waiting for more...;);)

great success :D

Ah no banana CPU this time :p: Good start.

congrats :clap:
great retail chip

Good stuff Bill....GL with the new chip :up:

For Retail CHIP Very Good Scores :)
Congart

Thanks guys,
I'm quite sure that it can go even higher.
We shall find out soon :)

Keep pushing it

Did you try the coldbug in trichannel mode also?

Nope, because I didn't plan to run any Pi32M that day.
Gonna try soon though ;)

nice to see a decent chip in your hand finally. take care of her. nothing 1.95v vantage runs :D

i wont let him :p




ps:hi all :)

Looks like my thread title was a psychic prediction... PALINKA.
One shot drink, drop-down.

The CPU has at least degraded or is about to die ( or just my mobo got f*cked up )
The 2 alive MGH-E from my 3ple channel A-data kit seem to be dead
My classified seems to be dead after some poof and a tad smoke.

All in all, I might be out of CPU, RAM, Mobo now...

Stupid F batch CPU, 1 session with only a few liters of LN2, real voltages under 1.86V, and already degraded ?
F*ck this sh1t.

Bummer. :shakes:

Problem with these 980's is that they perform so well we all keep acting like Icarus.

Not in this case however.
Set up the rig, etc.
Boot @ -60C, got into BIOS, set up the BIOS like I used to boot on the 1st session, 1.85Vcore, 5800MHz, +250mV VTT, dropped to -100C.
Save & exit.
Boots, temp to -125C gets into Windows.
Temp to -160C eleet, clock in steps to 6.4GHz... clicking on AquaMark 3's shortcut.... as soon as the loading screen appears boom, BSOD.
Reboot, trying 6.3G AQ3... boom, BSOD.
Max benchable was 6.2G and that seemed to be badly run as the score was way below what it should be.
Then it started acting even weirder, PiFast 12.85s @ 6GHz :p: and after a few mins it wouldn't even complete the 3D Mark06 CPU tests at 5G...

It better be just the freaking motherboard & maybe the RAMs ( I will cry for you... Argentinian MGH-Es, but you won't kill me ), if the CPU is actually dead or that heavily degraded I don't know what I'm going to do, don't think I'll keep up with this mess.
A CPU degrading or dieing after 4-5 hours of light benching is a no go for me, especially when most of these retail chips clock badly.

It happened when I was w/ RBUASS (Ronaldo) and his Classfied gone dead...

Serious about the hypers? Very sad now, Hipro told that he misboot them at 2.4v (Micron profile) and they weren't injured.

Try to freeze it for a night, let it get dry before u try it again :lol:

sofos is coming here again with his R3E.
Gonna give the bloody CPU another try ( I'm not holding my breath, before the mobo went out in smokes it wouldn't pass the 3Dm06 CPU tests at 5GHz 1.75V :p: )

Dude ill say 1 thing CLASSI, thats your issue im sure & possibly ram . i doubt its the cpu m8 :)

We're setting up the rig with the R3E now.
I'm 99% sure that the CPU is dead or degraded to useless *@#) state.
We'll find out in a few mins.

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Originally Posted by BenchZowner

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I'm 99% sure that the CPU is dead or degraded to useless .

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hope not

CPU wouldn't post on sofo's rampage III extreme.
Gonna try it on my 2nd classified ( the only classified I have now that my 1st died for sure ) :(
Sofo's CPU has degraded as well ( not that it was a piece worth working with, 6G to 6.1G AquaMark 3 max :p: ).
All my MGH-E DIMMs are 99% dead.
Now all I need is to find out that my best GTX 480 ( 1350MHz AQ3 @ -145C ) is also dead :p:

jeeez man you're Dr.Doom
i wouldnt allow you nowhere near me when im benching :rofl:

I told you guys before, I'm easily one of the unluckiest people on this planet, and good karma = bad karma for me.

Funny incident that popped into my mind now, about 1 month ago, I was out on the road and there was a middle-age Taiwanese woman looking like she was lost and desperate to get somewhere, she was trying to make a call with her cellphone but couldn't. She asked me if I knew what's wrong, and since she didn't ask her provider to enable roaming for her I allowed her to make a phone call with my cellphone...
"Thanks sir, you just helped me find my friend, that's good karma for you" she said.
Some hours after that incident, I'm back at my place, just finishing my lunch and then... boom my cellphone's monitor ( the digitizer actually ) went off and never worked again.
Sent the phone to HTC's service, took 17 days to get it back, and the smart-as$es flashed my firmware too and I lost all my contacts & data thanks to their genius techs.
Nice, moar good karma plz!

F = FF = Fu.. Fragile

try air without HT and check temps btw the cores, Sofos R3E have no microcode Bios? if yes HT dead on your chip:( sad when die a great chip

Sorry to hear that 3005F chip died on you BZ. :(
Nice runs from that session, wish there were more pics of the rig. :D

I might have a video of me... torching the board and the cpu and the rest HW in a few minutes :p:

do it

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Originally Posted by BenchZowner

CPU wouldn't post on sofo's rampage III extreme.
Gonna try it on my 2nd classified ( the only classified I have now that my 1st died for sure ) :(
Sofo's CPU has degraded as well ( not that it was a piece worth working with, 6G to 6.1G AquaMark 3 max :p: ).
All my MGH-E DIMMs are 99% dead.
Now all I need is to find out that my best GTX 480 ( 1350MHz AQ3 @ -145C ) is also dead :p:

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Had u tried to put them in the freezer for a night? I heard it might revive them.

I tough MGH-E were stronger.

CPU won't POST on sofo's Rampage III Extreme, and won't POST on my 2nd classified E760 as well.

Stupid MGH-E sticks died for no apparent reason, they were chillin' the last 2-3 months ( I wasn't benching at all ) on the 24/7 x58 setup at DDR3-... hold your breath...1066 8-8-8-31 at 1.57V
Suddenly the system would see 4GB instead of 6GB in most reboots/POSTs, then I tried each stick alone and found out that 1 of them wouldn't work at all.
I thought the other 2 were ok, so I didn't try to push them at all, but the other 2 DIMMs could've been damaged the whole time since that day and I didn't notice that since I wasn't overclocking them at all.

All I know is that I'm out of the most crucial parts in overclocking, I won't be able to find another MGH-E kit, and surely not even close to what those DIMMs could do, another 6.4G+ B1 retail 980X ? A joke with my luck.
I'd be lucky if my graphics card didn't get harmed in the process and still clocks like it did a few days ago.

p.s. Yes, I did barr3l, but didn't work, looks like the ICs are damaged...

im very sorry to hear that Bill, hope your vga is okay..

Oh man , sorry to hear that Bill , but you know how much hardware and money this sport eats :/.

Regards: Angelo.

It's not about the money, it's more about knowing that my chances of finding another chip like this are... well... very slim ( if at all )

Feel for ya, but everyone's that's found good chips has already lost them I think...esp when we're talking 3005F's :p: Just be happy you got a good session out of it and don't dwell too much on what "could" have happened.

I got nothing out of it man.
If only I knew that the crap chip would die like that, I'd max the UnCore, LN2 the RAM for 2000+ 6-6-5-20, OC the card to the max and run AquaMark 3 for 455k+, a decent Vantage with a proper driver and highest possible clocks ( 6.05GHz was the last test I ran the first day with great success ), 6.2G+ 3D Mark03/05/06 with the card maxed out as well, and kept some PiFast and SuperPi 32M action.

unlucky dude, feel ur pain!

Pure unlucky guy...:p

More carefull next time...;)