Extreme Overclocking, 2 dead cpu's and alot of beer :)

Well I'll start with one message don't drink and drive a PC with LN2 Cooling :p
If you guys wern't aware there is an ASUS 1156 competition running, I have been testing cpu's trying to get a lucky cpu and well things were not going my way after testing a couple of cpu's i had enough !!!!

So i pondered how hard is it to kill an intel cpu ????
Then i made this video :lol::p:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcdq0klOjdc

I was amazed at how hard it was to kill this cpu, i honestly thought it would be dead in the first 2 minutes. I know intel have built in thermal shutdown but that doesn't really help when i keep turning it back on and forcing it to boot, although i havn't shown all the video due to editing this was almost frustrating trying to kill it ..... lol.



Well the day turned to night and i had headed off down the road to fello team.au members house Kayl and said hey man lets bench on my i7 980x and see what we can come up with :)
All was going well a couple of vantage runs and 03 runs came out well. The night drifted on and the drinks kept flowing and the logical part of my brain had pretty well passed out and i was curious how much more will my cpu scale in mhz with more volts ???? Now most people benching LN2 on gulftown hang around the 1.88v mark and the 2v mark is for the insane :) well at 1.9v my cpu was happily kicking at 6.35ghz but of course i wanted more :p so i pumped the vcore up to 2.02v and the cpu reacted well and i was able to hit 6.525ghz so thinking hey lets throw some 3d benches down, now i hit up 3d mark 03 at 6.45ghz :Paranoid: i managed to get through until the last test when the computer crashed and well it made it to bios then crashed again to never boot again and headed to rest with the pile of i7 980x i have successfully killed :P ( I think my graveyard now is up to 6 or 7 gulftown's )

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2852/cpulx.jpg

Just a note all of my other hardware performed great and it still pumping away ASUS boards are rock solid :) and i also tested the new Corsair AX1200 psu - awesome PSU.

you only use paper towels and nothing else on the board?
Grim reaper :D

Lovely video, hah... Cheap little chip, always tons of fun to mess with.

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Originally Posted by Splave

you only use paper towels and nothing else on the board?
Grim reaper :D

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Na splave the mobo is covered in die-electric grease :)

Next time you get frustrated with a cpu like that, send it to me and I'll put it in a solar powered rig do do wcg what a waste but funny non the less:ROTF: tose things use so little power and heck I'd do it just for fun
let's see fix solar panel slap on roof look for donated 32nm cpu and low power MB total cost maybe 50 bucks for a used LGA1156 MB and 40 bucks for 2 gigs of ddr3 on eBAy undervolt the thing and donate solar powered computing power to WCG research (since I got the cells to fix the solar panel)
So next time dun waste donate it to a cause.
terramir

Big Vcore... u are a killer!

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Originally Posted by uncle fester

Well the day turned to night and i had headed off down the road to fello team.au members house Kayl and said hey man lets bench on my i7 980x and see what we can come up with :)
All was going well a couple of vantage runs and 03 runs came out well. The night drifted on and the drinks kept flowing and the logical part of my brain had pretty well passed out and i was curious how much more will my cpu scale in mhz with more volts ???? Now most people benching LN2 on gulftown hang around the 1.88v mark and the 2v mark is for the insane :) well at 1.9v my cpu was happily kicking at 6.35ghz but of course i wanted more :p so i pumped the vcore up to 2.02v and the cpu reacted well and i was able to hit 6.525ghz so thinking hey lets throw some 3d benches down, now i hit up 3d mark 03 at 6.45ghz :Paranoid: i managed to get through until the last test when the computer crashed and well it made it to bios then crashed again to never boot again and headed to rest with the pile of i7 980x i have successfully killed :P ( I think my graveyard now is up to 6 or 7 gulftown's )

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I fainted .....

lol man only try high pll and u kill it easy :D no need be worry like that :D

Man you got more money than cents :ROTF:

Jono you are my friend but you are also a f(l)ucking idiot :rofl:

What a waste!
Even if it was a bad clocker, no need to kill it!!

Nooo how could you!! XD

Chill up people. He got his fun time and nobody got hurt, money is to be spent and if he does not care why should we? Peace and have fun :)

i havent read a single angry post in this thread yet :D

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Originally Posted by Metroid

Chill up people. He got his fun time and nobody got hurt, money is to be spent and if he does not care why should we? Peace and have fun :)

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not angry Not upset LOL, but I could have used the donation I'm stuck with one C2Q and one atom here in LA :rofl::ROTF: anyways future reference donate to me any hardware you wanna kill :p::rolleyes::p:

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Originally Posted by dinos22

i havent read a single angry post in this thread yet :D

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:up: got that right just sad it had to die :( would have made a nice folder :p:
terramir

That's what RMA is for, isn't it? :up:

Nice job at killing your CPUs! :rofl:

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Originally Posted by dinos22

Jono you are my friend but you are also a f(l)ucking idiot :rofl:

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LOL.

There's nothing like being wasteful, then bragging about it. :clap:

The next time you are about to fry one, stop then give it to me!

The lower the post count, the more despise it seems :P

Nice work mate, always fun pushing high volts.

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Originally Posted by GeorgeStorm

What a waste!
Even if it was a bad clocker, no need to kill it!!

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Why not? I don't know about uncle fester, but I would just RMA it :up:

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Originally Posted by T_M

The lower the post count, the more despise it seems :P

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Oh well my sense of humor is a bit left of field sometimes but hey i had fun and isnt that why we overclock ???? :yepp:

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Originally Posted by uncle fester

Oh well my sense of humor is a bit left of field sometimes but hey i had fun and isnt that why we overclock ???? :yepp:

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:yepp: to have fun but originally it was also to push the last piece of performance out of as little money as possible :ROTF:, frying cpu's was something we avoided cause it cost money, maybe I'm just old school I used to be happy if we could squeeze 15 % more out of a thunderbird, or 25% out of a celly :D it really started getting interesting when we got a 30% performance boost out of a barton, but then again once the c2D's came out a 50% oc on air was easy and a bit of fun disappeared, but it's still a challenge to squeeze the last part of stable computing power out of a quad core. Heck I wish I had the money to go I3, or i5 or i7, or better yet a xeon variant of the i7 980 hmmm 12 cores to the max that gives super computing @ home a whole new meaning. Then again my C2Q 9550 would have been a super computer on it's own when I started OCD'ing.:ROTF:
Maybe I'm just O.G. I like getting the best bang for my buck :up: :rofl:
so seriously next time your thinking about frying one ship it to LA instead, bad clockers belong in solar powered rigs finding a cure for somethin :yepp:
terramir

hmm I got a post e-mail and then the post not here do we have censors in our midst :shakes::shakes::shakes:
Oh well :rofl: youngpro got pawned:frag::frag:
Anyways to respond to youngpro I dun think he's that dishonest like he said he has em on a pile, and well I wasn't referring to the 1000's buck ones just a lowly i3 or i5 instead of frying help cure terrible diseases :D
My $.02
terramir

Love all the seagulls trying to get a freebie.

It's his hardware, let him do what he wants with it.

Simple.

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Originally Posted by [200]

Love all the seagulls trying to get a freebie.

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:ROTF::yepp::ROTF:

mate i removed that post, i thought it was a bad idea :)

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Originally Posted by terramir

hmm I got a post e-mail and then the post not here do we have censors in our midst :shakes::shakes::shakes:
Oh well :rofl: youngpro got pawned:frag::frag:
Anyways to respond to youngpro I dun think he's that dishonest like he said he has em on a pile, and well I wasn't referring to the 1000's buck ones just a lowly i3 or i5 instead of frying help cure terrible diseases :D
My $.02
terramir

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LOL ill put up some pictures of my graveyard it embarrasing :rofl:
My theory is if a cpu cant bench at 6.5ghz it deserves death :p:

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Originally Posted by uncle fester

LOL ill put up some pictures of my graveyard it embarrasing :rofl:
My theory is if a cpu cant bench at 6.5ghz it deserves death :p:

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:shocked: 6.5 :shakes:I thought that excludes most of the cpu's after the b0 revision took a speed hit. Aren't you setting the bar a bit high :yepp:
Hey well your really xtreme :yepp:
Well I gotta go on the aidswalk los angeles now, I didn't raise much only $150 but it's for charity and well some of my relatives are sending checks late :rolleyes: But WOW 6.5 ghz, I'mma still working on getting this lowly Q9550 to 4.2 :p:, but then again I'mma still waiting to use my EP45T board, newegg gotta send me my reaper so I can get that kinda FSB :D
6.5 :toast: m8
terramir
PS: I wanna see those pics :ROTF:

You're crazy dude :rofl:

Keep 1 or 2 alive until Dec plzzzz :p::D

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Originally Posted by uncle fester

LOL ill put up some pictures of my graveyard it embarrasing :rofl:
My theory is if a cpu cant bench at 6.5ghz it deserves death :p:

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Next time your about to kill one cpu this way, please send it to me first i want throw some 2.2volt action with in under LN2, Phase Change or Intel Stock Cooler before killing it my self, same goal but more people benefit from it, i wont do extreme overclocking on my cpu's i need use for my new WCG systems so i would need something to bench with before killing it, not going to spend 900euros just go under ln2 and possibly kill the cpu :).

Yes if cpu cant bench at over 6.5ghz it deserves death but let some other people benefit from it before killing it, same goal on abused cpu's :)

So far i have killed 2 gulftowns when running at 6.5ghz with 2.1volts and Chilled Liquid Cooler, bowth been pre-abused chips given by friends to kill them :), sadly they bowth have had allready been degraded imc due overclocking under ln2 so could not run mem above 1700 with 10-10-10 latencies, 11-11-11 was only thing i got stable.

I got i7 860 waiting, its also abused chip with overcloking in ln2, degraded also, so i maybe gonna try that on this chip.

How cold was your chiller? Getting to 6GHz on anything hotter then LN2 is good.

BANG and your cpu is gone

Liquid temps are at -50, cpu temps much higer didnt check cpu temps but they were high, running 6.5ghz and 2.1 or 2.2volts will kill 980x chips kind of fast way, not fast as OP did without cooler tough :).

6.5ghz werent prime or linx stable, when ever i did start prime95 it would crash system with in 10secounds due cooling.

Are you sure you don't mean 5GHz not 6.5GHz? I'm sorry I just believe anyone has or had a 980x that would even boot XP @ 6.5GHz on anything above -100C. No matter the vcore.

Enough high volts and it will boot, i dont remember tough was it cascade or chilled liquid at the moment i destroyed those chips, i have disease that sometimes causes short time memory losses.

Its more likely i used cascade tough.. but i was thinking chilled liquid since i dont remember that moment and i usually use chilled liquid most of the time.

Edit: I remember most of the things due i write them in paper, i write (C) in end of results for bowth Chiller and Cascade.

Old news:D

Found exel sheet from my pc's files, it was indeed cascade not chilled liquid.

The fact that you actually tried/thought you would get anything "stable" at 6.5GHz tells me a lot

As i told, not stable 6.5.

No idea where you got that "stable" from.

Hey man, did not need to wait until..

exact solution;
air cooling + single core + 1.8v = death without suffering...:rofl:

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Originally Posted by karandiru

Hey man, did not need to wait until..

exact solution;
air cooling + single core + 1.8v = death without suffering...:rofl:

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lol tried that dude 1 core 1 thread 2.2v boot no heatsink still wouldnt die lol

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Originally Posted by uncle fester

LOL ill put up some pictures of my graveyard it embarrasing :rofl:
My theory is if a cpu cant bench at 6.5ghz it deserves death :p:

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LOL, I love it!!!!