Evga sr-2 classified | evga gtx 580 quad sli

Fugger stopped into Detroit to bench some 3DMARK VANTAGE with me on the EVGA SR-2 CLASSIFIED and EVGA's new NVIDIA 580GTX. Were gonna "keep pushin it" as Oliver would say :D

System specs:
EVGA CLASSIFIED SR-2 + DUAL X5680's DRAGON F1 GEMINI LN2 Cooled
EVGA GTX580 TEK-9 SLIM (QUAD) / FAT(single gpu) LN2 Cooled
GSKILL PERFECT STORM
EVGA CLASSIFIED 1200W PSU X2

http://overclockingpin.com/EVGA%20SR...80/p73524k.jpg

FUTUREMARK COMPARE

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FUTUREMARK COMPARE

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http://overclockingpin.com/EVGA%20SR...sr2-frozen.jpg

Good stuff guys! :up:

The last pic looks crazy, all the VGAs frozen together! :eek:

Sickness !!!!!

That's the stuff!!!

Awesome :up:

Vince, are you trying to make your keyboard look like Hipro's?

Sick, 1300MHz for gpu and 42k :) nice results

And is that second point for vgpu? No cbb mod?

beuhh....:clap::clap:

my lovely bencher strike back..awesome Vince...awesome :up::up:

Thats a hell of a setup - and absolutely crazy scores. Congratulations. :clap:

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Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

Fugger stopped into Detroit to bench some 3DMARK VANTAGE with me on the EVGA SR-2 CLASSIFIED and EVGA's new NVIDIA 580GTX. Were gonna "keep pushin it" as Oliver would say :D

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Immense power......congrats :up:

I think it more appropriate to say you will keep "King-pinning" it! :yepp:

nice :eek:

what about extreme preset ?

nice gpus clocks, and 7 pots... damn...
you know what, if youd try to come up with a way to boil as much ln2 as quickly as possible... youd end up with pretty much the same thing :D
silicon chips are pretty much the best way to convert power into heat...

isnt that ironic? :D
you pretty much built a giant ln2 kettle ^^

id actually like to know the W/frame stats of this thing :D
would be hilarious to see that its insanely high, probably 50x higher than a normal pc and 150x higher than a laptop :D
how much power is required to create 1L ln2? does anybody know?

Hey Vince.... what happened to the RAM/IMC/board? Only single-channel?

Great scores... im surprised it took you this long to put up scores with the '580 :D

Excellent benching, Fugger and Kingpin! :up:

Congrats man :)

frkn awesome scores, and still sitting easy on the cpu speed as well!

KEEP PUSHING IT man, KEEP PUSHING IT

Strong run with safe clocks in 4 way :up:

very nice runs man. Looks like you've got plenty of juice left in the system also!

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Originally Posted by saaya

nice gpus clocks, and 7 pots... damn...
you know what, if youd try to come up with a way to boil as much ln2 as quickly as possible... youd end up with pretty much the same thing :D
silicon chips are pretty much the best way to convert power into heat...

isnt that ironic? :D
you pretty much built a giant ln2 kettle ^^

id actually like to know the W/frame stats of this thing :D
would be hilarious to see that its insanely high, probably 50x higher than a normal pc and 150x higher than a laptop :D
how much power is required to create 1L ln2? does anybody know?

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I believe the system I was looking at that generated ~2 liters a day pulled just over 1kW. So call it 12kWHr for a liter of ln2 with a small and likely highly inefficient system. Considering how we can get LN2 for ~30 cents per liter and electricity in bulk must be around 5 to 7 cents per kWhr and they must make atleast a 5-10% profit I would guesstimate that they are looking at 3-4 kWHr per liter. Sounds about right if I compare it to the electrical costs if I were to try and do that via multiple cascades compressors.

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Originally Posted by LardArse

frkn awesome scores, and still sitting easy on the cpu speed as well!

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Looks like we got dumped for Charles Petey. :( I'm surprised that the GT1 apparently has so much more left in it. Looks like the 580's super strong openers are helping big time.

Btw, the black tops on the containers look kickass even when they're all prepped like that.

Wicked results!:clap: :up:

580's are monsters.:D

as always :surf:


:eek2:amazin:eek2:

Awsome just freaking Awsome scores Vince and Charles , job well done.

wow! that's amazing! :eek2:

Amazing score ~~ tough work of SR-2 !!!!!!! Congrats Vince boss ~

Tons of pots = tons of fun! Pure awesomeness, grats! :up:

You ain't called K|ngp|n for nuttin! Great job guys!

great work! :up:

now push those Westmere's some more :D

Did you notice that those CPus are scoring better at BCLK204?

The CPU-score for:
@5.21GHz(204x26) = 73338
@5.44GHz(210x26) = 73039

Those babies hit a wall at around BCLK203. This wall may vary depending on the system, but it seams to be cased by some limitations in 5220-chippset and IOH. In case, it can reduce the GPU-score too.

have you tried the quad GTX580 at BCLK203? if not, it would be interesting to see if you get a better CPU and GPU score then.

What a crushing setup, I gotta get in on a session with one sometime. Good work guys :up:

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Originally Posted by saaya

if youd try to come up with a way to boil as much ln2 as quickly as possible... youd end up with pretty much the same thing :D

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Yes but it wouldn't be anywhere near as cool :up:

Fantastic score :eek:
Great vince. :up:

Damn, awesome stuff Vince and Charles :)

GJ:up:
Great Score.
MonsterMachine and MonsterTeam:D

Amazing, keep pushing :D

Best regards

awesome setup :up: amazing numbers :clap: :cool:

See what happenns when you get Charles and Vince together?:rofl:

Nice one guys!:up:

insanity!!!

i knew it was only a matter of time till you'd strike back Vince.....didn't expect it quite so quickly.....very nice :clap:

Awesome benching :up:

Congrats :clap:

:clap::clap::clap: ammazing runs, 3dmark11 should be funny with ur setup.

Killer setup :up:

Congrats Vinboe very nice
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...and I thought that you have quited........ :D :p:

Why would fugger quit benching George? :confused:

I guess George meant - Long time, no see?

Amazed, besides the unearthly score, let me say it out loud : 7 pots :shocked:

Is the chipset cooling a condensation issue?

I wonder how much does this pull from the wall ....

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Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

Why would fugger quit benching George? :confused:

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I'm talking about you, you filthy.... and you know it....... :D :p:
FUGGER benches form time to time and that's a fact...... :)

Outstanding result Mr. Vince)
Have you already tried new X5690 chips?

LN2 kettle is nice idea :D

EVGA only need to make some memory modules for Vinbo to have fully-EVGArizzed extreme rig :-D

Patent this name for it:
EVGA The Machine :D

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Originally Posted by TiN_EOF

LN2 kettle is nice idea :D

EVGA only need to make some memory modules for Vinbo to have fully-EVGArizzed extreme rig :-D

Patent this name for it:
EVGA The Machine :D

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and ssd's

show off......:p:



great job:clap:

Nice job icepin ;)

Gratzzz Man!!!
Really Cool!

awesome scores, well done vince and charles :)

Kingpin: is 80k possible with this setup?

Very nice
7 pot:D

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Originally Posted by Sam_oslo

Did you notice that those CPus are scoring better at BCLK204?

The CPU-score for:
@5.21GHz(204x26) = 73338
@5.44GHz(210x26) = 73039

Those babies hit a wall at around BCLK203. This wall may vary depending on the system, but it seams to be cased by some limitations in 5220-chippset and IOH. In case, it can reduce the GPU-score too.

have you tried the quad GTX580 at BCLK203? if not, it would be interesting to see if you get a better CPU and GPU score then.

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the cpu clock is not "real".. it can be changed on the fly. I bet he clocked it down with evbot.

great score Vince, as always :)

Are you sure? I thought k|ngp|n and FUGGER always showed their real CPU clocks...:rofl:

EPIC!
Great score, congratz ;)

Benched last night with one of my home town buddies Scotty Vanelslander. He had never even seen overclocking until I showed him this rig at the start of last night and told him we were going to bench it lol. Awesome job man! Just dropped him off (6:30am) :D

http://overclockingpin.com/p74741k.jpg

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Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

Benched last night with one of my home town buddies Scotty Vanelslander. He had never even seen overclocking until I showed him this rig at the start of last night and told him we were going to bench it lol. Awesome job man! Just dropped him off (6:30am) :D

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seems like visiting your place is usually a crash course in extreme benching :p: - I remember my time there, I had some of the best for teachers lol (now more confident with LN2 lol ) I bet he had a blast like me and looks like you guy did great :p:

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Benched last night with one of my home town buddies........ Just dropped him off (6:30am) :D

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6:30am huh? You sure you're still friends now? :p: Sick arse score man. I sure hope somebody flushes out your backup so we can see 1150mhz GPU runs. :yepp:

man you got that sr-2 singing, i have no idea how you do that..

great result mate, closing in on that 75

:up::up: damn fast run man, and gpu still @ 1070 :)

What a blast your buddy got :D , now on the other site, a friend letting another friend be a part of the KPI of such a rig is sure a buddy :up:

Nearly 75K, what a score! Well done! :up:

Damn nice Master :clap:

Pushing the chip's to 5.5GHz is insane and still margin to increase voltage :up:

I'm sure we will see the 75k falling soon :D

This looks really good, :up: isn't it a WR?

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Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

Benched last night with one of my home town buddies Scotty Vanelslander. He had never even seen overclocking until I showed him this rig at the start of last night and told him we were going to bench it lol. Awesome job man! Just dropped him off (6:30am) :D

http://overclockingpin.com/p74741k.jpg[/img]

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Soowy for double post, but I've been looking more.

The GPU-clocks are exactly the same in Both quad-SLI runs, but this last 74314 GPU-score is much better than 73597 for the first run.
My guess was, the QPI would under-perform over BCLK203, and reduce both CPU and GPU-score, but you have fixed that in the last run.
What have you tweaked? Have you tweaked signals? Or what else, would you care to share?

QPI doesn't "underperform" at high bclks when the IOH is on LN2. :)

Very nice :D

Yes, the qpi won't under perform on LN2.

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QPI doesn't "underperform" at high bclks when the IOH is on LN2. :)

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Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

Yes, the qpi won't under perform on LN2.

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I see, thx for clearing it up guys :)

Even tho my air-cooling beats any LN2-runs these days (it's -20'C here in Oslo today), but I've never tried LN2.

"PURE" pron :clap:

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Originally Posted by rocketr2

Kingpin: is 80k possible with this setup?

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I think we could see the SR-2 at 80k one day. Hopefully 76k+ next round. Running this system on Ln2 and actually putting up decent scores with it (the kind its meant to put up) is the biggest challenge by far I've had in overclocking.

nickshih = 79500 GPU score. You shalt push those 580's harder!


Edit: Why do you have to lower clocks when running quad-SLI? With single card score you have the core almost at 1300mhz :O

Doesn't really work like that my man :D
GPU clocks/speed aren't the only thing that determine overall GPU score in 3dmark vantage. Even at 1100-1122/2400 in quad, the gpu score is still 75-76k on SR-2 at the system speeds I'm running, but on a gulftown at 6.5+ gt's its more like 79-80k.
My best quad speeds through the game tests with 580 so far is 1120/2400, just need to pair it up with my max system clocks for final runs. Any higher than that is pretty tough unless I go really crazy with the profiles. Next runs should be something like 76kgpu/76k cpu/76k+ overall.
As far as the gpu speeds from single to quad, they are always going to go down some especially on sr2 where there is so much going on at full speed on the motherboard. Power issues, board limitations, baseclock/ioh/nf200 stress etc. are some of the things restrict quad clocks.
Successful SR-2 vantage benching is all about finding the correct balance between components. I've learned just pushing raw clocks as hard as you can is a really bad approach and not the best way, it simply doesn't cooperate.

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Originally Posted by aNoN_

nickshih = 79500 GPU score. You shalt push those 580's harder!


Edit: Why do you have to lower clocks when running quad-SLI? With single card score you have the core almost at 1300mhz :O

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nick used high GTs that's why he got higher GT, kingping benching max 5600/5700 on GTS i think ;)

Vince is the X5680 clocks you are reaching about all that board can handle power wise, or would higher default muli or unlocked CPU unleash the beast? That's got to be a ton of stress on the IOH running such high bclock on two CPU's + 4 cards. Don't you just wish Intel would ship you a couple unlocked high leakage Xeon's just to see what you can do?

Interesting MOD points, never seen those used on 580 before :)

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Vince is the X5680 clocks you are reaching about all that board can handle power wise, or would higher default muli or unlocked CPU unleash the beast? That's got to be a ton of stress on the IOH running such high bclock on two CPU's + 4 cards. Don't you just wish Intel would ship you a couple unlocked high leakage Xeon's just to see what you can do?

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The higher multi is nice for sure as it should ease up strain on the base clock, but your also running lower memory/uncore in some cases so can't just rely on higher multi. In a perfect world, I'd want to run exactly how I am now but with one or more click higher on multi :up:

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The higher multi is nice for sure as it should ease up strain on the base clock, but your also running lower memory/uncore in some cases so can't just rely on higher multi. In a perfect world, I'd want to run exactly how I am now but with one or more click higher on multi :up:

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I hear ya, but I ain't listening. I say you need unlocked uncore multipliers, two clicks up on the CPU multi for CPU test and three clicks for GT's. :D Isn't X5690 supposed to be in the works around 990x launch?

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I hear ya, but I ain't listening. I say you need unlocked uncore multipliers, two clicks up on the CPU multi for CPU test and three clicks for GT's. :D Isn't X5690 supposed to be in the works around 990x launch?

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You want it all but thats cool I want it all too! :yepp:
Hoping these two beaten up ES's can last me until 5690, then I have to figure how to get two of those bad boys. My 5680 cpus are pretty solid tho. I'm always staying on the low end of voltages to preserve them for as long as possible. Benching them on the SR-2 is a great challenge and I'm very fortunate to have access to the HW that I'm using and try to make the best use of it thru effort. Pushing the hardware and enjoying the challenge of running a crazy system like this, thats SR-2 benching. It's unique.
If your a nervous bencher this rig will devour u. I've had many moments like this these past few months chuch :up:

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Interesting MOD points, never seen those used on 580 before :)

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Why you always tryin to get to the bottom of somethin big guy? :D :D

It's fun to "captain" the ship. 7+ pot benching is possible with all the help from other benchers/friends that were involved with every session on this monster. Fugger, gatman, Beaux, juicy, friends etc.
and for sure none of the benching is possible if it wasn't for the hardwork Peter/EVGA put into creating it. :up:

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You want it all but thats cool I want it all too! :yepp:
Hoping these two beaten up ES's can last me until 5690, then I have to figure how to get two of those bad boys. My 5680 cpus are pretty solid tho. I'm always staying on the low end of voltages to preserve them for as long as possible. Benching them on the SR-2 is a great challenge and I'm very fortunate to have access to the HW that I'm using and try to make the best use of it thru effort. Pushing the hardware and enjoying the challenge of running a crazy system like this, thats SR-2 benching. It's unique.
If your a nervous bencher this rig will devour u. I've had many moments like this these past few months chuch :up:

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hehe I just want to see what the system is capable of. Right now low multi chips are holding it back I think. I bet that rig could keep three of you guys busy at times. :yepp: I'll tell ya what though, binning these Xeon's must be a big challenge versus 980x. You can almost bin 2 980's for the price of one Xeon and yet you still have to find TWO good ones to run together.

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Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

It's fun to "captain" the ship. 7+ pot benching is possible with all the help from other benchers/friends that were involved with every session on this monster. Fugger, gatman, Beaux, juicy, friends etc.
and for sure none of the benching is possible if it wasn't for the hardwork Peter/EVGA put into creating it. :up:

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Leave it to sham to create a monster that is more than one man can handle huh? :p: Wonder if Hipro could swing it. He has benched insane amount of pots solo before.

Yah well you can still get high memory/uncore speeds the old fashioned way through hard work when stuck on a low multi. My vantage rig is running a a lot faster than the screenshots suggest, those are just ending clocks.
This one is for cool pushing some baseclock. Its not the limit, lost the ssd at 230 when I opened the program, so I shut down.
It's pretty much untweaked, but it's correct scaling :D Had a problem getting some memory sticks to be recognized in bios always showed 2040mb dont know 100% why yet.
http://overclockingpin.com/wprime32m.jpg

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Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

I've learned just pushing raw clocks as hard as you can is a really bad approach and not the best way, it simply doesn't cooperate.

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Man such a hard one too, totally goes against instinct. Fight fight fight and then countless litres later realize you need to take a different approach, been there done that :up:

The worst part is that you make it look so easy, KP. :up:

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Yah well you can still get high memory/uncore speeds the old fashioned way through hard work when stuck on a low multi. My vantage rig is running a a lot faster than the screenshots suggest, those are just ending clocks.
This one is for cool pushing some baseclock. Its not the limit, lost the ssd at 230 when I opened the program, so I shut down.
It's pretty much untweaked, but it's correct scaling :D Had a problem getting some memory sticks to be recognized in bios always showed 2040mb dont know 100% why yet.

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:D I think you just broke a lot of will with that screenie.

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Originally Posted by massman

The worst part is that you make it look so easy, KP. :up:

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Freakin' cat like reflexes. I still can't believe how fast KP benches. :eek: Man on a mission is the only way I can explain it.

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Originally Posted by hiwa

nick used high GTs that's why he got higher GT, kingping benching max 5600/5700 on GTS i think ;)

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Sorry but what are you talking about? GT? GTS? I though they used GTX (gtx580) cards ffs!

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Originally Posted by aNoN_

Sorry but what are you talking about? GT? GTS? I though they used GTX (gtx580) cards ffs!

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Gulftown.

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Originally Posted by aNoN_

Sorry but what are you talking about? GT? GTS? I though they used GTX (gtx580) cards ffs!

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Gulftown.

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Nope. GT stands for game test in regards to what Hiwa was talking about. With 980x there tends to be a huge difference in what mhz you can run the game test at versus the CPU test. CPU test is the last two test so that's usually the mhz you see in the screenshots. ~CPU test mhz or lower ;)

woot nice clocks big guy!

are you getting 1 thread finishing slower than the rest on your wprime runs?

1 thing i was very surprised with SR-2, even with 6 sticks of memory it is possible to push ram high and nice timings..

do you find vantage CPU test is actually easier than WPRIME as wprime is 24 threads and Vantage only 16? I can bench vantage CPU test higher than wprime..

you never stop.. i love it! :up:

Amazing King