Gigabyte made a monster >> P55-UD5 benched by hicookie validating DDR3-2940Mhz

[dinos22]

I know but it's not like every Gigabyte or other manufacturer's rep posess the knowledge of tweaking and overclocking like him.

My point was, let Hicookie test board before launch, leak some stunning results to popular forums -> cheap valuable PR for the manufacturer. A lot better than putting up some random sometimes annoying flashy ads to hardware sites.

Hicookie and Shamino are 2 excellent examples of how one worker can be of extraordinary value to a company. Hopefully in the future more talented people with hardware knowledge will be hired by manufacturers, they need them.

i totally agree
hicookie is very very VERY skilled

[Frank M]

Insane, 3GHz is just around the corner -- I didn't think we'd reach this so fast
Congrats Hicookie!

[chispy]

, immpresive

[stasio]

i totally agree
hicookie is very very VERY skilled

Very soon,we will see more results from him.

[Dahaka]

Seems like s1156 will bring a lot of fun, maybe better performance when OCed than Core i7?

upgrade incoming?

core i5 is the new oc plataform? i can't wait to see scores for 3dmark with CFX of 5890

[KILLER_K]

I3's and I5's are coming out. I just feel bad for the 920's users, etc. Since they are "suppose" to sub these few line up of chips out. Seems intel pulled a last minute quick get your money when they released the D0 stepping then these pop out. I know it will be a little cheaper but they sure changed the sockets fast on us this time.

[MaJ0r]

unbelievable

[destr0yer]

Wow, near 3 ghz!

How Model of Gskill utilized?

[LinkinParkBoy]

Vram?

[RPGWiZaRD]

upgrade incoming?

core i5 is the new oc plataform? i can't wait to see scores for 3dmark with CFX of 5890

No, i5 750 is already proven to be quite a bit slower clock for clock and there hasn't been any proper clock for clock benchmark yet for i7 860/870 vs i7 9xx series, only one at different clock where you could with some calculation see the 8xx series are almost as fast clock for clock which when adding the better RAM overclockability (and possibly higher avg CPU OC?) at best it will match X58 platform. So I'd say sth like i7 870 @ 5.75GHz might be needed to match 5.5GHz Bloomfield. Expecting more than that is being very optimistic but for a bit lower price I'm not complaining and I like RAM perf tweaking.

However I will still remain a bit passive and see what the champs can do with these boards that seems to allow for easy 250+ blcks on LN2. With already 270 broken I wouldn't be suprised if we yet see near 300 if not 300 eventually but will the CPU frequency allow for any higher clocks than Bloomfield, remains to be seen. If say i7 870 @ 22x265 (5.83GHz) was benchable then it could perhaps have a slight edge. ^^

[chispy]

It still just imppresive , how much v.core used and what cooling ?

[dinos22]

i'll be slapping SS on my system in the next day or so

lets see what i can get out of it





stock is all over the place in Australia for GBT gear and an odd murmur about chips hehe

[[XC] gomeler]

I've got two boards but not chip Looking forward to seeing what you pull from that board, maybe we can all do 270bclk

[dinos22]

I've got two boards but not chip Looking forward to seeing what you pull from that board, maybe we can all do 270bclk

from what i hear 270 isnt the limit either lol

i'll get some updates soon fellas

[Benny Lodewijk]

wow you just got it dinos22 !! Looking forward for the result my friend

[over@locker886]

Wow, very great job Hicookie!

[hicookie]

if you stand by me, and wathcing me pull bclk to the highest BLCK
and this highest DDR3, you will see how easy i can run,
and only takes me like 10mins to get the validation

im saying, DDR3-3048 is easy on gigabyte P55

DDR3-3048 VDIMM 1.82V
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=658760

[dinos22]

[TheGreenFoX]

OMG thats pretty fast:O

[zalbard]

Awesome, great result! Congrats!

[The Water Dog]

Great results

[LinkinParkBoy]

:P

Congrats

[RPGWiZaRD]

DDR3-3048 at 1.82v.... WHAT THE HELL xD

[Gendo]

Hmm I told myself I'd skip s1156 and i5 completely but now that I see this I might have to reconsider

Good job hicookie and gigabyte

[hicookie]

Wow, near 3 ghz!

How Model of Gskill utilized?

GSKILL F3-16000CL9T - 6GBTD (DDR3-2000C9 1.65v)
a 3 CH pack for X58, now it likes P55 platform more.