Intel Xeon 3060 First result! 56K soon to be DEATH!

[NightRaven]

ok thanks I'm using aircooling,watercooling and phase change later.

I'm using a similar aircooling (zerotherm BTF90),is king of aircooling for CPU

haha i will be testing the btf in awhile.. when i get it...

@thanks for the tips chris! least we all have some reference point

[bofors]

I have one question, with asus p5b deluxe ...

I think the critical issues here are motherboard first, then cooling. The PB5 Dlx. is good, but I think there are better choices for "extreme" overclocking. While I am not aiming for the extreme, I think I may come close to 3.8 GHz with good air cooling and a BadAxe2 (I just ordered two of these motherboards, I will have them next week).

[marillion]

Me either I do not aim too the extreme, best it is a badaxe2 or a p5b dlx or a abit AW9D-MAX?? it is for a stable overclocking @ 3.5Ghz on aircooling and more on watercooling.
If not for the BTF, I haven't got this cooling because it's difficult to find in France :'(

[bofors]

Intel motherboards are supposed to be best in terms of stability and the initial reports of the BadAxe2 make it sound like one of the best potential boards for overclocking a Xeon 3060: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=124131

[marillion]

it's nice motherboard it's first Intel motherboard to dedicate of overclocking and she has very lot of vmods

[RacerX]

First boot with my new 3060 batch L628B167......underload was 1.39v. Seems I finally received a good cpu from Newegg after all these years. Will test more this weekend. FYI, came from Neweggs Jamestown, PA warehouse. Sorry coretemp shows 413x9 as I used clockgen to increase fsb for testing. 3.8 failed have way thru duo SuperPI.

[RacerX]

Quick semi SS......dam finally going to have break down and replace my 1x120 heatercore.

[Ron 61]

Very good, nothing like getting a good clocking cpu delivered and it looks like you got one. I hope I can get lucky when I order. What are your temps under load?

[shimmishim]

great results!

i placed an order and supposedly they've sent me a L628B

i will know on Monday.

[Ron 61]

great results!

i placed an order and supposedly they've sent me a L628B

i will know on Monday.

Where did you order from? Did you get to pick what you wanted?

[RacerX]

Very good, nothing like getting a good clocking cpu delivered and it looks like you got one. I hope I can get lucky when I order. What are your temps under load?

Room temp 24-25c cooling in sig with only 1x120 fan on heatercore.

[shimmishim]

Where did you order from? Did you get to pick what you wanted?

yes!

i'll post the vendor on monday after i get the chip just so no one gets their hopes up on getting one and ends up that they either don't have anymore or won't let others pick.

edit:

but if you have to know... same place as GPSeek! www.pyrinex.com

[Ron 61]

I would definately get bigger rad, it might let you go further since it looks like you have a good cpu to work with.

[Phosphate]

great results!

i placed an order and supposedly they've sent me a L628B

i will know on Monday.

It will be very interesting to see how a "B" step 3050 Xenon stacks up with a "B" step E6400.

I'd definitely buy one of these by default if it wasn't for the fact that Fry's will likely have some crazy sale on regular e6400s.

[RLM]

Hardly conclusive at 5 minutes, but seems stable, Fprime rendering working and render times are consistent. At full load coretemp 78c.

Edit: Memory running 4-4-4-15 trfc 45



RLM

[NightRaven]

my my is everyone with a xeon on water here!? haha except me that is..... i'm still trying to get it orthos stable at 3.46ghz...

thou it can pi at 3.75 and 3dmark at 3.6ghz..

[GPSeek]

Just set it up and played a little bit. Here is the initial results for my Xeon 3060 L628B211 on Bad Axe 2 with newest bios.

It can do 9*390 = 3.51GHz at default voltage. Memory set to 533MHz (I think this is 1:1, am I right?) 4-4-4-10 2.16V.It passed 3.5 hour memtest86 tests.

It cannot boot at 9*400 with default voltage (1.325v)

Not bad . But I don't know it's the CPU or the memory that needs to be pushed. Any idea?

Installing WinXP x64 Pro now....

[shimmishim]

Just set it up and played a little bit. Here is the initial results for my Xeon 3060 L628B211 on Bad Axe 2 with newest bios.

It can do 9*390 = 3.51GHz at default voltage. Memory set to 533MHz (I think this is 1:1, am I right?) 4-4-4-10 2.16V.It passed 3.5 hour memtest86 tests.

It cannot boot at 9*400 with default voltage (1.325v)

Not bad . But I don't know it's the CPU or the memory that needs to be pushed.

not too shabby.. should be able to do 9x400 hopefully with 1.35 or 1.375 volts?

i've got the same chip coming on monday as well.

[Yay for Cheese]

Is it worth it to spend the extra few bucks for the xeon 3060?

[GPSeek]

Is it worth it to spend the extra few bucks for the xeon 3060?

I think so. It is still a matter of luck. However, it seems if you go with Xeon 3060 you have a better chance than with a E6600 from the data we gathered so far.

[NightRaven]

imo its doing okay.. same as e6600.. or maybe a little better.. i'm doing 3.46orthos stable for 4 hours so far. 1.55V thou.. infinity and an acryan fan

will post some screenies if i can when i get home~

[MrDeeds]

I wonder if one of you guys with a 3060 can do a comparison with a 6600. Oc to 3.6ghz, something that should be attainable for both cpus and run benchmarks to see if they really are identical cpus.

The reason I ask is because some are under the premise that you'll get lower 3d scores with a xeon but they are better for number crunching and folding.

I really don't think there are any differences though but it would be nice to know before I make the purchase.

[fhpchris]

The reason I ask is because some are under the premise that you'll get lower 3d scores with a xeon but they are better for number crunching and folding.

I really don't think there are any differences though but it would be nice to know before I make the purchase.

Yes, they are the same, no we dont need benchies to prove that

[bofors]

Yes, they are the same, no we dont need benchies to prove that

Ditto, we even know that Woodcrest and Merom have the same core design. There is no "server" core or whatever with this generation of x86 Intel chips.

[bofors]

i'm doing 3.46orthos stable for 4 hours so far. 1.55V thou..

It looks like the minimum voltage for 100% stability at 3.6 GHz is about 1.525V on my system. It is very stable at 1.5125V but I ran both cores under full load over night and it frooze at some point.

EDIT: It just frooze at 1.525V, now testing 1.5375V.