The Banana Collector ( Starring: Bill and some sucky E8600s )

[BenchZowner]

Let me start by saying that this could've been a nice comedy ( movie ) easily.
Rated over 18 of course ( check the devilish AquaMark score ) due to lots of swearing, violence, and sucking ( LN2 sucking I mean )

I'm still laughing... don't know why and at what I should laugh at but... it's funny.
My collection of bad luck... just priceless, epic!

I tested two of my recently purchased E8600's ( Q822A4xx ) with Liquid Nitrogen.
I've tried these two on the P5Q3 Deluxe but I had some issues ( looks like a faulty board ), so I had to rely on/use my P5E64 WS Evolution X48 motherboard.
That didn't help much, as my max stable FSB on air was 620MHz and that was only SuperPi 1M and AquaMark 3 stable.
My fully stable FSB was 610MHz.
So be it, I decided to get the small LN2 dewar filled to play a bit with those two today.

Well... start laughing:

CPU #1 maxed out at 5580MHz at... 1.947V
Cold-boot at -96C, cold-bug at -112C.
Epic fail #1.

CPU #2 was kinda better.
Cold-boot at -102C, cold-bug at -124C.
Maxed out ( SuperPi 1M ) at... laugh... 5833MHz at 1.921V
Fully stable at 5700MHz at 1.914V.
For 5.4GHz AquaMark 3 I had to use 1.84V!

I only played with a single GTX 280 on stock cooling + stock volts, and tried to keep my card's clocks low to make sure she's not the one to blame

Some scores from today's session:








^ Don't laugh, not optimized OS & run ( not even LSC [ Large System Cache ] tweak )

102990 3D Mark2001SE - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9410594

68248 3D Mark03 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=5922399

33169 3D Mark05 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=4451406

Might upload some videos later on to show you my latest counter-measure for my bad-luck and to cheer me up during overclocking

[Buckeye]

You know we like Videos !!

[makaka]

Yeah too bad , That those E8600 are bad clocker , No prob this the main reason why ebay exist

[jcool]

What, you thrashed them with a Sledgehammer?
I once did that to an Asus board, makes for a great anger management therapy

Seriously dude, sorry you got inferior CPUs. Even though I still haven't yet acclimated to the 6Ghz+ everyone's pulling with those E0 step CPUs, so your scores still look kinda ok to me

[tiborrr]

On every gem E8600 you see doing 6.3GHz comes at least 50 mediocre chips. Tough luck there bro, sell them ASAP

[BenchZowner]

Oh noez...somebody forgot the camera at "EP" and during the bench the lighting conditions changed, and the video from a point and on is dark

Two E8600's to the... Vtt - Vpll and Vcore testing thread rigs count = 9 from tomorrow

Next batch test soon.

[blind_ripper]

bill u have the wurst hands ever i see .
J/K bro u will find a good one

[George_o/c]

Wow, Bill my friend, I'm sorry for your banana CPUs again I mean, what's up with that ? Maybe it's your golden Cellshock kit ... You gotta sell it, it's probably the source of bad luck ... j/k bro, you 'll find a good one soon
And good luck to all your future overclocking attempts

[CCC]

I didnt know they ever made a Q807 batch 8600? sure ya got your stepping right?

[BenchZowner]

I didnt know they ever made a Q807 batch 8600? sure ya got your stepping right?

Edited.
I f* up, Q807 was the batch of my E8500's, the E8600's are Q822A4xx ( have some 435s, 438s, and 450s ).

Off to shop 100 E8600's from a local shop

[Solarfall]

dont worry about the bananachips i recently bought 2 E8500 both of them had a cold bug around -85c hahahaa try running 1 of those under a 2 stage cascade was just not happening too bad since they both were really nice clockers with air but sucked under subzero temps

[Stelios]

Hey Bill ... Wish me luck cause tomorrow i'm going to buy my first E8600 !

[BenchZowner]

Don't worry Stelios,
If you go to the same store ( the one I buyed my CPUs ) then you'll definitely get a decent one.
As you can clearly see, I've picked up all the bananas

[Gautam]

Time to start a club for guys with crap luck with chips. I dunno which one deserves top honors, your nightmare, or me having tried 8 Yorkfields with none of them breaking 5.5 ever. (The latest one did a whopping 5350)

The funny thing is about a month ago most would be happy to hit the speeds you just got. Though I'll agree, that's pretty crazy bad what you got there.

[BenchZowner]

Time to start a club for guys with crap luck with chips. I dunno which one deserves top honors, your nightmare, or me having tried 8 Yorkfields with none of them breaking 5.5 ever. (The latest one did a whopping 5350)

The funny thing is about a month ago most would be happy to hit the speeds you just got. Though I'll agree, that's pretty crazy bad what you got there.

Good try.
How about a total of 10 QX9650's, with none of them going over 5.4GHz benchable ? ( actually, my best with a QX9650 is 5403MHz AquaMark 3 + SuperPi 1M ) [ my best fully stable with the QX9650's is... 5302MHz ]

How 'bout the 4.8GHz tops X6800 ?

Perhaps we should go together and shop some CPUs, and then let some people buy some decent chips

[Gautam]

Looking at your "low" air card clocks though I think you have some things to be thankful for!

[BenchZowner]

Well...I have some good parts... but I didn't leave those to Ms Luck
Ms Luck is avoiding me all the time...

[nachthymnen]

You must to go to Lourdes

[[XC] gomeler]

Holy cow Damn some of us got lucky. Thanks for being the guy to pick up all the dead chips before we show up I'm sure you'll find a 6GHz chip in the mix.