OC Report :: Intel i5 660 :: The Life & Times of Clarkbar

[Marco André]

funny write up 3oh6

[3oh6]

haha, that's awesome guys. i am glad so many are enjoying and reading the OC Report

now if only i had time to update with some results. i did manage a 260BCLK 32M but just on phase. still trying to get to those lofty 280BLCK+ that some others have achieved. i am thinking that in order to get more out of the chip that i will need to upgrade cooling, word on the street is that k|ngp|n's Venom pot is the way to go. so we'll see if i have time to squeeze something like that into the fold.

[afireinside]

Best review I've ever read Shame the hardware in question sucks.

[LagunaX]

How disappointing.
Clockwise, performancewise, and volts needed for overclocks aren't what I had hoped for these dual core chips.
Guess i'll stick to my e8600's until I eventually move to 1156 or 1366...

[flesheatinvirus]

No doubt, I think I will keep my 920 for a while.

[SoF]

Is Clarkbar worth all the hype? Absolutely not in my opinion. Sure, cold bug is finally gone on Intel but cold boot bugs will still creep up. Yes the chip overclocks really well but the downside is that it scales with cold, not voltage. So on a single stage, clocks will be limited by temps, on air, the same thing. Will air/water guys have as much fun overclocking these little dual cores as the C2D or Bloomfield/Lynnfield’s of more recent...it is hard to say. My gut tells me there will be a lot of 'hard walls' hit that Intel clockers aren't use to and will be frustrated by. Of course this is all speculation on my part because this i5 660 hasn't seen two minutes of ambient cooling...The fact of the matter is that the LGA1156 platform isn't the ideal platform for the extreme overclockers at the top of their game. The performance just isn't there.

this is all so true - you can sum up the 32nm 1156 with only one sentence. I tested 661 on 2 Boards (P55 and H55) for 2 days now and I am totally done with it. Bclk wall at around 200 like many of my friends, except on the EVGA P55, so only 670 can do really good. Performance wise my Gulftown eats it before breakfast - 05 and some 32m was all I needed to see. For air/water allday that might do ok, specially with that integrated GPU but for benching more than 1m better buy a 1366 and wait for the big gun to come out

[3oh6]

well, two days after Felix gets CPU-Tweaker working with Clarkbar and i may have to change my entire epoch with this platform

just barely, getting started...

[nikolas61]

nice job 3h06

[George_o/c]

Can't wait to see the result @ 6.5GHz...

[quake6]

Do you have some problems with CPU <-> Socket?

[3oh6]

Can't wait to see the result @ 6.5GHz...

need to get to 250 BCLK first...hopefully it keeps scaling to 1000MHz

Do you have some problems with CPU <-> Socket?

never had a problem with the socket myself. not sure what you mean exactly though.

[3oh6]

awesome, double post...wohoo!

so i spent some more time last night working on memory, but could only get to 960MHz. 970MHz kept locking up or BSOD on me.



so with the jump from 2:6 to 2:8 and even loosening up to 7-7-7, the 32M time has dropped around 20 seconds...which is great. but i still need to get 250BCLK at 1000MHz 7-7-6 to make it really worth it. then i can run that at the 26X multi and get into the 6m 20s range...which isn't that bad at all.

[3oh6]

time to jump to the 26X multi...just finishing setup for some LN2 action with this setup.

watch the video stream @

http://www.livestream.com/3oh6

32M is all i am concerned with at this poin

[miahallen]

Best of luck Jody...I'd really like to see this thing fly with 32M...

I cannot get my x8 mem multi working at any decent bclock

[3oh6]

you is missing a show if you ain't there...



second run out the box

[miahallen]

you is missing a show if you ain't there...

second run out the box

Sweet...wish I could watch, but I'm at work

- nevermind...I'm watching

give me a shout out bro!

[Gautam]

32m is your bytch

[miahallen]

Thanks for the show bro!

[BenchZowner]

32m is your bytch

i guess bad contact is his pimp then
See ? the "good luck" wish I gave him had a good effect after all, eh Gatman ?

[3oh6]

i guess bad contact is his pimp then
See ? the "good luck" wish I gave him had a good effect after all, eh Gatman ?

nothing you do has a good effect...nothing. period. end of story. not up for discussion. no debate necessary

seriously though, this is the weirdest contact patch i have seen from this pot...



i am assuming that might just not have been enough to handle Clarkbar over 6.3GHz for 3D

the bigger problem was that i only prepped for 32M...that was all i had intentions of running. when i hit the goal that i prepped for in less than 2L of LN2 on the second run 20 minutes in...i let the mob convince me to switch to 3D. no prep = no results...its that simple.

[saaya]

so is there an update on the conclusion? or will there be one?

[massman]

Thanks for updating on the memory subsystem issues, Jody. You update more on KP forums than here? Just want to know where to follow the updates

[Charles Wirth]

I see Jesus's likeness in that paste pattern.

[BenchZowner]

You guys don't want to ask me what I see in that paste pattern

[tool_462]

I see Jesus's likeness in that paste pattern.

He looks as if he is winking