Release the Kraken - i7 990x

**Kimofil** · 02-14-2011, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Viss

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1654957

Great! But wanna see LinX run on 5Ghz with HT!

**Buckeye** · 02-14-2011, 09:34 AM

So what are these bad boys running at under Single Stage Phase cooling ?

**K404** · 02-14-2011, 09:39 AM

I'm guessing/ hoping the 990x results we're seeing so far are just the right chips in the right hands. They are still B1, so I don't see how there can be anything special going on, other than the improvements in the most recent batches

**Sam_oslo** · 02-14-2011, 10:33 AM

It will be interesting to see these puppies in real action.
I'm afraid Intel is repeating the old trick. First made everybody to buy a "cheap" SB, and then releases an "expensive" monster that nobody can resist.
Hey guys, lets see if they can do 5GHz+ on air.

**tom1** · 02-15-2011, 07:40 AM

Very interesting

**k0rnh0li0** · 02-16-2011, 10:17 AM

open box 980x are now less than 800.

i've seen them go for 650SHIPPED even.

1.1k for a 990X and a open box probably goes fr 900 shipped or so.

not a bad price for chips now. SB needs to get fixed and get some new chips out already

**Leeghoofd** · 02-17-2011, 01:56 AM

Originally Posted by Viss

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1654957

which batch Bart ? I just got my 3045A596 one...

**diezel** · 02-17-2011, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by Viss

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1654957

put it on ln2 Bart

**Viss** · 02-17-2011, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

which batch Bart ? I just got my 3045A596 one...

3044B19, looking forward to your test results

Originally Posted by diezel

put it on ln2 Bart

Not much time buddy

**diezel** · 02-17-2011, 08:59 AM

to bad mate ,,make some time

and let the 990x fly like hell

**PcCI2iminal** · 03-03-2011, 11:01 PM

new toys

its cold here (17c),

1.58v
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1690623

anyway..
not a bad start

**TurboDiv** · 03-03-2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by PcCI2iminal

new toys

Hate powers engaged !!!!

ps: Love it !

**l0ud_sil3nc3** · 03-04-2011, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by PcCI2iminal

new toys

anyway..
not a bad start

very nice 5.4 on nothing but cold air

**xarot** · 03-04-2011, 01:49 AM

umm 17 degs cold? Well, maybe inside the house.. but we just had -20 degrees C outside a while ago. And that's nothing special.

**namegt** · 03-04-2011, 01:58 AM

Wow air cooling
Very nice. ln2 cooling to expect a great score.

**PcCI2iminal** · 03-04-2011, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by namegt

Wow air cooling
Very nice. ln2 cooling to expect a great score.

Hi Bro,

cold bug at -138c
cbb at -108c ..

im running out of LN2 ,i need more ...quickly

**willip90** · 03-05-2011, 04:15 PM

i got this one

so far its running low 20c's to low 30c on all cores,,, @ 4.672 @ 1.472v im waiting a week for the thermal paste to settle before i push anything serious,,,

**sin0822** · 03-07-2011, 03:23 PM

me too ! but i didn't try higher, i will tonight http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1696317

SB can run away

**NaeKuh** · 03-07-2011, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by willip90

i got this one

so far its running low 20c's to low 30c on all cores,,, @ 4.672 @ 1.472v im waiting a week for the thermal paste to settle before i push anything serious,,,

u know 32nm isnt anywhere near as durable with voltage as the 45nm and 65nm were.

I hope those are for quick benches.

Originally Posted by sdsdv10

It depends on your situation.

My understanding is raising the BCLK (bus speed) raises the speed of the entire system (cores, imc, memory, etc). If what you want to do is bandwidth limited you want to do a BCLK overclock. This does put more "strain" on all of the computers subsystems. If however, if you use you computer for applications that are not bandwidth limited then raising the multiplier is fine. With triple channel memory, the x58 platform has pretty good bandwidth without overclocking the rest of the CPU. I believe a good example of a non-bandwidth limited program is Folding@home or WCG (world computing grid). The don't move really large blocks of data but do a lot of fp (floating point) type of calculations. I'm sure someone here will correct me if I'm wrong.

To aid the discussion, could you explain more what you plan to do with your computer (the types of applications you plan to run).

All this is moot on a EE cpu which has everything unlocked from ram multi to QPI multi.

I asked a few of the guys at GooC what the best is, and they said go Multi OCing.
You get better latency from what i heard, and if u need faster ram speed, just up the multi on the ram.

The higher Bclk u have, the higher VTT u need, and u really dont want to push a lot of VTT on these guys.

**FlanK3r** · 03-08-2011, 12:10 AM

PC:nice, u are crazy, 35V to the chip ,-)....Love this bugs

. Now u are +300 MHz better than mostly 980x.

**crossg** · 03-10-2011, 06:05 PM

Batch# 3045A752. Seems pretty much the same as my 980 except it requires lower voltage below 4600 Mhz. Just mounted it so the paste hasn't settled yet. Air cooling.