My 1st Virgin Intel Seven with X58A-OC & Retail 990X @ 7030MHz

[Mad222]

Thanks to Gigabyte for making my Intel dream came true

First touch with the board, I found the design was very attractive & impressed with the high quality of its’ components.
I absolutely enjoyed the Multiplier/ Bclk buttons which makes overclocking much fun & easier than ever. Playing with those buttons gives me a feeling like driving a sports car & trying to accelerate by shifting up the gear & stepping on the gas pedal
Stability is also found in all aspects in terms of 2D/3D benching on this 1.0 version
This X58-OC version is surely designed & born for overclocking SPEED…

Frankly, I like this board more than Hicookie ! ooooops….

Rig:-
Gigabyte X58A-OC
Intel Gulftown 990X
NV 470
Corsair 1600 C6 2gx2
Silverstone 1500w
GC2 Compound
Eric's Gulftown Killer






Without having to do any hard mod and stuff, just put grease on the board, get set & go!
Here we are…6.94G 6C12T
Crazy old Mad didn’t realize HT was enabled til CPUz validation



With HT disabled @ the right volt. & Temp., 7G was a pc of cake
How far this chip can go ?! Hmm….





wPrime 32m/1024m seems the best 2D benchmarks that 990x can do atm
But PI/Pifast is absolutely benchable from 6.5g to 6.6g for this chip.
PI bug wasn’t so serious than I thought when I get to know the board better
PI1m @ 6.5g single channel with auto uncore was around 6.4s, so did not bother to do any screen shot






Once I’ve found the mounting for the LN2 pot (dunno where they are in my OC room), will do further testings & some heavy duty 3D !

[Buckeye]

Nice work Mad !
That pot looks massive

[sin0822]

wow yea nice jobX!

[Thrmionicshaman]

Excellent overclock on first touch Mad!! Great work
Keep on having fun evermore.

[namegt]

Nice 7GHz
Great work Bro

[ChanceCoats123]

Pot wasn't even 'mounted' LOL. Nice runs there! Were the Pi results slower because you were in single channel, or was it a board/cpu issue?

[[XC] gomeler]

Aww, don't burn out that chip on stupid wPrime. AQ3/3D03/3D05/3D06! I can achieve better wPrime scores on a 2-way setup Looks like a nice setup, now just get yourself a GTX 580

[rbuass]

Phenomad now braking the scores with Intel....
Amazing results friend...main Wprime.
Can you share your batch CPU???....will look for one LOL

[aslanwas]

Nice one ! First time you use 1366, yes ? Get a 5870/580 Lightning and show us some 3D damage

[slamms]

7 GHz is your numbers!!! First was many AMD cpu`s, now Intel!!! Nice work!!!

[Olivon]

Impressive 7GHz Mad222

Great job, as usual

[Mehdi_FXX]

Amazing job :up
7 GHZ on retail chip!!! Sick!!!

can you tell us whats the batch of this Crazy chip?

[Mad222]

Thx, guys !

Nice work Mad !
That pot looks massive

wow yea nice jobX!

Excellent overclock on first touch Mad!! Great work
Keep on having fun evermore.

Impressive 7GHz Mad222
Great job, as usual

Okay...your turn to make another 7g, Bro!

Nice 7GHz
Great work Bro

Yup...
CB related !

Pot wasn't even 'mounted' LOL. Nice runs there! Were the Pi results slower because you were in single channel, or was it a board/cpu issue?

Haha...
Mod for 580 SOC is almost done
Hmm...interested in AQ. It's fun playing @ home
For 01/03/05/06 those 3D, need "Dino the bruce" to do it, but he really needs some luck though

Aww, don't burn out that chip on stupid wPrime. AQ3/3D03/3D05/3D06! I can achieve better wPrime scores on a 2-way setup Looks like a nice setup, now just get yourself a GTX 580

Phenomad will be back to AMD soon, Bro!
Compete with you again !

Phenomad now braking the scores with Intel....
Amazing results friend...main Wprime.
Can you share your batch CPU???....will look for one LOL

Amazing job :up
7 GHZ on retail chip!!! Sick!!!
can you tell us whats the batch of this Crazy chip?

There you go!
Costa Rica....


Alright, will try !

Nice one ! First time you use 1366, yes ? Get a 5870/580 Lightning and show us some 3D damage

Yes, I bought a lotto with 7,17,27,37,47 + 22 couple weeks ago...trying to win a prize of over a billion HKD, but no can't do !
Maybe next time will win
Thx, Slamms !

7 GHz is your numbers!!! First was many AMD cpu`s, now Intel!!! Nice work!!!

[fl0w3n]

Not bad for a first timer

[zalbard]

Great clocks, nice job!
Waiting for 3D scores.

[FlanK3r]

omg, crazy MAD again :-D. Did u try Cinebench R10 and R11.5 under this monstrum? How good it was under AIR? Impressive work! Whats 6GHZ with Intel chips for you? Nothing :-D. Mad bored only for 7 GHz+ ,-)

[CryptiK]

Awesome clocks!

Funny all the guys who said 990X was no good and same as 980X.....................how many 980X do 7GHz + ?

[tom1]

Amazing man congratulation

[MythSquare]

Yeah, that is what I call hard stuff. No mounting No engineering sample and duh pure pwnage.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Awesome clocks!

Funny all the guys who said 990X was no good and same as 980X.....................how many 980X do 7GHz + ?

very very few of them, and out of that bunch most of them are ES, so it is nice to see a retail clocking as nice or better than the early A0 cpu's.

[kokomiscool]

wow 7ghz...
awesome procs

[MaJ0r]

wow bro, you always shows very impressive results . Congrats

[Johonm333]

Very nice mad!

[Magnus_GR]

1366 still kicks ass!! nice work

[Linuxfan]

Awesome clocks!

Funny all the guys who said 990X was no good and same as 980X.....................how many 980X do 7GHz + ?

How many 980x chips were tested for CPU-Z max with this OC board? Also how many chips did he test?
Seems like the OC board is the best for getting high CPU-Z valids.

No mount, risking frying the CPU.