Passion with dark side - i7-4960x

[FlanK3r]

Its enthusiasm of extreme OC death here? I hope not. I have not seen for a long time here results. It not must be the best, but with enthusiasm.
So my passion reflected in Dark Blue Side! Oh god, dark side and FlanK3r. But for once - because mild green/red color make me better for life :-).

Intel core i7-4960X coming, dark side was in my room for few days one for one day with LN2. I was scared.


i7-4960X borrowed by Intel Czech for review.It was ES QF7Z revision A.


Hmm, I must have tested new PSU Galaxy and "old" good Rampage IV Extreme.



Good isolation, one good average GPU HD 7870 (so no 3D test), poor 2400 XMP HyperX. Because my TridentX died after LN2 show at Haswell . Im oldman, gentleman and therefore I use

classic isolating method ,-). Gum, paper etc...



After many hours benchmarking I tried one 3D Mark run. At the beginning I was careful, IB-E was not mine and how it can react with temps/voltages?


I was happy, no one problem with wet at board all time


I like this area. With LLC at "ultra" was CPU-Z vcore the same as real vcore (+- 0.00xV!)


Every nice story ends..Next day "dark power" gone away and I could sleep


And there are few results, not good, not bad. For this monster I need next day. I was really too much careful at beginning. This chip could run hard beenchmarks around 5650-5700

MHz and 2D aprox the same as in my results of superpi.


AIDA 64 3.x.x - with strap 125 MHz is some bug...


HWBot benchmark in java


MaXXPI 32M was quickly


And Winrar benchmark :-) 18 000KB/s +


UCBench at 5600 MHz


What about Fritzchess benchmark? Not many people testing this hard loading benchmark with LN2


Classic wprime 32/1024M, but in x64, so a bit slower


And Cinebench R11.5, wow. I never seen life something so fast..


And Superpi was much easier, 6200 MHz no problem




And two videos from benchamrking. First some Cinebench R11.5 and Wprimes




So after these crazy dark days with i7-4960X I must be dressed again in serious green/red t-shirt. FX-8350 LN2 is coming...

[Buckeye]

Good stuff man, thanks !

[hersounds]

awesome rig goods numbers my friend!

[FlanK3r]

thank you guys

[Mad222]

Great Job, Flank
How's the top clock of IVY air-cooled ?

[slamms]

Well done! Push more!

[FlanK3r]

Hi Mad and Slamms . I found not maximal AIR benchmarks, but I tried only max stability in OCCT. I know 30minutes its not much for someone... But In review I have not much time for longer tests. If crashed it Im going back to BIOS changing some values and again stress test. I had few crashs. In the end I got 4700 MHz stable. Think, 4800 MHz will be doable for hard benchmarks and for light benchmarks around 5000 MHz?


air cooling IBE


OCCT


x264FHD at 4700 MHz

[k0ST]

Nooooo Flanker, not you! Resist the power of the dark side you must!!!

(nice clocks, btw)

[Slovnaft]

wow nice clocking dude!
I have been out of the game for a while and i must say your benches have surprised and inspired me!
keep up the good work

[jimba86]

Nice Review!

So are you sith or are you Jedi?

[Leeghoofd]

He's a dark lord for sure...

[FlanK3r]

only few minutes...Green is better ,-)

[Leeghoofd]

Nvidia ?

[FlanK3r]

No, never ! AMD (green logo AMD or red for AMD Radeon, FX etc...)

[PytonOrm]

Awesome work dude !!!!!! keep it up

[FlanK3r]

thx .