4930k/4960x Steppings and overclockability ?

[NEOAethyr]

Hello, I just got my cpu, I was curious because Ive of heard of people binning these already, if anyone had somewhat of an idea of what mine might beable to do.
And since I don't see a thread for it here I figured I'de start one so people can start posting whatever.

I'm just waiting on the board to hit retail.
Ups guy tossed the cpu at me lol, he's a good guy though (same ups guy for a while now) and it seems fine.
He told me good catch lol, I smiled and at the same time I could not help but think of my poor $ expensive cpu.
Box was in perfect shape though.

Anyways here's a pic of my stepping (if the pic is to large just say so, I can resize it down another 50%):

[bearcatrp]

I just ordered mine yesterday so will be watching this thread closely. What board are you waiting on? I ordered an asus P9X79 LE. Had to keep the costs down.

[NEOAethyr]

I'm waiting on the rive-be, supposedly coming out on oct 29th.

I found these threads the most informative so far:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread...untry=&status=
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread....4-4.5Ghz-wall

Looks like mine "might" be a 4.7ghz clocker (nice), could have an iffy imc (hope not), time will tell ^^.
I still need a matching pair of mem for quad chan and a new psu, but really all I'm concerned about right now is getting it up and running.

I understand the cost thing ^^, this platform is very costly.
But I have a feeling it's worth it.

Even if the cpu is a 4.6ghz like batch, the per core overclocking thing might make the ivb-e more attractable for those that are not liking what they see in the overclocks out there.
I don't know, its something I have to learn about.
I've already seen the max multiplier per core setting on the rive board I think it was, which is awesome.
But supposedly they are working on the ability to set it per app and per core.

Could be useful to get something crazy like 5.2ghz out of the 1st core for say superpi 32m benching lol, just a crazy thought .

My cpu came from newegg, tn warehouse.
Ordered on the 30th of sep if I remember correctly.

[bearcatrp]

I ordered from the egg too. Sold my 3770k system to help pay for this. Should have all the parts here by monday to build it. I did order 4 8GB sticks ram so I can get quad memory. Gskill 1866.

[MetalRacer]

i7 4930K(Retail) @ 5.0GHz cinebench @ 1.256v SS cooling
Batch: 3326B664

http://img.techpowerup.org/130915/Capture106.jpg

[maxxx]

^Nice. 4930k 4.5Ghz 1.30v water cooled. http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/p...20LCC/run2.jpg
Batch: 3330B484

[NEOAethyr]

Thanks for posting .

I found another page to look at for stepping info's:
http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=84216

I had found 2 others but the results weren't posted, one of them was a chinese page with a pic of there 4930k, but the prime testing and cpuz shots were of a 3930k :\.

Man I cant wait for the black edition board to show up, 25 more days..

[aussie-revhead]

3325A995

Mine is utter crap, 4400 needs 1.425v, it wont pass 4500 even at 1.50v and I have some issue with low physics scores....this is on an R4E ....

Very disappointed.

[ToyTen]

I've got this cpu:


I think these cpu's IHS are soldered to the die ??

and it needn't more voltages as my last one for equal frequency, a 3770K and the best about it, it clocks memory way higher. I coudnlt boot to windows at 1400Mhz DDR 8Go while now i can do this:


will try to fine tune the voltages for cpu vccsa and ~vtt in order to finish a 32M.


Something else that i noticed is that if i boot @ cpu level-up it sets the vCore at 1.55v !!!! while i dont need more than 1,3vCore

[flesheatinvirus]

I think I might want to build a system with this chip, just need a killa board.

[bearcatrp]

My serial # 3326B002

[Cookiesowns]

I'm waiting on the rive-be, supposedly coming out on oct 29th.

I found these threads the most informative so far:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread...untry=&status=
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread....4-4.5Ghz-wall

Looks like mine "might" be a 4.7ghz clocker (nice), could have an iffy imc (hope not), time will tell ^^.
I still need a matching pair of mem for quad chan and a new psu, but really all I'm concerned about right now is getting it up and running.

I understand the cost thing ^^, this platform is very costly.
But I have a feeling it's worth it.

Even if the cpu is a 4.6ghz like batch, the per core overclocking thing might make the ivb-e more attractable for those that are not liking what they see in the overclocks out there.
I don't know, its something I have to learn about.
I've already seen the max multiplier per core setting on the rive board I think it was, which is awesome.
But supposedly they are working on the ability to set it per app and per core.

Could be useful to get something crazy like 5.2ghz out of the 1st core for say superpi 32m benching lol, just a crazy thought .

My cpu came from newegg, tn warehouse.
Ordered on the 30th of sep if I remember correctly.

Wow. Microcenter got a large batch of 3326B667's, and so did newegg? Interesting. If you don't mind, send me a PM with your serial number to see if I find anything simiar. I've tested 3 3326B667 chips with large variances, but both were very wide within the serial number.

I posted that thread on the ROG forums . Only thing I'm seeing on this 4.8 capable 3326B667 is a weak IMC, can't boot/post 2400 64GB 8x8GB with loose timings, 2400 4x8GB is on the edge of stability. However 2133 8x8GB is real nice @ C9 1T. Only tested up to 1.2VCCSA and VTT for those settings

This is done on 4403 RIVE BIOS, I'm sure the black edition is better. Another early 3326B667 is doing 4.4 @ 1.23V LOAD, prime95 blend/fft 24hr stable on H110 & X79-Deluxe. With the new X79-Deluxe BIOS I dropped V quite a bit. 4.5 needs 1.25V+

The best B667 I have does 4.6 @ 64GB 2133 daily with 1.29V offset load, and 1.22VTT and 1.17VCCSA. I can boot 4.9 @ 1.4 but cinebench will crash instantly. 4.8 can cinebench at 1.4V but I'm sure it can do 1.375V if I play with VTT and VCCSA some more.


IMO, don't bother with percore overclocking past 4.5. Hard to dial in as you'll need more offset voltage than you need at the lower bins.


Let's use this thread on XS as the official 4930K/4960X batch / bin thread. Guys that posted already. what are your Stock default VID's? You test this by using auto stock everything and running smallfft and blend, and using HWmonitor to see your actual VID. @ default the variances are smaller, however a good way to see your overclockability is by checking the VID at XMP settings which should set all turbo bins to 39

[fr4nc3sco]

my configuration R4E 4403
2x titan
1.5v 4x4GB Corsair Dominator 2133
corsair 1250w
xonar dx
2x ssd hd 840 pro + + velociraptor
4960x@4600 bach 3325a987
cpu vcore 1.30
vtt cpu 1.18750
2nd vtt cpu 1.05760
cpu vccsa manualmode
cpu vccsa 1.160
dram 1.5
cpu pll 1.8250
pch 1.1v 1.1
vtt ddr auto
ddr 2133 9-11-10-27-1t
cpu load-line calibration medium
cpu current capability 130%
cpu voltage frequency auto
vrn over temperature auto
cpu power t.probe
vcore mos 7v
vccsa load-line high
vccsa current capability 120%
vccsa fixed frequency 300
cpu vccsa boot auto
cpu vtt 1.3x
cpu vtt over... auto
dram-ab current 120%
dram-ab voltage frequency auto
dram-ab power phase optimized
dram-cd current 120%
dram-cd voltage auto
dram-cd power phase optimized
pch 1.1v 1.3x
these settings can go a for a userday? or may damage the cpu?

for now I do not know yet whether it is 100% stable but it passes OCCT and the first cycles linx

[FlanK3r]

air cooled? If yes, very nice retail.

[fr4nc3sco]

air cooled? If yes, very nice retail.

No liquid

[ToyTen]

Hi,

have you tried less at this setting ? cpu vccsa 1.160, i'd go for 1.07v given your RAM frequency ?

same reflection concerning:
- vccsa load-line high ->fairly ok but too damaging if 1.16vccsa is applied (maybe, i'm not sure, knowinf of course how different hardware can be from one to another)
- vccsa current capability 120% -> same tought.


I am also running 4960x(my batch is shown above in this thread) and RIVE 4403 BIOS, win 7 and 8.1 recently.

Have fun !

[fr4nc3sco]

Hi,

have you tried less at this setting ? cpu vccsa 1.160, i'd go for 1.07v given your RAM frequency ?

same reflection concerning:
- vccsa load-line high ->fairly ok but too damaging if 1.16vccsa is applied (maybe, i'm not sure, knowinf of course how different hardware can be from one to another)
- vccsa current capability 120% -> same tought.


I am also running 4960x(my batch is shown above in this thread) and RIVE 4403 BIOS, win 7 and 8.1 recently.

Have fun !

ok ram frequency 2133 9-11-10-27-1t 1,5v
in testing cpu vccsa 1.07
vccsa load line normal
cpu current capability 120%

[LiquidReactor]

I am interested. Eyeing 2011 as xmas upgrade.

[maxxx]

4930k batch 3330B366 water cooled...

[MaddMuppet]

Wow. That's impressive voltage for 4.5 on water. I'm seriously looking at a 4930 paired with the Rampage Black Edition when it comes out later this month. Put it under phase and hope to hit the 5Ghz mark.

[maxxx]

^ Thanks. 4.5Ghz seems to be easy but 5Ghz required a larger bump in the voltage. The R4BE is a great board.

[MaddMuppet]

^ Thanks. 4.5Ghz seems to be easy but 5Ghz required a larger bump in the voltage. The R4BE is a great board.

Good to know. I sure am hanging out for its release.

[Joeking78]

Necro this thread a little

Just picked up my 4930k yesterday from a store in Dubai and it turned out to be a great little chip.

4.7gz & 1.34v...put the volts up to 1.4 and stable at 4.8ghz but I think I can lower the volts a little and still be stable. Running an H110 and temps are high 70's when benching.

Going to have a little fun with this chip when I get home from work, hopefully get it stable at 4.8 with less volts, and push for 5.0ghz

I can post my bios settings when I get home if anyone wants to know.

[ZX2Slow]

What would be a good range of VTT and VCCSA voltages for 24/7 use? I can run 24x7 @DDR2400c10 with my 4x8GB kit but am concerned about degrading my chip.

[flesheatinvirus]

I am going to do a chilled liquid cooled 4930K/RBE build in a few weeks, should be interesting.