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[chew*]

me and chew this past weekend. massman wont let me submit in the oct. contest with his card. but for the record.
http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...870_9827_marks

It's not just massman just the rules, you could submit to contest but not for HWbot points......but for contest only highest score counts.

That chip was looking promising till we found out the IMC was weak, and also killable with high vdimm

I almost killed my chip trying to match your chip for core clocks and still shy of 100 mhz

Your ram being higher on your 5850 means little in vantage, when we pretested the 5870 was worth over 500 points more stock versus your 5850 card clocked

Plus i'm willing to kill my card would hurt far less than if we killed yours.

[G.Foyle]

Good job guys I can't wait to be back for more PCM05.

[Don_Dan]

So I bought 50l of LN2 today, and finished installing OSs and insulating the first board about an hour ago... The first board I wanted to give a spin was the Commando...

I entered Win with the pot mounted, but still at ambient temps, pulled it down to 100°C, everything was fine, so I rebooted at higher voltages. SetFSB'd my way up, crashed, CPU INIT error.
After heating up to about 70°C and unmounting everything it worked again, so I started again, pulled it down to 150°C, and used SetFSB again. At about 5.3GHz it crashed, CPU INIT error, and now I can't get rid of it. So far my LN2 session is a complete failure.

I'm open to new ideas...
If I can't get rid of it I'll stop for today, and try the REX tomorrow.

[Don_Dan]

Right when I thought I had figured it out, CPU INIT again. Every second crash results in this stupid error, then I have to heat up to less than -70°C, then it will boot again.

I learned a lot today, and burned only 7 liters... could be worse.

[Splave]

Right when I thought I had figured it out, CPU INIT again. Every second crash results in this stupid error, then I have to heat up to less than -70°C, then it will boot again.

I learned a lot today, and burned only 7 liters... could be worse.

try putting all voltages and temps on the board on ignore let me boot colder. Also booting with the highest speed possible is key to getting the furthest while using setfsb. Good first run man You will learn to love her

[Don_Dan]

try putting all voltages and temps on the board on ignore let me boot colder. Also booting with the highest speed possible is key to getting the furthest while using setfsb. Good first run man You will learn to love her

Thanks for the post!

Yeah, that's what I figured out as well, it seems like some strap changes prevent me from going higher using SetFSB if I boot at low FSB. I'll try putting all the stuff on ignore tomorrow, thanks a lot for the tip.

I hope all this will help to get rid of that error.
I read some threads about that error in the past hour, but it seems like there is no real solution.

[systemviper]

Tested the Q9450 on my EP45-UD3P rev. 1.0 board with the cascade...
Seems like the chip doesn't like to be overfrozen, didn't get much farther with clocks than my runs with the EP45T-UD3LR board and the SS unit. Seemed like it had a coldslow or something though, results started getting super slow at high speeds.
Might try on air tomorrow and see what I can figure out.
Cascade runs great.

-123c man o man that is a sweet unit.... time to crush that chip

[Linuxfan]

-123c man o man that is a sweet unit.... time to crush that chip

I think it did crush this chip. It seemed like it was too cold for this CPU, I don't think it liked it.
Tried on stock cooler yesterday and it booted right up and did Wprime32M on at 4080mhz...
I'm on vacation now so I"ll play with it more in a few weeks.

Hope you get those commando LN2 issues figured out Daniel. It can be a real PITA to get stuff up to speed and figure out settings.

[ScottALot]

Linuxfan, you hear about the new Mushkin sticks? It's like gluing a Redline to a Ridgeback... because they are... REDLINE RIDGEBACK!

No one?

[systemviper]

I think it did crush this chip. It seemed like it was too cold for this CPU, I don't think it liked it.
Tried on stock cooler yesterday and it booted right up and did Wprime32M on at 4080mhz...
I'm on vacation now so I"ll play with it more in a few weeks.

Hope you get those commando LN2 issues figured out Daniel. It can be a real PITA to get stuff up to speed and figure out settings.

enjoy your vacation....

[trans am]

The score Chew* got was higher so it wounldn't make a difference at all if you posted that score.
Its great that you were able to bench with Brian this last weekend, I'm sure it was a good experience.
Why don't you try some PCMark sometime with your three SSDs? I"m sure that'd be fun.

Yeah that was the plan. I had the lsi and my vertex 2s at brians but we never got around to the pent 430.
all I can say is I tried the pentium 430 in a sli 680i and the asus p5k3 dlx and the ddr2 sli 680 seems way faster than the ddr3 p5k3 but I cant seem to get the fsb on the 680i up.
Ill try it again.

[Don_Dan]

Hope you get those commando LN2 issues figured out Daniel. It can be a real PITA to get stuff up to speed and figure out settings.

Thanks Daniel, enjoy your vacation!


This took longer than expected, but I'm quite happy now, this should be the limit of an unmodded Commando, Vdroop is horrible...

Click for high frequency!

At first I spent some more time with the 347, and managed to get up to 6785MHz, but after changing chips it turned out the 352 is a lot better.


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NameGT posted an impressive AMD 1M score and the team broke 15800 points today.

PS: We are back in the lead in HWBot's OC Challenge October!

[Linuxfan]

Nice run Don_Dan you hit the 7s!
I gotta try my luck with a few cellys and P4s when I get back from vacation....

Does anybody have a 980x they'd like to sell? Need a retail chip.

[chew*]

Nice run Don_Dan you hit the 7s!
I gotta try my luck with a few cellys and P4s when I get back from vacation....

Does anybody have a 980x they'd like to sell? Need a retail chip.

ummm if you wait a while no need to buy one unless its for 2d.

[Linuxfan]

ummm if you wait a while no need to buy one unless its for 2d.

Need it but not for benching. Just looking for better price than newegg and for a retail.

[chew*]

ahh ok.

[Linuxfan]

ahh ok.

Looks like zsamz_ has CPU and board going to grab from him.

[Don_Dan]

I just finished my LN2-adventure and I've already checked and posted my validations. The E6300 was a very crappy chip, but the E8400 was rather nice.

In the end, 50 liters were too much for a first-timer like me, after testing the whole day I still had almost 10 liters left, with nothing more to do. I didn't want to change CPUs yet again as the air was very humid today and a lot of ice was already building up around the pot, so I tested some other stuff like Maxxmem and max FSB, but I just couldn't burn more LN2. Since I have to return the dewar tomorrow morning, there was no other possibilty than pouring it away.

I was very sad to see the rest of the LN2 go to waste, but the giant LN2-cloud that was wafting through the garden was a nice view, I've to admit that.

I'll post the results tomorrow when I had a chance to look through all the screenshots, unfortunately WPrime did no longer work when I was on LN2, and when I noticed that it was already too late to install another OS. It doesn't matter much for the E6300, but the E8400 will have to be revisited in due time.

[Hondacity]

great work with the e8400

i wanna see you freeze some rams

[chew*]

great work with the e8400

i wanna see you freeze some rams

To freeze memory first you must have a purpose, second you must have an imc worth the time.

A good purposed would be say 32m pi at 2000 c6.

A bad purpose would be for say high mhz without having tested for a good IMC first and even then its more so to run tighter timings, not get higher mhz.

[ScottALot]

I downloaded RealTemp 3.6 in a .rar and even after unzipping, all .exe's aren't compatible with the 955BE? What's going on here?

[G.Foyle]

Are your running it as admin?

[ScottALot]

Yep, it just gives me a dialog box saying AMD Phenom II X4 955 is not supported.

[SteveRo]

Friends don't let friends use kneaded eraser.

3 layers of Conformal spray & vaseline.
Much better in every single aspect.

Mr. Benchzowner - vaseline just in the socket right?

[mk-ultra]

isn't realtemp intel only?