[Team.AU]Gigabyte X58A-UD7 Gulftown smackdown at 6GHz looking pretty easy

[dinos22]

Hi guys

It's been a long time since i benched. Fishing has been taking up my time on the weekends and now that summer is over it's back on woooohoooo . It's good to have something new to play with after return and Gulftown and this Gigabyte X58A-UD7 are certainly a hell of a lot of fun. No weird Bloomfield type behaviour, just smooth as butter. I dont know if this is because of Gulftown or the board but i like it

I've tested 3 Gulftown chips in the last few days and found that a couple of them have the same OC and third was a bit behind.......it was good to get the LN2 monkey off my back after all this time heh

check this out....still reasonably low volts but clocks look pretty good to me

Gigabyte X58A-UD7 putting the smack down on Gulftown

I don't want to kill this chip so still haven't pushed north of 1.9vcore or 1.6vtt for some serious clocks.......i'll see how my cards fair on LN2 first and then start to crank some numbers out but you can see CPU tests past 6Ghz looking pretty easy ... loving Gulftown they scale with volts and temps properly like the old P4s

Hardware setup:

• Gigabyte X58A-UD7 (F6x bios) with Gulftown mod
• Intel Core i7 980X Gulftown (running at -150C)
• F1EE Pot
• Corsair 6GB of GTX2 Dominator goodness
• Seagate 2TB SATA3 ... first sata3 drive released
• Gigabyte 5870 SOC card
• Antec 1200 Quattro OC Edition PSU
• Windows 7

ignore efficiency it was just early clock testing


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btw here are a few photos of the setup. sorry only had a blackberry handy so not the greatest shots heh

I've changed the way i insulate and no longer fill eraser in the socket ..... basically this is as much eraser as i use and then i cut out some kitchen towels to fit as a layer between eraser and a foam bracket and then the pot sits on top...........this will help GOOC contestants change CPUs very quickly if need arises just ask for some boiling water, shut the system off pour it in the pot, now you can yank the pot off the CPU and you have access to defrosted chip ready to change to next one

if you keep the sessions short > say 4-5 hours and do what i do above with boiling water and then just use hair drier to warm up the area a little you will have a healthy board that will last a long time

i also always plastic spray the board as insurance >> ALWAYS




View of RAM slots packed with vaseline
that VR is a 20K dialed down to 8k for gulf mod...might be a touch lower cant recall but just about 8k


Seagate's SATA3 drive



Setup in action during first day test