Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
Batches make little diff ....

To many variables per chip nowadays.

Law of science are reflected in these chips.......it's all a give and take situation.

some chips have "balanced" cores, those will never be good for a validation.....Some chips are rather "unbalanced" those will never be great at multithreaded.......

Some chips have killer core speed......enter your first chip.....but at a price....weak NB.....Then there is the opposite spectrum.....strong NB.....but then weak Core speed.

Then there is another factor that throws a curveball.....how strong the mem controller is.....think becasue your chips has good NB it has a strong IMC?

Wrong.....thats another totally diff part of spectrum.

Best you can hope for is 2 out of 4, rare to have 3 out of 4.

For benching the best you can do is know your hardware and use whatever chips suits a particular benchmark best
Good, but If you can afford as many chips as you need . It seems I have a balanced chip - strong NB, good cores, and the IMC...well, I can run those settings in the signature 24/7, but can't stabilize DDR-2000. However, with the latest beta bios for my mobo it was possible to run that frequency of the memory, but still not stable. Maybe CHIV could help?

Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
Mine quits scaling way sooner than 1.5v, then again, I'm only on ambient water... ?
Same here on ambient water. It barely scales after 1.45V on the CPU-NB. The weaker part of my CPU seems to be the IMC, or it's the board fault, I don't know.


Tests are made this way:


OT, very nice chip, looking forward to see how strong is with cores OC.