Hey guys!
Some quick benching this weekend. Pics of setup coming soon (still on camera and I'm at work). I dont know if anyone else has tried 3D benching on this board, but I wasnt impressed. My superpi runs are sucking because I did those last, and condensation/exhaustion were setting in and making things difficult. I started the session easily benching 3D at 5.3-5.4Ghz. Later in the night (12 hrs into benching) I couldnt even get 32M stable at 5 Ghz. Kept getting errorsRAM maybe?
Temps were easy to hold at about -69 to -71 degrees on my mousepot. vCore was at 1.68v to 1.76v. I was afraid to push it higher since I was unsure of how much voltage a 45nm chip could take on dry ice.
Im on the lookout for a Dewar so I can start some serious benching with LN2. Dry Ice isnt getting me where I want to be. Although I did accomplish one of my main goals which was 100k+ in our favorite game 3DM2001
The insulation method I used worked PERFECTLY! I recommend it to everyone. I had tons of condensation, but none of it went where it would do damage. You will be able to see more details when I post pics. I used conformal coating on the front&back of mobo. Frost King sticky insulation (2 layers) on the back of the mobo. And on the front I used kneadable artist erasers which worked fabulously. Im sure my 8500 would be dead if I used standard insulation, since I was mopping this thing with shop towels by the end of the night. CPU-Z shots werent valid im a dum dum and only had 1.44 with me on my flash drive.
Supplies...
15 Kg Dry Ice
e8500 ES
Biostar Tpower P45
PNY XLR8 9800GX2 - unmodded on air
Corsair Dominator 8500C5D
Seagate 7200.7 40GB HDD
My aquamark scores seriously SUCK! Im not sure what Im doing wrong, but 276k was the best I could do (I have a 274k with 1Ghz less on the cpu - same gpu clocks). Someone HELP!
3DMark2001 - 103453
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757125
3DMark2003 - 81169
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757127
3DMark2005 - 33296
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757128
SuperPi 1M - 8.484 (had to reinstall after a corrupted OS, didnt apply all tweaks and it shows... 46.7k PP)
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757123
PiFast - 19.05
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757124
Since Im still fairly new to the Subzero arena of overclocking, if anyone has any suggestions on how to improve, please let me know. Any constructive criticism is appreciated!I wasnt particularly happy with my pifast either.... it seems at those speeds I should do much betteR? like high 17.xx or so? Please someone let me in on the big secret lol.
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