The Wolfdale Vtt ( FSB Termination ) game.Place your bet!

[B.E.E.F.]

My bet: Its not going to fry. You'll chuck it before it ever gets near.

[Cy4n1d3]

Sparta.

[ShArKo]

Is not fry yet????

Trust me......connect that CPU in to a battery car............It will be fry at the moment

[Sauron_Vie]

i hope benchzoner will give us soon a little update... maybe one line... "all is up and running"

[zlojack]

Anything happening here?

[BenchZowner]

Yeah, I'm bored to death watching all these rigs running fine after days of torture.
I might raise the voltages more

[HDCHOPPER]

[BababooeyHTJ]

This is crazy! No degredation at all yet?

[BenchZowner]

Yeap, no degradation yet at all.
Took 2 CPUs out and tried all the known Frequencies & Voltages settings ( also tried stock voltage & clocks ) from my first tests with them and they were as stable as they were on day 0.

[dinos22]

man we should have some kind of award for best thread of the year

i would most certainly nominate BZ's threads and this one really takes the cake for me heheh

[bingo13]

quoted from post 10....guess there wrong
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=428

We tested 10 processors on three different boards, 3 died within five days, 2 showed serious degradation after 15 days (to the point they are no longer stable at stock settings), 1 showed light degradation after 25 days, four are still running fine and will under go degradation testing shortly. The failures were confirmed by Intel so there is no speculation as to the failure cause. We had six processors that developed problems and four that have not to date. Also, our test regimen stresses the platform in a variety of ways under varying conditions, not a single test running in a controlled loop. Whether that plays into the failures is something we are still investigating along with the chipset and board components.

[dinos22]

Gary you never said that in the past
when did these tests get done
any more info on setups and testing methods
it's something that BZ can try too i guess if he can be arsed heh

didnt you guys claim going to 1.5vtt would damage the CPU after a day .... my memory is a bit weak atm?

[mikeyakame]

There's most likely a larger probability of the VRM circuitry or should I say flaws of being the culprit of cpu death than is set voltage itself. Voltage overshoot beyond acceptable tolerances of the set voltage will likely cause the reported degradation at a more rapid rate. This is just my personal opinion anyway. Good luck on the closed loop testing!

[ahmad]

We tested 10 processors on three different boards, 3 died within five days, 2 showed serious degradation after 15 days (to the point they are no longer stable at stock settings), 1 showed light degradation after 25 days, four are still running fine and will under go degradation testing shortly. The failures were confirmed by Intel so there is no speculation as to the failure cause. We had six processors that developed problems and four that have not to date. Also, our test regimen stresses the platform in a variety of ways under varying conditions, not a single test running in a controlled loop. Whether that plays into the failures is something we are still investigating along with the chipset and board components.

what voltages?

[B.E.E.F.]

So is it dead yet?

[dinos22]

i think it's been long enough to prove that dual cores arent affected but high VTT volts even after a long time

dual core CPUs is where VTT is very important so let's move onto something new now

[Zucker2k]

Well, MYTH BUSTED!

[carepolice]

Well, who is the next guy who tests this on quad ?

[mrcape]

I wonder how it would do with 1.8+ pll for a while.

[BenchZowner]

I wonder how it would do with 1.8+ pll for a while.

Still running fine ( I have a system running at... way higher Vpll than 1.8V ).

On the other side I'm afraid that I'll have to stop some of the systems to use the components in some reviews and articles that I have to get done soon.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Still running fine ( I have a system running at... way higher Vpll than 1.8V ).

On the other side I'm afraid that I'll have to stop some of the systems to use the components in some reviews and articles that I have to get done soon.

You know what I would love, for you to combine all the testdata from the past month or so from all systems into an article with all the results you got in the mean time. Benches with volts all with the dates done ect, pic's off all and that's that... wait on Anand/Intel to tell us your testing is flawed, or otherwise an explanation on the diffrent outcome's

Nice thread Would make an even nicer article though

[BenchZowner]

You know what I would love, for you to combine all the testdata from the past month or so from all systems into an article with all the results you got in the mean time. Benches with volts all with the dates done ect, pic's off all and that's that... wait on Anand/Intel to tell us your testing is flawed, or otherwise an explanation on the diffrent outcome's

Nice thread Would make an even nicer article though

I could do that, and yeah it'd be nice to have it summed up in an article, but... sadly I have some hardware reviews that have to be done soon, actually ASAP, and 5 of them are motherboards... and that's pretty much about 120 pages of text and hundreds of hours of testing & benchmarking.

By the time I get done with the hardware that I have here to review, we'll be in the Nehalem era, and I don't know if it'll be that interesting for the readers then.

We'll see...

[Kain665]

lol I dont beleive this "degregation" myth- I ran my 4800+ Toledo at 1.6v with an air cooler for a year and it never hiccuped until my via board's network controller took a dump.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I could do that, and yeah it'd be nice to have it summed up in an article, but... sadly I have some hardware reviews that have to be done soon, actually ASAP, and 5 of them are motherboards... and that's pretty much about 120 pages of text and hundreds of hours of testing & benchmarking.

By the time I get done with the hardware that I have here to review, we'll be in the Nehalem era, and I don't know if it'll be that interesting for the readers then.

We'll see...

Depends, not everyone will jump on nehalem I think. But I understand the time constraint, to bad the longer you wait with something the less relevant it becomes hehe, been experiencing that myself lately to

But another note, seeing the intrest you got with this thread, it might be even better pr for you to combine this all into one article then doing those 5 mobo reviews

[Kondik]

BZ I'm sorry for calling you an CPU destroyer, busting this Myth you farted intro Intels smile and I clap for that.
But there is one thing that should concern al Silicium based things on this planet. You will eventualy get them and OC the crap out of them ...
And I don't want an BZ Microwave ! *Runs on 1020V consuming 24A but turning diamonds intro coal and back.

Well I think this "test" is over and somehow "busted", feel free to grab a couple of Quads and OC and Overvolt the hell out of them. I'll subscribe that !