I7 920 Air - PT6 - 2 Stock GTX280's = 27K 3DMark2006

[Pedro Rocha]

Since still is not possible to get 965XE's here, I decide to train my Nehalem skills with the entry level 920

Setup:
- I7 920 Retail Cooled by the Tuniq with special "mounting" kit
- Asus P6T Deluxe
- 3 Cellshocks DDR3 14400
- 2 EVGA 280 GTX
- Seasonic 1000W

I'm must say I'm quite impressed with this CPU, overclocking is quite easy and the memory bandwith is really impressive.

First some SuperPI / Everest action :

SPi 1M - 9.5sec quite easy..



21470MB/s Mem Read and 26.9ns latency, that's quite nice since most the memory multipliers does not work in the 920 but only on the 965XE.


The CPU runs quite easy Superpi 32M at 4.200Mhz (Turbo enable) with only 1.44v




300K Aquamark quite easy




And last but not least - 3DMark2006 at 4.200Mhz with 2 stock GTX280's with moderate OC




27.261 General Score and more than 8.000 CPU score is quite impressive considering the low speed of the CPU..


Can't wait for the arrival of my 965XE to put it in the cascade for more serious OC action

[dinos22]

lol 4GHz CPU with 8K+ CPU score

these CPUs are sick beasts

nice going Pedro

[George_o/c]

What can we say dinos ? Intel did it again

Great scores Pedro !

[TheKarmakazi]

extremely nice results, especially for air cooling!

[NBF]

Very nice air results Pedro!

You should have all memory multipliers available on the i7 920 if you have a retail CPU and latest bios (08xx)

[Achill3uS]

now you just have to put the cpu under your small cascade and run some 01 for fun
btw, really nice everest scores Pedro, i couldn't get near of 20k with 920 on gigabyte, what vdimm you used?

[2low4u]

I'm pretty psyched after seeing this now! I was starting to get bummed out I couldn't get the extreme right away but these results are brightening my day greatly!

[T_Flight]

There you go 2low! Check that out! 300 grand on AQ. How do you like THAT big daddy.

Dang man, I can wait until I get my Extreme running. Holy ____ man!

[Envydia007]

so is the 920 best bang for the buck then?

[Oliver]

sweet work Pedro

the 2k6 is just sick

keep pushing it

[Pedro Rocha]

Thanks

Doing some tests with GB X58 UD5 and the 920 Air Cooled

Here is a quick result on Superpi and Memory Bandwith





Not to bad


Can't wait for the arrival of the RE2 and 965XE to do some serious benching in the cascade

[xwards]

Nice scores Pedro

[SAE]

Sweet!
I don't think I've seen this kinda bw from a 920 at these (ram) clocks... whut's your trick?

[RPGWiZaRD]

Damn that Lavalys screenie is pure pr0n for memory tweakers. It's a shame it doesn't really offer much advantage despite the huge bandwidth (and low latency). Don't remember ever seeing such sudden increase in RAM b/w.

Man so even ~4GHz is possible (daily usage) with a 920, that's well above my expectations which was more like perhaps 3.4 ~ 3.7GHz. i7 starts looking more and more interesting, well not for my wallet but it's free to watch at least.

[Pedro Rocha]

Guest what - this i7 920 pass Vantage at 4.2Ghz Air Cooled

[Revv23]

Wow these things are sick.

Nice results!

[RPGWiZaRD]

Haha, 1337 result. Are you fooling with us or.

That's like really high CPU score for Vantage (and 3DMark06) at such clock.

[Kispo]

another great scores by Pedro! always on top! Nice numbers

[dpa]

nice clocks Pedro, got any pics of the "ghetto" mounting?

Iam stuck with stock cooling on my 920i, and that is not a good cooler.

[G H Z]

Nice but haven't you forgotten something?

[Pedro Rocha]

nice clocks Pedro, got any pics of the "ghetto" mounting?

Iam stuck with stock cooling on my 920i, and that is not a good cooler.

You can see a photo here : http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...2&postcount=15

Really easy: you just need a Tuniq + AS5 + 1 box of CD's

[Ming@s]

Great Results Pedro.

Thanks to AquaPc.

[Hazzan]

awesome result pedro nice to see everytime your bench with stock fan.......

[FatAlbert]

Pedro, when we can see results in your favourite game ?

is 965 arrived ?

[yaddam205]

What's your preference Pedro; P6T or the UD5?