Core i7-965, Rampage 2 Extreme & 4870 X2 CrossFireX

[dinos22]

There are ALOT of issues with the chips preventing them from being run hard like yorkfield or wolfdale. The retail chips seem to be different from the few 3.2 ES's I got the chance to try, but not by much. Maybe with more bios revisions on some diff mobos, we can start to see whats holding what back. I get varying performance on the same chip depending on what mobo it is testd on atm. Some scale with volts, some don't. Some like cold, some don't. Some like high multi's, some don't...uncore, bclock etc etc.
Despite the seemingly low percentage of "good extreme overclocking" cpus, the nehalem arch. is capable of alot more than what anyone posting actively has posted, believe it. Fact: 5400mhz+ 32M run..5200mhz+ 2k6 .
Prolly needle in a haystack at this point with this revision, but still possible.

post the results or it didnt happen hehehehe

[T_M]

sub-7m has definately already happened, so yeah there are some big clocks hidden out there
Fun times in Vantage/'06 eh Vince

[Gautam]

Fact: 5400mhz+ 32M run..5200mhz+ 2k6 .

Not quite fact, a little embellished there.

[dinos22]

hahaha show offs heheheh

[LardArse]

hahaha show offs heheheh

Now that is a nice signature! Awaiting to watch a good show

[Sampsa]

Owweee. I don't wanna cast a cloud on Intel's moment of glory, but that really is bad. That is concavity right in the middle where the cores are.

I don't wanna be captain obvious here, but that is pretty bad. It would be nice if Intel would true these up before the laser ethcing process. Not even air can cool properly if it doesn;t have a proper TI.

Part of this was also my evaporator's fault.. now IHS and evap are both lapped and contact is perfect.

[T_M]

Pity its too cold for most chips heheh

[Sampsa]

Pity its too cold for most chips heheh

Lets see.. sooner or later there will be suitable chip for it and I only need one

[George_o/c]

Fact: 5400mhz+ 32M run..5200mhz+ 2k6 .
Prolly needle in a haystack at this point with this revision, but still possible.

Yeah, indeed a needle in a haystack cpu ...

[k|ngp|n]

post the results or it didnt happen hehehehe

Haha DINO, it's not me that is running those sick speeds. But it's not too hard to figure out who is though

[Harshal]

Sham OR The BOSS aka Charles???
But seriously those speeds.... *need to talk to Intel for another chip*

[dpa]

its Andre for sure

[Vapor]

It's definitely NOT the guy with the results in his sig...not a chance

[dinos22]

Haha DINO, it's not me that is running those sick speeds. But it's not too hard to figure out who is though

lol i'm sure he will end up sending you this thing as well



not fair not fair

[AndreYang]

its Andre for sure

lol.....

[Gautam]

Whatever these alleged scores and speeds are...won't really matter in the long run. Prelease results always look like minced meat when put against what happens several months into the product cycle, when the parts start getting really pushed by the community. This is the case with all the prerelease scores that we're seeing. Just the way it is...with every new generation of CPU. Just remember when we were marvelling at 3.6GHz Conroe under single stage for example, and then look at how far it wound up.

[SF3D]

Well.. someone is testing his 965 at 5.4GHz and I'm only 650MHz behind him

I quickly tested my max 4 core 8 thread clocks yesterday. My other chip is average clocker and other one is bad clocker. Nice!

3DMark06 (vag's are not maxed in the screen of course)


At least this can take -110C and it can do high multi and high BCLK on low temperatures. There might be more in it, when I have time to test different multi/BCLK/voltage combinations.

Like T_M said, there is bad multipliers and good multipliers.

[dpa]

Whatever these alleged scores and speeds are...won't really matter in the long run. Prelease results always look like minced meat when put against what happens several months into the product cycle, when the parts start getting really pushed by the community. This is the case with all the prerelease scores that we're seeing. Just the way it is...with every new generation of CPU. Just remember when we were marvelling at 3.6GHz Conroe under single stage for example, and then look at how far it wound up.

just show it to us!!

hell, iam just at 4.83.. right now I want to drive over my 965 and kill it

[G H Z]

Unfortunately -110C is too cold to this 3830A batch CPU. Cold boot issues, BSOD and Vista not loading

Anyway, I'm ready for Core i7 so now I just need to get good chip

Aw man...good luck in the hunt.

Whatever these alleged scores and speeds are...won't really matter in the long run. Prelease results always look like minced meat when put against what happens several months into the product cycle.

Yeah but we don't care about that right now. This is pretty fun too though so whatever

[T_M]

Hehehe, nice usertitle Gautam

Did you luck out on your very first sample? Or was there a bit of searching?

[jaredpace]

Nice to see 25 world famous overclockers commenting in on one thread here at XS. I might learn sumin'

[flesheatinvirus]

I think its time for yet another build. Nice GTX score SF3D