knopflerbruce's K8 fun corner!

[knopflerbruce]

Oh well, I always wanted to wait until I had like a gazillion insane clocks to show off before making a thread, but because NO bench session can take place without problems that probably won't happen So... I'll just post what I got this weekend, and add more stuff later. I guess that's the best way to do it But first:

Special thanks to:

Michael and Jasmin for being my "CPU slaves" in Germany.

Mr. X for being my "CPU slave" in the States. He should also be given credit for his taste in clothes as he shipped me a VERY nice t-shirt with an AMD logo on it (I'll see if I can post a pic of that one later)

Imsochobo for fixing dryice, a location and lots of other stuff I don't remember right now.

The benching was AM2 only this time, no time for 939 action - will do that later Since AOD didn't work at all with my LP UT M2R I had to use an ASUS Crosshair and a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6. However, the Gigabyte didn't like vcore above 1.6v and can't feed the memory sticks with more than 2.45v or so, so I had to do it old school style with the NF590 board WHich wasn't so easy, as I kept getting bluescreens because of memory problems. Reason: new BIOS wouldn't give more than 1.9v to the sticks, no matter how high you set the voltage. After spending even more time figuring out how to use the /f command while flashing, it was FINALLY possible to run some benchmarks. Here are the scores:

LE-1600 @ 4022MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492744 WR
LE-1640 @ 4017MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492745 WR
LE-1620 @ 3990MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492734 2nd
X2 5200+ Windsor @ 3906MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492742 WR
X2 5000+ Windsor @ 3763MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492746 WR
BE2400 @ 3571MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492157 WR
3200+ Orleans @ 3277MHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=492732 WR

All of these were on water, except LE1640 (dice), but with snow/ice in the bucket I used as a res No sub-zero temps, but the scores were pretty good anyway. Not so happy with that LE-1620, but I think I can lower the temps just a bit more, as I could run pretty high on 11 multi. Just 5-10 degrees would be enough to kick it above the limit

Some other tests I did:

Pifast:

LE-1600, 31.61s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815532 WR
X2 5200+ Windsor, 32.47s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815543 WR

Superpi 1m:

LE-1600, 21.687s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=783943 WR
X2 5200+ Windsor, 22.172s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815542 WR

Superpi 32m:

X2 5200+ Windsor, 19m 38.078s http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=815545 WR

I ran out of time (had quite a few chips to test to see if they had potential), so didn't have time for more 32m. However, I think the 790FX boards are a bit faster than this NF590 so perhaps I'll get better times if I can make the DQ6 work properly I did more pifast/superpi than this, but these are the best. Even some wprime32m, but I need vista to get some nice times there. I need like 350mhz more in xp lol.

PS: there are like a million drive strengths in the BIOS of this board, but I have really no clue about what I should set them to Anyone knows what works best for d9gmh/d9gkx? These values go from like 2.00x down to 1.00x (something like that).

[knopflerbruce]

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[The Water Dog]

Good job, mate

Looking forward to ours dice-weekend

[imsochobo]

wellm, we are having serious issues with motherboard and alike, me and knopfler.

This is what we actually use most time on.
Getting pll's and applications that support them that doesnt use too much cpu.
msg me or knopfler for apps that is good like clockgen alike that are supported on 790fx/gx sb600 sb750 and that series motherboards.

voltage settings, on BOTH our motherboards, and in fact the pwm on the gigabyte motherboard smells strange, so im saving that board mostly for the oc weekends, like this we had.
I also got a dead gigabyte ma790fx-dq6 which we used abit in this session, with dead pwm, while the dfi handles those temps and voltages just fine

Bios for the crosshair was kind of flankey.

So thats what we use alot of time on, if we do our cool cooling methods to practice, diagnose, gain experience with the motherboards prior to dry ice, we would save alot of dice and get better runs in the future

Pictures are getting uploaded to a web server im in charge of, and more info about our rather strange alternative cooling methods.
And of course knopfler with his amd t-shirt... *droool*

[Lightman]

Congratz on WRs!!

I like your approach of more is better


I'm using DQ6 in my PC and I have no problems at all. Granted I've went only up to 1.8V on my old X2 6000+, but still. HTT wise I was able to push around 440-460HTT, don't remember precisely but it is in one of threads in AMD section.

Keep up good work guys!

[knopflerbruce]

Congratz on WRs!!

I like your approach of more is better


I'm using DQ6 in my PC and I have no problems at all. Granted I've went only up to 1.8V on my old X2 6000+, but still. HTT wise I was able to push around 440-460HTT, don't remember precisely but it is in one of threads in AMD section.

Keep up good work guys!

It doesn't want to boot with anything close to that. Maybe it was the CPU, but that would be strange... I've had "a few" and only an FX60 I tried had that kind of behaviour at pretty low voltage.

You're right about "more is better", I have alot of funt with these $25 LE chips. Why buy an i7 when you can have the same fun for a FRACTION of the price? Hopefully there will be more dice next time, these F3's need subzero to really shine... even if they do pretty well at like 5c too

[Turrican]

very nice bro, keep pushing

[imsochobo]

Congratz on WRs!!

I like your approach of more is better


I'm using DQ6 in my PC and I have no problems at all. Granted I've went only up to 1.8V on my old X2 6000+, but still. HTT wise I was able to push around 440-460HTT, don't remember precisely but it is in one of threads in AMD section.

Keep up good work guys!

Thanks

the board is fast, but well, rather crinky to work with, it doesnt seem to like the very high voltages.
HT clock can be taken up to 475 on my first board, its on my wall actually, i killed PWM, and that smelled reaaaally bad.
more isnt always better, the 4 phase pwm on the dfi 790FXB m2rsh and lp jr 790gx m2rs is faaar better, and make less heat, and is more stable

there is a lack of settings, even with the advanced settings activated in the bios, and the layout is completly terrible if you ask me though.
but its fast, to some degree, stable and does high htt, almost any board can do 440 nowdays, i would be suprised if we could not.

we tested a bad phenom X4 II 940 and well, im getting a better one!
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=490976

our cooling methods where snow cooling aswell, yes, you heard me right!



watercooling, 10 litre water tank, and about a meeter of snow outside, we had a lot of decent cooling at hand, but not too much of the extreme, unfortunatly.
Watercooling was basicly, a iwaki pump, a aquacomputer waterblock and 2 tubes, nothing complex!

This was of course when we ran out of dice :p

[knopflerbruce]

Damn, I was testing some BH5 sticks on my CFX3200. On my Venus, no 512mb sticks seemed to like above 3.75v or so, but this board worked fine all the way up to 4v sharp. The only problem was that my FS Epsilon 700w died Lots of spark sounds coming from the power connector on the back of the power supply. I just hope the board didn't die as well - or my x1800 master + 256mb cards I used Not to mention the CPU lol.

[Lightman]

WOW!

I like snow cooling of CPU

It's good to hear that new better Phenom is en route to you!


Awaiting more benches

[knopflerbruce]

WOW!

I like snow cooling of CPU

It's good to hear that new better Phenom is en route to you!


Awaiting more benches

It'll never stop. But I'm glad I don't have to bring a PSU, need some RMA now

The snow cooling was pretty good, I just wonder what the less coldbugged chips can do at -20

[knopflerbruce]

Added some photos. That's me, btw

[dexster]

great results... some very impressive cpu's there

+ the ram was doing its bit too... good ol'ocz ram

[gianni-gt]

haha knut you are great kicking asses

[massman]

Impressive!

[KELL5]

very very nice results bruce, as always

nice T-shirt too

keep pushing.

[Aerou]

that is an incredible session and mighty impressive results
some serious chips U have there - shame you didnt have time, coolant to get some other WR with those gems

[Borys]

Grat Results +1 for so much WR's on 1 session. BTW i think you must clean your keyboard xD

[stunned_guy]

You made my day
Incredible !!!!

[[XC] Oj101]

Simply the best, keep waving that AMD flag high

[knopflerbruce]

You made my day
Incredible !!!!

Simply the best, keep waving that AMD flag high

Thanks m8's I'll try to keep your 939 thread alive, but my friend who has the best memory, the best mobo and the best PSU is too lazy to bench atm Hopefully, some juicy AM2 scores will bring him back in the game. My 939 boards always die... his old Venus lives forever

[knopflerbruce]

Got a cheap FX60 today. CCB2E 0607TPMW, so I doubt it'll fly. But I'll give it a try later, you never know If it sucks, I'll just sell it and make like a 150% profit

[Turrican]

looking foward to some results bruce. i just nice to see you keep the s939 alive.

[ryba]

What CPU pot you was using?

[knopflerbruce]

What CPU pot you was using?

Mostly no pot at all But when we actually used it, it's the one shown in the photos (perhaps the first picture is the one with the best view of it). No idea what it's called, though. Copper base, aluminum "top". Very nice pot for dryice, at least