Mikeguava breaks 50k in 05

[tiborrr]

I wrote a news about your achievement, Mike!
http://www.oc-lab.si/novice.php?n=781

Best Regards,
N.

[crio]

Ηοlly cheese......
That cpu is simly insane.Amazing score man.....What more can i say....I am drooling right now

[A2C]

nice score, congratulations
i little envy

[G H Z]

Smokin run Mike

[mike]

@ hipro - thanks for the thumbs up - I am sure you'll tear these scores apart soon - hopefully I can see some more heat from you and your fellow greak benchers at the PCmarks soon.

@ SF3D - I appretiate your support a lot.

@ Sampsa - I will give a lot more details next week when I have some more time and can analyze my 2 weeks of nonstop benching

@ Oliver - thanks - and I will keep pushing it a bit further soon!

@ leonarderman - sorry - my apologies - I did not read your comment properly - sorry again

@ Monstru - thanks _ Intel really stepped up their game with the D0 revision of the I7 - I am sure we'll get to see more insane results from many people in the near future

@ GeorgeStorm - thanks - I always enjoyed 05 as Gautam has mentioned earlier, but the entire benchmark has become more and more of a 3DMark01 style bench and it certainly takes less use of todays overpowered GPUs for 1024 res benchmarking and more use of CPU power - hence I was able to run the X2 at near stock speeds without taking much of a score hit. I had actually clocked the cards down for this bench to insure GPU stability. If I recall correctly around 770/940. I actually suspect that some of todays cards are struggling tremendously with memory clocks at 05 as soon as they are faced with high bandwidth

@ tiborrr - thanks for the note!

@ crio - the D0s truly are insane! Thanks

@ A3C - thanks - no need to envy - sure it'll get smashed any day now

@ GHZ - thanks - can't wait to see some trifire coming from your way!

[mike]

One quick question - I understand you are playing 2k6 now. How is HT on, lower clocks versus HT off, higher clocks working for you, performance wise?

the jury is still out on HT on and off. On the first few comparos I did - it appears that HT enabled will be scoring higher as the gap of clocks is not as wide as I expected. At he moment I am only able to bench about 50 -80mhz higher with HT disabled - and in this case HT enabled scores about 500points more. If I can find a way to significantly raise HT-off clocks it might turn scores around in favor to HT disabled. My guess is at about 150mhz CPU clock difference it should be better to turn HT off.
Right now I am nearing 38K in 06 with a Gigabyte EX58-EXTREME ( sweet board on D0s ) and Trifire 4890s - but had a couple of setbacks and I'll give it another go hopefully next week with a retail 975
To me it was interesting to find that the coldbug for HT enabled on my cpu is at a significantly higher temp compared to running without HT

[Monstru]

To me it was interesting to find that the coldbug for HT enabled on my cpu is at a significantly higher temp compared to running without HT

Interesting find, though from all the i7 I was testing the temp really didn't helped as much as with E8600 for instance. You are using any...interesting BIOS on X58 Extreme? The normal bios'es don't favour very high uncore from what I have seen untill now.

[dinos22]

are you saying you can run much lower temps with HT on ????

where is the 38K link

[mike]

Interesting find, though from all the i7 I was testing the temp really didn't helped as much as with E8600 for instance. You are using any...interesting BIOS on X58 Extreme? The normal bios'es don't favour very high uncore from what I have seen untill now.

Same thing here - temp is not really helping much at all after a certain point -only hurting...appears to be that the memory controler that is causing the CB
Actually been using just the latest official BIOS F7 dl'd from their site.

are you saying you can run much lower temps with HT on ????

where is the 38K link

nope - higher temps - as in warmer.

Question is - where is that 39K link I heard rumors about existing somewhere...

[[XC] gomeler]

Same thing here - temp is not really helping much at all after a certain point -only hurting...appears to be that the memory controler that is causing the CB
Actually been using just the latest official BIOS F7 dl'd from their site.



nope - higher temps - as in warmer.

Question is - where is that 39K link I heard rumors about existing somewhere...

In my basement, along with the HD 5880X2 I've been hiding 38k will be a cake walk once somebody actually pushes these GPUs but 39k would be.. insane.

[AndreYang]

hey man...keep slowly...I tried to match with you.

[Brian y.]

Same thing here - temp is not really helping much at all after a certain point -only hurting...appears to be that the memory controller that is causing the CB...



nope - higher temps - as in warmer.

I have noticed with HT enabled on my 975 I am able to bench more consistently w/o issues at 5.2~5.3GHz range with temps around -65~-75 degrees celsius..it will run all the way up to -115~-120 but ONLY if sub timings are loose and mem mhz is not super high. The only success I have had when running tight subs/high mhz on my memory is warmer temps which makes sense in regards to the IMC being the culprit with CB temps as you have mentioned.

[Monstru]

Actually been using just the latest official BIOS F7 dl'd from their site.

That's nice to hear. Might I ask what PCI-E clocks were you running?

[mike]

That's nice to hear. Might I ask what PCI-E clocks were you running?

I was at around 103 - PCI-E clocks actually are my number 1 priority for the next bench session - I hadn't been able with all voltages stock to go above 105mhz, but maybe after rasing voltages significantly things might improve. Update in a couple of days on that

hey man...keep slowly...I tried to match with you.

everything always very slowly here my friend. I think we will hvae a fun match!!!

In my basement, along with the HD 5880X2 I've been hiding 38k will be a cake walk once somebody actually pushes these GPUs but 39k would be.. insane.

what's your addy - hopefully you don't have too good of an alarm system...

I have noticed with HT enabled on my 975 I am able to bench more consistently w/o issues at 5.2~5.3GHz range with temps around -65~-75 degrees celsius..it will run all the way up to -115~-120 but ONLY if sub timings are loose and mem mhz is not super high. The only success I have had when running tight subs/high mhz on my memory is warmer temps which makes sense in regards to the IMC being the culprit with CB temps as you have mentioned.

Cool - thanks a lot for your feedback on this - yes the IMC is looking more and more like the culprit. nice - 5.2-5.3 range sounds awesome - 5.3GHZ is my range in 06 for the moment. Hopefully clocks will move up with a bit more testing

[F.O.G.N.A.]

Congrats for the milestone Mike

[Turrican]

crazy stuff, congratz.
keep pushing it

[DeDaL]

05' is one of my favorit games

Just awesome score , big congrats.

How many cores affinity you set ?

[SoF]

wow mike awesome stuff
missed you on cebit this year

[Monstru]

I was at around 103 - PCI-E clocks actually are my number 1 priority for the next bench session - I hadn't been able with all voltages stock to go above 105mhz, but maybe after rasing voltages significantly things might improve. Update in a couple of days on that

I know that has been solved with the unreleased bios on UD4, I don;t know about Extreme. But you will definately need a secret bios (or a hardware mod) to break past 105 PCI-E on X58 Extreme...

[mike]

Congrats for the milestone Mike

thanks a bunch - Intel D0 made it easy

crazy stuff, congratz.
keep pushing it

still pushing it hard here

05' is one of my favorit games

Just awesome score , big congrats.

How many cores affinity you set ?

05 is fun indeed. thanks. Ran 2 cores

wow mike awesome stuff
missed you on cebit this year

man - I was so bummed I couldn't get away from work this year - but for sure I'll be back next year around!

[mike]

I know that has been solved with the unreleased bios on UD4, I don;t know about Extreme. But you will definately need a secret bios (or a hardware mod) to break past 105 PCI-E on X58 Extreme...

can't wait to get my hands on it - cause on X58 extreme I am stuck at 221.5 with my retail Xeon 3540

here's a screeny with the gigabyte x58-extreme, 975 running 3dmark06

[mike]

- Is there a performance difference in 05 between 975 D0 ES chip vs 975 D0 retail chip? Andre Yang's 48,7k score is done CPU @ 5460 MHz, I wonder how high you were running the CPU.. +5,6 GHz?

Didn't receive my retail 975 yet - but did some quick comparison clock for clock between the ES 975 and Retail Xeon 3540 - turns out the Xeon appears to be slightly quicker clock for clock. Probably the same is true as it has been in the past; that ES samples often are slower compared to retails.
This probably because of some extra "de-bugging" code in the microcode for developers. Don't know if that is true - just my assumption

[Gautam]

can't wait to get my hands on it - cause on X58 extreme I am stuck at 221.5 with my retail Xeon 3540

here's a screeny with the gigabyte x58-extreme, 975 running 3dmark06

See, 06 ain't that bad.

[[XC] gomeler]

[dpa]

loving the scores Mike!

seems like 06 LOVES the uncore and memory freq.. at 100Mhz more I score less in cpu test.

is 5.3Ghz max?