i7 980X + Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 0609 bios

[eva2000]

New thread just for i7 980X results. This is only my 3rd day using i7 980X so still along way to go figuring it out. Will be doing a full proper review for i4memory.com later on

Westmere 32nm goodness



System:

• Intel Core i7 980X 3951A763 B1 Step 2 ES
• EK Supreme LT H20 + TFC480 + MCP655
• Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 0609 beta bios
• Sapphire HD5870 10.3 beta
• 6GB Gskill Trident 16000C9
• 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD (OS)
• 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD (DATA)
• Pioneer DVR216 Burner
• Corsair HX1000
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit RTM (fully updated)

[eva2000]

@4009Mhz 1.264v idle and 1.216v load

With EIST/Turbo enabled and Win7 Power Management set to Balanced. Loadline Calibration Disabled = Intel vdroop enabled.

wPrime v1.55 Load





Prime95 Load



3dmark06 with HD5870 @850/1200 default

[eva2000]

@4276Mhz 1.320v idle and 1.264v load

With EIST/Turbo enabled and Win7 Power Management set to Balanced. Loadline Calibration Disabled = Intel vdroop enabled.

wPrime v1.55 Load - did 2 runs here as I have Turbo Power AUTO which meant @4276Mhz 1.264v load, it throttled according to i7 Turbo monitor. Then I set Turbo Power in bios to Disabled to prevent throttling for 2nd run. Noticeably faster wprime 32M and 1024M times when Turbo Power is disabled to prevent throttling.

Turbo Power AUTO





Turbo Power Disabled





3dmark06 with HD5870 @850/1200 default

[eva2000]

@4677Mhz at 1.368v idle

Tried a max cpuz validation run @4677Mhz at 1.368v idle.

[eva2000]

First bench moving off crap low memory clocks for something more decent memory clock wise

Validation i7 980X @4844Mhz at 1.456v

[eva2000]

Super Pi 32M, Wprime 32M & 3dmark06 @4620Mhz 1.448v





Single HD5870 @ stock 850/1200



Wprime 1024M @4620Mhz 1.456v

Load temps





PowerMate Wattage Meter Peak system power draw from wall:

• Idle = 225-228W
• Spi 32M = 250W load
• Wprime 32M = 386W load
• Wprime 1024M = 391W load
• 3dmark06 = 390W load

System:

• Intel Core i7 980X 3951A763 B1 Step 2 ES
• EK Supreme LT H20 + TFC480 + MCP655
• Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 0609 beta bios
• Sapphire HD5870 10.3 beta
• 6GB Gskill Trident 16000C9
• 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD (OS)
• 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD (DATA)
• Pioneer DVR216 Burner
• Corsair HX1000
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit RTM (fully updated)

[CryptiK]

Nice results mate, so close to sub 8min at 4.62GHz. Looks like these B1's are the CPU's to look for.

[cowie]

hmmm very good post's george

this is last es step before retail?..like say is this chip most like retail you think?
also have you played around with ht off was there any noticable increase in clocks? or about the same?
sry for all the ?'s

[SteveRo]

Wow EVA! Thanks for the data! I hope to pick one up next week.

[Sam_oslo]

Good job Eva,

If someone could pick on Gulftown for utilizing DDR3 only at 1066 MHz, it would be a "Memory Addict" like you. It will probably be plenty of bandwidth anyways, but if you get time to run some tests, it will be interesting to see what kind of read/write you are getting wit all those nice sticks that you have got.

Do you know if the MB + 0609 bios can boot with a X56xx(b0) without a hard mod?

[PatRaceTin]

temp look good

what is Max Multiplier board can set ?

[eva2000]

Nice results mate, so close to sub 8min at 4.62GHz. Looks like these B1's are the CPU's to look for.

Thanks... yeah efficiency is okay considering i used win7 and not winxp for 32M

hmmm very good post's george

this is last es step before retail?..like say is this chip most like retail you think?
also have you played around with ht off was there any noticable increase in clocks? or about the same?
sry for all the ?'s

Yeah B1 Step 2 = Q4EG is the one before retail although I've seen retail cpus with B1 reported in cpuz whether correct or not no idea heh.

Wow EVA! Thanks for the data! I hope to pick one up next week.

Thanks... will be nasty Pcmark05 multi ssd hardware raid action i can imagine I have a 256GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SSD arriving this week too

Good job Eva,

If someone could pick on Gulftown for utilizing DDR3 only at 1066 MHz, it would be a "Memory Addict" like you. It will probably be plenty of bandwidth anyways, but if you get time to run some tests, it will be interesting to see what kind of read/write you are getting wit all those nice sticks that you have got.

Do you know if the MB + 0609 bios can boot with a X56xx(b0) without a hard mod?

haha, needed to isolate cpu from memory as much as possible to find out what cpu is capable of before i flog the memory side No idea of Xeon 56xx though, should of held out for Xeon 36xx instead hehe.

temp look good

what is Max Multiplier board can set ?

Yeah temps and power consumption are surprising for 4620mhz ! Only tried cpu multi as high as 35x so far, maybe later will try higher. Playing with bclk next.

[FlanK3r]

very nice! Its with AIR?

[zalbard]

Awesome as usually, mate! Testing the IMC soon?

very nice! Its with AIR?

No, water, it's all in the OP.

[CobraXP]

Nice test runs

[Sam_oslo]

Super Pi 32M, Wprime 32M & 3dmark06 @4620Mhz 1.448v
...

You are using QPI/VVT=1.425v for @4620Mhz, that's a big jump from 1.225v needed for stock speeds. These Six-cores seams to love VVT, my X5650 seams to do anyways. I can't find any info on Intel's max VVT recommendations for 24/7, is it still 1.35v?

Anybody got a link to Intel's recommendations for 24/7 voltages on these CPUs? Google has nothing about these stuff yet.

[owikh84]

You are using QPI/VVT=1.425v for @4620Mhz, that's a big jump from 1.225v needed for stock speeds. These Six-cores seams to love VVT, my X5650 seams to do anyways. I can't find any info on Intel's max VVT recommendations for 24/7, is it still 1.35v?

Anybody got a link to Intel's recommendations for 24/7 voltages on these CPUs? Google has nothing about these stuff yet.

VTT is for uncore. The higher uncore speed the higher the VTT needed.
From records, u need at least 1.4v VTT to do 4000Mhz uncore & this is related to 2000Mhz RAM clock.

[eva2000]

Thanks guys it's water cooled if you read above posts for listed system specs.

Gulftown if you try to push uncore frequency (and memory frequency) exactly like Bloomfield i7 900 series with 2:1 uncore to dram frequency ratio (2x), then yes will still need lots of CPU VTT volts to get stable.

But unlike Bloomfield, Gulftown has a lower uncore to dram frequency ratio requirement at 3:2 min (1.5x), so if you want to use less CPU VTT, you can drop uncore frequency to 1.5x times dram frequency set and thus use less CPU VTT volts at the expense of some drop in performance (how much drop not yet sure - something probably I'll look at in my i7 980x review for i4memory.com

Absolute max voltage/current from intel datasheet pdfs, compare for Core i7 980X vs Core i7 900 series (i7 920 to i7 975)

Core i7 980X


vs

Core i7 900 series

[Sam_oslo]

Thx for the datasheet I couldn't find it. Max safe value for VVT has actually gone up That's really good news.

The Uncore on my X5650 is stuck at x20 no matter what x3, x8 or x10 RAM, or QPI-multiplier I set in BIOS. Both CPU-z and CPU-tweaker are reporting Uncore=x20 all the time . I don't trust any of these to be totally correct yet, and it may be a UD7-BIOS-bug too, but can it be some kind of Xeon DP locked Uncore too?

Whatever the reason, I have to find out later, but right now I'm using VVT~=1.38v for 4GHz and it is good to see it is within Itel's safe limits.

[eva2000]

FYI, dual QPI link Xeon Westmere EP processors are uncore locked to 20x and memory multi locked to 10x, so nothing you can do about it. Not that 2x Xeon 56xx will have negative performance benefit from such hehe

Ignore vcore used, as messing with max BCLK tests now. First attempt at max BCLK resulted in 230.3bclk validation, 228.8bclk 12x1M Pi and 227.8bclk 12x2M Pi, 32M PI single and 3dmark06 nearly passed but froze at end of the last test (Deep freeze) - maybe need a bit more voltage somewhere. Looks like higher vdimm was needed not for memory frequency but the high QPI frequency of 4099mhz.

230.3 Bclk




228.8 Bclk


227.8 Bclk

12x 2M Pi Load




Single Super Pi 32M


Okay pulled off 3dmark06 and Vantage run with bump in IOH PCI-E volts from 1.52v to 1.54v





System:

• Intel Core i7 980X 3951A763 B1 Step 2 ES
• EK Supreme LT H20 + TFC480 + MCP655
• Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 0609 beta bios
• Sapphire HD5870 10.3 beta
• 6GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000C7
• 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD (OS)
• 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD (DATA)
• Pioneer DVR216 Burner
• Corsair HX1000
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit RTM (fully updated)

[eva2000]

Pushing it 3d wise, 4721mhz 1.528v idle and 1.480v load (loadline calibration disabled), 270W system idle power draw, with 466W peak system power draw for 3dmark06.

[eva2000]

Still playing with 0609 bios and some Elpida Hyper FTW http://i4memory.com/f83/khx2000c8d3t...i7-980x-23731/

DDR3-2160Mhz 7-7-7-21 1T at 1.78v




DDR3-2191Mhz 7-7-7-21 1T at 1.78v





System:

• Intel Core i7 980X 3951A763 B1 Step 2 ES
• EK Supreme LT H20 + TFC480 + MCP655
• Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 0609 beta bios
• Sapphire HD5870 10.3 beta
• 6GB Kingston 2000C8 (KHX2000C8D3T1K3/6GX)
• 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD (OS)
• 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD (DATA)
• Pioneer DVR216 Burner
• Corsair HX1000
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit RTM (fully updated)

Not bad - will be interesting to see how much more head room there is

[snoro]

Does only the 0609 beta bios are working with the p6t6 ws revolution. I am actually looking to get that board and a 980x for a video editing,gaming,crunching rig with cpu and motherboard block. Also nice to see that the motherboard have no problem getting higher bclk than the other mob which most have a 222bclk wall. Did you raised the pci-e frequency for your max bclk test ??

[eva2000]

PCI-E used for >227bclk is 104-105mhz.

0609 first bios that supports i7 980X hence why still using it.

How about 6-6-6-20 1T Windows max 32M Pi @DDR3-1850Mhz 6-6-6-20 1T, max 1M Pi @DDR3-1880Mhz 6-6-6-20 1T and validation @DDR3-1893Mhz 6-6-6-20 1T.

max 32M Pi @DDR3-1850Mhz 6-6-6-20 1T



max 1M Pi @DDR3-1880Mhz 6-6-6-20 1T



max validation @DDR3-1893Mhz 6-6-6-20 1T

CPU VTT = 1.50v
VDIMM = 1.76v





System:

• Intel Core i7 980X 3951A763 B1 Step 2 ES
• EK Supreme LT H20 + TFC480 + MCP655
• Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 0609 beta bios
• Sapphire HD5870 10.3 beta
• 6GB Kingston 2000C8 (KHX2000C8D3T1K3/6GX)
• 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD (OS)
• 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD (DATA)
• Pioneer DVR216 Burner
• Corsair HX1000
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit RTM (fully updated)

[Lsdmeasap]

Awesome CAS 6 Validation!

You always get such sweet memory, send the Kingston rep my way