SIX is Sexy! (Unboxed)

[andy_satriani]

i can only push the fsb to 250, no matter what i do . i think its the bios, if i overclock the cpu to 3.5 ghz, the bios detected it as 4ghz, but when im in windows, it reads correctly.

@3.5ghz

[FlanK3r]

what version winrar? 3.9 is the best for benchmark

[andy_satriani]

version 3.93 64bit. or should i use the 32bit version?

[FlanK3r]

u can try it...but for good score, u must all windows down, only winrar on top

[ridney]

has posted this at the chess bench thread, it might be of interest to some.

here's another result for a Phenom II X6 1055T. As of the moment, I can't clock any higher with the turbo on and so far i have no option to disable it so this is just for now.

FEN: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3 0 1 

Cyclone xTreme II:
  1/1	00:00	           2	0	+0.08	Nb1a3
  1/1	00:00	           3	0	+0.51	Nb1c3
  2/2	00:00	          43	0	+0.20	Nb1c3 Nb8c6
  3/3	00:00	         128	0	+0.51	Nb1c3 Nb8c6 Ng1f3
  4/4	00:00	         238	0	+0.20	Nb1c3 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 Ng8f6
  5/6	00:00	       1.075	0	+0.09	Nb1c3 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 d2d4
  6/11	00:00	       2.204	0	+0.20	Nb1c3 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 d2d4 d7d5
  7/11	00:00	       4.071	0	+0.12	Nb1c3 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 d2d4 d7d5 Bc1f4
  8/11	00:00	       7.268	0	+0.20	Nb1c3 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 d2d4 d7d5 Bc1f4 Bc8f5
  9/17	00:00	      18.814	0	+0.17	Nb1c3 Nb8c6 e2e4 Ng8f6 Ng1f3 d7d5 e4e5 Nf6e4 Nc3xe4 d5xe4
 10/21	00:00	      53.471	0	+0.20	Nb1c3 Ng8f6 Ng1f3 d7d5 d2d4 Nb8c6 Bc1f4 Bc8f5 e2e3 e7e6
 11/21	00:00	      91.145	0	+0.22	Nb1c3 Ng8f6 Ng1f3 Nb8c6 d2d4 d7d5 Qd1d3 Bc8d7 a2a3 Bd7g4 Bc1f4
 12/23	00:00	     167.684	0	+0.18	Nb1c3 Ng8f6 Ng1f3 Nb8c6 d2d4 e7e6 d4d5 e6xd5 Nc3xd5 Nc6b4 Nd5c3 d7d5 Bc1f4
 13/29	00:00	     306.127	0	+0.16	Nb1c3 Ng8f6 e2e4 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 d7d5 e4xd5 Nf6xd5 Bf1c4 Bc8e6 Bc4xd5 Be6xd5 OO Qd8d6 Nc3xd5 Qd6xd5
 13/30	00:00	     964.144	0	+0.20	e2e4 e7e5 Nb1c3 Ng8f6 Ng1f3 Nb8c6 Bf1c4 Bf8b4 OO OO d2d3 d7d6 Bc1e3 Bb4xc3 b2xc3
 14/35	00:01	   1.800.342	7.159.763	+0.37	e2e4 e7e5 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 d2d4 Nf6xe4 Qd1e2 d7d5 Nf3xe5 Nb8d7 Ne5xd7 Ke8xd7 Nb1d2 Qd8e7 Nd2xe4 Qe7xe4 Qe2xe4 d5xe4 Bf1b5+ c7c6
 15/35	00:02	   2.448.938	7.130.178	+0.18	e2e4 e7e5 Bf1c4 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 OO Bf8c5 Nb1c3 OO d2d3 d7d6 Bc1e3 Bc5xe3 f2xe3 Bc8e6 Bc4xe6 f7xe6
 16/39	00:03	   4.248.704	7.120.316	+0.10	e2e4 e7e5 Bf1c4 Nb8c6 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 OO Bf8c5 Nb1c3 OO d2d3 d7d6 Bc1e3 Bc5xe3 f2xe3 Bc8g4 Qd1e2
 16/39	00:06	   7.790.094	7.061.144	+0.16	Ng1f3 d7d5 d2d4 Ng8f6 e2e3 Nb8c6 Nb1c3 e7e6 Bf1d3 Bf8d6 OO OO Bc1d2 Nc6b4 Bd3b5 Bc8d7
 17/39	00:12	  14.370.622	7.080.868	+0.10	Ng1f3 Ng8f6 d2d4 e7e6 Nb1c3 Nb8c6 e2e4 Bf8b4 Bf1d3 d7d5 e4xd5 e6xd5 OO OO Bc1g5 Bb4xc3 b2xc3 Rf8e8 Rf1e1
 17/39	00:18	  21.796.565	7.041.420	+0.38	e2e4 e7e5 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 Nf3xe5 Qd8e7 Ne5f3 Nf6xe4 Bf1e2 d7d5 d2d3 Ne4f6 OO Nb8c6 Nb1c3 Bc8e6 d3d4 OOO Bc1f4
 18/41	00:21	  25.904.523	7.083.686	+0.26	e2e4 e7e5 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 Nf3xe5 Qd8e7 Ne5f3 Qe7xe4+ Bf1e2 Nb8c6 Nb1c3 Qe4e6 OO Bf8b4 Nc3b5 Ke8d8 Rf1e1 Rh8e8 c2c3 Bb4c5
 19/43	00:34	  41.464.790	7.171.946	+0.32	e2e4 e7e5 Ng1f3 Ng8f6 Nf3xe5 d7d6 Ne5f3 Nf6xe4 Nb1c3 Ne4xc3 d2xc3 Nb8c6 Bf1d3 Bf8e7 OO OO Bc1f4 Bc8e6 Rf1e1 Rf8e8 Qd1d2 Qd8d7
 20/44	01:03	  76.961.527	7.230.708	+0.25	e2e4 e7e5 Ng1f3 Nb8c6 Bf1b5 a7a6 Bb5xc6 d7xc6 OO Bc8g4 h2h3 Bg4xf3 Qd1xf3 Ng8f6 Qf3b3 Ra8b8 Nb1c3 Bf8c5 d2d3 OO Bc1e3 Qd8d6
 21/44	01:34	 114.592.614	7.242.048	+0.25	e2e4 e7e5 Ng1f3 Nb8c6 Bf1b5 a7a6 Bb5xc6 d7xc6 OO Bc8g4 h2h3 Bg4xf3 Qd1xf3 Ng8f6 Nb1c3 Qd8d6 d2d3 Bf8e7 Bc1g5 OO Bg5xf6 Be7xf6 Qf3e3 h7h5
 22/49	02:42	 195.903.930	7.256.222	+0.23	e2e4 e7e5 Ng1f3 Nb8c6 Bf1b5 a7a6 Bb5xc6 d7xc6 OO Bc8g4 h2h3 Bg4xf3 Qd1xf3 Ng8f6 d2d3 Bf8c5 Nb1d2 OO Nd2c4 Nf6d7 Bc1e3 Bc5xe3 Qf3xe3 b7b5 Nc4d2

[Manicdan]

are you volts really 1.46? what happens when turbo kicks in, does it jump to 1.5+ or stays at 1.46?

[ridney]

yep, the voltage you set in bios is for all cores at load. mine's 1.475v in bios and 1.468v~ on load shown in cpuz. when turbo it's about +0.1v (1.575v) cpu calculates desired voltage depending on clock speed, maybe

[Manicdan]

o sweet, turbo actually modifies what you set, relative to what you set.
im struggling to give myself any reason not to get one of these right when they come out, even though i wouldnt use it for anything other than its turbo feature for WoW (250$ is alot for 20% better fps, lol)

[Polizei]

It'll be an upgrade for me, considering I've got an E6600 from release day back in August of 2006. I'm switching to AMD for nothing other than they're cheaper than Intel.

Any idea on 890FX motherboard prices?

[ridney]

890FX would be much lesser than intel boards. top end would be around $200 range

[initialised]

ASUS CrossHair iV is going for £160-190. But you don't need FX for overclocking, Thuban plays nice on 760G boards and upwards. Should have one soon.

[ridney]

windows experience anyone?

[-=[kz-0]=-]

@Ridney
nice results you got there..is it a retail chip??is 4ghz doable on air??i see you're using heaps of voltage there..

[andy_satriani]

we have the same cpu score ridney .
what harddrive are u using, my wdc only got 5.4 .

[Postmodum]

pretty cool score!

With my i7 920 @ 3.8Ghz, 6Gb DDR3 Dominators at 1603Mhz 8-8-8-24 1T and my GTX 295 687Mhz Core

so, for comparison i get:

CPU: 7.6
MEM: 7.9
Graphics: 7.7
Gaming Graphics: 7.7


and in Cinebench i get 6.51 CPU & 45.30 GPU score.


So, really cool indeed. Are your cpu's overclocked, or are those default speed scores?

[ridney]

@Ridney
nice results you got there..is it a retail chip??is 4ghz doable on air??i see you're using heaps of voltage there..

yes, it's a retail chip and 4ghz stable is possible. voltage is dynamic which depending on clocks, would clockdown before it undervolts so on that ss it just clocked down from 3.7ghz.

we have the same cpu score ridney .
what harddrive are u using, my wdc only got 5.4 .

cool score! i wonder if we can still improve on the cpu score i'm running a wdc 640gb blue two in raid 0

pretty cool score!

With my i7 920 @ 3.8Ghz, 6Gb DDR3 Dominators at 1603Mhz 8-8-8-24 1T and my GTX 295 687Mhz Core

so, for comparison i get:

CPU: 7.6
MEM: 7.9
Graphics: 7.7
Gaming Graphics: 7.7


and in Cinebench i get 6.51 CPU & 45.30 GPU score.


So, really cool indeed. Are your cpu's overclocked, or are those default speed scores?

Almost identical score with the i7 920 My cinebench score is 6.8 CPU at 3.8ghz IIRC

Yes, it is oc'd to 3.7ghz and 4.37ghz turbo

[Postmodum]

Finally AMD can go head to head with i7's! cool!

[initialised]

yes, it's a retail chip and 4ghz stable is possible.

Can you get a 20+ LinX screenshot please?

[ridney]

Can you get a 20+ LinX screenshot please?

i don't run linx and prime because i hate stressing my system, but i feel and strongly believe you can hit 4ghz prime/linx stable "easily" on thubans.

[Praz]

i feel and strongly believe you can hit 4ghz prime/linx stable "easily" on thubans.

20 passes on LinX using 8GB of memory is no problem at 4HGz.

[initialised]

20 passes on LinX using 8GB of memory is no problem at 4HGz.

And the screenshot that proves it is where?

[Praz]

And the screenshot that proves it is where?

On my hard drive till the NDA is lifted.

[RaV[666]]

So whats max stable clock on air Praz ? You already told 4ghz is "no problem" so maybe even higher

[chinobino]

...switching to AMD for nothing other than they're cheaper than Intel.

I think a lot of people will jump ship for the 6 core AMD chips.

The pricing is very reasonable - AMD really stand to gain some market share in desktop CPU's.

This is the most interesting thread I have read in a long time - thanks for sharing your hard work ridney

[ridney]

So whats max stable clock on air Praz ? You already told 4ghz is "no problem" so maybe even higher

so 4ghz is still not enough for you? i think you need to get an x6 and see for yourself

I think a lot of people will jump ship for the 6 core AMD chips.

The pricing is very reasonable - AMD really stand to gain some market share in desktop CPU's.

This is the most interesting thread I have read in a long time - thanks for sharing your hard work ridney

hey i'm glad it was interesting