Official Intel Gulftown (Westmere) Overclocking and Batch Tracking Thread

[Movieman]

thats one ugly board
can it overclock

That's sacriledge!
No, can't overclock at all.
Run's the old Pentium Pros at 50mhz..

[zsamz_]

That's sacriledge!
No, can't overclock at all.
Run's the old Pentium Pros at 50mhz..

it would look better if it could take 2 980x cpus
since it dont its oooooogly

[Movieman]

it would look better if it could take 2 980x cpus
since it dont its oooooogly

Does it look better to you now?

[zsamz_]

Does it look better to you now?

omg looks like a witch full of warts

funny i can run mine @ 4.4 on air n wont pass 60c

[Movieman]

omg looks like a witch full of warts

funny i can run mine @ 4.4 on air n wont pass 60c

1) You don't have TWO of them sitting 2-3 inches apart
2) Warts huh? Excuse me while I go into the Admin CP and
"modify" your account!

[zsamz_]

1) You don't have TWO of them sitting 2-3 inches apart
2) Warts huh? Excuse me while I go into the Admin CP and
"modify" your account!

omg you modified my account
"talkin to fugger" gettin you banned

i was prepin the 980x for wgc i guess i'll save my electricity now:P:

[systemviper]

Does it look better to you now?

Damn someone woke up the Kracken!

[systemviper]

omg you modified my account
"talkin to fugger" gettin you banned

i was prepin the 980x for wgc i guess i'll save my electricity now:P:

Damn someone's throwin down the smak but using
wcg as the stick isn't to cool

PS, me lovezzz that SR2 to

[Movieman]

Damn someone's throwin down the smak but using
wcg as the stick isn't to cool

PS, me lovezzz that SR2 to

The shame is I was going to box up the SR2 rig and send it to him but since he doesn't like it I guess I have to keep it.

Damn,he threatened me with WCG?
That's it, now he's gone over the line!
Time for a new title!

[systemviper]

i drive over and pick up that SR2, you won't even have to spend postage....

sound good ?

[zsamz_]

i drive over and pick up that SR2, you won't even have to spend postage....

sound good ?

i'm sure dave will lend it to ya as long as you run some wgc
just dont make it

dave it suks runnin wgc with only 12 threads lol

[Xtreme Addict]

I have bad luck

Firstly my A0 Westmere died few months ago, later I got some i7 980X B1 ES'es which are crappy My first retail box i7 980x has got Cold Bug at - 110*C and was crappy, second retail box died after 15 minutes, third retail box is the most crappy Gulftown which I ever have got and my forth retail box is dead out of box, never used...

Can someone beat me?

[eva2000]

I have bad luck

Firstly my A0 Westmere died few months ago, later I got some i7 980X B1 ES'es which are crappy My first retail box i7 980x has got Cold Bug at - 110*C and was crappy, second retail box died after 15 minutes, third retail box is the most crappy Gulftown which I ever have got and my forth retail box is dead out of box, never used...

Can someone beat me?

WTH, that's crazy! Which oc'ing GOD did you piss off ? Maybe should stay away from 980x for now.

[SteveRo]

@Miravo - +1 with eva2k - i think you need to try your hand at a diff. cpu for a while.
Did you check your mobo socket? - make sure no bent pins?

[Splave]

LN2 Valid = http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1129900
# 3003B287 | Core i7 980X [6C 6T] @ 6629.6MHz | 1.84 | ASUS RIIIE

[kill_a_wat]

I have bad luck

Firstly my A0 Westmere died few months ago, later I got some i7 980X B1 ES'es which are crappy My first retail box i7 980x has got Cold Bug at - 110*C and was crappy, second retail box died after 15 minutes, third retail box is the most crappy Gulftown which I ever have got and my forth retail box is dead out of box, never used...

Can someone beat me?

Well at least you get to try another one after RMA, the more you try the better chance you have to get a better one heh

[zalbard]

LN2 Valid = http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1129900
# 3003B287 | Core i7 980X [6C 6T] @ 6629.6MHz | 1.84 | ASUS RIIIE

Cheers, added!

[Xtreme Addict]

@Miravo - +1 with eva2k - i think you need to try your hand at a diff. cpu for a while.
Did you check your mobo socket? - make sure no bent pins?

I have a lot of boards bro and those CPUs die / are dead on different boards

What is really interesting, the forth boots ONLY on Rampage II Extreme but it CAN'T ENTER OS, on other boards (even on other Asus boards like R3E, P6T DLX, P6T WS PRO it doesn't boot at all).

I am waiting for new i7 980x, my last chance and if it fails, I am going to play with 1156 and AM3

[DEVIL K-ce]

Michal

I'm also with Eva and SteveRo, You dont have hand to this cpu How can You kill so many 980 ? I push vcore above 1.9v to gulf and it's still a live. One from my test, go to owner and die in about two weeks, hmm dual core without ht can easy do this ? Maybe its good time to try something "new" like you said 1156. But I think Michal, You can show something on amd

Go

[Xtreme Addict]

Marcin

My ES i7 980x B1 which got even up to 2.1 vcore, worked on 1,2 cores etc. is still alive... and it is one of my first Gulftowns... Other ES i7 980x B1 which were tortured in the same way (maybe not 2.1 vcore but 2.0v ) are also completely alive and I use them for few months. Those retails are one big sh*t... this is just a joke... Intel come on... give us new revision... all my Gulftowns worked on the same motherboards... it's not my fault (maybe I don't have skill for overclocking but I know how to boot up CPU at default ) and not other hardware... one retail is still working though. From other topics I can see that those retails are VERY VERY fragile even more than C2D E8xxx series which I killed >30.

[radaja]

can i ask you guys what the average stock vcore you guys are seeing with your i7-980x's?
just curious as to some of the 980's posted here and what their vid's were?

[SteveRo]

I have been benching my 980 at up to 1.6 vcore under chilled water (4.8 linx stable ht off).
Folks under ln2 or cascade often report much higher - 1.7 to 1.8+

[radaja]

no i mean the stock vcore for your cpu's at defaults 3.3Ghz,what the MB sets for auto at stock

[SteveRo]

no i mean the stock vcore for your cpu's at defaults 3.3Ghz,what the MB sets for auto at stock

cpuz says stock "core voltage" is 0.928v

edit - under 100% linx load cpuz reads 1.136v

[radaja]

cool thanks.so your is probably around 1.16v
mine is 1,19v and load gives me 1.16v

EDIT-actually i was looking at some of your SS in the other thread and ET6
shows your stock vcore as 1.06875v,wow you have a nice chip