Official Intel Gulftown (Westmere) Overclocking and Batch Tracking Thread

[SteveRo]

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

Thanks, but I do not have any phase cooling yet - those runs where with chilled water - 2x boreas in series to an apogee XT block.

[Johnmark]

Spec: SLBUZ
Batch: 3005F729
Win7 x64
Asus Rampage II Gene
Water Cooled





Hopefully she will produce well on WCG.

[kill_a_wat]

Good to see more non-3003B 980s join the thread. Thanks for sharing

[Johnmark]

Good to see more non-3003B 980s join the thread. Thanks for sharing

So far I like the CPU, seems to be a good batch to me? Above is my 24/7 setup, nothing extreme yet. Will be putting this CPU into a Rampage Extreme III as soon as I get a WB for the board.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

So far I like the CPU, seems to be a good batch to me? Above is my 24/7 setup, nothing extreme yet. Will be putting this CPU into a Rampage Extreme III as soon as I get a WB for the board.

seems like a lot of volts for 4.3

[kill_a_wat]

So far I like the CPU, seems to be a good batch to me? Above is my 24/7 setup, nothing extreme yet. Will be putting this CPU into a Rampage Extreme III as soon as I get a WB for the board.

That CPU seems ok. The worst I've seen does 4.2Ghz @ 1.38v.

[Johnmark]

seems like a lot of volts for 4.3

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best at OCing Intel's. So I may be able to get more out of it. But I'm satisfied with this as a 24/7 setup, especially given the low CPU temps at this voltage and speed.
Anyone know of a GOOD document on how best to OC this chip with the REIII?
I've read numerous documents but have not found one that I thought was real good.

[sniper_sung]

Batch: 3013A524
Motherboard: ASUS P6TD Deluxe
Cooling: Air - Venomous X + single Akasa 12cm 1200rpm upwards pulling out of Antec 1200

Still haven't tried higher stable frequencies. Throttling of multiplier is noticed when temperature goes above 70C when ambient temperature is high.

[kill_a_wat]

Good to see you got stability with 4ghz sniper thanks for sharing

[SteveRo]

Looking good sniper - keep it up!

[sniper_sung]

Good to see you got stability with 4ghz sniper thanks for sharing

So finally I decided to break the virginity of this 980X and went above 1.375v...

Looking good sniper - keep it up!

Thanks I just copied somewhat similar voltage from your screenshot and got a semi stable run with really small problem size lol

[rjkoneill]

^ you are on water right?

[sniper_sung]

^ you are on water right?

If you mean me, nope everything was on air... I myself was on sweat (water if you mean). The rig increased my room temperature to around 27C... Almost activated the fire alarm lol... I just dare not torture my chip longer like that. Back to stock frequency and stock voltage now

[kpablo]

Ok, mine should be with here possibly tomorrow (980X)...

Any different parameter to consider when overclocking with this Gulftown's compared to Bloomfield's? or they are same?

As far i know... Uncore can be 1.5x of the memory frequency... anything else to know?

Thanks for the advice.

[andressergio]

So finally I decided to break the virginity of this 980X and went above 1.375v...



Thanks I just copied somewhat similar voltage from your screenshot and got a semi stable run with really small problem size lol

very nice mate

[Johnny87au]

If you mean me, nope everything was on air... I myself was on sweat (water if you mean). The rig increased my room temperature to around 27C... Almost activated the fire alarm lol... I just dare not torture my chip longer like that. Back to stock frequency and stock voltage now

ur using a 980x at stock? Should of got a bloomfield 930 then hehe, Why dont u run a 4.0ghz stable clock for 24/7 use?

[sniper_sung]

ur using a 980x at stock? Should of got a bloomfield 930 then hehe, Why dont u run a 4.0ghz stable clock for 24/7 use?

With turbo boost my 980X at stock can do 3.6GHz for single-threaded programs, which is a lot better than a 930 at stock

For 4.0GHz stable I need 1.25v, which increases the maximum temperature to 60C under load, and exceeding 70C along with those graphics cards stressed at the same time. (Everything is on air)

Thus the performance gain of 10% is not worth the OC from stock.

By the way, 980X has 2 more cores and is 50% faster than a Bloomfield at the same frequency, for my MATLAB programs.

[kpablo]

Mine is Batch 3005F801, currently testing @ stock...

By the way... how accurate is Core Temp for Gulftown? Max temp seeing while running LinX is 36C... Watercooled, and at 23C case temp. HT enabled.

[CARLOS*A1]

My new i7 980X box retail FPO 3005F584 is dead after 15 min of using

+1.


My i7 980X Retail dead after 20 minutes.

Mine also happened the same, with six cores and HT ON, 20 minutes, 3005F725 FPO Retail, and Amazon.com is making me change

[Voodoo Hoodoo]

Just got my 980X and UD9 today.

Batch is 3005F584.

SLBUZ COSTA RICA.

Will report once the cooling setup arrives and I'll start torture testing ~ 3 weeks.

[Jp7]

+1.


My i7 980X Retail dead after 20 minutes.

Mine also happened the same, with six cores and HT ON, 20 minutes, 3005F725 FPO Retail, and Amazon.com is making me change

batch\fpo F = fragile
first batch\fpo are very fragile the newest aren't so bad

[Daddyjaxx]

Asus Rampage III Extreme
EK HF Gold on RX360 with DD 18w 355

[CARLOS*A1]

Some results

Superpi


Superpi


Superpi


3DMark Vantage


3DMark 2006
http://service.futuremark.com/home.action

Batch: 3005F725
Motherboard: Gigabyte UD7 X58
Cooling: Air Noctua NH-14 and 3DMark 06 y Vantage
Dry Ice and Superpi.

[Jp7]

Some results

nice, batch? cooling?

[BenchZowner]

3005F210 [ dead & gone in the beginning of its 2nd LN2 session ]
LN2, AquaMark 3: 6500MHz @ 6c12t @ 1.85V ( should be able to bench it even higher with more voltage or HT off, unfortunately the chip died, only had one short session with it )
LN2, 3D Mark Vantage: 6.05GHz @ 1.85V

3020A457 #1
LN2, PiFast max 6.05GHz
Nice CBB ( -150C ) & CB ( -175C ), pretty high for triple channel, crappy clocking & voltage scaling

3020A457 #2
LN2, AquaMark 3 max 6GHz @ 1.88V @ -120C
LN2, 3D Mark Vantage max 5.67GHz @ 1.75V @ -103C [ more voltage didn't help, lower temp later on didn't help as well ]
CBB -112C, CB -128C @ dual channel

I don't have any screenshots from the 3020's because I just gave those a quick shot to check how they clock, wasted 8L, and then I decided to keep the LN2 to test another 980X later.
Screenshots from my 3005F210 can be found in my thread @ Xtreme Overclocking, search with the keyword "palinka"