[AwardFabrik] SandyBridge 2600K @5589 MHZ - first run air & compressorcooled

[SoF]

Just first 32M on air ... and cpu can do it at +5550Mhz

Are the shown RAM timings correct? That would be wow

[Pt1t]

Yes , it same DDR3 that i used here : http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=264859

[SoF]

wow very nice kit which seems to be perfect for sandy - seems I need to test some more ram

[@rne]

If you would have read my last RAM reviews sof, you wouldnt be surprised :-P
All better PSC based kits can do this with ease.

[SBB]

Got mine today ... L040B165

Hoping for good results, at work on a night shift atm

[boblemagnifique]

Just first 32M on air ... and cpu can do it at +5550Mhz

Sub 6m Bro !! Sub 6m Bro or I will resume overclocking between hysterical bi**hes

[SoF]

fighting with that last seconds also now...got new ram and that helps quite a bit!

6min 6s 703ms @5558 MHZ RAM 1078 9-10-8-24-1T a supertalent kit...

[Hondacity]

nice to know supertalent works...wooo

[SoF]

They work for sure better than my old hyper kits from mushkin



but after let's say 3-4 hours the system seems to get unstable with high ram and high mhz near limit and will only work below 5.5....I need to let it rest a bit and next day it goes 5550+ cpu 2150+ ram again...reminds me a bit of GT

[tiborrr]

P67A-UD3 F6a. I'm gonna try the hard way this weekend, cascade If it fails on me I'll just open lo-hi bypass valve. If it still fails I'll get it under single-stager

[SoF]

good luck dude!! until now I saw them workin but not scaling under cascade

[Johnny87au]

2100 @ Cas 6 nice!

[PytonOrm]

P67A-UD3P F6a beta bios@2600K Batch #L040B225 @5Ghz@vcore 1.45v bios stock cooler@8gb Kingston HyperX Cl 9-9-9-24

http://img266.imageshack.us/f/2600k5...superpi1m.jpg/

my first touch with sandy bridge and cheap motherboard

max multiplier in bios X58 right now thats should do nice numbers with cold like dry ice / Ln2

[SoF]

max multiplier in bios X58 right now thats should do nice numbers with cold like dry ice / Ln2

you already heard of sandy not liking DICE or LN2 for the moment? when you are lucky and have a good watercooling and winter outside you are very often able to max out the chips - a singlestage helps for running some high vcore on benches but it will raise your clocks minimal (1% max - at least for me and some others without somebody showing us some new bios- or hardmod-wuuzaaa )

[Afrokalle]

fighting with that last seconds also now...got new ram and that helps quite a bit!

6min 6s 703ms @5558 MHZ RAM 1078 9-10-8-24-1T a supertalent kit...

I think someone have to say now: "sorry, i was wrong"

[trans am]

Yeah I can say 1.6V on singlestage is safe for benching 01-06 as well as of course 1m, 32m, pifast and wprime32m. Been testing for some days now and no issues so far.
For Vantage and wprime1024 I usually go down to around 1.55-1.58 just to be sure.

Also some hints collected for the single stage benchers:

- at the very beginning (first turning on ss and waiting until ~-40°C) the CPU might be very unpredictable --> don't get in a hurry then, let it idle in bios for 1-2 minutes, and then boot from the bios with previously applied settings --> should boot then
- maybe you face lock-ups with "63" "78" or "20" on the postcode --> check your rams / vccsa then --> even the cpu does 1866 or 2133 ram on air, maybe it won't under ss (unfortunatly that is one of my biggest problems)
- usually the border between boot and no boot / hard mhz wall is just 0.1 MHZ bclk speed --> it is not directly related to how high your multiplier goes
+ e.g. : 55x100 = boot and all benches | then 56x100 = freeze during windows bootscreen (typical -> best way to test is xp loading bar) | then 56x99 = boot | 59x99.5=boot | 59x99.9 = freeze | 59x99.8 = boot and most benches = absolut max without any new tweaks in bios

its so sad that SOF had to even make this guide for measly ss. Is intel on a cold ban?

[SoF]

Is intel on a cold ban?

for the moment I think they are - haven't seen a cpu yet that does more than 100 mhz more compared to air/water. the highest clocks we've seen are on air - pretty sad for the extreme community
massive cpu binning on air seems to be everything you need to do to get some top10 scores in pifast and 32m...well I hoped for more after initial testing but for now sandy is badly "hard-walled"...