***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[zoson]

Zoson you got a good point about standardizing the test size. Does your guys' OS have enough free memory to test 5120MB? I'm a weirdo and like to test 'whole' gigabytes and I believe 5120MB is exactly 5GB. And how about 10 loops instead of 20? Maybe 10 loops for 12GB runs since it takes so much longer and 20 loops for 6GB?

And I'm with Cryptik on having separate categories for 6GB and 12GB. It's the fair way to do it. And I somehow accumulated 30GB of Hypers so I'm down to do some 12GB testing myself ha.

Thanks for the kind words and wishful thinking fellas. What's bothering me the most is the fact I never pushed the chip outside it's limits, and it still died. Feels like a waste. I really really hope they send me a good batch. But judging from my past experience, I'm not trying to get my hopes up. I feel Intel purposely sends THE worst batch they have on file when you do an RMA.

P.S. Cryptik - I just saw your edit about the AirFlow Module. So at 60% it keeps 12GB warm to the touch? And that's while benching right? If so it seems like you got good airflow in your case, so no need to watercool them.

And for your run I saw you had memory at 7-8-7-20. Have you tried 7-7-7-21? What's the difference in GFLOPS?

The issue with 12GB memory is you have to set 9216 or less to get full GFlops with HT on. So we can never really tell what kind of performance we could really extract out of 12GB, unless HT is disabled. Also... People with 12GB memory can easily just select 5120 and run loops... We want to get an easy to relate performance measurement against each other... Not a bunch of different categories that make it difficult to relate each other's performance!

I think it's also important to set a high speed requirement, to keep everyone in the same scaling area. Since performance scales worse at higher clockspeeds. Sorry Cryptik. It's also so I won't have to maintain a TON of entries... 4GHz is super easy to hit nowdays.

I've kind of envisioned this club to be everything the 4.5ghz club wasn't...

This is what I had in mind:
The High Performance Club
Welcome to the club for overclockers that maintain high performance along with high frequencies!


How it works:
HT ON and HT OFF results are ranked by Peak GFlops.
Low clock 100 GFlop results are ranked as a function of GFlops/GHz(Rating).
Only the highest performance entry per category will be kept per user.

General Rules that apply to all categories:
1. You need LinX to submit an entry.
2. You must be using the latest Linpack libraries.
3. You must have at least 6GB memory installed in the system.
4. All memory channels must be in use.
5a. Bloomfield/Gulftown/Lynnfield must be above 4500MHz and 85GFlops.
5b. Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge must be above 5000MHz and 110GFlops.
6. CPUz must be visible. If your voltage does not show, list your vBIOS in your post.
7. CPU-Tweaker must be open showing sub timings.

Additional HT ON Rules:
1. Linx must be running/calculating the 21st or higher loop.
2a. Bloomfield/Gulftown memory size must be set to 5120, regardless of your overall memory capacity.
2b. Lynnfield/Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge memory size must be set to 7168, regardless of your overall memory capacity.

Additional HT OFF Rules:
1. Memory size must be set to max capacity - 1024. (So if you have 12GB, 11264MB)
2a. Linx must be running/calculating the 21st or higher loop for less than 8192MB memory.
2b. Linx must be running/calculating the 11th or higher loop for more than 8192MB memory.

Low clock 100GFlop rules:
1. HT OFF only.
2. Results must be less than 101GFlops (100.9999 is fine).
3. No more than half of your loops may drop below 100GFlops.
4. Linx must be running/calculating the 21st or higher loop.
5a. Bloomfield/Gulftown memory size must be set to 5120, regardless of your overall memory capacity.
5b. Lynnfield/Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge memory size must be set to 7168, regardless of your overall memory capacity.

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Bloomfield/Gulftown/Lynnfield

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Bloomfield/Gulftown/Lynnfield - HT ON

Rank	User Name	CPU Type	Rating	Peak GFlops	Speed(MHz)
1	MrTOOSHORT	i7 990x	19.98	92.1319	4610.5
2	donmarkoni	i7 980x	19.94	91.9528	4610.8
3	zoson	i7 980x	19.64	91.5017	4657.9
4	spoolindsm127	i7 980x	19.22	86.6040	4504.9

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Bloomfield/Gulftown/Lynnfield - HT OFF

Rank	User Name	CPU Type	Rating	Peak GFlops	Speed(MHz)
1	zoson	i7 970	21.74	100.2570	4611.0
2	donmarkoni	i7 980x	21.98	100.2397	4560.0
3	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
4	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed

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Bloomfield/Gulftown/Lynnfield - Low clock 100 GFlop

Rank	User Name	CPU Type	Rating	Peak GFlops	Speed(MHz)
1	donmarkoni	i7 980x	21.98	100.2397	4560.0
2	zoson	i7 970	21.74	100.2570	4611.0
3	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
4	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed

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Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge

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Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge - HT ON

Rank	User Name	CPU Type	Rating	Peak GFlops	Speed(MHz)
1	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
2	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
3	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
4	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed

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Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge - HT OFF

Rank	User Name	CPU Type	Rating	Peak GFlops	Speed(MHz)
1	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
2	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
3	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
4	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed

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Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge - Low clock 100 GFlop

Rank	User Name	CPU Type	Rating	Peak GFlops	Speed(MHz)
1	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
2	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
3	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed
4	name	CPU Type	Rating	GFlops	Speed