Intel 4.5GHz & 5GHz LinX Stable Club

[LennyRhys]

Thanks for the advice donmarkoni. The frustrating thing about LinX is that anybody can easily compete 20 passes with different degrees of stability, from very weak to very strong, and I now see why zoson wanted GFlops included in every submission because with AVX it is a completely different kettle of fish. This has become more like Core2 overclocking and I love it - it's much harder to achieve "optimal" stability and there's much more tweaking required.

I made a little more progress with 4.6GHz 12 threads by pushing CPU to 1.5v with QPI at 1.35v, but it's still very finnicky.

And, annoyingly, my 4.5GHz run above with the exact same settings and voltages now gives me 75 GFlops even after being very stable for an hour... lol. At least I got it once, lol... LinX is actually a pain in the a$$.

[zoson]

Thanks for the advice donmarkoni. The frustrating thing about LinX is that anybody can easily compete 20 passes with different degrees of stability, from very weak to very strong, and I now see why zoson wanted GFlops included in every submission because with AVX it is a completely different kettle of fish. This has become more like Core2 overclocking and I love it - it's much harder to achieve "optimal" stability and there's much more tweaking required.

I made a little more progress with 4.6GHz 12 threads by pushing CPU to 1.5v with QPI at 1.35v, but it's still very finnicky.

And, annoyingly, my 4.5GHz run above with the exact same settings and voltages now gives me 75 GFlops even after being very stable for an hour... lol. At least I got it once, lol... LinX is actually a pain in the a$$.

You can eliminate the fluctuations by using diagnostic mode. The reason is because diagnostic mode prevents all services from starting, except those that are required for the system to work.

Many services are on a delayed start, and will only start after the system has been idle. So you can do a LinX and get high GFlops, but then if you let your computer sit for a few minutes, and test again... You will have low GFlops because a bunch of services have started and are now using your resources. I always test in diagnostic mode for best results.

I want to test HT off, but I've been so busy with work. I also need to take apart my machine to dust the radiators... It's been several months and i'm positive they're covered in dust now. That's like an 8+ hour job.