Retail i965 Extreme - 5GHz reached / 4,7GHz Vantage done

[Monstru]

Holidays are a good time of the year, mostly for eating season goodies, meet with friends and relatives, and have some good old Christmas spirit. Well, sometimes holidays are also good for a little bit of LN2 action, just to stimulate the part of the brain in charge of overclocking. So, along with my buddy Micutzu, we had some fun today with a retail Core i7 965 Extreme.

Setup

Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition
Duniek CPU Pot
Gigabyte GA-X58 Extreme
3 x 1GB DDR3 Kingston
3 x Gigabyte GTX280
Seventeam 1200W




The clocks

Cold Bug - -110oC
Coold Boot - -85oC
Vcore - 1.55v-1.65v


Valid - 5008MHz (15th i7 on HWB, not a bad puppy, no?)

SuperPI 1M- 4914MHz - 8.584s


WPrime 32M - 4850MHz - 5.143s


3DMark Vantage - 4700MHz


Well, we mostly benched Vantage to see how high the CPU can take it, without some serious VGA cooling there is no outstanding result coming out of this. The result from today (CPU @ 4700MHz / GPU @ 725MHz was weaker then my last run, (CPU @ 4400MHz / GPU @ 755MHz). Both results are not quite worthy (darn I need 3 TEK 9's), but then again...pretty interesting for VGA's on air, with stock cooling What is very interesting from my point of view is the clocks this CPU can handle with Vantage. 4700 MHz (I also had succes at 4730) seems like a respectable clock for Vantage, so I am pleased with this CPU.



That being said, I wish you all a Happy New Year and lot of fun at New Year's Eve

[dan7777]

nice results man

[eva2000]

Congrats

[TheKarmakazi]

Nice chip! How is it for 32M?

Which pot of dunieks did you use? Mine swung to much under loads, and couldnt hold wprime 1024M at all (just kept getting warmer till bsod)

[Borys]

Nice results & stuff :]

[Monstru]

Thx guys


The pot I use is the classic Bullet, I have it for quite a while now. I got very used to it and I really like benching with it. For comparison, F1 EE is a monster compared to this, much slower and much more stable, but god forbid you go into cold-bug, it takes ages to get back even with a blow dryer. This one on the other hand, it's not plug & play like F1, you have to constantly pour LN2, but it is very fast, so you cand adjust things very easy (hotter or colder) very fast. I guess I just got used to it too much

[AKHandyman]

What does something like that go for? I would love to try that someday ... once I get my shop built for The Computer Cabin.

[Monstru]

You mean the price for the pot? You can shoot Duniek a PM for more info, they are not that expensive.