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So now that I've had my current rig for a while, my wife has finally stopped twitching when she hears the word "overclock". Since she has an Associates in IT, and deals with PEBKAC all day, it's no real surprise that the concept of tweaking and tinkering being done by other people makes her a little nervous, but still, it's nice to get to play with performance more.
EVGA X58 FTW3
i7 930 @ 3.8 w/ Hyper212+
6GB OCZ Reaper @1600 CL7
2x EVGA 1GB 460 SLI @ 800mhz core
Crucial C300 64GB Boot
Samsung Spinpoint 500GB 7200rpm Storage
Antec Lanboy Air (Semi-Reviewed in another Blog post)
Win7 Home Premium x64
The awesome thing is, I got a decently binned chip, with a 1ghz overnight p95 stable OC with teeny overvolts. I just woke up, and found that. If you like tinkering and benchies, or whatever else, feel free to keep an eye out as I post up some benchmarks throughout the day.
Current plan is to get Furmark and 3Dmark Basic scores, time a handbrake encode of some 1080p FRAPs footage, and maybe get some FPS numbers from Crysis Warhead and SC2. Stick around, suggest tests, or just bitch about me using 1366 because Sandy Bridge wasn't out when my old PC died.
Furmark Score
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3DMark11: P7043. Graphics: 7282 Physics: 7202
3DMark Vantage: GPU 27939 CPU 18065 P24580
Unfortunately I think that's pretty much slammed me facefirst into the max my cooling can handle reasonably, with the new clock on the GPU's, and my CPU isn't going higher without massively more volts. RAM is pretty much as fast as it's getting too. But hey, P6926 is pretty sexy, IMO.
  
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Updated with PCMark score
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nice score, what would be an "above average" score and vise versa?
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On June 11 2011 12:32 TadH wrote:
nice score, what would be an "above average" score and vise versa?
Eh, average? Not sure. I just compare it to scores on other systems when those benchies are used.
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On June 11 2011 13:17 JingleHell wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2011 12:32 TadH wrote:
nice score, what would be an "above average" score and vise versa? Eh, average? Not sure. I just compare it to scores on other systems when those benchies are used.
I ended up with 24812.
How do I compare that to other systems?
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On June 11 2011 13:37 TadH wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2011 13:17 JingleHell wrote:On June 11 2011 12:32 TadH wrote:
nice score, what would be an "above average" score and vise versa? Eh, average? Not sure. I just compare it to scores on other systems when those benchies are used. I ended up with 24812. How do I compare that to other systems?
Well, some review sites will post scores from futuremark benchies, and I believe after you run a bench with it, it gives you an option to see scores online. Haven't fiddled with the website much though.
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Woot successfully overclocked to 4.6ghz, stable at 45~50 degrees.
However windows does not detect the overclock, i assumed it was because intel auto throttles the speed, so i turned that speedstep off in the bios, but still no go.
Any ideas?
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Windows doesn't need to know your clock speed. Ignore it entirely.
How long did you run your stability test? Have you run a decent memtest86 run yet?
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On June 14 2011 07:32 JingleHell wrote:
Windows doesn't need to know your clock speed. Ignore it entirely.
How long did you run your stability test? Have you run a decent memtest86 run yet?
I ran 3dmark06 until it finished.
I ran prime 95 for 3ish hours.
Downloading the trial of 3dmark11 as we speak.
I havent been able to do a mem test yet.
edit: in cpuz its still showing that its being throttled, from a 46 multiplier down to 16...
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Does it throttle while you're loading it? Your P95 run should be a minimum of 6 hours before you call it stable, I've had blue screens after 3-4 hours before.
Memtest86 should go for at least 4 passes, I generally shoot for 6-8.
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On June 14 2011 07:45 JingleHell wrote:
Does it throttle while you're loading it? Your P95 run should be a minimum of 6 hours before you call it stable, I've had blue screens after 3-4 hours before.
Memtest86 should go for at least 4 passes, I generally shoot for 6-8.
If I were to re-run the windows index thing (i know its shitty) cpuz shows it at 4.6ghz. So I know its oc'd.
whatever maybe ill just leave it like this. Less power consumption etc
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windows index is retarded. p95 should be how you load it to test anything.
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So after getting un-lazy, and working on my OC for real some, I'm currently running a stability test on 3.6ghz, still stock volts. Only concern is my NB is starting to get fairly toasty. Still running safe, but I'm not sure how much higher I'm going to be able to go without adding a fan to that heatsink. (Bloody passives.)
CPU temps are golden though.
Beautiful, 3DMark11 Basic kicked up to P6701. Wonder how much higher I can squeeze this puppy.
3.8 boots at stock volts. Shame it BSODs in P95. Oh well, what my wife doesn't know about my voltages won't hurt me. Not like a single notch on vcore and +50mv on VTT is going to cause a global meltdown, right?
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I thought this would be a blog about messing with your younger sister.
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On June 21 2011 08:23 igotmyown wrote:
I thought this would be a blog about messing with your younger sister.
That would be evidence of a diseased and useless mind. Cheers, your the first person retarded enough to get banned from posting in my blog, that takes actual effort.
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So either I kick ass at tweaking, or other people blow balls at OCing and Benching their systems... I've seen 2500k and 2600k builds with reasonably high end GPU's coming in over 2000 points below my system in the Performance preset of 3dMark11...
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Woohoo, up to P6808 3DMark11 with C7 1600 on the memory, and Uncore at 3600. Don't think I'm squeezing much more out of it at this point though. GPU's won't take much more clock without melting, and CPU hit the point where the voltages aren't worth the clocks.
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Well, you're running in the vicinity of GTX 560 clocks (810 MHz nominal) on the GTX 460s. That looks about right for SLI GTX 560 non-Ti. When SLI scales reasonably well, you get performance beyond GTX 580. I mean, you ought to, since that's 2 x 336 CUDA cores (shaders) versus 512 CUDA cores in the GTX 580.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-560-sli-review/13
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Got a 7043 run last night. Really not expecting anymore. Still, I've basically squeezed as much out of this thing as is reasonable without some sort of crazy cooling, between RAM, Uncore, OCing the SLI, and the CPU clock.
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http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1464466
Link to an i7 2600k@4.8 w/ SLI 460s. His score is only 7372, so I'd say I'm doing pretty good, only being 330 points below him. 5% slower or so.
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http://3dmark.com/healthcheck/3dm11/1571700
With HT enabled. 7423. But HT I'm not so sure about running long term. The temps under full load are about like running stock clock on the stock cooler at full load, and that's not really such a great idea long term.
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