TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

[SystemViper]

CP those Pics always look sweet.

I have been tweeking my 3Dmark06 for the last few days, plus the temp is a sweet 0c, so i poped in the "DO" and got a few more GHZ for the IGLOO's last blast.......

 

[trt740]

changed out my coolant for Feser UV blue.

attention FIT, I fixed the inlet/outlet of the water block

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http://img.techpowerup.org/090409/P4092873resized.jpg

looks very nice

 

[PaulieG]

not totally a joke. its been on my mind alot lately.

I hear you Fit, though there are some noobs around here. Noobs with voltage scares me. I'd rather have them be cautious than blow up their first build, and drive them away from the hobby.

 

[kid41212003]

CP those Pics always look sweet.

I have been tweeking my 3Dmark06 for the last few days, plus the temp is a sweet 0c, so i poped in the "DO" and got a few more GHZ for the IGLOO's last blast.......


http://img.techpowerup.org/090409/28k.jpg

Even the Core i7 at that frequencies couldn't feed enough power for 4GPUs .

Anyway, did you try to run the benchmark on XP/Se7en with HT on at lower clock?

 

[Binge]

Even the Core i7 at that frequencies couldn't feed enough power for 4GPUs .

Anyway, did you try to run the benchmark on XP/Se7en with HT on at lower clock?

Did you just wake up???

 

[kid41212003]

I don't know what you meant... but no, that's the time i just got home from work.

 

[SystemViper]

Even the Core i7 at that frequencies couldn't feed enough power for 4GPUs .

Anyway, did you try to run the benchmark on XP/Se7en with HT on at lower clock?

I am not sure what you mean, could you explain?

Also i run Vista 64 so that is what i run my benches on, I like it...

 

[kid41212003]

What I meant is, you should try to run the 3dmark 2006 benchmarks on Windows XP or Seven, with Hyper Threading on.

Because 10k SM 2.0 score is really low even for a single GTX295.

With my old setup (8800GT-SLI) I have better scores with HT on in Windows XP and 7 with SLI, almost 20%, but there is no different with single card. So, I think you should try that.

 

[Binge]

I'm afraid you're on drugs Kid lol

The GTX295 does horridly in 06.

 

[SystemViper]

What I meant is, you should try to run the 3dmark 2006 benchmarks on Windows XP or Seven, with Hyper Threading on.

Because 10k SM 2.0 score is really low even for a single GTX295.

With my old setup (8800GT-SLI) I have better scores with HT on in Windows XP and 7 with SLI, almost 20%, but there is no different with single card. So, I think you should try that.

But if that were the case, do you think that there would be lots of "8800GT-SLI" scores dominating the charts on the first page.

I won't be trying XP because I have moved on from that and seven isn't the best benching OS as of yet, maybe down the road.
I also know that the gtx295 sucks on 3D06 and was very tricky/challenging to even get that 28k, so i am very happy with it.

Next we'll see how the 4870x2's do on the mat....

 

[Fitseries3]

i gave up on 06 with the 295s. 06 is an asshole with 295s yep.

 

[The Haunted]

3dmark 06 seem to not like HT very much. When its on, the cpu score goes up but the gpu scores goes down. So i get a better score with 4.4ghz ht off than 4.2 ht on.

 

[Fitseries3]

06 hates dual gpu cards

 

[SystemViper]

3dmark 06 seem to not like HT very much. When its on, the cpu score goes up but the gpu scores goes down. So i get a better score with 4.4ghz ht off than 4.2 ht on.

Exactly, I studied Fits runs at 27k and saw him running only 4 cores,
that was a big help for me, again we follow

 

[Fitseries3]

wow... i didnt realize the width of the path i paved.

 

[SystemViper]

wow... i didnt realize the width of the path i paved.

In some ways what we do is measured by the trails you and other people have blazed,
that might sound korny, but I have to admit your initial runs are part
of what prompted me to strive for more....
and not settle for less

So i have to say thanks/././

 

[kid41212003]

Do you guy know why the GTX295 suck with 3d06?

It's just... so hard to believe...

I'm not trying to be persistent , but did you run a single card on XP yet? And the 9800GX2 didn't act this way...

I got 23k 3dmark06 with my 8800SLI, and a similar setup with 9800GX2 has a similar score.

HT doesn't work properly with muli-card setup on Windows Vista...
I noticed huge different with SLI and HT on/off in Vista, but not in XP.

 

[Binge]

Look... I'll do an HT off run with my 295 and come back. It'll be just as crazy stupid as it was before, and if it is OS dependent this makes 06 an even more S***** test than I thought it was before.

 

[kid41212003]

Check out this link that I just found...

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/440673-my-gtx-295-benchmarks.html

I don't think it's OS dependent, it's the thread management for multi-gpu....

What I suspect is, XP properly use the cores to feed the powers for the GPUs when there are HT on, but Vista isn't.
And that's why there isn't different with single card, because even with buggy thread management, it already got enough power from the cpu...

 

[SystemViper]

Do you guy know why the GTX295 suck with 3d06?

It's just... so hard to believe...

I'm not trying to be persistent , but did you run a single card on XP yet? And the 9800GX2 didn't act this way...

I got 23k 3dmark06 with my 8800SLI, and a similar setup with 9800GX2 has a similar score.

HT doesn't work properly with muli-card setup on Windows Vista...
I noticed huge different with SLI and HT on/off in Vista, but not in XP.

Hey it's always good to ask,
I had a 9800GX2 that was paired with a E8500 OCed to aroudn 4.5Ghz and it took some tweaking to break 20k...

Also the single cards do do pretty well in 3D06 and also using SLI, the thing with all these benches is the difference between 25k and 28k
is a huge gap to tweak yourself over with these cards.

I'll run a few gtx280 runs to see how close to 28k i ca nget with sli then tri sli.
I know someone on Evga that rocked a 27k with (2) 280's in Sli so it's by far not impossible.

But the 295 jsut doesn't rock the 3D06 the way you think it would, i think all us owners of them grew to hate 3D06 after running it and seeing the semi tough results.

HT doesn't work properly with muli-card setup on Windows Vista...
I noticed huge different with SLI and HT on/off in Vista, but not in XP.[/

I found I could clock higher with HT off, which i think makes sence to me, now sure if that means it doesn't work properly or that it's more stable rolling with less cores to manage.
It also another trick that CP told me that worked on Super Pi to get a few miliseconds lower..


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[Fitseries3]

06 doesnt utilitize more than 3 gpus also. thats why 2x 295s will score similar to 3 gtx260/280/285/275 cards

 

[SystemViper]

06 doesnt utilitize more than 3 gpus also. thats why 2x 295s will score similar to 3 gtx260/280/285/275 cards

I'd be interested to see how the gtx275 run, it seems like a interesting mix for this 200 series chip.

 

[Fitseries3]

275 is 55nm and has no voltage control

while it still performs well, OCability is limited without doing hardware vmods.

 

[SystemViper]

275 is 55nm and has no voltage control

while it still performs well, OCability is limited without doing hardware vmods.

http://images.anandtech.com/galleries/434/dfi920d021x2102100cpuzb.png

Arg, that's like the other new cards, they don't allow those soft Vcore tuners.... not good

 

[SystemViper]

Hey Fit, Just noticed that OC vs. voltage, that is a sweet ratio,

4.41Ghz @ 1.36v .......

How does it handle the loads...


Damn, and even some sweet ram speeds, aut oh, what's next.... look out...
here comes the Blazer...


Danm 2x, it;s the "DO"

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