TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

[mastrdrver]

I will let you know I ordered one for my IFX-14

You suck! How about you send that my way first so I can make sure that the hold down works alright for you?

I got to wait till the end of the month so I have the money for one. Ran across pictures of the Noctua looking one, NF-P14. Still can't find any info on when its planned to be released. If it's suppose to be DTH, I'll be all over that once it comes out.

 

[mastrdrver]

Fits, ever had a chip that would give inconsistent results in LinX if you didn't keep vvt and vdimm within .35-.4v of each other? Saw someone mention it over on XS, in one of the DFI threads I think. Was trying to find max bclk for a certain vvt last evening. I was running problem size of 8000 and as long as I kept vdimm within that window from vvt, the GFlops would only vary .05 from highest to lowest after 50 runs. If I got outside that window, it doesn't matter which end of with which voltage, the GFlops would start jumping around by 1-2. Vista would didn't BSOD on me though.

 

[JJ-Sheridan]

Finally jump on the i7 bandwagon. Got my D0 920 to 4.0 at 200x20 (1.40 V) on MSI Eclipse SLI. No time to really OC it to the max yet. Is my voltage too high? On Prime95 (8 threads) the CPU is at the high 80's. Ambient temperature is about 30 C.

How you measured the temperature?
1. Try touch heatpipes right here, when cpu is loaded by stress test. What are your feelings? Is there 80C?

2. Try touch radiator on your GTX295. What are your feelings?
3. Compare 1 and 2
May be your overclocked CPU is not so hot, indeed...

 

[mudkip]

How you measured the temperature?
1. Try touch heatpipes right here, when cpu is loaded by stress test. What are your feelings? Is there 80C?
http://keep4u.ru/imgs/b/2009/08/05/7e/7edaf816e12c03225a60d15cc13eabf2.jpg
2. Try touch radiator on your GTX295. What are your feelings?
3. Compare 1 and 2
May be your overclocked CPU is not so hot, indeed...

`there's no way you can measure temperature by touching heatpipes lol.

The human skin already burns at 50 degrees it's very sensitive lol.

Guess he checked it with realtemp or something

 

[PaulieG]

You don't know that. I've seen Foxconn Bloodrage go higher, easier, than a GB. Ask System Viper. I was at his place when we did it.

I've owned both the UD5 and Blood Rage. I can tell you from my own experience that the UD5 is a superior board both in terms of max BCLK and stability. It's not even close. About the only thing the BR has over the UD5 is looks.

 

[Binge]

I've owned both the UD5 and Blood Rage. I can tell you from my own experience that the UD5 is a superior board both in terms of max BCLK and stability. It's not even close. About the only thing the BR has over the UD5 is looks.

You've never tried the Bloodrage with the newer bios. A 10 min OC to test the board and my score is #5 on the WPrime... Look there's a lot of things that have changed and the Bloodrage changed a lot. Ever since the Bloodrage added an option for FSB tweaking, people have been regularly hitting 223 FSB and higher. You two really know how to grind my gears :shadedshu

 

[trt740]

You've never tried the Bloodrage with the newer bios. A 10 min OC to test the board and my score is #5 on the WPrime... Look there's a lot of things that have changed and the Bloodrage changed a lot. Ever since the Bloodrage added an option for FSB tweaking, people have been regularly hitting 223 FSB and higher. You two really know how to grind my gears :shadedshu

sounds like a Blood Rage

 

[PaulieG]

You've never tried the Bloodrage with the newer bios. A 10 min OC to test the board and my score is #5 on the WPrime... Look there's a lot of things that have changed and the Bloodrage changed a lot. Ever since the Bloodrage added an option for FSB tweaking, people have been regularly hitting 223 FSB and higher. You two really know how to grind my gears :shadedshu

No reason to get worked up Binge. I was speaking from my own personal experience. If they've made strides with the bios, then great. Even if the board is better now, I still hated the bios layout. Just kinda clumsy. Not to mention that I had TERRIBLE support from Foxconn since they dissolved the Quantum Force group and Saaya left.

 

[Binge]

No reason to get worked up Binge. I was speaking from my own personal experience. If they've made strides with the bios, then great. Even if the board is better now, I still hated the bios layout. Just kinda clumsy. Not to mention that I had TERRIBLE support from Foxconn since they dissolved the Quantum Force group and Saaya left.

Saaya leaving was a sad thing, but the QF group is still up and kicking.

Why not get worked up? It would behoove you to look for less fires on which to urinate without looking for what caused it. The folks like Mudkip are happy with what they have, but it's no reason to trash talk every other company without looking into new findings/overclocks by your average Joe Watercool on XS/[H]/anandtech/i4memory.

I wouldn't have said anything if your personal experience was up to date, and yes you still [present tense] hated [past tense] an old bios. I accept this and accepted it 4+ months ago when you posted your findings. The problem is that we're getting ever closer to 2010, and people are asking questions in the now. What's there to get worked up about... Gee I wonder

I'll be out of date soon enough, so don't take it to heart. My PC/i7 binge is slowing down and peripherals are hitting the taste buds.

 

[grunt_408]

I found out why my temps were crap. The brand new tube of MX2 must be bad when I took the heatsink off lastnight it looked all milky:shadedshu. I am going back to As5 when I fit the IFX-14 this afternoon not impressed.

 

[trt740]

I found out why my temps were crap. The brand new tube of MX2 must be bad when I took the heatsink off lastnight it looked all milky:shadedshu. I am going back to As5 when I fit the IFX-14 this afternoon not impressed.

it's supposed to get milky, it doesn't get a suction like consistency like as5

 

[PaulieG]

Saaya leaving was a sad thing, but the QF group is still up and kicking.

Why not get worked up? It would behoove you to look for less fires on which to urinate without looking for what caused it. The folks like Mudkip are happy with what they have, but it's no reason to trash talk every other company without looking into new findings/overclocks by your average Joe Watercool on XS/[H]/anandtech/i4memory.

I wouldn't have said anything if your personal experience was up to date, and yes you still [present tense] hated [past tense] an old bios. I accept this and accepted it 4+ months ago when you posted your findings. The problem is that we're getting ever closer to 2010, and people are asking questions in the now. What's there to get worked up about... Gee I wonder

I'll be out of date soon enough, so don't take it to heart. My PC/i7 binge is slowing down and peripherals are hitting the taste buds.

From what I understand, most of the original engineers from the quantum force team have left. I do get what you are saying. However, you can't invalidate a critique of every board simply because of an updated bios. I am certainly not trashing the BR, just saying it's not the best of the i7 boards that I've used. Remember, my criticism is with the board and not the owners of said board.

It is good to hear that it's capable of a higher BCLK. How's the vdroop? Has that improved? My particular board undervolted the CPU terribly.

 

[mastrdrver]

I found out why my temps were crap. The brand new tube of MX2 must be bad when I took the heatsink off lastnight it looked all milky:shadedshu. I am going back to As5 when I fit the IFX-14 this afternoon not impressed.

How did you apply it? I has the same issue with AS5 when I pulled my V2 off this last time to rotate it. I saw that and made sense why my temps were in the 80s by 1.2 vcore. Reapplied with 2 long lines between the pipes and got a lot better temps now. Now I don't see 80s until ~1.23 vcore but still fine with 1.25v. Before, I was in mid 80s with those last 2 settings. I used my finger like I had done before on my Q9400 that I had good results with. Thin spread across the entire cooler. I thought it was because of the oil in my finger getting into the AS5. How did you apply yours last time?

Also, you killing me waiting for results.

 

[grunt_408]

You suck! How about you send that my way first so I can make sure that the hold down works alright for you?

I got to wait till the end of the month so I have the money for one. Ran across pictures of the Noctua looking one, NF-P14. Still can't find any info on when its planned to be released. If it's suppose to be DTH, I'll be all over that once it comes out.

Holdown works no problems at all the movement is there but once the heatsink is bolted to it there is no chance of it going anywhere i dont know what the guy on yt was smoking the day he posted that vid if he couldnt work that out.

EDIT: Re applying thermal paste I have always used the arctic cleaning stuff then the purifier. I always wear gloves when handling TIM and when I apply it i stick my finger into a sandwich bag and spread it that way. I still need to lower my ambiant temps I need to put some more fans into the rig I did one W-prime run on it before 6.8 seconds but as soon as the ambiant temps rise It gets slower.

 

[Binge]

From what I understand, most of the original engineers from the quantum force team have left. I do get what you are saying. However, you can't invalidate a critique of every board simply because of an updated bios. I am certainly not trashing the BR, just saying it's not the best of the i7 boards that I've used. Remember, my criticism is with the board and not the owners of said board.

It is good to hear that it's capable of a higher BCLK. How's the vdroop? Has that improved? My particular board undervolted the CPU terribly.

Best response I could have asked for. Some information about the whole Foxconn story that I did not know . The vdroop was zilch, 0, if disabled and this was tested with a multi-meter. When vdroop was enabled it was pretty significant @ .075V

 

[mastrdrver]

Holdown works no problems at all the movement is there but once the heatsink is bolted to it there is no chance of it going anywhere i dont know what the guy on yt was smoking the day he posted that vid if he couldnt work that out.

Maybe he forgot there was suppose to be a cooler there for that hold down.

I just sold my old 965P system to a guy at work and I should be getting a rebate for my psu back soon. Realizing this yesterday I think I might be able to get a ifx-14 before the end of the month.

How much have your temps dropped under load and what vCore are you running?

 

[Jakethesnake011]

 

[Chicken Patty]

great job jake, nice clocks on both CPU & GPU

 

[trt740]

why is your score so much lower than mine?

http://img.techpowerup.org/090807/3d Mark Vantage 24248.png

Somethings not right with your rig. Your CPU score is way too low?

 

[Jakethesnake011]

No physics. I do not use physics since it is not allowed when you submit a score on Hwbot.org. Try it with physics turned off in your Nvidia control control. To me physics does not give you the correct score with vantage.

 

[grunt_408]

Maybe he forgot there was suppose to be a cooler there for that hold down.

I just sold my old 965P system to a guy at work and I should be getting a rebate for my psu back soon. Realizing this yesterday I think I might be able to get a ifx-14 before the end of the month.

How much have your temps dropped under load and what vCore are you running?

My biggest issue is airflow atm. I have just added another 120mm fan on the front and fitted the IFX-14 idle temps down to around 38-40 degrees. Running a 1.300 voltage core in the bios. I need to get the hot air out and cool air in just as fast

it's supposed to get milky, it doesn't get a suction like consistency like as5

It was kinda different to every other time I have seen it though too runny like water aswell. I went back to AS5.

 

[SystemViper]

I have to say i perfer the bloodrage, I have had both boards, and still have 2 bloodrages and a UD4P. I think the gig board is easier to OC to a certian point, but if you have the time, I think the bloodrage is more stable and better built. But that is just my humble opinion. It's still my favorite board for a 24/7 build and serious overclocking. The oine thing is the Bclock wall but i haven't tried it since they have come out with teh mod, but i will be tring it again soon because i have a DO that i want ot put thru the paces and I have a lot of good Presets already worked out with my bloodrage

 

[Fitseries3]

everyone here knows that the new X58 stepping is out right?

its on newer mobos already.

i know of a few off hand

 

[SystemViper]

everyone here knows that the new X58 stepping is out right?

its on newer mobos already.

i know of a few off hand

anything you see that makes it stand out, i haven't been even close
to the market thru this summer, seems hard to stay in and play when
there is so much to do on the outside, what is yoru opinion of what you have seend so far.

PS, hope you haveing a good summer so far, i can't believe it Aug already!

 

[Fitseries3]

i was gone for about a month on vacation

the new stepping seems to run alot cooler. its performing a good bit better as well.

the asus p6t7 has it already and is ROCKIN out some very nice results. already, 235bclk has been reached without much hassle.