Techpowerup! Hwbot Club

[d1nky]

everyone here is here to help others, that's whats so great about this forum!

im thinking of starting a techpowerUp! hwbot facebook page.

something people can log into on their phones to keep updated, get more publicity, get known, and for members to post pics of their rigs and benches, see up and coming comps, ill even post scores, new joining members, links to great sites, maybe giveaways....

what ya guys think?!

I really want tpu hwbot to kick off and get even better!

 

[cdawall]

Go for it if you want you can add me as a page admin.

 

[d1nky]

this is the banner for now, need to get some pro's making pics etc!

 

[d1nky]

We are now on Facebook.

I encourage all members, and hwbot team members to use this when they can, post pics, comments and treat it like this thread. Itll be great to build up an active team, have fun and share it with everyone!

https://www.facebook.com/TPUHWBOT

 

[Durvelle27]

I'm backkkkkkk

lol

 

[d1nky]

I thought you had some benches to come back with

 

[Durvelle27]

I thought you had some benches to come back with

I posted 3 on Hwbot

 

[buildzoid]

I'm very sorry to announce that my 3960X will no longer do anything above 4.9Ghz. Seems that running the poor thing at around 1.525V for half a year has degraded it to the point where even 1.55V won't stabilize 5Ghz. That or I screwed some of my BIOS settings up or the VRM gave up because it still does 4.8Ghz at 1.45 which is the same as when I first got it but it simply won't do 5Ghz. I really wish that the Intel used a better metal for the metal layer (the part of CPUs that fails) of the extreme editions because that would at least justify the stupid prices.

 

[d1nky]

any chance in returning it with intel insurance?

sorry to hear that ya chips gotten like that!

 

[buildzoid]

any chance in returning it with intel insurance?

sorry to hear that ya chips gotten like that!

Thing is the chip is still holding into the top 50% of 3960Xs(few do 4.8Ghz on 1.45V) so I don't know if intel will consider it dead enough to replace. Though I can always deep fry it the name of beating the current H2O Cinecbench R11.5 x6 king on HWbot. Though honestly this chip has trolled me in the past when it would not do 4.6Ghz no matter how high or low a voltage I gave it but would do 4.5 and 4.7 so I'm kinda hoping that in a week I'll just set 1.53V and get rock solid 5Ghz. Worse case I buy the plan the chip kicks the bucket I take a photo of it(it's the first CPU that I built a computer with) and send it to intel.

 

[d1nky]

if I had that chip, Id probably be thinking the same!

 

[buildzoid]

The chip just booted 4.9Ghz on 1.44V by accident(typo in the BIOS) it really is trolling me and ran cinebench at 1.465V and did an Intel memory test on 1.463V all at 4.9Ghz. AND NOW it passed an intel CPU stress test at 1.463V I guess to day is April 1st for my CPU because it needed 1.475V when I first got it to do 4.9Ghz on my H100 back in 2012. Got it to do cinebench at 5.1Ghz on 1.57V just now so I guess it really is that my CPU can't handle more than 0.95V on VCCSA. 5GHZ WORKS AGAIN
though from now on I'm running this chip at 4.8 instead of 5 cause I almost had a heart attack

 

[d1nky]

maybe a change in temps? or your cpu is really messing you about lol

 

[buildzoid]

I'm going with it disliking VCCSA above 0.95V because that is the only thing that got changed before it started working again.

 

[Random Murderer]

I'm going with it disliking VCCSA above 0.95V because that is the only thing that got changed before it started working again.

What speed are you running your RAM at? What BIOS are you on? We're both on RIVEs and my 3820 does that to me sometimes...

 

[buildzoid]

Not sure bout bios but I tend to switch between 2000mhz(125 BCLK) and 21333mhz(100 BCLK) on the RAM both of which work just fine at .95VCCSA I just left it high after trying to get my memory over 2200mhz

 

[buildzoid]

So I've got a GTX 590 and I really really want to OC to the limit it but I don't want to blow the VRM so I wanted to ask if anyone has a clue where I could get a VRM powerful enough(the VRM on the GTX 580/HD7970 MATRIX would be sufficient) to replace the reference VRM with. I was considering just using a mobo(The CVFZ because after I'm done I can desoder it and use it for an AMD build I'm planning) but that takes up a lot of space and is hard to work with.
My main issue buying a GPU to use is that I only need the VRM of the card to work but no one in CZ sells GPUs with dead cores since there is no interest in them and working GPUs cost too much and are a total waste to destroy(because of the routing of the cables and the fact the original core would waste some of the power) in the name of hunting down all the GTX590 records excluding the ones set by TiN(he had LN2 whereas I'm bound to maxed air cooling though if this works I might get some LN2 too). I have been considering using my HD 7970 to feed extra power via locked volts setting in AB but it can do a maximum 480A and the GTX 590 will probably want something around 550A since it's 2 300W cards taped onto one PCB and that would kill at least one card in the good scenario and both in the bad one.
So basically I want suggestions on what I could use to feed 550A at 1.25V to the cores of my GTX 590 ideally it would be cheap below 100$ if I can't reuse it and upto 250$ if I can use after I'm done with the card. If you think this a total waste of effort and I should just use the stock VRM please say so.

 

[d1nky]

you could always buy an epower board if that's the route you want to take, seems less hassle than frankensteining gfx cards. and is re-usable I believe.

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=40307

theres a few on here that know much more tho...

if not using LN2/Dice there are other forms of cooling the core, like universal blocks for watercooling. running the water through ice will allow a higher clock than any air bench!

I wouldn't waste ya time doing this just for aircooling tho, its designed for extreme benching tbh

 

[buildzoid]

you could always buy an epower board if that's the route you want to take, seems less hassle than frankensteining gfx cards. and is re-usable I believe.

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=40307

theres a few on here that know much more tho...

Wait they sell those I thought the availability of those was the same as the gigabyte and ASUS addon VRMs (You can't buy them). Well that's perfect now I just get 2 of those and an EVbot and me and my GTX 590 are gonna have a really really bad day. Me because the fan will be running at 100% and the card because it's gonna run both cores over 900mhz if it's the last thing I do with it.
Thanks for the notification I guess I need to lurk on the HWbot forums more.

 

[d1nky]

a few of the extreme benchers will know more but I wouldn't do this on aircooling!

id recommend getting a universal block for the dual gpus.. then have it running chilled water!

so it doesn't get in the way of the epower board as well

evga shop:

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=100-UC-0400-BR

 

[buildzoid]

I plan to mount the Epower from behind the card onto the input side of the caps after I get rid of the inductors on the front. I don't think I will need chilled water for 900mhz since that's below what most 580s do and those are much worse binned than GTX 590 cores plus I already have sub zero temps just outside my window so I'll just leave the room with my PC with all the windows open over night and I'll have a couple of hours of 0C or lower ambient to play with. I do plan to get a chiller eventually just not right now. Also where the hell will I get an EVbot cause I had a look and it looks like they don't make them any longer.
Wait just found one I really am hopeless at finding stuff. And it's out of stock so I guess it's back to plan A because an Epower withou an evbot is useless.

 

[buildzoid]

Good news the dip switches on the Epower board V2.0 allow basic power control without the EVbot(it's consistently out of stock) so here's a table of setting that TiN posted on the Kingpin Cooling Forums for anyone else planning to use an Epower board V2.0

EVGA EPOWER CLASSIFIED VID switch settings:

"1" - ON
"0" - OFF

1234[VID position]
0000 : 900 mV
1000 : 945 mV
0100 : 1000 mV
0011 : 1100 mV
1100 : 1050 mV
1010 : 1155 mV
0110 : 1210 mV
1110 : 1260 mV
0001 : 1315 mV
1001 : 1365 mV
0101 : 1415 mV
1101 : 1475 mV
0010 : 1525 mV
1011 : 1580 mV
0111 : 1625 mV
1111 : 1680 mV

 

[d1nky]

Got a great wallpaper for us.

Massive thanks to rezasam1

 

[buildzoid]

So I had a look for some universal blocks and found that because of the weird mounting hole layout on the 590 there are zero compatible blocks I can use with it. The good news is that the fan on it is just bearable at 100% and after repasting the heatsinks it doesn't even get as hot as most do. The only downside is that my soldering pen is not powerful enough to melt the solder used on the output caps which I was planning to take off so I would have an easy way to connect the Epower boards with out taking of the cooler.

 

[d1nky]

couldn't you get another soldering iron?


also we dropped a place in the teams league, seems another team wanted to jump into top40.

as of now we are no.40

once the comps over, benching season it will be!