X79 and/or rampage IV OC'ing thread for those of us still left....

[johnspack]

Dam, wish I could find a windfall and get me some fast ram! Sure would love to see what my 1650 v1 could do against that....

 

[rtwjunkie]

Oh come on all you have to say in reply to my good news is to hawk your 3930K? lol. Actually as long as I don't have an issue with new CPU I'll be getting rid of my 3930K too but I may keep it just as a backup not sure the 3930K is worth much more than 150 bucks or so.

3960x is going for 167 on eBay, so you are probably pretty close.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Dam, wish I could find a windfall and get me some fast ram! Sure would love to see what my 1650 v1 could do against that....

I actually have 32GBs of DDR3-2400 I need to get rid of

 

[basco]

I too heard about this patch to get PCI-Ex 3.0 working on SB chips. I never tried it myself because I heard it was quite risky and you could end up corrupting your windows installation because of it.

i know its 20 days ago but i did it 2 years ago and only diff was in aida64 gpgpubenchmark couple flops here and there. real world i felt no diff.
but i wanted to deinstall again for testing and then my windows was completely borked-not even sytem restore was working anymore.
that was on asrock x79 extreme9 with 3930k+beta bios from hardwareluxx
so just a keep care from me.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

i know its 20 days ago but i did it 2 years ago and only diff was in aida64 gpgpubenchmark couple flops here and there. real world i felt no diff.
but i wanted to deinstall again for testing and then my windows was completely borked-not even sytem restore was working anymore.
that was on asrock x79 extreme9 with 3930k+beta bios from hardwareluxx
so just a keep care from me.

Good to know! Borking things is never good especially for little to no potential gain, been there done that myself. I did the patch and with my 3930k and it showed 3.0 and worked fine never tested but it worked then plopped this ivy in and have it natively and all is still good.

3960x is going for 167 on eBay, so you are probably pretty close.

And if you get lucky you can replace it with a good ivy for between 200 and 400. I checked and I got the last 1680 from the guy who was selling at 375 or so but seen them for <500 and the other ivy variants even Xeon versions up to 12-16 cores etc are pretty reasonable finally due to Ryzen effect on the market.

Dam, wish I could find a windfall and get me some fast ram! Sure would love to see what my 1650 v1 could do against that....

If the controller is like my 1680 (which I'll bet it is similar) you should have fun with it. I will actually check my ram specs and check online see if you can still get it because this is great stuff and it wasn't that expensive either.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Not stable, but only because I can't keep processor cool enough when pushing the memory controller this hard. However it appears settings otherwise are stable also very hot/humid weather so room temp is not helping at all.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Pretty good results so far!
Pretty good results so far!

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Good to know! Borking things is never good especially for little to no potential gain, been there done that myself. I did the patch and with my 3930k and it showed 3.0 and worked fine never tested but it worked then plopped this ivy in and have it natively and all is still good.



And if you get lucky you can replace it with a good ivy for between 200 and 400. I checked and I got the last 1680 from the guy who was selling at 375 or so but seen them for <500 and the other ivy variants even Xeon versions up to 12-16 cores etc are pretty reasonable finally due to Ryzen effect on the market.



If the controller is like my 1680 (which I'll bet it is similar) you should have fun with it. I will actually check my ram specs and check online see if you can still get it because this is great stuff and it wasn't that expensive either.

My latest and best results, crazy good bandwidth @ CAS 10/ 2666 mhz! The xeon is very willing I am impressed at stability with reasonable voltages while pushing memory. It's a beast to cool @ these settings but I'll post a couple pictures of my upgraded radiator setup, basically the biggest one you can buy because the H110i extreme is nice but 280mm Rad with a relatively small pump wasn't up to job at these speeds with IMC and memory pushed. I should have taken screenies but even at 4.5 ghz with these memory settings the cpu got up to 95 degrees! Obviously not stable and not acceptable.

Still waiting for a cinebench run if you havent done it already

Just remembered I downloaded cinebench and you asked for this so just ran it and seems like a pretty good result.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I'm watching with interest... my 1650 v0 runs 4.7ghz 24/7, but probably couldn't do 2666 ram. Although if I could get my hands on some, I'd try....

This is my best stable result thus far. 4.62 ghz with some tightening of secondary settings on RAM etc got me near 80k read speeds and copy and write speeds of 74 and 72k! When I was running Intel Burntest I saw 208 watts flash by at one point lol, slightly higher than the 130 the cpu is rated for.

 

[johnspack]

Dam that's pretty nice with 8 cores....
I would take that all day long over 6 cores at 4.7... I gotta start looking for 1680s.....

 

[FreedomEclipse]

great score -- you beat out some 8700k's @5Ghz in the cinebench thread!

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Dam that's pretty nice with 8 cores....
I would take that all day long over 6 cores at 4.7... I gotta start looking for 1680s.....

Yeah I got mine at 4.625 so I think that's all but 4.7 ghz...plus I can get 4.7 quite easily actually but I have to back off memory and use a different multiplier I'm still playing around but this might be my best overall settings for performance.

great score -- you beat out some 8700k's @5Ghz in the cinebench thread!

Really? Yeah I'm pretty impressed with the benchmarks as well as memory scores etc with the 8 cores, it's definitely a beast and keeps X79 competitive with the newer platforms and truthfully I do nothing I could max out 8 cores with and bottleneck games etc so I'm planning on keeping this system for many more years I have a feeling with competition just starting to heat up it will be several years before anything would come out that'd be good enough to make me ditch platform and bother building from scratch again.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I probably would of gone down the same route of a CPU upgrade route had my X79 board not started to die.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I probably would of gone down the same route of a CPU upgrade route had my X79 board not started to die.

Well yes but you've got a nice E8600 at 4.8ghz with some good memory you should do a cinebench run and few of those other benchies just so we can compare I'd be interested to see where the two platforms land at least in synthetic benches.

I'm going to leave E8600 because I realize at second glance it's a mental typo, because I was thinking Core 2 duo days and I had an E8600 lol, too funny.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I already did

the 8600k was a sidegrade where synthetic benches is concerned. Gaming might be a bit better as I have faster cores compared to my old 3930k.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I already did

the 8600k was a sidegrade where synthetic benches is concerned. Gaming might be a bit better as I have faster cores compared to my old 3930k.

Wow thanks for that thread I hadn't seen it before but I see yeah obviously I beat your score and I would be pretty high up the list I guess that is a pretty good score...obviously the 18 core and 32 core beasts are going to win even not clocked that high but 1900 for 8 cores is definitely a very good score compared to the rest on there!

Still playing around a bit to see what it can do and loosening the timings allows me to at least be benchmark stable with CAS 9 2666 mhz. However bandwidth etc is actually worse than CAS 10 so nice to know it can do it but at least so far CAS 10 2666 2t seems the sweet spot for most I can get out of this memory/CPU.

 

[mouacyk]

4.6Ghz seems to be the most I can get out of this 1680v2 at 1.4v.

 

[Caring1]

I managed to buy an Asrock X79 Extreme11 Motherboard on the cheap so I should be able to have a play with that soon after it arrives.
While I won't be doing anything as extreme (pun intended) as you guys, I should be able to push my E5-2650 a bit higher with some luck.
I'm also looking at buying an E5-2680 V2 for the increased core count and higher base clock.

 

[mouacyk]

memory

Memory is GSAT 2H stable, tested with 14500MB:

Really hard to find samples running 4.7GHz+ 24/7 on this SKU. Wonder if dual-channel is hampering the CPU potential in anyway, besides the memory bandwidth.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

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Memory is GSAT 2H stable, tested with 14500MB:
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Really hard to find samples running 4.7GHz+ 24/7 on this SKU. Wonder if dual-channel is hampering the CPU potential in anyway, besides the memory bandwidth.

Dual channel kills the bandwidth but beyond that I ran mine that way and for most things you wouldn't notice, however what it should allow is higher overclock on CPU because it's far less strain on the memory controller. Not sure what your cooling is without going back but when I had quad channel memory at 1333 mhz mine did 4.7 ghz with 1.4 in bios with ultra high llc so on load I think it was 1.43 or so.

 

[johnspack]

Wow, those 1680s do take a bit more to oc eh? I use medium llc and hit 1.35v max and 1.33v nominal using 8 sticks of ram at 1866, my cpu at 4.7 of course. 1.4v would scare me, but I guess they can take it....

 

[dalekdukesboy]

memory
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Memory is GSAT 2H stable, tested with 14500MB:
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Really hard to find samples running 4.7GHz+ 24/7 on this SKU. Wonder if dual-channel is hampering the CPU potential in anyway, besides the memory bandwidth.

I see you OC'd slightly from 125 strap is there any way you can share some of your voltages or any settings you changed to do that? The only thing I'm struggling with is getting this CPU happy with any BCLK increase, I looked back and I'll share it I even have a IBT stable image of my 3930k with 131 or so BCLK but no idea what settings I used to do it. Also what is that program you used to test memory I've not seen that one.

Wow, those 1680s do take a bit more to oc eh? I use medium llc and hit 1.35v max and 1.33v nominal using 8 sticks of ram at 1866, my cpu at 4.7 of course. 1.4v would scare me, but I guess they can take it....

Go big or go home. That's kind of how I view OC and voltages with these CPU's. I've never burned out a CPU where I even knew it had degraded before I upgraded to a new platform and many CPU's I have used for years even close to a decade for some platforms silicone is silly tough, takes a lot to break it especially if you just use common sense and not go well over 1.5 and/or use insufficient cooling while doing so etc.

 

[mouacyk]

I see you OC'd slightly from 125 strap is there any way you can share some of your voltages or any settings you changed to do that? The only thing I'm struggling with is getting this CPU happy with any BCLK increase, I looked back and I'll share it I even have a IBT stable image of my 3930k with 131 or so BCLK but no idea what settings I used to do it. Also what is that program you used to test memory I've not seen that one.

I did not have to change anything besides dropping the multiplier from 47x to 36x. My voltages in BIOS match the Value column in the HWMonitor screenshot I posted above. VCCSA might actually be 1.2v, instead of the 1.1v reported.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I did not have to change anything besides dropping the multiplier from 47x to 36x. My voltages in BIOS match the Value column in the HWMonitor screenshot I posted above. VCCSA might actually be 1.2v, instead of the 1.1v reported.

Thanks, I'll have to play around it seems very unwilling to budge at higher clocks I imagine it'd be more cooperative if I backed off my CPU OC but obviously that kind of defeats the purpose.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I did not have to change anything besides dropping the multiplier from 47x to 36x. My voltages in BIOS match the Value column in the HWMonitor screenshot I posted above. VCCSA might actually be 1.2v, instead of the 1.1v reported.

So how is the new CPU doing? Any more playing around/benchmarks etc?

I ran same test you did for comparison's sake with the settings I had at the time, fooling around with new memory settings sadly 3000 mhz is a no go no matter what I do never boots and I've seen memory boot to 2800 mhz so not even sure it's the IMC or the memory stopping me, or possibly some of both.