TECHPOWERUP HWBOT Contest with Cash Prizes

[damric]

TPU HWBOT CONTEST SCORES

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[neurotix]

Uhhh...

 

[damric]

I was so excited to start benching my latest acquisition thinking it was going to be some easy golds come to find out I'm at least the 4th person with that idea https://hwbot.org/submission/5781915_

Can we maybe get another article(or a bump of the original one) to drum up some more competition?

hehe. I saw you benching some of those W2100 cards. Hint: they can be firmware modded to like double the clock rate but the stock cooler will be insufficient.

 

[Deslok]

That reminds me I need to update my tracking sheet

TPU HWBOT CONTEST SCORES

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I have too much to test without tinkering with firmware XD gotta wrap things up this week and next I still have 3-4 systems planned and a few I never got around to setting up sadly

hehe. I saw you benching some of those W2100 cards. Hint: they can be firmware modded to like double the clock rate but the stock cooler will be insufficient.

 

[neurotix]

So for the contest and because of my general interest in it, I got a RIVE and i7-3970X for $100 on eBay. The seller showed screenshots of it running and in the BIOS.

Just my luck, I get it and hook it all up and it won't power on at all. The start and reset buttons are lit up, the dual BIOS light is on, but powering it on with a switch or with the Start and Go buttons on the motherboard does absolutely nothing. We've tried a number of things and it won't turn on. Tested PSU with a jumper on the 24 pin, power supply fires right up. The thing acts like the PSU is switched off. No boot LEDs, nothing on the post code read out, it just literally does nothing.

We ordered a Rampage IV Formula, the board that's the next tier down, with a 3930k included for $75. The description said "pulled from a working system". Let's hope this one works and that I get it well before the 1st so I can submit both 3970X and 3930K benches.

Also, GJ everyone. Deslok, please get more subs in since I can't currently - we are almost at 1000 submissions total for the contest, and afaik none have been pulled or modded and removed. That's just awesome.

 

[Deslok]

So for the contest and because of my general interest in it, I got a RIVE and i7-3970X for $100 on eBay. The seller showed screenshots of it running and in the BIOS.

Just my luck, I get it and hook it all up and it won't power on at all. The start and reset buttons are lit up, the dual BIOS light is on, but powering it on with a switch or with the Start and Go buttons on the motherboard does absolutely nothing. We've tried a number of things and it won't turn on. Tested PSU with a jumper on the 24 pin, power supply fires right up. The thing acts like the PSU is switched off. No boot LEDs, nothing on the post code read out, it just literally does nothing.

We ordered a Rampage IV Formula, the board that's the next tier down, with a 3930k included for $75. The description said "pulled from a working system". Let's hope this one works and that I get it well before the 1st so I can submit both 3970X and 3930K benches.

Also, GJ everyone. Deslok, please get more subs in since I can't currently - we are almost at 1000 submissions total for the contest, and afaik none have been pulled or modded and removed. That's just awesome.

If I take a minute to document some things we'll probably get to 1k I have at least 40 I need to just sit down and get documented properly(and I just added 20 to the tracking) good luck with that 3970X I'm waiting on a second E5-2697 v4 myself because one of the two I got was a dud

 

[neurotix]

Glad to hear we'll have 1000 soon. Get to it bud.

I had the RIVE to eventually do Ivy Bridge-E (4930k etc) but also Xeons. I am wondering if that chip you mentioned would work on a Rampage IV Formula? On Intel Ark it says FC2011 for the socket, but the RIVE and RIVF are just 2011?

I had already heard about the Xeon E5-1680v2 which is 8 core, 16 thread. When I looked up E5-2697 it said it is 12 core, 24 thread. Would it work in the board I'm about to get? (Rampage IV Formula, socket 2011). Thanks.

EDIT: oh also I just reseated the processor in my RIVE, inspected the socket and there was no bent pins, put the cooler back on and still nothing. LEDs lit on the board, Start button and power switch do nothing. :/

 

[Deslok]

Glad to hear we'll have 1000 soon. Get to it bud.

I had the RIVE to eventually do Ivy Bridge-E (4930k etc) but also Xeons. I am wondering if that chip you mentioned would work on a Rampage IV Formula? On Intel Ark it says FC2011 for the socket, but the RIVE and RIVF are just 2011?

I had already heard about the Xeon E5-1680v2 which is 8 core, 16 thread. When I looked up E5-2697 it said it is 12 core, 24 thread. Would it work in the board I'm about to get? (Rampage IV Formula, socket 2011). Thanks.

EDIT: oh also I just reseated the processor in my RIVE, inspected the socket and there was no bent pins, put the cooler back on and still nothing. LEDs lit on the board, Start button and power switch do nothing. :/

There is a fair bit of cross compatibility between socket 2011 chips but it's not perfect, it wasn't uncommon to see things that shipped with E5V1 chips not receive the requisite firmware upgrade to take E5V2 chips although there were plenty of systems that did, something similar happened with V3 and V4, it's also important to note that LGA 2011 and LGA 2011-3 are not electrically compatible so boards are either V1 and V2 or V3 and V4, I actually have a couple of boards that I know work with V2 Zions that would probably be fun for some overclocking but I don't have the time and patience to play with them anymore, they are the super micro x9 DAX - HFT boards they came with a unlocked FSB adjustments and the ability to manually set the memory speed which was not at all, I guess they were built for day trading and stock exchanges were being able to get every single clock cycle out was important my e5-2667 v2 submissions are all using one of those boards and honestly the only reason I'm moving away from it is because I got the system I'm putting the 2697 before in for a steal on a government auction otherwise I still have piles of DDR3 ECC some intended for overclocking even just sitting there

@neurotix I took a minute to look up the Rampage IV Formula, it's standard LGA 2011(gen 2 and gen 3 i7's and V1/V2 Xeon E5) If I was going to pick a xeon to throw in it I'd probably grab the E5-1680 v2 it's supposed to have an unlocked multiplier where the E5-26xx chips tend to be locked (although some boards like the X9DAX-HFT let you tinker with the bclk and lock them to all core turbo)

 

[neurotix]

There is a fair bit of cross compatibility between socket 2011 chips but it's not perfect, it wasn't uncommon to see things that shipped with E5V1 chips not receive the requisite firmware upgrade to take E5V2 chips although there were plenty of systems that did, something similar happened with V3 and V4, it's also important to note that LGA 2011 and LGA 2011-3 are not electrically compatible so boards are either V1 and V2 or V3 and V4, I actually have a couple of boards that I know work with V2 Zions that would probably be fun for some overclocking but I don't have the time and patience to play with them anymore, they are the super micro x9 DAX - HFT boards they came with a unlocked FSB adjustments and the ability to manually set the memory speed which was not at all, I guess they were built for day trading and stock exchanges were being able to get every single clock cycle out was important my e5-2667 v2 submissions are all using one of those boards and honestly the only reason I'm moving away from it is because I got the system I'm putting the 2697 before in for a steel on a government auction otherwise I still have piles of DDR3 ECC some intended for overclocking even just sitting there

@neurotix I took a minute to look up the Rampage IV Formula, it's standard LGA 2011(gen 2 and gen 3 i7's and V1/V2 Xeon E5) If I was going to pick a xeon to throw in it I'd probably grab the E5-1680 v2 it's supposed to have an unlocked multiplier where the E5-26xx chips tend to be locked (although some boards like the X9DAX-HFT let you tinker with the bclk and lock them to all core turbo)

Thanks for the edited part and good to know. Since the RIVE doesn't work, waiting for a Rampage IV Formula. Been two days, hasn't shipped. I may not have it before the end of the month.