i7 870 & Gigabyte P55-UD5

[Deanzo]

Hey guys,

Lots to come over the next day or two, but may as well start a thread about how I'm getting on.

Sorry, no air numbers from me for now. Just trying to see how far I can push it on sub zero cooling.

To start with, here is a shot or two of the board/setup :)


http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/981/img1698uxe.jpg

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2451/img1702r.jpg

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4566/img1703c.jpg

One with the heat sinks off.

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4109/img1718l.jpg


Getting ready to go cold!

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5613/img1726f.jpg

Needed to make a back plate till I can get a "real" one off Vince.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6389/img1727m.jpg


And all setup.
For the top mounting, On the far side, I used the two socket 775 holes. And on the near side the two for socket 1366.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1756/img1728j.jpg

[Deanzo]

Right then, still not my best, but starting to get the hang of it.
Not many tweaks used, really just Mhz Power.



i7 870
Giga P55-UD5
Team eXreme/Adata/OCZ
Giga GTX260 (will go cold with that later)



PiFast @ 5346Mhz = 16.27sec
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9407/pifast5346mhz1627s.jpg

SPI1M @ 5363Mhz = 7.703sec
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1640/spi1m5363mhz7703.jpg

SPI32Mhz @ 5206Mhz = 7min 12sec 406mil
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4817/spi32m5206mhz7m12406.jpg

wPrime 32 @ 5258Mhz = 4.593sec
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6618/wprime32m5258mhz4593.jpg

wPrime 1024 @ 5153Mhz = 147.437sec
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9762/wprime10245153mhz147437.jpg


3D coming soon.

3D Vantage = 5004Mhz
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1662/3dv5004mhz30013cpuscore.jpg

[DrNip]

I love it. Nice clocks. Looks like I am going to have to add the i5 to my line up as it looks to be just as fun as the i7 is.

[knopflerbruce]

Lovely stuff, but I had to block the wPrime32m entry from HWBot as you uploaded the wrong image (superpi 32m);)

[Deanzo]

Sorry, my bad.
It was very late when I uploaded them.

[dinos22]

oh wow man
nice clocks there dude

what temps are we talking

did you mod the top mount bracket or just used one of the holes?

[Deanzo]

Hey mate.

-90 is all that was needed for any of the above, in fact -75 was fine for 90% of it.

Just used two socket 775 holes on one side, and two socket 1366 on the other.

The board does need the vdroop mod, I'll post it up a little later.


When do you fly out ?

[dinos22]

in 24hours man
me and nick hitting the bar in Qantas business lounge lol
it's gonna be a loooooooooooooooooooooong ass day flight lol

i swear i had about 5 hours sleep all up this entire week
i'll be wearing sunnies to conceil my crazy ass eyebags

watch me fall asleep during benching (like vince hahaha)

[Slovnaft]

nice clocking mate! Looks like p55 is gonna give some x58 platforms a run for their money.
tried any high ram mhz?

[Karmakazi]

^ +1

What he said, could you try stressing the IMC (on air and cold even?) to see where it can take your mems?

[Deanzo]

Mem is crazy easy to overclock.

32M is doable @ cas 8 2200, cas9 2300+, cas10 2400+

If you add some more volts and or cooling (like -20 to -30) you'll do even better.


Sub 7min will be doable @ 5300Mhz 2:8 cas 7
I'm stuck trying to get 527X Mhz to pass, last time I locked up saving to paint.
One more hit of vtt would do it, but it locks me up when I try.

[Deanzo]

I spent hours taking cpuz dump files of all kinds on mem clocks and cas.

But cpuz 1.52 is just a mess, words can't say how much I hate it right now, something with my benching OS and it makes all of them corrupted.

Has I have nothing better to do sitting here in Hong Kong waiting for my flight, I just tried to up load my safe last min 5530 file done on a standed in still, and it just told me it's corrupted to !!

I took a dump file with 1.51 as well, it uploaded fine and works, but as there is a new ver it won't give me a link.

Soooo much time and ln2 with nothing to show for it now.

[Deanzo]

Seeing as I have a little time on my hands here in HK, I'll upload these.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8927/spi1m5442mhz7578.jpg


http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7324/wprime32m5258mhz4578.jpg


http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7451/wprime10245179mhz146593.jpg

[Slovnaft]

^ +1

What he said, could you try stressing the IMC (on air and cold even?) to see where it can take your mems?

i think sham has answered our questions there :p
but unless p55 can be shown to threaten x58 a little more i'm afraid i'll have to keep my money out of the hardware game for a while yet :(

[Karmakazi]

Yeah I cant afford another setup right now. Just gonna get a good clockin 3540 and stick with 1366.