i7 980X on the rocks ( palinkaaaaaa shots! )

[BenchZowner]

A few days ago Sophocles ( sofos1990 ) asked me if I wanted to bench with him and his cr@ppy Core i7 980X, he purchased a Sparkle GTX 480 and wanted to get some numbers down with that setup before selling that bloody 980X of his.
So I said "sure, why not", I haven't had an LN2 session in the last few... months and I needed some of that benching adrenaline, after some phone calls all the details were taken care of and we had a date :
I picked his brand new card and my Palit GTX 480 as well and gave them a nice conformal spray bath.
Since sofos1990's 980X was better ( despite being a cr@ppy CPU ) than my best 980X ( how typical ) I decided to take down some numbers with my card as well, my HWbot account needed a refresh.

The numbers we nailed down that day aren't actually worth mentioning, his 980X geezer was barely capable of running AquaMark 3 near 6100MHz and 3D Mark03 around 6GHz.
Sofo's VGA was also better than mine, and thanks to the decent clocks his card managed to go through in 3D Mark03 sofo's grabbed the 6th place in the 3D Mark03 single card rankings with his 136.886 3D Mark03 run ( CPU 6GHz, GPU/MEM 1250/1050 ).
He also captured a ~421k ( 420.937 ) AquaMark 3, and a ~52k 3D Mark05 ( 51872 ) with our last drops of LN2 ( barely made it to the save score window ).

So was this long story worth reading ? Maybe not, but the following paragraph probably is

I'm pretty sure that sofo's would kill himself for not saving some LN2 that day to try my newest 980X ( which was taking a nap on my 24/7 classified setup : )
2 days ago, I gathered 14L of LN2 and a lil' friend of mine, AMDnord to help me out.
To my surprise, the 980X ( 3005F210 ) was a good chip ( not what I'd love to have and fall in love with, but considering my... bad luck & karma, I should be happy for having this one ).
We started the testing with the usual CB & CBB testing in dual channel memory mode, the numbers ? No coldbug at all, and -154C cold boot bug
Then we did some 3D Mark Vantage CPU TEST(S)ing, 1.6V 5.4GHz done, 1.7V 5.7GHz done, 1.8V 5.95GHz done.
Then we tried AquaMark 3 as we had just a few liters of LN2, 6450MHz AquaMark done at 1.85V ( success! Borat said ).
Tried to raise the UnCore then, but had limited success with that, I think the 73 BIOS for the X58 Classified E760 isn't exactly mature for 980X UnCore clocking yet, anyway, 6450MHz CPU and 4.5GHz or so UnCore = done too.
I was planning to keep 1-2L of LN2 to try the lovely GTX3 triple channel memory kit Corsair sent me on LN2 aiming for DDR3-3000 triple channel, but the happiness my 980X gave me with its clocking made me lose track of time and LN2 supply and the session ended unexpectedly during a 3D Mark Vantage run ( which was run with an old driver which we used for AQ3 since it was the best of the ones I've tested before, so we missed 1.5-2.0k for that ), we ran out of LN2 during the second CPU test, and the system BSODed right after AMDnord pressed the save score button

I'm preparing myself and my new hardware for more LN2 sessions, and if my plans pan out well, I'll have 2 more LN2 sessions ( 55L of LN2 each ) by this weekend

I'll leave you with some screenshots/pictures while I'm leaving the room to insulate the new VGAs

Many many thanks to:

for the awesome RAM, thanks Alex, Mike & Peter.

for the TruePower Quattro 1200, thanks Korinna & Maurice!

[ click on the pics ORB URL's ]

[k|ngp|n]

I see you and your mates benching has put H.O.T on top and dethroned these pure guys No matter the speeds what u benched was enough for that...Gratz to H.O.T

[BenchZowner]

I see you there mister, and I need moar speed, so you better have a new great pot coming out soon
Teams go up and down, be it pure, be it hot, be it "nuckin' futs crew"
I bench for fun, and I wouldn't mind ( actually I'd like that to happen ) HWbot phasing out the points system and remaining just what it started as and should be, an overclocking database.
No point systems, no team fights, nothing.
Less people tempted to cheat, more fun, less manufacturer involvement ( don't get me wrong, I'm all in for manufacturer support and interaction [ interaction, not manipulation cheating and co ] with the overclockers, but those bloody bast*rds are currently messing with us and the community ) { plus they ignore our feedback, yet they still ask for it }

Overclocking should remain just a hobby, like it was back when it started.
People competing for fun, not cheating, sharing knowledge & experience, all that in a friendly environment.

I don't know what some people have going in their heads, but I don't like it.
It's not going to be long before people start "backstabbing" each other, stop talking to others, and misbehave in one way or another.

When we get a chance to meet with each other in real-life, be it at an event, a seminar or a competition, what do we do afterward at the free night time ? We hang out, go to a cafe/bar/club, talk, have fun.
But I can see some people not mind making this a thing of the past.
Fortunately you're not one of those Vince

[Kal-EL]

Careful BZ, I know a few people out there that would pull a Tanya Harding on your arse to win the next event, lol

[chispy]

Nice Benching Bill , its all about fun like the good old times , do you remember when we started OCing for i4 many years ago ? That was PURE fun back then and should be the same way still , keep up the good work

[BenchZowner]

Looks like my thread title was a psychic prediction... PALINKA.
One shot drink, drop-down.

The CPU has at least degraded or is about to die ( or just my mobo got f*cked up )
The 2 alive MGH-E from my 3ple channel A-data kit seem to be dead
My classified seems to be dead after some poof and a tad smoke.

All in all, I might be out of CPU, RAM, Mobo now...

Stupid F batch CPU, 1 session with only a few liters of LN2, real voltages under 1.86V, and already degraded ?
F*ck this sh1t.

[Gomeler]

There is no language filter on this forum, curse away Fucking F batches

[BustaH]

nice work Bill! glad to see you found a decent cpu for those scores, sorry to hear of the problems though mate.

[chispy]

Oh man , sorry to hear that Bill , but you know how much hardware and money this sport eats :/.

Regards: Angelo.

[packet]

sorry to hear that BZ ...they say bad luck comes in 3's