Bodar is using just one Single Xeon....but its a hexacore hence why you cannot compete with his cpu scores What an awesome chip!
I'm aware of that ,but for benching purposes I know that I can go further than this for gaming it reach the limit ,is no going to get any better without xF but even so I get to were I hoping to get for know perhaps in the future when the army is not obstacle anymore then I be able to take to new levels benchmarks and extreme OC can very addicting hobby :biggun:
Got my system first time stable after weeks. Here is my actual result with PhysX On. I only have a 1000W PSU so I think, this is almost maxed out for a stable system.
that nice for the first time,you got a huge window of oc potential with that rig another sapphire would really make it shine but the end for gaming that is more than enough with the games that come out this days ,even mass effect 2 my three year old macbook pro can run it at max lol:3eyes: But I still have hope Crysis 2 even when they are doing it for consoles too:biggun:
without Physx looks like this: I have here 2x EK5970 waterblock on my desk for the last weeks!! Guess why?? I faced the same 'cold bug' as you my Lord! Nearly went crazy cause I thought I destroyed something when updated the cards and my rig for water. Now CPU, Mainboard, Mosfets and Ram under water - but not the cards! Sounds like a dustcleaner when running vantage! :bang: I am using a really big radiator cooling outside my house. Temps here in Germany are always below 0°C since X-Mas (right now -4°). When installed the cards first time under water GPU's and VRM's at idle around 3°C. Results: pixel flimmering, grey screens, black screens, lockups even under Bios! So the cards are back under air cooling and work fine! WTF!!! Using now the 10.1 crash hotfix and the rig is fully stable for days now! But I don't know, what will happen, when I reinstall the waterblocks. :bang:
I never have the coldbug my card came vaccine lol the performance on water is solid so far, I did have some other issues but they are resolved do you still got it? I ask for the second run to confirm something what up with your cpu score? you should get a lot more at those clocks seriously what is holding you back to get really high score
Tried to solve this 'cold bug thing' by all proposals I could find in the net: a) set ULPS to '0' b) set GPU cores and mem profile for all GPU's to 400/900 at idle c) tried all drivers and hotfixes d) cleaned the harddisk and setup windows once again right from the start -> lockup's even under windows installation starting with a single card!! :bang: No way to fix it!! Is my CPU score so bad? I am so happy that the system is stable now - what to check for in the bios? Don't know what is holding me back :3eyes: any idea?
well is not that is bad but is just that something don't look right when I see 20k on 950 and I get almost 28k with my 920 at 4.5 at 4.4ghz that is your current speed I get 26,600 on my old 920 co perhaps your bios are not optimized what the score at stock clocks and your bios oc settings I notice that your multiplier is 22x200, is your cpu unlocked ?
Don't know the score at stock clocks with this setup so far. Surely I did not work on all bios settings. Here is what I setup in the bios: Ai Overclock Tuner - manual CPU Level - auto mem level - auto cpu ratio - 22 bclk - 200 pcie - 100 dram - 1603Mhz UCLK - 3208 QPI link - auto EPU II - full phase load line - enabled cpu different amp - auto extreme ov - disabled cpu volt - 1.45 cpu pll - auto QPI /Dram core - auto IOH - auto ICH - auto Dram bus - 1.65 c1e - enable hardware pref - enable adjacent cache - enable intel virt tech - disable cpu tm - dis execute disable bit - disable intel ht - disable active pro cores - all a20m - disable intel speedstep - enable intel turbo mode - enable c-state - disable ram settings: now everything on auto (9 9 24) CPU is unlocked Any suggestion??
Try to enable HT. Also get rid of the PhysX/Nv software. Also test it some time ago with a 9600GT for PhysX and got even a lower score with PhysX than a clean setup (remove 9600gt/physx/nv drivers) Somehow with the PhysX-hack is holding back the score, or the drivers weren't installed properly.
OC at those speed can be tricky even when it pass all the stability tests you don't get the real gain without finding the best balance just with the advice from bodar at the same clocks it get a 1000p gain today I use cinebench r10 this my more useful tool to test i get 33 secs in the cpu rendering test, this stress all cores to 100% and is fast, so it this don't crash .vantage will pass too it save you the time of going to those longs gpu test to find that the cpu test crash :bang:
checking the HT in a minute before I installed PhysX the CPU score was 19500 @ 4.2 air so this should not be the issue holding the CPU score back what about QPI? what about PLL? any suggestion?
My cpu score @ 4315MHz is 25150 (HT/Turbo on) 5000points different with only 100Mhz more? See the difference with HT off and on (pic 2+3) So Enable HT
well I not an expert in the matter but I try and your cpu is a little different than mine, so what work for me no necessary going to work for you ,but this what I did your board is similar so that help starting from scratch extreme OC XMP profile I don't know if your 12g support that multiplier 21 turbo power limit disabled blk 215 cpu volt 1.4750+/- qpi volt 1.30 memory speed at 1720mhz +/- everything else should be at auto or enable by default that get you 4.520 ghz you going to have to play with them for a while to get it right and since is on water perhaps you can go beyond mine I'm yet to find a stable oc for beyond 4.6 it get really hard at this point but that's my 24/7 oc
thanks for your quick replies! HT On gives a much better CPU result! On the other hand the GPU tests visibly slow down! I can see in the test, when one of the 4 gpu's is halted for some seconds. Maybe I reach PSU max? Here is my new personal record bench for today: :flip2: at GPU speed 800Mhz only!! (Would love to install back the EK waterblocks
WOW! That's some really extreme proposals ;-) Before the watercooling I never reached with the Ram more than BLCK200 stable! Tried few days ago again but not successful. Same thing for the CPU beyond 1.45 - not stable but will try again ... step by step ... expensive system for my pockets you know:gape:
