- Joined
- Dec 5, 2004
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI
Alright, so I've been running an Intel Skulltrail rig for the longest time: 2x Intel Xeon E5420 @ 3.0GHz (400x7.5) / Intel D5400XS Skulltrail / • 8GB (4x2GB) A-Data DDR2-800 FB-DIMM ECC 5-5-5-15 (1:1 @ 400MHz) on water.
Before I went to prison in 2011, I purchased a cherry picked i7 920 SLBEJ Costa Rica D0 stepping processor along with an Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard. I never got to put anything to use until I got out of prison this year in July, and only now just got around to putting this rig together. Now that it's together, I found out that the RIII Extreme mobo was DOA even though I bought it from the seller as brand new back-from-RMA. Apparently the RIII boards were a serious hit-or-miss batch of motherboards. So I just dropped $250 on an Intel DX58SO2 Smackover 2 x58 motherboard, so things finally work, but I can't boot at squat except for stock speeds no matter what clock frequencies, RAM frequencies, multipliers, or voltages I cram into BIOS. Right now I'm running bone stock at 2.67ghz 20x133 w/ my Corsair DDR3-1600 (3x4gb) at a meager DDR3-1067 @ 9-9-9-24 timings. Edit: And all the temperatures are WELL within spec, never exceeding 44ºC load on any of the cores @ 100% load under an EK Supreme-HF block)
Coming from an Intel Skulltrail setup, I thought that moving to a next-generation i7 setup would be a significant upgrade, especially considering overclocking options when I'm limited to 400fsb on the D5400XS Skulltrail platform. So far, I'm friggin' PISSED though! This i7 rig is turning out be be a piece of crap that I just poured too much money into for too little performance. Unless someone can help me out with this and show me that moving to an i7/x58 platform was a good decision, I'm just going to put my entire Skulltrail setup back into this new case, re-do my WC loop, and re-format everything once again.
OC Forums, Please help me! I've been out of the loop for so long, and the whole i7/next gen Intel stuff is pretty much brand new to me. I want to give it a chance, but so far I feel like I've been sucking on lemons.
-Justin
Before I went to prison in 2011, I purchased a cherry picked i7 920 SLBEJ Costa Rica D0 stepping processor along with an Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard. I never got to put anything to use until I got out of prison this year in July, and only now just got around to putting this rig together. Now that it's together, I found out that the RIII Extreme mobo was DOA even though I bought it from the seller as brand new back-from-RMA. Apparently the RIII boards were a serious hit-or-miss batch of motherboards. So I just dropped $250 on an Intel DX58SO2 Smackover 2 x58 motherboard, so things finally work, but I can't boot at squat except for stock speeds no matter what clock frequencies, RAM frequencies, multipliers, or voltages I cram into BIOS. Right now I'm running bone stock at 2.67ghz 20x133 w/ my Corsair DDR3-1600 (3x4gb) at a meager DDR3-1067 @ 9-9-9-24 timings. Edit: And all the temperatures are WELL within spec, never exceeding 44ºC load on any of the cores @ 100% load under an EK Supreme-HF block)
Coming from an Intel Skulltrail setup, I thought that moving to a next-generation i7 setup would be a significant upgrade, especially considering overclocking options when I'm limited to 400fsb on the D5400XS Skulltrail platform. So far, I'm friggin' PISSED though! This i7 rig is turning out be be a piece of crap that I just poured too much money into for too little performance. Unless someone can help me out with this and show me that moving to an i7/x58 platform was a good decision, I'm just going to put my entire Skulltrail setup back into this new case, re-do my WC loop, and re-format everything once again.
OC Forums, Please help me! I've been out of the loop for so long, and the whole i7/next gen Intel stuff is pretty much brand new to me. I want to give it a chance, but so far I feel like I've been sucking on lemons.
-Justin
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