Overclockers writer and Benching Team member hokiealumnus (HWBot profile, author profile) , will be benching sub-zero Monday, January 16th at ~9:30 a.m. EST! (Preformatted, sorry; I don’t have a habit of talking in third-person.)
Tune in to Overclockers Live! at ~9:30 a.m. EST (plus or minus 15 minutes) for some overclocking with liquid nitrogen (LN2). I’ll be starting with Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E platform and (time & LN2 allowing) will move on to AMD’s FX platform afterwards pushing for maximum frequency.
Both will be performed on ASUS motherboards and a big shoutout goes to their team for helping publicize today’s day-long excursion.
System One
- Mobo: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
- CPU: Intel i7 3960X
- RAM: 4 x 2GB G.Skill Ripjaws Z DDR3-2133, 9-11-9-28
- GPU: AMD Reference HD 7970
- Cooling: Liquid nitrogen on the CPU, air on the GPU
- Focus: Anything goes. I’ll start with 2D and after that we’ll see how far 3D can be pushed with this 7970 on air.
- Click here to watch on Overclockers Live!
- Date & Time: January 16, 2012, around 9:30 a.m. EST
System Two
- Mobo: ASUS Crosshair V Formula
- CPU: AMD FX-8150
- RAM: 2 x 2GB G.Skill Pi DDR3-2400, 9-11-9-28
- GPU: AMD Reference HD6970
- Cooling: Liquid Nitrogen on the CPU
- Focus: Anything 2D but mainly highest CPUz frequency.
- Click here to watch on Overclockers Live!
- Date & Time: January 16, 2012, maybe around 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST – whenever I get tired of or can’t push the Intel system any farther.
Benching will wind down whenever the LN2 runs out or around 4:30-5:00 p.m., whichever occurs first. I was preparing the hardware over the weekend, so there should be little (if any) prep required in the morning. Before leaving you, here’s a little preview of the setup.
Hope you can stop by and say hi!
–Jeremy Vaughan (hokiealumnus)
Discussion
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Could you please tell me the correct time for my timezone(GMT+2)?
My calculations say 11:30AM, but then again - I suck at math. :shrug:
I should be able to show up from 11:30am pacific to 1:00PM pacific, that's my lunch break.
Assuming I'm not busy reviewing or some such thing.
I should be able to show up from 11:30am pacific to 1:00PM pacific, that's my lunch break.
Assuming I'm not busy reviewing or some such thing.
Today would have been nice too, but unfortunately empty dewar is empty.
I'll finally get to watch live instead of pre-recorded.
Why aren't you using the 7970 with the amd rig?
I know that the scores wouldn't be as good as on the intel, but it would be nice to see how different they are.
Oh ok.
Well I look forward to watching :)
Also, FWIW, that's the sort of thing you want to compare using ambient cooling. When you already know the answer, you don't want to waste LN2 reseaqrching a foregone conclusion.
This will be interesting I am sure.
As you may know I've contacted Gigabyte regarding our POST problems on the 990FXA-D3 and your UD5 and they've told me I'm transferred to the correct department that will ask me for my keyboard so they can test with it.
I figured out I could add yours too, since I've already let them know that I'm not the only one experiencing this problem.
Blaming it on our keyboards is bogus, but I'll let them have their fun testing so they'll stop blaming it on both of my keyboards.
My benching keyboard is a cheap Microsoft PS/2 keyboard. I think you have me confused with someone else re: UD5 though, I haven't ever had one of those.
(htpp = hardware team power points & ugp = user global points)
3960X Benches
SuperPi 1M: 7.375s - 2.1 htpp
UC Bench: 1831.2 - 2.4 htpp
WPrime 1024M - 100.999s - 2.0 htpp / 3.8 ugp
3D Bonus Benches
3DMark03: 158711 - 2.2 htpp / 16.7 ugp
Heaven DX9: 4944.39 - 3.6 htpp
Then I tortured the hell out of the FX-8150. I mean that quite literally. It wouldn't get above 7651MHz for validation. So I ran all the benches at the highest I could.....then made it scream. It was going to give me some more megahurtz or it was going to die trying.
FX-8150 Benches
SuperPi 1M: 11.468s - 5.4 htpp
SuperPi 32M: 11:54.813 - 5.5 htpp
PiFast: 21.36s - 6.1 htpp
UC Bench: 1670 - 6.3 htpp
WPrime 32M: 4.765s - 2.9 htpp / 9.3 ugp
WPrime 1024M: 151.172s - 2.6 htpp
CPUz: 7651.2MHz - 3.6 htpp / 18.9 ugp
.....it died trying at 2.3V. RIP.
Now pictures!
3960X light freezing.
FX-8150 all kinds of frozen.
Cool frost formation.
All in all a very fun day. Thanks to everyone that stopped by and watched!