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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

8 Pack said:
They can get there hands on them. Buy and test, buy and test. As I did before I worked at OCUK. I was top ten world wide bencher before OCUK days and binned chips myself by buying.
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Did you just sell the ones on which were no good at a little loss?
 
ubersonic you did not read my posts
I play all games in 1080p 3D and that does not support 64bit client....... And **** knows if it ever will so no point of waiting for 2-5 years till Tri Def software will become 64bit client...

And since Tri Def software is so crap and basicly uses 2 cores. Going for i7 or extreme processors gives me 0 gain in gaming..... i could have 12 cores at 4.5ghz and still be cpu bound
I need as much power from single core as i can get....

Atm situation is 100mhz on my sandy is 2 minimum fps gain more or less. So if New cpus could hit 5ghz on water that would be like 5.2 on sandy. And give me extra 4 minimum fps. So it should get me to 30fps range.

But without ordering new stuf and testing myself i will never find out... Cause NO reviewers ever test games in 3D....
So i need to order mb+cpu and do tests myself and hope i wont need to return it :/
At least my mate ended up with that ivy+asrock i had for tests cause he was looking for pc upgrade and 4.3 on air is good enough for him :P
 
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8 Pack said:
They can get there hands on them. Buy and test, buy and test. As I did before I worked at OCUK. I was top ten world wide bencher before OCUK days and binned chips myself by buying.
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This only works imho if you have deep pockets, plus a lot of spare time to test etc.
 
It takes no time at all to test with Ivy. Air Cooling 5ghz boot into windows stock volts good not disregard!!! Then test the ones that did on LN2. i.e not many! This takes longer for sure but you dont have many to test.

IMC 2800 auto rules with high binned Hynix. Boot yes decent IMC no boot or stuck on 23,01 ,03 or 00 poor IMC move on.

You dont loose loads per CPU but you do need plenty to invest first up.

The boards etc will be on the site as soon as OCUK are allowed to do so by Intel and board partners.

We have stock so dont worry.
 
8 Pack said:
It takes no time at all to test with Ivy. Air Cooling 5ghz boot into windows stock volts good not disregard!!! Then test the ones that did on LN2. i.e not many! This takes longer for sure but you dont have many to test.

IMC 2800 auto rules with high binned Hynix. Boot yes decent IMC no boot or stuck on 23,01 ,03 or 00 poor IMC move on.

You dont loose loads per CPU but you do need plenty to invest first up.

The boards etc will be on the site as soon as OCUK are allowed to do so by Intel and board partners.

We have stock so dont worry.
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Not sure if you are being serious or having a laugh at my expense. Surely there are not very many IB that will do 5Ghz on stock volts. besides which on first try at booting surely you would not know if the IMC is up to it or not - or do you set 2800 as well as 5Ghz to test initial boot?

Think I will wait for Ocers to sell the pre binned chips, at least this way it will be less hassle with having to sell duff chips on at a loss.

Mark
 
Very few do it. But I only want the best its a simple way. Have two profiles one with stock volts but high LLC and 50 Ratio DDR1600 9-9-9-24 Stock IMC volts etc. Try boot windows. If it boots into windows 7 = winner for frequency!!!

Second profile stock frequency but ddr2800 timings 12-14-14-36 2T, Observe post code display iit styops on 23,01,00,03 the IMC is incapable of 2800. You get boot or 55 your good to go with 2800.

Best chips past both!!!

Test on LN2.

A similar method works when binning Haswell also. How else can you test high volume and get only the best unless you have tough credentials for the great ones to pass.
 
8 Pack I dont know what people are thinking.
That you sit and test every cpu for hours and hours to say its not very good LOL
 
8 Pack said:
Very few do it. But I only want the best its a simple way. Have two profiles one with stock volts but high LLC and 50 Ratio DDR1600 9-9-9-24 Stock IMC volts etc. Try boot windows. If it boots into windows 7 = winner for frequency!!!

Second profile stock frequency but ddr2800 timings 12-14-14-36 2T, Observe post code display iit styops on 23,01,00,03 the IMC is incapable of 2800. You get boot or 55 your good to go with 2800.

Best chips past both!!!

Test on LN2.

A similar method works when binning Haswell also. How else can you test high volume and get only the best unless you have tough credentials for the great ones to pass.
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Thanks for the explanation - much appreciated, but due to lack of funds I think I will wait until these binned chips go on sale, and buy one of your tested chips. Here's hoping.

Mark
 
Coming from an i7-2600k am I likely to be 'impressed' by Haswell?

I don't really 'need' to upgrade but I want to change my motherboard and it seems pointless not doing it all.
 
I have a week of work that I must take off during June. Figured I'd do it when Haswell is out and update my rig

Week beginning 3rd June or week beginning 10th June?
 
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