8 Packs 4ghz 32m Challenge win full Haswell 4770K Bundle.

stulid · 14 Jun 2013 at 21:35

Duff-Man said:
Nice

Not sure I can beat it, but I'll have a crack. Good to see more Haswell times

What memory are you using?

TEAM Xtreem 2400Mhz 9-11-11-28

But I am expecting something better (at least I hope, but could turn out to be bobbins).

I'm only in the competition to win the gear for Ethermaster, I don't need it.

I took 8 Packs advice about the BIOS - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=24420390&postcount=478

Duff-Man · 14 Jun 2013 at 22:14

Managed to get 7.36.5, but CPU-Z seems to have stopped reporting the memory speed, and is reporting CPU speed as 3532Mhz no matter the clocks. Tried reinstalling but no luck.

It's one thing after the other!

stulid · 14 Jun 2013 at 22:15

Duff-Man said:
Managed to get 7.36.5, but CPU-Z seems to have stopped reporting the memory speed, and is reporting CPU speed as 3532Mhz no matter the clocks. Tried reinstalling but no luck.

It's one thing after the other!

Don't make me break out XP

Duff-Man · 14 Jun 2013 at 22:19

You're blatantly going to anyway so...

Honestly, not seen much real world improvement with it so far though. The improvement was from the new beta BIOS, it let me boot with higher memory clocks... XP is stripped about as bare as it can go as well. I may try a stripped win 7 instead.

stulid · 14 Jun 2013 at 22:26

I dont want to use it again, thought I left it behind years ago.

Duff-Man · 14 Jun 2013 at 22:29

Can't blame you. It's a been a pain in my balls this last week!

Anyone have any ideas about the CPU-z issue?

setter · 14 Jun 2013 at 22:37

Some cracking haswell scores guys, well done.

shadow_boxer · 14 Jun 2013 at 22:52

Duff-Man said:
Managed to get 7.36.5, but CPU-Z seems to have stopped reporting the memory speed, and is reporting CPU speed as 3532Mhz no matter the clocks. Tried reinstalling but no luck.

It's one thing after the other!

Wow very nice score. I've hit the wall i think with my RAM.

setter · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:00

What ram are you running shadow? With my old 3570k at 4.5ghz and samsung green at 2133 mhz 9-10-10-21 96 trfc, i hit 7m 24s. Shows how much of an improvement haswell is in this. 3570k was a nice chip but not a vast improvement over my old i7 920 at 4.2ghz, particularly with sli'd gpu's. 3770k is a whole different matter, even at stock the difference is very noticeable in games.

Duff-Man · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:03

shadow_boxer said:
Wow very nice score. I've hit the wall i think with my RAM.

Not much use if I can't show a CPU-z validation though... Going to try reinstalling XP. Bit of a hail mary... if that doesn't work then I'll make a stripped version of Win 7.

shadow_boxer · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:11

setter said:
What ram are you running shadow? With my old 3570k at 4.5ghz and samsung green at 2133 mhz 9-10-10-21 96 trfc, i hit 7m 24s. Shows how much of an improvement haswell is in this. 3570k was a nice chip but not a vast improvement over my old i7 920 at 4.2ghz, particularly with sli'd gpu's. 3770k is a whole different matter, even at stock the difference is very noticeable in games.

Got them at 2222MHz 9-10-10-19-1T 86. Have booted into windows with tighter timings but getting errors in superpi.

setter · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:16

Very nice, what sort of dram voltage for that? Iirc, mine was at 1.575. Ive yet to test with the new cpu.

Kaktus69 · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:22

Duff-Man said:
Not much use if I can't show a CPU-z validation though... Going to try reinstalling XP. Bit of a hail mary... if that doesn't work then I'll make a stripped version of Win 7.

Glad you finally managed to install XP

shadow_boxer · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:23

1.6V. Not sure what the safe limit is for the sammys though! :rolleyes:

stulid · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:24

I dumped 1.7V into the TEAM RAM.

setter · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:27

Ive read, 1.7v max on air cooling with the sammy greens, ive thought about sticking an antec spot cool next to mine. But gotta get my head round clocking the cpu first.

shadow_boxer · 14 Jun 2013 at 23:53

Ok so still got a bit of headroom. Cooling is ok, running in a Silverstone Raven RV02 with max fan speed. Might try going upto 1.65V.

Duff-Man · 15 Jun 2013 at 00:17

Okay, new version of XP. Slightly less stripped. CPU-z reporting correctly (for now!).

Seeing some improvements... more that I can boot more reliably into windows, and the F6e BIOS is more reliable. Actually seeing errors in pi when I push too hard, rather than failing to load windows.

Still, definitely a second or two faster than equivalent settings in full win 7. Still think a stripped win 7 might be worth looking into.

Still not reached 7.30 yet though...

cypto · 15 Jun 2013 at 01:06

Win XP has been the dagger in my side for the past few days. Constant boot fails.

Stulid your sticks run alright at the 1.7v? Know they are rated for 1.6 but if i can push them to 1.7 or 1.65 might shave a few milliseconds off.

stulid · 15 Jun 2013 at 01:10

cypto said:
Win XP has been the dagger in my side for the past few days. Constant boot fails.

Stulid your sticks run alright at the 1.7v? Know they are rated for 1.6 but if i can push them to 1.7 or 1.65 might shave a few milliseconds off.

I only use/used 1.7V for this competition, 24/7 use is the XMP 2400MHz profile.