***Haswell -E Owners Thread***

[tipes]

Please do mate. I'm considering buying another one to see if i get better luck. I probably won't bother, but it's tempting.

I might be able to squeeze 4.3ghz out for the odd benchmark run but i think 4.4ghz looks impossible without 1.45v+. From looking around i seem to have picked a terrible batch for clockers.

What ya mean picked - we don't get a choice, silicon lottery as always. Lol.
Don't think I have ever won the silicon lottery.

Mark

 

[LtMatt]

What ya mean picked - we don't get a choice, silicon lottery as always. Lol.
Don't think I have ever won the silicon lottery.

Mark

This is true, you know what i mean though.

 

[Dave2150]

What ya mean picked - we don't get a choice, silicon lottery as always. Lol.
Don't think I have ever won the silicon lottery.

Mark

Picked, think of it has when you 'pick' a raffle in a draw

You 'pick' your cpu at the exact moment you purchase your CPU. Whether that be by clicking a button or by forking out cash at a store, you've 'picked' your CPU.

If you don't win the draw, you can choose to 'pick' another CPU

 

[shamus21]

I know we all like to get the best over clocking CPU going but unless your into top end benching it is not worth the financial cost of swapping out a CPU just to try and get an extra few MHz.

 

[Kaapstad]

I am starting to think that apart from some lucky people who got their 5960X on launch day these CPUs are nearly all poor clockers.

 

[tipes]

Picked, think of it has when you 'pick' a raffle in a draw

You 'pick' your cpu at the exact moment you purchase your CPU. Whether that be by clicking a button or by forking out cash at a store, you've 'picked' your CPU.

If you don't win the draw, you can choose to 'pick' another CPU

Trust you to come out with that pedantic statement - lol. Tis true though I suppose. Anyhow no matter how well it does or does not clock - it is still an awesome processor. I certainly won't be buying another one or two in an effort to gain 1 or 200 more Mghz. 8Pack I am not - not after top honours or anything. Just would have been nice for once to have got a good clocking cpu that's all.

Kaapstad:

Think you might be right - who knows.

Mark

 

[LtMatt]

Trust you to come out with that pedantic statement - lol. Tis true though I suppose. Anyhow no matter how well it does or does not clock - it is still an awesome processor. I certainly won't be buying another one or two in an effort to gain 1 or 200 more Mghz. 8Pack I am not - not after top honours or anything. Just would have been nice for once to have got a good clocking cpu that's all.

Kaapstad:

Think you might be right - who knows.

Mark

Yep definitely still very fast and in games or benchmarks that use 8 or more threads, it's a beast.

 

[shamus21]

I am starting to think that apart from some lucky people who got their 5960X on launch day these CPUs are nearly all poor clockers.

Yes I have noticed that. It would seem people buying 8 cores haswell-e just recently are getting poor clockers.

 

[andrewohare]

I got the 6 core 5930 and I can't seem to get stable past 4.3

 

[VincentHanna]

It's a lot harder to dissipate the heat from 8 or 6 cores as opposed to 4.

Hence why Haswell 4 core CPU's are the best overclockers.

 

[Boomstick777]

 

[eddyr]

and then hope that they decide not to not release launch it.

 

[Boomstick777]

Having some stability probs on my mobo atm. Not keeping clocks, having to reset to default. Which is fine for 24/7 use but not when testing / benching.

Not sure if mobo / memory / CPU. Got some new memory on order, if that doesn't fix it. I guess 5960X will be the next thing to try

 

[shamus21]

Having some stability probs on my mobo atm. Not keeping clocks, having to reset to default. Which is fine for 24/7 use but not when testing / benching.

Not sure if mobo / memory / CPU. Got some new memory on order, if that doesn't fix it. I guess 5960X will be the next thing to try

It is probably your gigabyte board due to the crap Bios Revisions they keep pushing out.

 

[Silent_Scone]

I am starting to think that apart from some lucky people who got their 5960X on launch day these CPUs are nearly all poor clockers.

There are quite a few people with good silicon elsewhere who bought only recently. It's luck of the draw and nothing more. Although day one batches normally do well, there were just as many poor ones then. Use the tuning plan that's what it's there for.

 

[Kaapstad]

There are quite a few people with good silicon elsewhere who bought only recently. It's luck of the draw and nothing more. Although day one batches normally do well, there were just as many poor ones then. Use the tuning plan that's what it's there for.

What tuning plan ?

I am also not a fan of this X99 platform, I think it is total crap with far too many problems and too few improvements over X79.

I also think it is important that fellow users who feel the same way also highlight how bad this platform is as the alternative will be that intel will continue to serve up rubbish like this. If these were AMD CPUs people would be having a field day laughing their assets off about the problems

Poor overclocking
Poor DDR4 RAM performance
Dodgy motherboards
Dodgy CPUs
Bios problems

This is the worst line of intel CPUs ever.

I also notice that 8 Pack has been reluctant to offer any help in the thread posted in his section of the forums, I wonder why ?

 

[Nickolp1974]

Tuning plan-Click

Quite a few negatives there Kaap!! If you compare say DC with its base of 4GHz and if your lucky you may get 5GHz a 25% OC, so with that in mind and thats the upper end of whats capable, now a 5960@ 4.5GHz is a 50% OC which i dont consider poor at all especially with 16 threads running. Now for £800 its kind of a bitter pill to swallow if your chip only manages say 4.3-4.5 and i would have been gutted myself to say the least.
Cooling on these 8 core monsters is your biggest enemy if your the sort to like big frequencies, i have an SS on mine which can hold -57c but when all 8 cores are singing it still gets to 30c at 100% load.

Memory, as i waited a few weeks before adopting i could see that there wasn't much differrence in memory performance accross brands other than price, i still dont think there binned that well tbh, well no one brand/sticks stand out from the rest. I went with GSkill 2666 16GB kit which i paid £230 and they have been great, i have got them down to cas11 and performance is comparable to a PSC kit running 2500 cas7.

Motherboards, now i have just had to return one R5E for a dead bios chip and so far my replacement is fine albeit with a few bugs which i hope will get ironed out with future bios updates, problems are mainly hanging at boot for me and this is more frequent on windows 7 than 8. I'm still not sure if this is a code problem or simply voltage, namely SA volts, the platform is very sensitive and throwing volts at it is not the way forward to get the best results.

These are just my thoughts and i cant really compare to other platform releasses as this is the first i have adopted early, yeah theres a few niggles but generally i am happy but i can certainly feel yours and many others pain. Grab the plan Kaap and try again.

 

[Legend]

I am also not a fan of this X99 platform, I think it is total crap with far too many problems and too few improvements over X79.

Poor overclocking
Poor DDR4 RAM performance
Dodgy motherboards
Dodgy CPUs
Bios problems

This is the worst line of intel CPUs ever.

I have seen countless people very happy with X99, so I think you may be being somewhat harsh. It is a new platform, so niggles are bound to occur. On the whole, I've not seen any justification for widespread condemnation of the platform that you seem to be encouraging.

 

[Boomstick777]

I have seen countless people very happy with X99, so I think you may be being somewhat harsh. It is a new platform, so niggles are bound to occur. On the whole, I've not seen any justification for widespread condemnation of the platform that you seem to be encouraging.

+1

Disagree with Kaap, I think X99 is the best platform from Intel in many years, not only being the first in introducing new memory standard in DDR4 but also the first reasonably priced 6 core / 12 thread CPU. These chips do not require de-lidding and perform like a boss even at stock.

Like any new hardware, it does have teething issues, for me at least so far they have all been down to early bios. Over time this will be addressed.

Someone could buy into X99 now and enjoy the top end until at least 2016, that's some good value right there imho. Hopefully by then the bios will be fixed as well

 

[tipes]

+1

Disagree with Kaap, I think X99 is the best platform from Intel in many years, not only being the first in introducing new memory standard in DDR4 but also the first reasonably priced 6 core / 12 thread CPU. These chips do not require de-lidding and perform like a boss even at stock.

Like any new hardware, it does have teething issues, for me at least so far they have all been down to early bios. Over time this will be addressed.

Someone could buy into X99 now and enjoy the top end until at least 2016, that's some good value right there imho. Hopefully by then the bios will be fixed as well

I agree, I also think Kaapstad is being a bit harsh tbh. I think the platform will definitely mature over the coming months. I seem to remember the x58 platform having early troubles, but then it settled to a really excellent system. I had a 980x which was very good, although the chip itself was nothing special by any means. Let's give this X99 time to mature with bios upgrades etc, and a few months down the line......

Mark