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***Haswell -E Owners Thread***

Was gonna hold out for skylake, but the more I think about it, it seems kinda pointless when I can come back to ye ole x99. I'm guessing skylake-e won't be till late 2016/17?
 
Sold my 4790k, Gigabyte Gaming 7 and 16GB TeamGroup LV 2400MHz to my cousin for £450. Picked up a 5820k, Ramage V Extreme and the cheapest ram set on Overclockers. I am loving Haswell-E so far, I am currently testing 4.6Ghz at 1.3v(this is my starting point) and it is stable with AIDA64 after 15 minutes with the temps under 55c. My 4790k would only do 4.5 at 1.275v, I couldn't give it more because the temps 85c+ at this voltage even with my custom water loop.

I have seen a lot of people talking about using the 125 strap, should I use that to overclock or stick to 100?
 
Well my 8hr stability test didn't go so well. Didn't manage a second due to a dead motherboard *sadface* !! Quick question to anyone not using custom water - I've pulled my custom water in favour of a H105 as a probably temporary measure after losing the board - I haven't had time to mess about with the clocks yet due to real life getting in the way :/ so I'm wondering what sort of volts people have managed with good air / AIO coolers? I was at 1.3v / 4.5ghz on custom but I don't know how the AIO would handle the heat? How have people got on?
 
Alz_D said:
Well my 8hr stability test didn't go so well. Didn't manage a second due to a dead motherboard *sadface* !! Quick question to anyone not using custom water - I've pulled my custom water in favour of a H105 as a probably temporary measure after losing the board - I haven't had time to mess about with the clocks yet due to real life getting in the way :/ so I'm wondering what sort of volts people have managed with good air / AIO coolers? I was at 1.3v / 4.5ghz on custom but I don't know how the AIO would handle the heat? How have people got on?
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I am using h110 with out any issues 24/7 but I have the cpu 5930 running at 1.285v, Core multi 45 and cache 45. I have had the cpu up to 1.450v with any heat problems while testing and benching so with H105 you should be ok but i would keep pump at max speed.
 
What are people using mainly to stress test with? Realbench doesn't work for me, occt goes 85c on small data set test with 1.26-1.28v.. on a 5820k, so temps seem pretty impossible even with an nhd15.

I can't stress test with P95 because it's not recommended, and occt goes too hot, Aida64 is useless. Doesn't leave many options for proper testing. These things run hotter than i expected.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
What are people using mainly to stress test with? Realbench doesn't work for me, occt goes 85c on small data set test with 1.26-1.28v.. on a 5820k, so temps seem pretty impossible even with an nhd15.

I can't stress test with P95 because it's not recommended, and occt goes too hot, Aida64 is useless. Doesn't leave many options for proper testing. These things run hotter than i expected.
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Surprised you say Aida is useless - I would not agree with you there, but each to their own. You have already tried most options - I would have said realbench or Aida, but.......
 
I shouldn't have said useless, maybe not as stressful as other programs. I've seen quite a few people say that they can run Aida64 for a long time and then crash while doing something else or running another test.

I'll try XTU, thanks.

Gave it a go, and also tried the benchmark test. The benchmark makes my cpu make some funky electrical noises but it did complete, but is it normal for the memory stress test to put full load on the cpu and not the ram?
 
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andrewohare said:
Gonna change to a 5960x what kinda of you guys getting stable

On 5930 I was getting 4.4 stable for 24/7
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Depends as always on the silicon lottery, but it is generally reckoned that 4.4 is average, 4.5 good, and 4.6 excellent. temps are going to be main limiter according to how much volts etc you need. My chip does 4.4 at 1.30v, and it will do 4.5 also at about 3.2 ish, but temps even on full watercooling are limiting. you just need to be lucky to get a prime example.
 
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