Ivy Bridge cold scaling

almighty15 · 22 Mar 2014 at 13:33

Thinking of getting the old Mach 2 GT out the loft and putting it on my 3770k.

It's been modded for 330w so it's about as potent as a single stage can be.

I managed to get a 5.5Ghz 24/7 clock on my 2500k with it and I've been reading that Ivy has much better cold scaling then Sandy?

Is this true?

almighty15 · 25 Mar 2014 at 21:11

Guys?

Tonester0011 · 25 Mar 2014 at 21:19

It should scale well, don't see why it wouldn't.
The problem with IB has always been poor TIM, that's not a problem when you're running -20.

Guessing you've already delidded that chip, considering its running @5ghz

so yeah, should be good.

I've always wanted a phase unit, never got round to buying one

almighty15 · 25 Mar 2014 at 21:21

It's not delidded

8 Pack · 25 Mar 2014 at 21:35

Yes Ivy likes the cold. LN2 cold to get top clocks. They don't cold bug like 2500K used to so you can go full pot -190 on em.

almighty15 · 25 Mar 2014 at 21:37

So am I best off leaving the Phase unit in the loft then as Ln2 get's a lot colder then a single stage does.

8 Pack · 27 Mar 2014 at 13:32

No try it man. You should be able to get 5.3 or 5.4 for benching.

almighty15 · 27 Mar 2014 at 20:56

It will be run on phase 24/7 pack.. It can do 5Ghz now so might not be worth it for the extra couple hundred Mhz.

I've managed 5Ghz on Phenom 2 x6's 24/7 and 5.5Ghz 24/7 on a 2500k in the past so was hoping for a bit more then 5.3-5.4Ghz

8 Pack · 28 Mar 2014 at 10:03

Phase 24/7 is pointless man. Its just for bench. Try!!!

almighty15 · 13 Apr 2014 at 17:57

It's not completely pointless for 24/7..... I can afford to run it so may as well

8 Pack · 18 Apr 2014 at 10:43

With one GPU bottleneck will not be the CPU in modern games.

How did you get on with the CPU on phase???