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** SandyBridge-E Benchmarking **

4.8GHz Vantage [with a single GTX 580]
3dmarkvantage48GHz.jpg


wich speed is the card running!? ........

i'd like to know wich score i'd get with my card

this morning , i did this run



i'm about to change rig so i was wondering for benchmarks gains......

thanks for reply!
 
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Whats the best CPU thermal paste these days? what are you SB-E users using? I have some Arctic Silver 5 and wondered whether to use that on my SB-E.

Edit: 80 thermal pastes were tasted here and AS 5 was tied for best. That was in 2009 though, so just wondered if anything better has appeared since then...
 
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MR.B said:
Whats the best CPU thermal paste these days? what are you SB-E users using? I have some Arctic Silver 5 and wondered whether to use that on my SB-E.

Edit: 80 thermal pastes were tasted here and AS 5 was tied for best. That was in 2009 though, so just wondered if anything better has appeared since then...
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best thermal grease is this
 
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oh sorry did not know about UK sellers competition sites.

btw i've bought that thermal grease, and put it on my 580,

and this is how the grease work.



no one is telling you to agree with me.. you are free to get any other type of TG, i've chosed what fits my interests.
 
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p3gaz_001 said:
oh sorry did not know about UK sellers competition sites.

btw i've bought that thermal grease, and put it on my 580,

and this is how the grease work.



no one is telling you to agree with me.. you are free to get any other type of TG, i've chosed what fits my interests.
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If you're referring to the GTX 580 temperatures shown in the top left of the image then I call foul unless you're using some form of chilled cooling.

A minimum of 15°C and a maximum of 26°C is impossible with air cooling.

Those temperatures might be possible with chilled water cooling but not "normal" water cooling.
 
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Surveyor said:
If you're referring to the GTX 580 temperatures shown in the top left of the image then I call foul unless you're using some form of chilled cooling.

A minimum of 15°C and a maximum of 26° is impossible with air cooling.

Those temperatures might be possible with chilled water cooling but not "normal" water cooling.
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I'm using MO-Ra-3 9x120 Rad. GPU is on Koolance waterblock.

when i did the benchmark it was 8 C° outside, after opening my room windows, the room temp drops to 13 °C.

 
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The best thermal compound round up I've seen recently is skinneelabs with Indigo Extreme still the best if you can put up with the install methods and the cost for each application, not sure if it comes in 2011 yet though
 
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After researching it looks like you're right David... Indigo Extreme seems to be the best hands down.

Then it's kind of a mashup between: Shin-Etsu X23-7783D, Arctic MX-3 and IC Diamond 24.
Followed by Arctic Silver 5 which is now showing it's age.

Only problem is being that Indigo Extreme comes as laser cut strips that you apply, it needs to be cut for the socket. And they dont have a socket 2011 version until mid december, so that paste is out of the running :(

Cant find Shin-Etsu X23-7783D in the UK.

So looks like it's MX-3 or IC Diamond 24. Think i'll go for the latter.
 
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Wow there must be good money to be made in that grease. £15, I reckon markup for the manufacturer is at least 30x.

I dunno how one can measure a grease and compare with others as there's probably so many variables that affect the temp more than the actual temp difference created between the greases applied :). I doubt there will be more than a few degrees of difference between the cheapest and most expensive (would you really be bothered about 1 or 2 degrees?), the difference might be what happens long term but nobody can or want to really measure that (ie, 12 months of usage, how does it behave then?). The temperate just after install is kind of irrlevant.
 
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You can get up to 10+ C difference going from a cheap paste to one of the best. Some of the cheap ones are very thin like water and conductive. Theres countless tests done over the years showing they can make a pretty big difference without question. With the better pastes though you're usually looking at around 1 - 3 C difference but when you want to OC as much as possible and spend £150+ on cooling then you definitely dont want to ruin it with a poor thermal paste. Even 1 or 2 degrees can matter.

All the ones i mentioned seem to be 12+ months old and no one has reported degraded performance over time, which is very rare anyway even with a cheap paste.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
These look like the files I suggested for encodes in the BD thread as I have a thread on another website with the same files and settings.

I would appreciate it if I can add these scores to the thread(OcUK will be mentioned) as I have 67 results already and top score is for an i7 980X.

http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss33/CAT-THE-FIFTH/HandBrakeChart25-10-2011.png
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You can use mine too, if you want the other scores I can send them once I get my H20 RMA'd case back from kind people at OCUK. Send me a PM in a week in case I forget cos I have to completely rebuild it again.
 
Got my 3930K @ 4.6GHz with just 1.33v at the moment, using the Asus Rampage IV. This is also with all 8 RAM slots filled (32GB). I'll go higher and post pics soon, after my new fans arrive tomorrow hopefully.
 
What are your temperatures like, MR.B? Also, what are your related voltage settings (vdroop etc)? I am curious as I have had to go to 1.38v to get 4.6GHz out of my 3960x. While my heatsink/fan is able to cool it sufficiently, it's still worth trying to get the heat output down if possible.
 
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