Ivy Bridge Results and Discussion thread

[Blades]

I ordered the same board, how bad can it be?

Its probably just me.. It had good reviews... but I really really really like my asrock better.. Really... The gigabyte board is also wider... or rather... the asrock board is slightly less wide than most.. The placement of the onboard power button on the gigabyte board is in the upper right hand corner.. Really stupid compared to the asrock, which is on the lower right hand corner.

Even tho I say "its probably just me", I do think the reviews are a little too peachy..

 

[jp0ll]

I hooked up my ivy bridge today. Disconnected in less than 1 hour - I need my comp working. Gonna need the weekend to figure out this gigabyte board. Man this bios sucks ass compared to the asrock- its so god damn convoluted, its sickening. Got another h80.. now all I need is some ram and a PS. What is the lowest wattage PS I can get for a CPU only (and ssd) setup? I'm glad that I did not remove one of my (other) H80s from my 1090T or 2500K - I would've been livid if doing so messed up my great oc on my 2500k.

Board is a z77x-ud5h blah blah. It sucks

I have the same GA-Z77X-UD5H board. I wouldn't say the board "sucks", I just think it takes time to get use to. I coming from a ASUS P6T board so it looks totally different to me. Just play around with it and become familiar with the setup. I have no complaints as far as the performance of the board so far.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

Its probably just me.. It had good reviews... but I really really really like my asrock better.. Really... The gigabyte board is also wider... or rather... the asrock board is slightly less wide than most.. The placement of the onboard power button on the gigabyte board is in the upper right hand corner.. Really stupid compared to the asrock, which is on the lower right hand corner.

Even tho I say "its probably just me", I do think the reviews are a little too peachy..

agreed it is a stupid place, i dont think ive ever seen it before.

Kinda sad i didnt get the Asrock. Was debating between that and the gigabyte (because the gigabyte is the best for OSX), and the Asrock went OOS so that pretty much made my decision. I'd rather have a simpler bios if possible, but i guess ill just have to get used to it.

 

[Avalon]

I hope that's how I'll feel when I get mine

It's such a noticeable difference coming from a Core2 E8400, even when I'm not doing too much heavy tasking in windows. So far at stock with my CM 212 Evo, temps peaked at 53C in real temp on one of the cores while running Prime95 large FFT after 15 mins, but I noticed that all my cores were turbo'd to 3.6Ghz so that was cool. Seems reasonable.

When I get a chance today I will start doing some tweaking, and probably slap another fan on my Evo. Currently using the stock fan to push air through the heatsink out to my rear exhaust fan. Got a spare 120x35mm Sunon that puts out a reasonable amount of air with decent acoustics, curious to see how well that will help added in as a pull fan on the other side.

Will be running some benchmarks, primarily gaming and video encoding, when everything is all said and done. Even got some numbers from my E8400 @ 3.8 before I pulled it out. Will be interesting to see the difference between that and this Ivy at stock and OC'd.

 

[Stoneburner]

Because of work, I haven't had too much time to work on OC'ing. MY 3770k seems stable at 4.6 at stock voltage. I ran 20 minutes of linX and about 10 of OCCT. The highest temp for any core was 83, even though my fanspeed on my h100 is set for medium for now.

I tried a quick run a 4.9 at 1.27V this morning for the hell of it. No post.

By accident, I had set my turbo multipliers at 46 for each core instead of disabling turbo and increasing the the regular multiplier. THis actually seemed to work perfectly fine. ANy reason you can't use turbo multipliers for OC'ing?

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

It's such a noticeable difference coming from a Core2 E8400, even when I'm not doing too much heavy tasking in windows. So far at stock with my CM 212 Evo, temps peaked at 53C in real temp on one of the cores while running Prime95 large FFT after 15 mins, but I noticed that all my cores were turbo'd to 3.6Ghz so that was cool. Seems reasonable.

When I get a chance today I will start doing some tweaking, and probably slap another fan on my Evo. Currently using the stock fan to push air through the heatsink out to my rear exhaust fan. Got a spare 120x35mm Sunon that puts out a reasonable amount of air with decent acoustics, curious to see how well that will help added in as a pull fan on the other side.

Will be running some benchmarks, primarily gaming and video encoding, when everything is all said and done. Even got some numbers from my E8400 @ 3.8 before I pulled it out. Will be interesting to see the difference between that and this Ivy at stock and OC'd.

What benchmarks were you using? I may run a few as well on my Q6600 system before i switch everything over.

 

[Avalon]

What benchmarks were you using? I may run a few as well on my Q6600 system before i switch everything over.

For encoding/transcoding I'm going to try the Graysky x264 HD test that Anand uses, and maybe run a quick rate test on the speed of ripping a DVD in DVDShrink (although that's primarily I/O bound, but I do want to see if there are any changes).

Also ran the standard winrar test. As for games, I'm benching SC2 (single player, all-in mission), Natural Selection 2, Civ 5 (late game, lots of cities and units), and Skyrim (run through Eldergleam caverns).

 

[RampantAndroid]

I'm currently using a Megahalems with some Noctua fans - would I see any benefit worth the cost from moving to a DH14?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I'm currently using a Megahalems with some Noctua fans - would I see any benefit worth the cost from moving to a DH14?

doubt it

 

[blackened23]

The temps are fine. Constant whining about temps that people perceive as high is getting annoying.

I dunno. My 3770k is stuck at 4.6ghz and I get up to 85C with prime95 during stress testing. It is considerably warmer than SB - my old 2600k did 4.8ghz at 62c no sweat even after an hour of prime.

4.7 is my hard limit yet at 1.3V my temps are so high its hilarious.....and I get BSOD's after a few minutes (past 90C sometimes)

Im happy with my chip but I anxiously await a new stepping of Ivy Bridge, one that doesn't turn into a toaster.

 

[Don Karnage]

I dunno. My 3770k is stuck at 4.6ghz and I get up to 85C with prime95 during stress testing. It is considerably warmer than SB - my old 2600k did 4.8ghz at 62c no sweat even after an hour of prime.

4.7 is my hard limit yet at 1.3V my temps are so high its hilarious.....and I get BSOD's after a few minutes (past 90C sometimes)

Im happy with my chip but I anxiously await a new stepping of Ivy Bridge, one that doesn't turn into a toaster.

I have a feeling i'll be going back to X79 as soon as IB-E gets released

 

[Ferzerp]

I haven't been agressive. 4.4Ghz, 1.208V (per CPU-Z). Hits 84 with IBT. Hits 74 with Prime95. Using an old H50 cooler.

 

[Dadofamunky]

For encoding/transcoding I'm going to try the Graysky x264 HD test that Anand uses, and maybe run a quick rate test on the speed of ripping a DVD in DVDShrink (although that's primarily I/O bound, but I do want to see if there are any changes).

Also ran the standard winrar test. As for games, I'm benching SC2 (single player, all-in mission), Natural Selection 2, Civ 5 (late game, lots of cities and units), and Skyrim (run through Eldergleam caverns).

I totally think you guys should do that - can be really illustrative for people who are migrating from the early Wolfdale and Penryn days. I know I really wanna see the comparisons.

 

[Zebo]

So at this point, how much faster in IPC is Ivy Bridge vs Bloomfield?

Would the jump from 4Ghz i7 920 to a 4.5Ghz Ivy Bridge be significant?

About 20% faster. I damn sure wouldn't buy a new cpu/ram/mobo $500 combo for a not noticeable 20%. Basically you got a intel mem controller on chip you're good for a very long time.

I'd say upgrade if you got Wolfdale on down. Then you'll notice.

 

[kami]

OK so here's my initial results with my i7 3770k. I'll probably tweak more later but for now I am settling on 4.5GHz @ 1.2v.

I can boot into windows @ 4.5ghz with 1.1v but it BSOD after about 15 seconds of prime95 so the sweet spot may be in between 1.1 and 1.2 somewhere. For now I'm just keeping it at 1.2v since it did an hour on prime with that.

I can get into windows @ 4.8GHz with 1.3v but again it BSOD after a short time in prime. It probably needs at least 1.35 for 4.8.

Here is screenshots of it at 4.5ghz and 1.2v:

Idle:

Load:

These temps don't seem bad to me. Cooler is a H80 with GentleTyphoon 1850 fans (H80 set to "medium" fan speed). I recently replaced stock corsair fans with these. Quieter and they move more air through a radiator....very impressed.

edit:
i7-3770K
SR0PL 3.50GHZ
MALAY
L210B405

 

[QuantumPion]

Here's my results so far. 4.5 Ghz @ offset of +0.045 which results in a cpu load voltage of ~1.22 V. It crashed during stress testing at 1.21 V. Dunno how people are claiming to get 4.4-4.5 Ghz at 1.05 V, my 3770k's default voltage seems to be 1.16 V.

As far as memory goes, my Samsung 1.35 V DDR3 seems to refuse to OC past 1866 Mhz, even at 1.6 V. However, interestingly enough it seems to manage 8-8-8-22 timings at 1600 Mhz at the default voltage. Note the stock timings are 11-11-11-28.

 

[LagunaX]

That's weird.
On P67 and Z68 I had no problem with the Samsungs doing 2133 9-10-10-28 1T @ 1.575v with my i7-3770k.
No problem either with DDR3 2200 10-10-10-28 1T @ 1.5v.

I was actually thinking of getting a z77 board just so I could run DDR3 2400.

Yeah I dunno these other ppl with ultra low voltage chips.
I need 1.22v for 4.5ghz and 1.27-1.28v for 4.6ghz Prime stable too.
We perhaps just have average chips.

 

[QuantumPion]

That's weird.
On P67 and Z68 I had no problem with the Samsungs doing 2133 9-10-10-28 1T @ 1.575v with my i7-3770k.
No problem either with DDR3 2200 10-10-10-28 1T @ 1.5v.

Hmm I wonder if there is a bios setting that is making it hard to overclock. Did you have 4x4 GB?

 

[LagunaX]

I have 2 x 4gb.
You might need to bump up vccio or vccsa for 16gb.
Read this review here for help with settings:
http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/reviews/Samsung/MV-3V4G3/6.html

 

[Ferzerp]

I think I'm sticking with 4.4Ghz@1.208V measured by cpu-z

Peak temps with new cooler are mid 70's with IBT.

 

[Blades]

This stupid gigabyte board consumes more power at idle than my asrock... and my asrock has a sandy bridge. 46W vs 36W. Then again, it does have 2x lan and a bunch of other crap... I still can't figure out the bios. What is the equiv of "additional turbo voltage" - basically a setting that allows you to add voltage up top, keeping the idle voltage @ stock or lower. Their manual and bios is a joke as far as help goes. Don't even bother saying XYZ Voltage: "This controls the XYZ voltage". That's annoying. Tossers.

I think I may have got a decent chip, as I achieved 4.3 and I don't even know what the hell I'm doing. Disable turbo boost, right?

edit: 4.6ghz.. and +.04V - i think.. I refuse to underperform my 5.2ghz SB - that said, I'm going to melt this.

 

[gothuevos]

Here are my results with some questions at the end:

Intel 3770K
Zalman CNPS 10x Performa with arctic MX-4
Asrock Z77 extreme4
8GB Corsair Vengenace DDR1600

I can run 4.5 ghz with vcore auto and LLC set to level 4 (not sure % of droop that translates to). Prime95 temps reach max 68-72 on all cores after about an hour. Intel BurnTest gets a bit hotter, about mid 80s max load.

4.6 ghz is a completely different story. At this point auto vcore does nothing unless I set the LLC to level 1 (which is 100% I assume), but temps get crazy high at this point. IBT gets up to 94 almost immediately so I shut down the test after a few seconds.

Did some tinkering with setting vcore anywhere in the 1.20-1.30 range with LLC tweaking - it either crashes or is stable but at an unacceptable temp (>90 deg). I've since backed it down to the 4.5 ghz settings and am satisfied with that for now.

1). Why was 100mhz higher at 4.6ghz such a wall? Is it just my chip? My cooler certainly isn't the best in terms of air cooling, but it's no chump either and on reviews scores better than some of the more popular air options (212+ evo, etc).

2). Will hitting 90+ on my tests (even for just several seconds) damage the chip? I know the tmax is 105 and throttling will then kick in, but does that or throttling in itself cause damage to the chip?

 

[Blades]

Same here.. I'm gonna stop fucking with it.. I wasted enough time on it already.. My temps are fine.. its just that no matter what vcore I throw at it, i get program (benchmarks) crashes.. basically insufficient vcore type of instability.. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the motherboard.. i hate this piece of shit.

If someone with a gigabyte z77x-ud5h mobo wants to send me their config file.. i'd be very very very happy.. Put it on suicide settings, I don't care.. I got 9.3 cinebench (not saying thats good or bad, I don't know), and I don't even know what freq.. I think it was 4.7... don't remember the friggin settings tho..

Edit: got 4.7 stable.. but cinebench was 9 flat. Could I have gotten 4.8 at one point? Ugh. Who cares. I don't know if my sb is faster or not.. it does seem faster. I want 4.8ghz dammit. Any help?

 

[Xed]

Not thrilled with my chip.

100 linx passes and 13 hours prime blend stable. Requires 1.28v for 4.5ghz

75c 86c 84c 81c max temps.

 

[dinker99]

I have a feeling i'll be going back to X79 as soon as IB-E gets released

I need as many threads as possible so I`ve decided it makes no sense to go the Z77/3770k route - I`ll only have to bin the board when IB-E comes out. Looks like an Asus P9X79 PRO and a 3930k will provide the best upgrade-ability.