LN2 day with i7-4960x

[FlanK3r]

Its enthusiasm of extreme OC death here? I hope not.
So my passion reflected in Dark Blue Side! Oh god, dark side and FlanK3r. Non sense! But for once - because mild green/red color make me better for life .

Intel core i7-4960X coming, dark side was in my room for few days one for one day with LN2. I was scared.

i7-4960X borrowed by Intel Czech for review.It was ES QF7Z revision A.

Hmm, I must have tested new PSU Galaxy and "old" good Rampage IV Extreme.

Good isolation, one good average GPU HD 7870 (so no 3D test), poor 2400 XMP HyperX. Because my TridentX died after LN2 show at Haswell . Im oldman, gentleman and therefore I use

classic isolating method ,-). Gum, paper etc...

After many hours benchmarking I tried one 3D Mark run. At the beginning I was careful, IB-E was not mine and how it can react with temps/voltages?

I was happy, no one problem with wet at board all time

 

[FlanK3r]

I like this area. With LLC at "ultra" was CPU-Z vcore the same as real vcore (+- 0.00xV!)

Every nice story ends..Next day "dark power" gone away and I could sleep

And there are few results, not good, not bad. For this monster I need next day. I was really too much careful at beginning. This chip could run hard beenchmarks around 5650-5700

MHz and 2D aprox the same as in my results of superpi.

HWBot benchmark in java

MaXXPI 32M was quickly

And Winrar benchmark 18 000KB/s +

UCBench at 5600 MHz

What about Fritzchess benchmark? Not many people testing this hard loading benchmark with LN2

Classic wprime 32/1024M, but in x64, so a bit slower

 

[FlanK3r]

And Cinebench R11.5, wow. I never seen life something so fast..

And Superpi was much easier, 6200 MHz no problem

And two videos from benchamrking. First some Cinebench R11.5 and Wprimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=x-5Zc2uAYEk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gSyvRKYsKJU


So after these crazy dark days with i7-4960X I must be dressed again in serious green/red t-shirt. FX-8350 LN2 is coming...

 

[crashtech]

Thanks for the fun read! Did the Rampage IV need a BIOS update to run IB-E?
Did you do any testing on air, or just LN2?

 

[Idontcare]

Rather impressive clocks for the IBE considering it wasn't delidded. Wonder how much higher it could go (or less voltage) if it had been delidded?

 

[superrockie]

I think he can't delid because ive bridge e is soldered on.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Yeah it's soldered so it makes no difference.

Actually seems low, but he was running more intense benchmarks than most do (cpuz/superpi).

I thought Ivy did much better than Sandy Bridge on LN2? I could be wrong, but I remember SB was really lackluster as far as clocks go but it's still blazing fast.

 

[FlanK3r]

crashtech: yes, you need only and simply update BIOS. And if you can with BIOS flashback function you need not CPU or RAM . Only flashdisk fat32 and renamer for BIOS file.

Yes, IB-E is soldered and this is big, big risk remove IHS (propably destruction). Air cooling IB-E seems similar as with SB-E or a bit worse. This is with Noctua NHD14

BallaTheFeared: with LN2 is much better. As you seen 2D light are around 6200 MHz, hard benchmarks with 6c/12t seems around 5600-5700 MHz. I heard the best chips can 5900 MHz. For all threads its very good number.