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Very proud of my bulid

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djdave404

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I have a i7 980x OC@ 4.0 that i bulit myself.

it just went into the top 20 (sixteenth place at the moment) of the top hosts for Einstein@home.

no video card help, just the CPU doing the work.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/top_hosts.php

it's doing a RAC of 11,627.75 at the moment and still gaining ground.

I have passed some heavy duty servers, with a home bulit box.

I kind of feel like a proud dad, that just watched his son make the winning touchdown.

Just had to tell someone, no one around here would understand. if anyone would understand, it would be you guys.

Thanks
DJDave404
BlackBox on the charts
 
You're hooked now!

I have the same feeling about a little $312.00 box I built for a neighbor. It has over 112K on SIMAP as part of my score. It has greatly exceeded all my expectations. And his!
 
Nice build.

I remember hearing about some L5640s that were going for $350 on eBay; someone had apparently got hold of quite a handful and were auctioning them off one at a time. If you are getting the itch, I suggest you have a look for one of those; I don't know if there are still any left, but if there are, this is absolutely awesome value; it has to be the best way to get 12 threads in a single socket at the moment.
 
What's a L5640?

djdave404 said:
I have a i7 980x OC@ 4.0 that i bulit myself.

it just went into the top 20 (sixteenth place at the moment) of the top hosts for Einstein@home.

no video card help, just the CPU doing the work.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/top_hosts.php

it's doing a RAC of 11,627.75 at the moment and still gaining ground.

I have passed some heavy duty servers, with a home bulit box.

I kind of feel like a proud dad, that just watched his son make the winning touchdown.

Just had to tell someone, no one around here would understand. if anyone would understand, it would be you guys.

Thanks
DJDave404
BlackBox on the charts
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Lol, proud dad, but yea awesome rig! 😀

Is the 980x 6core with HT?
 
Heheh, must admit I've no idea what they go for, hmmm let's see.... OMG! £813 from ebuyer!😱 (their generally cheap btw).
 
JeffCos said:
Very nice. What board and what are your OC settings? I have trouble pushing mine past 3.85
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HT is off.
memory was set to 1600 and multiplyer is at x21
(lower than stock)

This gives me full memory bandwidth @4.0
Power saveing is on, so at idle, it downclocks to 50%

Only memory voltage has been adjusted, it's at 1.7V
everything else is stock settings if i recall correctly.


CPU
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Rev 1.0
Memory
OCZ PC3 12800 DDR3 1600MHz 7-8-8-26 Cas 7
Graphics Card
HIS H587FN1GD Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo
Hard Drive
Crucial C300 Sata 3 SSD 256GB Boot Drive
Sound Card
On Board
Power Supply
Xion Power Real 1250 Watt
Case
Lancool (Lian Li) PC-K62
CPU cooling
Scythe SCMG-2000 Mugen 2
GPU cooling
iCooler V Turbo
OS
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Monitor
Samsumg LN16B640 46" 240Hz @ 1920 x 1080p

Pictures are here:
http://www.overclock.net/intel-general/773530-i7-980x-new-bulid-5.html
 
Assimilator1 said:
Heheh, must admit I've no idea what they go for, hmmm let's see.... OMG! £813 from ebuyer!😱 (their generally cheap btw).
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i got lucky when i bought the chip.

Did some shopping on E-bay and got one new/sealed box for $800 US dollars. (Free shipping too!)

They were $999 everywere else..🙂
 
Intel® Xeon® Processor L5640
(12M Cache, 2.26 GHz, 5.86 GT/s Intel® QPI)
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This. And Intel normally retails this for close to $1000.

Only memory voltage has been adjusted, it's at 1.7V
everything else is stock settings if i recall correctly.
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I wouldn't run the memory controller that high if I were you, apparently it's quite susceptible to damage. But then again, I'm quite cautious with my overclocks.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
I wouldn't run the memory controller that high if I were you, apparently it's quite susceptible to damage. But then again, I'm quite cautious with my overclocks.
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This is very true.

stock is 1.5V

My voltage increase is 0.2V more.

As i raise the voltage, the numbers change color as you go up, and 1.7 is "Pink" in color 1.8V and over is "red" or danger in color.

Compaired with the hard core Overclockers, mine is mild, but I have proved that it can run 24/7 at this speed.

it will boot and run test programs @4.6 But i can't control the temps when running at that speed for hours or days at a time. 4.0 seem to be the best ballance for both worlds.🙂

Ripping a DVD to .AVI, or converting an 2 hour video to another format in 8 min. it's fast enough for me. and is what i built the box for in the first place.

Doing DC work started out as a proof of concept for the machine, if the OC was dependable and reliable. seeing what it could do in the charts was next. I will probaly back off soon, and get my butt back to work on my projects, and DC will just be used when i'm not in need of the machine.

But i have enjoyed the DC work much more that i thought i would, i have to admit that..🙂
 
This is very true.

stock is 1.5V

My voltage increase is 0.2V more.

As i raise the voltage, the numbers change color as you go up, and 1.7 is "Pink" in color 1.8V and over is "red" or danger in color.

Compaired with the hard core Overclockers, mine is mild, but I have proved that it can run 24/7 at this speed.

it will boot and run test programs @4.6 But i can't control the temps when running at that speed for hours or days at a time. 4.0 seem to be the best ballance for both worlds.🙂

Ripping a DVD to .AVI, or converting an 2 hour video to another format in 8 min. it's fast enough for me. and is what i built the box for in the first place.

Doing DC work started out as a proof of concept for the machine, if the OC was dependable and reliable. seeing what it could do in the charts was next. I will probaly back off soon, and get my butt back to work on my projects, and DC will just be used when i'm not in need of the machine.

But i have enjoyed the DC work much more that i thought i would, i have to admit that..🙂
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With a $1000 chip, I would be concerned about how well it would hold up running at that speed for years, not days.
 
djdave404 said:
This is very true.

.....

Ripping a DVD to .AVI, or converting an 2 hour video to another format in 8 min. it's fast enough for me. and is what i built the box for in the first place.

Doing DC work started out as a proof of concept for the machine, if the OC was dependable and reliable. seeing what it could do in the charts was next. I will probaly back off soon, and get my butt back to work on my projects, and DC will just be used when i'm not in need of the machine.

But i have enjoyed the DC work much more that i thought i would, i have to admit that..🙂
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You've ramped up DC output that far & you think you can quit DC totally?
Oh dear you're in the denial stage now! 😀

Tell 'im guys! 😉
 
My understanding is that the memory voltage should be no more than 0.5V above VTT.
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Intel specifies the memory controller as having a 1.65V maximum. I'm not sure exactly where the VTT+0.5 value came from.
 
Assimilator1 said:
You've ramped up DC output that far & you think you can quit DC totally?
Oh dear you're in the denial stage now! 😀

Tell 'im guys! 😉
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Yupp. Assimilator1 is right. I - and the others here - am an DC-addict. I never realised it until I came to this support group.
Sorry to say, I have not been able to kick the habit. Not that I have not tried ... it gets you. I know I'll be free when there is no more electricity, or when all the 'net has gone down.
When my comps run out of WUs, that will not be a problem. I have old ones stashed on a 2 TB HDD - more than 1 857 GB of WUs: seti@home, Einstein@home, CPDN, AQUA@Home, PrimeGrid, SoB and especially DPAD - those you can run for ever and get massive amounts of points. All of them quite small WUs with long running times ...
I have all BOINC-verseions since 3.3; all F@H since the start, all the DPAD-programs since 0.9 ... yeah, that HDD is huge and filld with goodies. I even have som 15 000 Seti@home classic WUs and the apps ... And there is a copy of the HDD off-site and I ain't telling where. There is a dormant cruncher too here and there ... just to be sure that I always can crunch ...

Please help me, please ...
 
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