Turning off 2 cares did nothing hehe.. well atleast for my vantage attempt.
 
Reinstalling Vantage as i'm hoping its bad since it keeps looking right away in the last test.
 
Testing now and i'll see if its fine or not.
 

you may have to consider what your pulling from the wall most outlets are simple 120v with 14 guage wire which is only good for 1400-1600watts, If you pulling nine on one and 7 on the other your peaking that 1600watts. I actually had to move my rig out to the garage to get it to work properly. I didn't realize it until I blew one psu. My lights were dimming in my room when I benchmarked. May not be the case for you, but something to consider. I mean I hate to say it, but its in your setting no doubt somewhere in those settings the magic is there.

No advanced version of Heaven..
 
Stock settings on the GPUs will run the maxed out 1024x786 test while the CPU is maxed.  THough i could not do the same with the overclocked cards and cpu at the same time.. Did not try lowering the CPU down from 4.5Ghz and overclock the GPUs only for the maxed heaven test.
 
I'll try setting the CPU to default.. if i even know what that is (hehe) while overclocking the cards and run that heaven maxed out bench again.
 
Kinda doubting theres some magical settings i need to set to get a stable run on Heaven at those maxed settings and CPU at 4.5 or 4.6Ghz while also overclocking the cards.
 
I'll post my bios settings sometime tonight and what i've also tried.
 
Off the top of my head.. lowering the mem to 9,9,9 did not help.. upping the vcore to 1.56 did not help.. VTT also to +250 did nothing.. PCI-E 102 did'nt help.  Removing 6GBs of ram didnt do anything either.. Dissabling 2 cores did nota as well.
 
830Mhz on the GPUs without upping the voltage above 1.1v (Actually well below) is the highest i've been able to run Heaven max settings at 1024x768 at 4.5Ghz.
 
Is either going to be something i need to tweak voltage wise to stablize the system runing SLI or i've maxed the board.
 

EleSSaRBLS 
As bad as it sounds one of your cards may not be putting out what the others are. 

 
Say again?  Are you trying to say that one of the 4 cards are bad or not up to par as the others?
 
The system has no probs runing Vantage at 4.5Ghz with the cards at 950Mhz.. also runs 3Dmark11 with a slightly less overclock on the cards at 4.5Ghz.

Yeah it can complete vantage at 4.5Ghz and the cards overclocked to 950/2200Mhz on the ram. I got a high score of 66,68something and posted it in the 3dmark score thread on here.  Though it was just today someone with Tri SLi and a 980 overclocked to 47-4800Mhz beat my high score at 67,000+. :/
 
Also i can even complete Vantage at 4600Mhz but stock GPU clocks.. Heaven max clock bench i cant complete at 4600Mhz at GPU stock clocks.
 
I'm thinking i need to find a setting that will help stablize the GPUs at 4.6Ghz.
 
I should just cut to the chase and try upping everything one or 2 notches and see if i can complete Heaven then at 4.6Ghz.. hehe.
 
Tonight i'll play with it some more but i hav'nt had the chance to the past few hours cause of the SperBowl game... Once the kids are alseep, i'll play with it some more.
 
I just hope windows can hold up to all this abuse with all the lockups.
 
 

Been running these setting for the past few days on air. Not sure if you can use them. Just thought you might want to give it a shot.
Disregard the voltage in CPU-z.
 

 

 
Try using the same memory timings and voltages.
 
Best Regards,
Dave

daveyd007

Been running these setting for the past few days on air. Not sure if you can use them. Just thought you might want to give it a shot.
Disregard the voltage in CPU-z.





Try using the same memory timings and voltages.

Best Regards,
Dave

Thanks for the info.. Would love to try your settings though i have my doubts since your using such low cpu vcore.. heh Must be nice!
 
Some of the settings are obviously different between motherboards but i'll see if i can figure them out.  Would love to know what your VTT is set at if you have a setting for it?  THe ICH and IOH settings look different from what i'm used to seeing.. I see them as ICH PLL and IOH PLL.. Your is ICH and IOH PCE.. hopefully there the same.
 
Is that a new 980X? Seems like from what i've been seeing lately is that the newest batch out there are great overclockers with low vcore. WHats your batch #? does it start with 303?
 

daveyd007.. I could not boot into windows with that low vcore.. worth a shot.
 

ahowes your rig is just to sexy for my shirt sorry for not helping

AHowes

daveyd007

Been running these setting for the past few days on air. Not sure if you can use them. Just thought you might want to give it a shot.
Disregard the voltage in CPU-z.





Try using the same memory timings and voltages.

Best Regards,
Dave

Thanks for the info.. Would love to try your settings though i have my doubts since your using such low cpu vcore.. heh Must be nice!

Some of the settings are obviously different between motherboards but i'll see if i can figure them out.  Would love to know what your VTT is set at if you have a setting for it?  THe ICH and IOH settings look different from what i'm used to seeing.. I see them as ICH PLL and IOH PLL.. Your is ICH and IOH PCE.. hopefully there the same.

Is that a new 980X? Seems like from what i've been seeing lately is that the newest batch out there are great overclockers with low vcore. WHats your batch #? does it start with 303?

yup, you're right the batch starts with '303'

 
Would love to know what your VTT is set at if you have a setting for it?
My vtt would be the 'qpi/dram core volt' setting - looking up there, it's set to 1.3 volts
 
 
"THe ICH and IOH settings look different from what i'm used to seeing.. I see them as ICH PLL and IOH PLL.. Your is ICH and IOH PCE.. hopefully there the same." 
 
Affirmative Captain, that is right. ;) Looks like you're gaining some momentum with your O/C. Woot! woot! A little more tweaking here and there, and you will be set. I'll look over what you have thus far to see if I can catch anything out of the norm.

Need to be quick but i've played and played some more.. I believe i got 4.666Ghz stable.. but still not overclocked on the GPUS as well. Can bench with them at stock clocks only.
 
SO i fear that this is gona get ugly and i need to start testing each card seperatly.. and in my rig its gona be murder if there is one bad card cause of the pain in the but to remove the cards.
 
Glad i have the PCI-E disable jumpers on the MB.. Just hope i can use a single card in whatever slot as i cant move cards around with the water cooling blocks.
 
Also it could very well be a bad card cause i've noticed strange artifacting in Vantage durring the first test..  On the boat theres a brown tarp and its flickering all over the place and i thought maybe it was drivers but its been ike that for a few different drivers.. So maybe thats the bad card since i hear know one else talking about that prob in vantage.
 
 

Bench 3DmarkVantage with three cards until you reach around P-63,000 through 65K, then stick that last GTX580 in there for another 5K+ instant boost. ;)
 
Furthermore, Vantage will test your Uncore stability as it relies heavily on IOH bandwidth.

CPU Stock Everything Auto execpt:
 
CPU Vcore 1.243v  Auto was 1.2v
CPU VTT Auto shows +200
CPU PLL Vcore = Auto 1.800v
IOH PLL Vcore = Auto 1.800v
 
QPI PLL Vcore = Auto = 1.1.00V Also tried setting it to 1.3v
DIMM = 1.65v
IOH Vcore - 1.225v
IOH/ICH I/O Voltage = 1.65 Lower dont seem stable
ICH Vcore 1.15v  I believe i also tried 1.225v
 
Uncore was auto as well.. QPI set to 6.4Ghz. 
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Heres my current settings @ 4.666Ghz:
 
Mother Board (EVGA X58 Classified 4 Way 762)
Drivers (Latest)
Bios ( 77 )
CPU ( I7-980X ) (dont know where to check) 
CPU Cooler ( Great water cooling )
Memory ( 12MB 6x2GB Mushkin Redline 1600 )
PSU ( 2x Ultra X4 )
GPU ( EVGA GTX580 Quad SLI )
Drivers ( Latest )
Operating System ( Windows 7 Pro 64 )


Frequency Control
CPU Clock Ratio ( 35X )
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ( 133 )
MCH Strap ( Auto )
CPU Uncore Frequency (Mhz) ( 2400Mhz {18X} )
CPU Clock Skew ( 0 ps )
IOH Clock Skew ( 0 ps )
Spread Spectrum ( Disabled )
PCIE Frequency (Mhz) ( 102 )
Turbo Performance - ( Disabled ) 


Memory Feature        
Memory Speed ( Standard )
Memory Control Setting ( Enabled )
Memory Frequency ( 1600Mhz / 2:12 )
Channel Interleave Setting ( 6 Way )
Rank Interleave Setting ( 4 Way )
Memory Low Gap (auto)
tCL Setting ( 6 )
tRCD Setting ( 8 )
tRP Setting ( 6 )
tRAS Setting (Auto ) "29"
tRFC Setting ( Auto ) "88"
Command Rate ( 1t )


Voltage Control
EVGA VDroop Control ( Without VDroop )
CPU VCore ( 1.5v )
CPU VTT Voltage ( +225mv )
CPU PLL VCore ( 1.905v)
IOH PLL VCore ( 1.905v ) 
QPI PLL VCore ( 1.350 )
DIMM Voltage ( 1.65 )
IOH VCore ( 1.225)
IOH/ICH I/O Voltage ( 1.650v )
ICH VCore ( 1.150v )
NF200 Voltage (Auto) "1.200" 
VTT PWM Frequency ( 490 KHZ )
CPU PWM Frequency ( 1210 KHZ )
CPU Impedance (Auto)  

CPU Feature
Intel SpeedStep ( Disabled )
Turbo Mode Function ( greyed out )
CxE Function ( Disabled )
Execute Disable Bit ( Disabled )
Virtualization Technology ( Disabled )
Intel HT Technology ( Enabled )
Active Processor Cores ( All )
QPI Control Settings ( Enabled )
QPI Link Fast Mode ( Enabled )
QPI Frequency Selection ( 6.4 GT/s )
OC Recorvery ( Disabled )

PnP/PCI     PCI Express
Maximum Payload Size ( 4096 ) 
 

Welp i dissabled 4 way SLI and quickly did a test using the first card right after.
 
First i ran Jane Dash in Vantage and no probs anymore with the tarp on the boat.. Smooth as butter. Then i ran the last test that gave me probs right away. Ran all the way through no probs. Then overclocked it to 903Mhz.. again ran the last vantage test and it ran fine. Then upped it to 930Mhz and it ran fine again.. Then i tried 950Mhz and it ran again perfectly.. Soild 99% on the card and 135 Frame rate.   Would of loved to see what a single card could do overclocking wise but next time heh.
 
Now to install the 3 way bridge and see what happends.
 

OK with the 3 cards in SLI no probs at stock.. 903Mhz fine.. 930 fine.. 950 at max voltage (used max for all 3 tests) i started to see that strange flickering tarp on the boat in the first test in Vantage.. Real slight though.
 
So thats tells me i'm getting close to the wall in overclocking 3 cards or hitting max on one of them..  If thats right as its artifacting when the clocks are too high then its possable that the 4th card is bad if its doing that at stock timings.
 
Will have to see if i can one just the 1 (4th) card from the PCI-E slot its in as i cant change them around. Test that card and find out if she's bad or what.