I got an Intel Hex Core i7 970 last week and I think I did good with the overclocking. What do you think?
I’ve included some relevant (and maybe some irrelevant) information, Idle and load temps and BIOS settings.
CPU - Intel i7 970 Hex Core Processor (B1 Stepping) with EK CPU Copper Water Block
EVGA x58 FTW3 Edition Motherboard with a fan added to the Northbridge heat sink.
3x2GB OCZ Gold DDR3 PC3-16000 @ 1720MHz 8-8-8-24-1T Timings @ 1.65 V
BIOS settings. Note: If I have a setting on auto or off or left it at default, I did not include it in this list
CPU host Frequency: 172MHz
CPU Core Frequency: 4308MHz
Uncore Frequency: x22 multiplier. 3791MHz
RAM Ratio 2:10
Turbo Enabled
Hyper threading Enabled
Voltages:
EVGA vDroop control: Disabled
CPU Vcore: 1.30000V
CPU VTT: +250mV
CPU PPL Vcore: 1.900V
DIMM VoltageL 1.650V
QPI PPL Vcore: 1.200
IOH Vcore: 1.200V
IOH/ICH I/O Voltage: 1.525V
ICH Vcore: 1.175V
PWM Frequency: 933KHz
GRAPHICS CARDS – (Graphics Rendering) Two EVGA GTX 470s SC+ in SLI with HeatKiller Waterblock and EVGA aluminum back plate
Core Clock: 725MHz
Shade Clock: 1450MHz
Memory Bus Speed: 3600MHz
GRAPHICS CARDS – (Physx Rendering and second monitor) EVGA GTS 450 SC
Core Clock: 920MHz
Shader Clock: 1840MHz
Memory Speed: 3850MHz
(2) OCZ Agility2 120GB SSDs in RAID 0 (Boot and Programs)
(3) Samsung 500GB HDDs in Raid 5 (Music, Documents, videos, ect.)
1000 Watt Xigmatek PSU
Acer 20 inch LCD Monitor
Dell 15 inch LCD Monitor
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition
WATER COOLING SETUP My cooling system is a single pump (120 Gal/hr Laing Pump w/ EK V2 Top) that breaks off into two branches. One branch is for the CPU, the other branch for the GPUs. Each branch has their own 120mm x 120mm Radiator. It all merges back together into a common 120mm x 360mm radiator. It also has a 150ml Reservoir and every fan is controlled by a front bay controller.
3DMARK Vantage Score: 38327 (GPU score: 32482, CPU score: 81723) 3DMARK06 Score: 29997 Idle Temps for CPU cores: 23C, 34C, 24C, 24C, 34C, 27C
Load temps using Prime 95 and Small FFTs:
62C, 66C, 59C, 52C, 67C, 61C
I decided to go take it one step further and do a worst case scenario with Prime95 running small FFTs and ran my GPUs on FAH. I did this because I have both my graphics card and CPU liquid cooled. So,
With CPU running on small FFTs and GPU running FAH, CPU core temps: 71C, 73C, 68C, 61C, 74C, 70C.
Everything was tested with all three test of Prime95. Small FFTs ran for an hour with no errors. Large FFTs ran for 2 hours. Blend test ran overnight. NO ERRORS or BSODs.
post edited by crossrhoads2005 - Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:01 PM