racebreed

Picked up another 7kgs of dry ice today and started some benching.

My first goal was to get 1st spot on hwbot for CPU-Z

I did it with this,





I set QPI to slow mode in BIOS to achieve that result.

My next aim was to try get into top 3 for Superpi. Getting there slowly, forgot to click on the memory page when taking the screenshot though.



Pretty happy, my personal best, memory was 7-7-7-20 @ 1.66V (Set at BIOS).

System Specs,
- Intel Xeon W3520 batch # ********
- Gigabyte X58A-UD9 motherboard F4A BIOS
- 6GB Corsair Domintor GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C7
- Kingpin Dragon F1 Extreme Edition CPU pot
- MSI R4350 GPU
- Western Digital 150GB Velociraptor
- Enermax Revolution 1250W PSU

racebreed

Another 1st spot on hwbot.

Superpi 32m



I installed my version (nlite) of Windows XP x64 SP2 for that run. Still messing around with memory timings and uncore frequencies. Might be able to push it a little more.

racebreed

This is good for 1st spot in hwbot pifast for W3520



Just realised that after installing and running wprime in x64 its SLOWER than in 32 bit so I am going to reinstall Windows XP 32bit again... rookie mistake...

racebreed

2nd spot hwbot for Wprime 32m



Out of dry ice, wprime sucks.

Rig pic,

youngpro

sick man, really please to see more aussies getting into it, and your results are nice... nice insulation on your board too... keep at it !

youngpro

oh btw, maybe try using LESS dry ice in the pot, maybe an inch at the bottom, with 2 inches of acetone.. that way it doesnt get think and it bubbles well.. this should give you the best temps

racebreed

Thanks youngpro

I know what you mean about the dry ice, I had a 10ml syringe that I use to draw up the acetone from the 1lt bottle I bought from k-mart. It works a treat and saves it dribbling down on the board / bench which happened to me when I pour it in. I squirted (lol) a bit in after taking that pic and it bubbled away.

Temps were okay, easy enough to control. I wouldn't be able to use those volts and frequencies for a 1024M Wprime run, I need ln2 for that.

I am going to buy a dewar in the next couple of weeks. I want to get into a 6 minute 32m Super Pi run under my belt. I am looking at buying some 2200C8 memory too. That should work well for a 250bclk, 10x mem and 20x uncore for ln2... maybe..

Board is rock solid, love it. I like it when things just work.

BTW, that capture program works a treat!

eva2000

Sweet results indeed W3520 3845A935 are very nice