Intel Core i7 980X Gulftown Club - post your results here...

[Booj]

By kayl

do you have the foam white hard foam inserts in your cpu head enclosure? or the black foam inserts??

hhmmm, with mine it sat at the C1 code for what felt like 2-3mins before booting. On the classi mine has a CB at -120c, but just bios boot issues on gigabtye. Ie if im colder than -120c it doesnt boot at all.

I have the hard foam inserts. They are compressing gradually as i was stupid and overtightened on a Phenom II system. Perhaps the black foam insert and enclosure has an advantage because it 'springs' back?

Interesting there 2-3min boot.. I never tried leaving it for that long. I crapped myself thinking the chip was dead.. Tried about a dozen times with battery out cmos clear, low temp boot, 1 stick of ram etc.. all no go. If the board has died I don't blame it.. it's been an absolute champ for 18 months.. very fast board. I'm not giving up, i'll try a 920 in it on air and see what happens.

[SYF_Karma]

not sure how relevant this may be

but my rig is running a 980x, youve seen the results thus far

this was a FW update i did on my raid array

[eva2000]

Sweet might want to post up some 4xOCZ Vertex Turbo benches in flash memory forums at http://i4memory.com/f9/

[SYF_Karma]

i most certainly will, once i get the beasty running smoothly

[cowie]

i see booj has himself a chip too nice.
hope its alright

i think the 980x 480 gtx combo would be good for some numbers
just messing around cpu kayl pot gpu stock cooler with some dice to cool down the air.
the cards halfway decent for 03 too i went 107k not even trying
nvidia got it running better now



i got riva working for everything cept' overclocking and adding volts
3d06


i'll push the chip more

[Booj]

wow very nice mate! the 480 looks like a great benching card

[cowie]

thx hows your chip?

[Booj]

not great so far.. mine wants more and more vcore. I'll know more once i put it under ln2 in the next week or 2 and see if the extra cold helps a lot. I think this chip will be lucky to hit 6ghz.