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TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

where did everyone get their chips from?
 
Chicken Patty said:
Performance PCS
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Performance PCS!:D I've bought from them but didn't know they sold processors. You must have been a walk in!

I got my 920 from TankGuys before anyone else was selling the Core i7. My 965 came from Newegg by way of live search cashback.
 
You know where I got mine from Fit ;)
 
Congratulations on working .. like now in 2009 will have an event in Brazil that calls campus party I will post the work of a team of my friend who fais overclock with some Japanese and Brazilian together
 
Well heres why i wouldnt go for the i7 yet

well i saw this thread and had to put my 2 cents (or less) in lol. i recently built me my next gaming machine which took me a week to order all the parts from different vendors and 3 hours to assemble fully and an additional 3 hours to finish overclocking and getting the system stable like i wanted it. here is a quick list of parts followed by speeds and statistics -

(shipping and handling included with all prices)

NEW INTEL CORE 2 EXTREME QUAD CORE QX9650 3GHZ 1333MHZ - 540 dollars
Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound 4g - 10 Dollars
ZEROtherm Nirvana NV120 CPU cooler - 55 dollars
ANTEC TWELVE HUNDRED BLACK CASE - 179 Dollars
TWO EXTRA 120mm Blue LED Case Fans - 34 Dollars
CORSAIR CMPSU-1000HX 1000W RT Power Supply - 259 Dollars
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P P45 775 R Motherboard - 136 Dollars
Kingston HyperX KHX9600D2K2 2 GIGS 1200MHZ DDR2 Ram (x2) - 340 Dollars
VelociRaptor 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives (x2) - 400 Dollars
Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - 150 Dollars
Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card - 150 Dollars
MSI ATI Radeon HD4870X2 2GB 780MHz OC Edition Graphics Card - 500 Dollars
Two Sony NEC Optiarc Black 22X DVD DL burners - 50 Dollars
LG Flatron W2452V 24" - 1920 x 1200 - 2ms - 10000:1 Widescreen LCD Monitor - 430 Dollars
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 505W-RMS 1000TW DIG DECODER Sound System - 240 Dollars
Windows Vista® Black-Eternity™ 2009 64-Bit Service Pack 2 installed


Total Price = 3473


Setup speed

CPU running at 4000Mhz which is 400Mhz Core Speed x 10 multiplier 1600 rated FSB
Under full load running prime95 torture test for 16 hours straight the core temps were -

Maximum --- Core 0 - 67 Core 1 - 67 Core 2 - 64 Core 3 - 65
Minimum --- Core 0 - 32 Core 1 - 32 Core 2 - 30 Core 3 - 30

These temps were taken with Coretemp and Realtemp running simultaneously
( Note that the Realtemp readings were always 2 to 3 degrees lower on average so I chose the higher readings from Coretemp to post here - All readings in Celsius)

The CPU core voltage was set to 1.325 in the bios with load calibration on and it was reading 1.296 steady under full load and at idle in CPU-Z.

Now i want to see, for the same amount of money, someone show me the performance of the i7 chip anywhere near this setup. Then of course you have to take into consideration that there is still way more room to overclock higher. I settled for 4Ghz for now until i feel like going into the water cooling extremist side of things or taking more time to lower the multiplier and tinker more with the FSB. Either way 4Ghz is run while staying within the voltage and temperature rang required to keep your warranty intact. Win - Win situation. Just throwing that out there along with this link for your viewing pleasure :)


http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/11/03/intel-core-i7-920-945-965-review/1



cheers
 
i think my setup whoops that systems ass. not trying to be mean either.

Asus P6T6 WS Revolution = $365
I7 920 = $265
3x1gb gskill blk PI 1600mhz ddr3 = $129
3x gtx260's = $170 each x3 = $510
pc power and cooling 860watt = free for review from pc power (thanks guys)
2x WD velociraptor 300gb = $140 a pair
swiftech gtz = $65
160.1(for now) = $45
laing d5 = $30
techstation = built myself
samsung dvdrw = $21

i also had 2 4870x2's until last friday. so thats 3x gtx260's + 2x 4870x2's
i also have an asus rampage 2 extreme

i have about $3100 in all of my stuff right now if you count my $900 water setup that is not mentioned and is currently not in use.

if you look through this thread you'll see my most recent score of P31058 in 3dmark vantage as well as many others. i have gotten my i7 920 OCed to 4.516ghz SO FAR.

this rig can play any game at full res on my 24" acer LCD.

;)

welcome TPU
 
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To i7, or not to i7... This is the question!

To be honest... i7 seems to be performing better in all benches (not just graphics related), I have seen!:respect: and I do not own an i7 setup (I would like to, though)

Anyway, I think that following technology is an urge for the inquisitive! its not just the horshpower, its also the need to fidle with a new tech, aquire knowledge and ofcouse achieve better power output :nutkick:...(especially if you are sponsord! LOL)....
 
@dajman Welcome to TPU

Happy new year, people! :toast:
 
sweetness

well kudos to the system setup fitseries3. the experience i have had with the i7 has not been the best but thats prob more to the new way you have to configure the bios than anything else. overclocking for me was not as successful at stable temps as my experiences with the 9650 but then again it could be me doing something wrong. you say you have overclocked the 920 to 4.516. was that stable gaming or just hitting a mark? as it is my system plays crysis with all the settings maxed out at 1900x1200 with no problems whatsoever... the other night i didnt even go to bed i just payed for 11 hours straight and it never glitched once. same with every other game i have loaded on it, which would be pretty much every great game out right now lol. now dont get me wrong i love the cutting edge of technology and will eventually go to the i7 ( esp if i would get a sponsor haha ) but i just caint justify the minimum performance gains in the gaming department to go for it. i use the computer only for gaming. have a separate computer for work, internet and applications. in your professional opinion is the systems supporting i7 showing enough of a graphics improvement in the gaming side to go for it? also how long will it take before the cutting edge games will require that kind of setup? as of now there is no game out ( as far as i know unless there is some games you want to recommend lol ) that on my system with all the settings maxed out that dips below 50 fps during the game. That being the case i dont really feel the need to upgrade drastically... maybe when i find a game unplayable on my setup i will feel the fire to grad a new setup lol.


and by the way the fact that you have all that equipment for only 3100 dollars is one of those things that makes a guys like me ask god why life is so unfair haha


Thanks for welcoming me to all who did :)
 
I have yet to see a QX9650 or ANY pre i7 intel perform ANYWHERE
near as good as a i7. I spent $900 minus $257 cashback for a total
of $643 for my upgrade 'cpu/mb/memory' and i do not have the
best/fastest system around these parts BUT i would put my i7
against ANY QX9650.

P.S. i have since upgraded PSU $120 and installed a Swiftech
GTZ $67 +$10 for bracket. The $257 cashback will be used for
a Geforce GTX260
 
Jupiter said:
I have yet to see a QX9650 or ANY pre i7 intel perform ANYWHERE
near as good as a i7. I spent $900 minus $257 cashback for a total
of $643 for my upgrade 'cpu/mb/memory' and i do not have the
best/fastest system around these parts BUT i would put my i7
against ANY QX9650.

P.S. i have since upgraded PSU $120 and installed a Swiftech
GTZ $67 +$10 for bracket. The $257 cashback will be used for
a Geforce GTX260
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U should've bought a Q9550 and a better GPU but that's IMO a cheaper way.
 
spearman914 said:
U should've bought a Q9550 and a better GPU but that's IMO a cheaper way.
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Since i stay in linux 97% of the time and 99% of everything in linux can take
advantage of x64 multithreading, the i7 is the best performer for me. I do
realize my bottleneck now is the GPU so i will upgrade it before months end.

All my benchmark test in linux show an incredible increase in performance
against ALL intel quads pre i7 and ALL amd quads.

The test i have done so far in linux.
http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=author&u=Zero
 
my i7 rig cost me as follows:


i7 920 - $297
EVGA X58 - $299
Corsair DDR3 1333 2GB - $125

Total shipped $751

I had everything else already, can't be happier, as soon as I watercooled it, I went straight to 4.2 GHz and no sweat.
 
tzitzibp said:
@Chicken Patty well planed!
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I mean i have a back up rig which is my AMD rig, so I used PSU and card from there.

I will eventually go C/F and get 2nd card and new PSU so my current PSU will go to my AMD rig, so really the i7 only cost me what I posted, and its freaking fast, sub 6sec. wprime runs @ 4.3-4.4 GHz, thats awesome, where are the Core 2 Extremes at? :respect::respect:
 
hmmm....

acting odd now.

new board lets me run my chip OCed well but not scoring like i was the first few runs. somethings just off i think....


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dark said this takes first from heavyH20...

idk

i'll look in a min

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fitseries3 said:
dark said this takes first from heavyH20...

idk

i'll look in a min

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Very nice score, dude: congratz :)

Out of curiosity: what was your best GPU score with the 4870(x2)s?
 
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