Z97M Anniversity OC limit?

HAHAHAHA! Now that is awsome! Work related overclocking-offs XD That ice water setup I can just picture in my head, marvelous

Suicide runs on cpus is hella fun! The first time we saw 4ghz on a 939 cpu was ecstatic!

I did too play with ice water (nowhere near as crazy as your setup) but I had the luxury of 2006 :P Just dumped lots of icecubes in a big zalman alu res, and left my garrage door open (Sat in the garrage during oc sessions) with -10-15c outside..  Didnt get any results that session as both my cpu and gpu were badly coldbugged.

I later started working at a meat factory where they had a dice making machine that made powder dry ice like snow. Got it for free too, and got fresh beef, sausages, meatballs etc for like 80% off in the employee surplus store on site. Think I gained 10kg that year :P

The case is a chieftech mesh, it got the job done after some cutting and drilling Got quite a few disgusted looks from the "normies" at the big 5000+ people lanparties



The gathering 2009 in Hamar, Norway..



Some Sli-DR Venus benching



And some dice chilled coke while the pot warms up again :P

Xaltar wrote: The notorious (for the time) Celeron 300a. I got mine up to 700mhz with some very creative cooling but ran it at 633mhz with a monstrous heatsink and a pair of 120mm delta fans pilfered from an old server for day to day use.

Wow, thats impressive! That is the first pentium platform, yes? Kinda wish I was a little older in the 90's, lots of fun tech around then :) Was there vcore adjustments in bios/jumpers back then, or only mods?

Tho I have played around a little with some of that stuff now in later times thanks to a decade older friend of mine, he also loved the 90s stuff and has multiple systems of 486, p1, p3 etc.. He always has some stories to tell about how they tricked around with hw in that time, before the internet became common place in every household. Very cool :)

I too had a delta 80mm that I bought (mistake :P) with my first system in 2005. My then x2 4400+ CCBWE oc'd like sh*t, think I had 1.6v on it for 2.7ghz. I stuffed wet chunks of paper in my ears before I went to sleep at night while my downloads were going :P

Here is a picture of the Opteron 175/DFI/x1900xtx rig I ran until 2009:

Interesting times for sure =)

Definitely consider myself an AMD guy at heart.

When I first bought my first pc in 2005, AMD was riding high with socket 939. I remember we used to have heated AMD vs Intel discussions in school and on lan parties, good fun :D

I was was so dissapointed when I found out the am2 cpu's were just k8 with ddr2 and even the first phenoms on this shiny new arcitecture didnt perform, that I kept my 939 setup with the DFI NF4-d, opteron 175 @ 3.2ghz and 4gb ram until the summer of 2009! Cuz I sure as hell wasn't getting any Intels inside the house walls XD

Finally when I upgraded to AM2+ and a x2 250, I cant say I was impressed. I then got a phenom2 940, which was pretty good but oc'd garbage. And then at last a phenom2 965 that ran 4.1ghz on water.

All was good and FPS was flowing, but I decided to take a trip to my old home town and didnt bother bringing my monster rig with me. And of course after about a week in, I almost went crazy without my pc.
So I went on the used sales sites and found a local dude that had a x48 board with a c2d 7500 dualcore. "Heck it, I'll just sell it when I get back home again, no-one will know"

But damn, that e7500 oc'd like a maniac on a little air cooler (up towards 4ghz). And performed like my quad core phenom2, about the same atleast.

So I get home again (left the c2d rig at my moms house in my old home town), and that phenom2 rig were suddently not that hot lookin' anymore.

A day didn't even go by, and by coincidence my friend that I mentioned in my previous posts (he goes by knopflerbruce on the forums btw) offered me a x58 board with a i7 920 and 6gb ram pretty cheap (was early 2010 by this point).

"Now what is this, x58 huh? Yea ok"

From this point on, I reluctanty have called myself "an Intel guy"
I absolutely LOVED socket 1366! The performance was mindblowingly insane, and you could overclock ANYTHING. Even 6 core xeons! On pretty much any motherboard!
I had so many 1366 cpus and boards.. I even had the Evga SR-2 dual socket board with 2x x5670's running 4.5ghz!

When sandy bridge came along, I got onboard pretty quick. And now what is this, I need a "K" cpu to oc it? ok, so I buy. with a H61 board... I need a "Z" chipset? What the hell? So I buy.
Cant even oc the 2600k with baseclock. multiplier and vcore. wow, so fun. Not. And not even the performance of a i7 970!

After this, I have bought pretty much every new platform, but went back to x58 or p55 after a while again out of boredom, back and forth. And just watched from the sideline AMD getting into more trouble.

SO.. Now I really hope like you said that Zen lives up to the hype and really performs! Not because I need better performance. But to make it FUN again!

Fully open cpu's and chipsets for overclocking is so much fun! And to make people talk about it again! That friction is so good to have :)

Can't wait for January, keeping the fingers crossed! =D

TAMW wrote: Got all quiet in here, have I stayed past my welcome? :P Btw wardog, I read that the zen 8core will cost around 300 usd, but a "oc friendly" variant will be 500 usd.. Does this mean they have locked the cheaper ones from all overclocking you think? Or just that the $500 one is open multiplier maybe?

I've read there will be three levels of Zen processors, from top to bottom, SR7, SR5, and SR3. The following is unofficial rumors, mainly the clock speeds and price.

The over clocking SR7 model(s?) is said to be ~$300, which is an eight core, 16 thread CPU. That price is Intel's four core, eight thread territory... on sale. Clock speeds of the SR7 seems to be very similar to Intel's current Haswell-E and Broadwell-E, at ~3.5GHz, a bit more with Turbo. OC headroom is about the same as the Intel's just mentioned, 4.2GHz being typical average on air. The IPC of Zen is supposed to be competitive with the current Intel HEDT processors. The similar Intel 8 core, 16 thread CPU is twice that price.

If AMD can pull off these rumors, or stay close, they will have a winner IMO. If the guys that call 1% - 5% lower performance difference compared to Intel "wiping the floor with it", "blowing it away", or "if it's not better than Intel, it's no good", influence too many people, then AMD may have a problem.

If the AMD fans can actually bring themselves to buy a new mother board (that always kills me, yeah a five+ year old chipset is just fine... not) then Zen has a chance IMO. Or if they can't swallow the price of a processor above $100 (to put in their $50 board... come on people, get serious!) then Zen will have trouble in the PC world. But AMD may save themselves in the Enterprise world, with near Intel performance for a much lower price (who really loves those $4K Xeons.)

I'm an Intel person, but I truly hope for the best from Zen. Intel is plenty fat now, they can lose a few bucks and be fine.

TAMW wrote: Btw wardog, I read that the zen 8core will cost around 300 usd, but a "oc friendly" variant will be 500 usd.. Does this mean they have locked the cheaper ones from all overclocking you think? Or just that the $500 one is open multiplier maybe?

Rumor so far. Not one speculation, only rumors.

I'd have imagined, this close to release, we'd have heard of this shift sooner. Much sooner.

Probably some Intel Fanboy doing double duty at her keyboard spouting off hoping it gets traction and ink.



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