Official Haswell-E thread

[guskline]

4.4GHz @ 1.35V may be good for quick benchmarking. I take overclock results with a grain of salt until I see proof of stability testing.

AdamK47: GOOD for you! I always respect your opinion on overclocking because you really put a cpu through the paces before making claims of OCing.

Now that I've gotten into custom water cooling, I'm waiting on some serious testing with higher end custom watercooling rigs and the 5960X. At 8 true cores and 16 threads, Ocing throws off a lot of heat.

It appears your new Thermaltake 3.0 Extreme helps but I wonder if a true watercooling loop with a 480+ rad will help dissipate the heat?

 

[Ajay]

4.4GHz @ 1.35V may be good for quick benchmarking. I take overclock results with a grain of salt until I see proof of stability testing.

So far HW-E has been a bit disappointing on overclocks. I was hoping for 4.6GHz to be the norm for the hexacores. I've got the time to wait, but skipping SB-E and IVY-E, my platform is getting a old. The 'IPC' boost is decent coming from Gulftown, but I was hoping for a bigger boost from clock rates. Seems like 4.2 GHz is the norm - higher than that is too dependent on the chip lottery for my tastes, atm.

GL with your new system!


PS, it's looking like customer water, IHS lapping and other tricks will be needed to scrape a couple hundred extra MHz out of these - that and maybe the second gen motherboards next year).

 

[guskline]

I wouldn't call the HW-E overclock results disappointing, just realistic, especially a 5960x. Good grief, it's EIGHT cores and 16 threads! That's a ton of cpu power in a small package.

I already own a 3930k and am impressed with it. I have a solid stable OC at 4.6 Ghz because I have a solid mb AND custom watercooling system to whisk away the heat. However, I also lack the Haswell extenstions and significant memory improvements now in the 5 series HW-E chips. I addition the X99 chipset really ups the bar in mb performance.

The 5960x really ramps up the overall performance, especially on the memory side. As mentioned, it has all the new Haswell extentions and performs in a new chipset. Give it time to mature and improve the BIOS and I bet the gap in performance will widen.

 

[AdamK47]

I think this is where I'll keep it. 4.125GHz @ 1.25V with the memory at 2666 with 13-14-14 timings.

S-Spec: SR20Q
Batch#: 3424B585

 

[Techhog]

So far HW-E has been a bit disappointing on overclocks. I was hoping for 4.6GHz to be the norm for the hexacores. I've got the time to wait, but skipping SB-E and IVY-E, my platform is getting a old. The 'IPC' boost is decent coming from Gulftown, but I was hoping for a bigger boost from clock rates. Seems like 4.2 GHz is the norm - higher than that is too dependent on the chip lottery for my tastes, atm.

GL with your new system!


PS, it's looking like customer water, IHS lapping and other tricks will be needed to scrape a couple hundred extra MHz out of these - that and maybe the second gen motherboards next year).

But he's testing a octocore...

Using TIM will probably hurt the hexacores though.

EDIT: Ignore me, I'm dumb

 

[JDG1980]

Has anything been published on release dates for Haswell-EP? Oddly, Newegg sells DDR4 ECC RAM, but nothing to use it with yet...

 

[Arachnotronic]

Has anything been published on release dates for Haswell-EP? Oddly, Newegg sells DDR4 ECC RAM, but nothing to use it with yet...

Intel is holding a Datacenter Event on the 8th. Probably when it's going to launch "officially".

http://www.intc.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=149606

 

[JoeRambo]

I think this is where I'll keep it. 4.125GHz @ 1.25V with the memory at 2666 with 13-14-14 timings.

Those are amazing results, 440Gflops is scary amount of performance (and heat). Any real world load will be at least 15-25C less heat, so i guess it is perfectly stable.

 

[EvilNodZ]

I think this is where I'll keep it. 4.125GHz @ 1.25V with the memory at 2666 with 13-14-14 timings.

Pretty sensible settings and good overclock adam.

I think i will probably settle on 4.1GHz aswell.

I just dont have the watercooling setup needed to remove the heat that higher voltage and frequencies generate on Haswell-E.

Is it possible to enable a higher turbo multiplier on single/dual core loads mabey 4.3-4.4GHz without any voltage increase?

 

[guskline]

AdamK47, I should ship my Mo RA3-420 down to you in Cincinnatti. That will solve your heat problems!()

 

[AdamK47]

Nah, I'm content with what I have. I'm sure I could squeeze a couple hundred MHz out of my 5960X if I did have something like that. I go through hardware somewhat quickly. What I get in the future is going to be faster than what I have now. The simply cooled hardware I get in the future is going to be faster than all out water cooled hardware of the previous generation. This cycle repeats.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

AdamK47, I should ship my Mo RA3-420 down to you in Cincinnatti. That will solve your heat problems!()

I need a banana for scale. I can't tell if it's like 3 inches tall or 5 feet tall.

 

[exar333]

I think this is where I'll keep it. 4.125GHz @ 1.25V with the memory at 2666 with 13-14-14 timings.

S-Spec: SR20Q
Batch#: 3424B585

:thumbsup:

Hopefully I can get similar results when I get the 5960x toward the end of this year.

 

[guskline]

I need a banana for scale. I can't tell if it's like 3 inches tall or 5 feet tall.

There are 9 - 140 mm fans mounted on the other side. Perhaps this photo will give perspective.

 

[guskline]

Obviously, I somewhat jest about uber cooling with the 5960x but remember, AdamK47 has a new 360 AIO thermaltake cooler and the temps really climb when you get in the 4.4Ghz range. It goes to show how much heat a 5960X overclocked (8 cores, 16 threads) can throw out.

It will be interesting to see if the larger radiator cooling systems improve the heat dissipation. It probably won't be too long before we start seeing reviews of the 5960X with custom water cooling.

 

[FiLeZz]

Other items needed for build just came in stock. gskill ddr4 3000 and Asus Extreme V ROG ordered from newegg. I expect I will have this bad boy built by wendsday or Thursday.

The 5960x has been lonely for the last few days.

I have a 480 double stack rad and a 360rad in the loop. Hope to keep heat down. Might just need to add another rad to the loop if not.

 

[Ajay]

But he's testing a octocore...

Using TIM will probably hurt the hexacores though.

EDIT: Ignore me, I'm dumb

I should have made it clearer that I'm only disappointing in the hexacore overclocks, so far. I think 4.0-4.2 GHz is great for an octocore.

 

[guskline]

Other items needed for build just came in stock. gskill ddr4 3000 and Asus Extreme V ROG ordered from newegg. I expect I will have this bad boy built by wendsday or Thursday.

The 5960x has been lonely for the last few days.

I have a 480 double stack rad and a 360rad in the loop. Hope to keep heat down. Might just need to add another rad to the loop if not.

Now that's a real cooling loop FileZz! Can't wait to see your results.

 

[FiLeZz]

Now that's a real cooling loop FileZz! Can't wait to see your results.

A 3930k and 3x780sc do make some heat.. I don't expect the 5960x to add to much heat to the loop.

 

[guskline]

A 3930k and 3x780sc do make some heat.. I don't expect the 5960x to add to much heat to the loop.

What are your loop temps with the 3930k and the 3x780scs? I agree that the 5960k won't add that much more heat to the loop than you already have.

 

[FiLeZz]

What are your loop temps with the 3930k and the 3x780scs? I agree that the 5960k won't add that much more heat to the loop than you already have.

Playing a game the water temp is 43C
GPUz are 50-52c
CPU temp 50c

Corsair 900d
3x780 gtx @ 1150 core
3930k @4.6ghz---------------------------------------Changing to 5960x next week WOOT and ddr4 and asus ROG extreme V
3x30" dell 3008wfp monitors

 

[Arachnotronic]

Playing a game the water temp is 43C
GPUz are 50-52c
CPU temp 50c

Corsair 900d
3x780 gtx @ 1150 core
3930k @4.6ghz---------------------------------------Changing to 5960x next week WOOT and ddr4 and asus ROG extreme V
3x30" dell 3008wfp monitors

This may actually be the most gorgeous desktop that I have ever seen.

 

[guskline]

That is an Outstanding rig!

 

[Ajay]

I was going to ask what case, but duh 900D. Sure is an awesome rig :awe:
I want to go custom LC for my next system (if it's HW-E) - but it sure won't be that fly!

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

You fellas with a 5960X might want to watch it...
Two independent 5960X setups going up in smoke :
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