My 970 kicks my 980x's ass :D

[runnin17]

Just some initial stability testing and it is clear that my new 970 is only limited by BCLK.

Haven't had a chance to put it under water yet, but hopefully I will get a cheap loop together soon to really test it out.

Most voltage I have put it under is 1.26v and it is rock solid stable at 4061MHz. The IMC is not too shabby either. However, I like tight timings and right now I am running the memory at 1766MHz @ 7-7-7-20-1T.

Multiplier is at 23x and BCLK is 177. Needless to say I am very happy. Will update once I have more time to play around with this puppy :htfu:

[jedimasterben]

The IMC in my 970 I had was a piece of shit. It took 1.375v on VTT to get it to BOOT with 1600MHz RAM. Highest I could get with stock IMC volts (1.1v or so, don't remember exactly) was ~1100MHz.

Good luck on OCing that thing. Mine hit 4.2GHz with 1.28v on the core (I think I had it 200x21 or so), but took incredible amounts of volts to get any higher.

Hope yours is much better :up:

[ESKEW]

My 920 is the co/c1 revision and I'm still able to run 4.0 with a shitty ass H50 at 1.3125 volts. My idle temps are 38 degrees and under full load it hits 75 degrees after 2 hours on prime 95. I have 12 gigs of corsair vengeance 1600 but with the tweaking options I have on my P6T (non deluxe) I can only get it to run at 1534 mhz but was able to tweak the latency to 8-8-8-24. I have a rampage 3 ex and a pieced together cpu loop on the way. Hopefully I can stably squeeze the .2 ghz out that i'm shooting for and i can get my ram to hum along at 1800mhz with the same latency.
I can't really see spending a grand on a chip when you can oc most I7 chips to 4.0 or better for a fraction of the cost ... unless six cores is imperative to you.

[Kuri]

I have a 970 too :D

[jedimasterben]

I got rid of my 970. Too much power draw for my liking. :(

[cpufrost]

Every Nehalem I've tested has been like that. OC like a mofo until you approach the limit like a brick wall and needs a SHARP increase in VCORE to go a smidgen higher. Keep it just below that and it will be stable forever though.

[runnin17]

My 920 is the co/c1 revision and I'm still able to run 4.0 with a shitty ass H50 at 1.3125 volts. My idle temps are 38 degrees and under full load it hits 75 degrees after 2 hours on prime 95. I have 12 gigs of corsair vengeance 1600 but with the tweaking options I have on my P6T (non deluxe) I can only get it to run at 1534 mhz but was able to tweak the latency to 8-8-8-24. I have a rampage 3 ex and a pieced together cpu loop on the way. Hopefully I can stably squeeze the .2 ghz out that i'm shooting for and i can get my ram to hum along at 1800mhz with the same latency.
I can't really see spending a grand on a chip when you can oc most I7 chips to 4.0 or better for a fraction of the cost ... unless six cores is imperative to you.

It is highly unlikely that you will be able to get the ram to run at the speed with 12gigs of it. The same way you don't want to spend the extra money on the hexacore chip, I don't want to spend the extra money on 6gigs of ram I won't really need.

Corsair vengeance is POS ram. You won't be able to tweak out 1800 on it unless you want to up the voltage and seriously loosen the timings. Also, my 980 was purchased for $675 and my 970 was purchased for $420. So in the end I spend $1100 on 12 cores and 24 threads. :htfu:

[Tiny]

$45 a thread doesn't sound too bad at all.

[Grnfinger]

Every Nehalem I've tested has been like that. OC like a mofo until you approach the limit like a brick wall and needs a SHARP increase in VCORE to go a smidgen higher. Keep it just below that and it will be stable forever though.

umm 970 is a Gulftown

[cpufrost]

umm 970 is a Gulftown

Yes it's in the Nehalem family, i.e. a die shrunk Nehalem. And (of course) six cores. ;)

[ESKEW]

Corsair vengeance is POS ram.

I agree... wish I had never gotten it....but what are ya gonna do? :crack:

[cpufrost]

I agree... wish I had never gotten it....but what are ya gonna do? :crack:

I thought it was A-OK considering it's essentially entry level and will run at heavy load (24GB) at better timings (8-8-8-20-1T) at 1600MHz with default voltage (1.5VDIMM)...

Definitely not POS (that's reserved to Gskill btw). Also the heatspreaders are easy as pie to remove. No fear of ripping BGA packages off the pcb when removing!

[becandl]

I thought it was A-OK considering it's essentially entry level and will run at heavy load (24GB) at better timings (8-8-8-20-1T) at 1600MHz with default voltage (1.5VDIMM)...

Definitely not POS (that's reserved to Gskill btw). Also the heatspreaders are easy as pie to remove. No fear of ripping BGA packages off the pcb when removing!

I've been using G.Skill in recent builds and haven't had any trouble at all, what is your issue with them?

[cpufrost]

I've been using G.Skill in recent builds and haven't had any trouble at all, what is your issue with them?

I had lots of issues with their DDR2 modules a few years ago, DOA, heatspreaders falling off when opening the packages. Swore them off and yes this is when RAM was expensive and saving $100 on a 4GB kit was (what seemed to be) worthwhile.

It happens to the better brands too.

Their RMA /support was not pleasant as well. Can't go wrong with Crucial/Mushkin/Corsair in that department.

[B NEGATIVE]

I thought it was A-OK considering it's essentially entry level and will run at heavy load (24GB) at better timings (8-8-8-20-1T) at 1600MHz with default voltage (1.5VDIMM)...

Definitely not POS (that's reserved to Gskill btw). Also the heatspreaders are easy as pie to remove. No fear of ripping BGA packages off the pcb when removing!

G Skill clock really well and i have run them in my last 2 builds. Maybe you should look again.....

[becandl]

I had lots of issues with their DDR2 modules a few years ago, DOA, heatspreaders falling off when opening the packages. Swore them off and yes this is when RAM was expensive and saving $100 on a 4GB kit was (what seemed to be) worthwhile.

It happens to the better brands too.

Their RMA /support was not pleasant as well. Can't go wrong with Crucial/Mushkin/Corsair in that department.

I hadn't used them where everyone was still running on DDR2, I just started using them with DDR3 builds and haven't had any problems. They are pretty solid in my opinion, but Corsair has always been my favorite.

[Ezveedub]

G.Skill has been very solid for me. Corsair, OCZ, Kingston, Mushkin have all seen their glory days pass by and there is nothing special about them now a days. Most got burned sticking to the Elpida chips, which is nothing now a days.

[ESKEW]

I thought it was A-OK considering it's essentially entry level and will run at heavy load (24GB) at better timings (8-8-8-20-1T) at 1600MHz with default voltage (1.5VDIMM)...

Definitely not POS (that's reserved to Gskill btw). Also the heatspreaders are easy as pie to remove. No fear of ripping BGA packages off the pcb when removing!

It gets the job done... it's just extremely finicky when tweaking. I've used mushkin up till now. in hind sight I wish I had gotten a dominator set. but the vengeance will work just fine.