3D Mark Firestrike Benchmark

doorules said:

Cold air is really letting the chip run, having said that i think i got a good one for sure.

What ASIC quality did you spring for?

Got mine from Newegg.ca. Ended up with 74.9% card. I think it is only directly from EVGA you can pick ASIC quality??

doorules said:

Got mine from Newegg.ca. Ended up with 74.9% card. I think it is only directly from EVGA you can pick ASIC quality??

That could be. They probably just offer the base level on newegg or something.

Managed 18100 on Single GPU run.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-6700K,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Great run Brawndo. Nice clock on the 6700K.

doorules said:

Great run Brawndo. Nice clock on the 6700K.

Thanks! I thought I had bricked my board yesterday trying to achieve your BLCK. But I did a bios recovery. I guess I need to disable XMP so that the ram doesn't overclock too much? Any tips? Tried auto voltage, adaptive, I'm a bit a little too chicken to venture in manual voltage setup but I figured it's the only way to go to break the 5ghz barrier.

That mobo you have is an excellent if not the best 170 series board out there.

I left my ram at XMP 2 at all times without issue. I think you will need to use manual Vc for sure to go higher. That and the proper LLC setting will keep your Vc where it needs to be. I think ram is not the issue but Vc more likely. If you have sufficient cooling then not too much to be worried about.

Disable all C states for high overclock, disable speedstep, and check out what the different LLC settings do for Vc when you boot into windows. Been a couple years since I used an Asus board, hard to remember the bios settings. I know they are extensive.

On my board LLC 1 will let the Vc jump a good bit when bench run starts, from what I set it at in bios, and for 5.1 on my chip I maxed out at 1.5Vc in bios and let LLC move it up from there. If I use LLC 2 setting in bios Vc will stay at whatever I set it at no matter what the cpu is doing.
Your LLC settings will be different with the board being from a different OEM, but get a handle on them to go higher.

At 5.15 on my chip I had 1.5Vc in bios and LLC 1 moved it up to 1.536Vc under load, a big jump to be sure but needed for that speed on my board. Without the cold temps I was using board would never have booted into windows at that speed.

doorules said:

That mobo you have is an excellent if not the best 170 series board out there.

I left my ram at XMP 2 at all times without issue. I think you will need to use manual Vc for sure to go higher. That and the proper LLC setting will keep your Vc where it needs to be. I think ram is not the issue but Vc more likely. If you have sufficient cooling then not too much to be worried about.

Disable all C states for high overclock, disable speedstep, and check out what the different LLC settings do for Vc when you boot into windows. Been a couple years since I used an Asus board, hard to remember the bios settings. I know they are extensive.

On my board LLC 1 will let the Vc jump a good bit when bench run starts, from what I set it at in bios, and for 5.1 on my chip I maxed out at 1.5Vc in bios and let LLC move it up from there. If I use LLC 2 setting in bios Vc will stay at whatever I set it at no matter what the cpu is doing.
Your LLC settings will be different with the board being from a different OEM, but get a handle on them to go higher.

At 5.15 on my chip I had 1.5Vc in bios and LLC 1 moved it up to 1.536Vc under load, a big jump to be sure but needed for that speed on my board. Without the cold temps I was using board would never have booted into windows at that speed.

Thanks a lot I appreciate the info :) Time to tinker this weekend!