2017 Hardware Thread

OldMike65 said:

Take a peek Andrew, just posted a new score. :)

That jump is massive, how on earth did you manage that? Well done MIke. Never going to come close to that gigantic score.

worf105 said:

That jump is massive, how on earth did you manage that? Well done MIke. Never going to come close to that gigantic score.

Got it on my 2nd try too. I'm running at a little over 5.0Ghz (x50) CPU ....but that is my normal oc for the cpu. I went back to an older version of my EVGA XOC v6.1.6 which has always been the most stable version for me. So its my XOC and its settings that made the big jump .....not much else. :)

Going to reboot soon and slow my baby back down, as I don't use OC software to overclock my rig. But here is a screenshot of my CPU's :)

worf105 said:

Wish I had your 7700k. Well done master, Nessie and I yield to you

I still think your Nessie is one Awesome GPU Andrew!!!!!

OldMike65 said:

I still think your Nessie is one Awesome GPU Andrew!!!!!

You've just made Nessies day, she's blushing.

worf105 said:

It's my lazy 6700k that's holding the system back. If I had the money I would shove the full 240 volts through it and clock to 45GHz.

I hated mine Andrew, still got it too. Its back in the box I bought it in. Could barely overclock it to 47GHz ....and that was its limit.

OldMike65 said:

I hated mine Andrew, still got it too. Its back in the box I bought it in. Could barely overclock it to 47GHz ....and that was its limit.

Mines goes to 4.9 no problem and 5.0 for some benchmarks all with a 1 to 1 cache ratio. Voltage is high for that speed.

Been testing and running up to the early hours this morning. Always fails (Freezes) half way through the POV test.

6700K @ 5.0GHz - 50/50/255.50 Cache = OK
Nessie @ +50 Core + 600 Mem 90c max temp 120% max volts & 100% overvolt
RAM @ 3200 14 17 17 33 1T 1.35v = OK
RAM @ 3200 14 16 16 31 1T 1.5v = OK (while testing but fails sometimes the POV test)
RAM @ 3200 13 15 15 32 1T 1.55v = OK (Never passed POV test)

RAM is the problem here. I really need 4 sticks as what I have been researching is that this yields better scores in most Futuremark benchmarks.