That's the fun of overclocking and benching - there's always a risk, but really I wouldn't worry about it too much (as long as you're sensible you should be fine). I put 1.6v into my original core i7 and it was totally fine on air cooling; I've also put 1.55v into this X5650 for benching and I don't see any signs of degradation. Back when I had the 990X I think I needed 1.6v to do the Geekbench run and believe me, that was an adrenaline rush if ever there was one... I paid £450 for the chip and didn't want to fry it!
Am I remembering correctly that your PC case is practically a wind tunnel? And casual browsers of the forum probably shouldn't attempt these voltages?
I used to feed it cold air if I was benching, so yeah probably not the sort of thing "casual" users should attempt
Here's my "retired" hardware before it goes off to another owner: 8425 Xeon W3550 (same as i7 950) @ stock 3.2GHz 6GB XMS3 @ 1066MHz CL8 (uncore at 2100MHz...) Gigabyte X58-USB3 I reckon with memory running at 1600MHz and uncore at 3200MHz, the score would be around 10K. Edit: and how wrong I was! Bumping memory and uncore to 1600/3200 respectively resulted in a staggering gain of... 268 points. Single core score rose quite a bit though, almost 200 points. I'm forgetting how old this stuff is tho... nearly seven years since the i7 950 came out. Not bad considering.
Managed to find some time tonight and for now this is the best I can get. Really struggling to get much more out of it. 34069 Really happy to have broken the 34,000 mark It's also improved the Aida64 readings a bit too:
@Deders, here's the comparison with memory running at optimal frequency of 1600MHz C9. Geekbench incorrectly reports the CPU speed as 3.69GHz; the multi was set to 20 to give 3.2GHz at 160 bclk. The triple channel memory performance is back in the green. i5 750 vs i7 950 @Chris, you might get more by running the bench in diagnostic mode (using msconfig). A few of us did it the last time round because sometimes it would net a 100 point gain, but it was a bit hit-and-miss. I didn't do it this time because I'm not competing with Spreadie. PS that's a really nice OC on the 5960X.
Arise, old thread... I saw this benchmark mentioned somewhere so I thought I'd give it a go on the wee i5 (details in sig). Version 4.0.4. 5225 15152
Heh yes it will be interesting to see some updated results here. I've used 4.0.4 as well. This is with my new system at current daily settings of 4.6GHz / 2400MHz RAM. 24,834
Well this ought to be good. I'm still on the same machine as I was last time this thread rolled around. I'll throw up a score later tonight, see if I can massage some clocks back into this chip, I doubt it though, it really doesn't like booting above Stock clocks now. Edit; Ow. 8687 FX 8120 @ 3.2, no turbo, 16GB 1600mhz DDR3 (This is that same ram I bought of Pookie way back when I built this thing.), CHV Formula.
I tickled the little i5 up to 4.6GHz last week and ran this again. It's been stable all week so this is now my new daily speed. New results: Single core: 5343 Multi core: 15640 https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/1917878
It's been so long since I've overclocked I've forgotten how to, my current motherboard's bios looks a hell of a lot different to those X58 days of the last Geekbench. Results of my sig PC at stock speeds: Single-Core: 5199 Multi-Core: 16883 Glad to see my low score record on the old 32-bit test was never... beaten?
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/1971259 Stock i7 6700 in a Asus B150m Pro Gaming with DDR4 @ 2133 Seems the wanky B150 chipset mem speed cap is hurting things comparing above. Red LEDs tho
That's crazy. What phone is it? I know the feeling! My last system was built around a P45 chipset mobo which I'd owned for years. When I first dived into this mobo's fancy-pants BIOS, it seemed like witchcraft.
A new score after a couple of tweaks. Single core: 5411 Multi core: 15795 https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/2057679
