Tim, any chance you can run some 32m Pi please? Have heard that the 965 chipsets suck majorly compared to 975 - just want to get a rough idea of performance between the 2 Tar
I found a little more out of it this morning.... still on stock volts, left it running overnight. It looks like the thermal paste might've set in a bit. I'll try and find some time to run some SuperPI32M times in a bit.
Either the 2mb chips are really poor or you need to sort your OS mate.. Thanks for the run though, certainly food for thought... Have you got a vanilla P5B floating about to test at all?
I'm running the board at its default settings (all onboard devices are enabled), I've just changed voltages, memory timings and disabled Speedstep. The OS was a default fresh install for the Corsair Dominator review - all I've done is install drivers, Drive Image and Daemon Tools (we run our benchmarks from a different partition). I still think there is more to get out of the board - the CPU clock is close to max-out, I just need to sit and tweak memory timings plus the OS. I was reading some info on how the P965 strap works last night - certain front side bus speeds have performance-related issues. p.s. No vanilla board hanging around. I'm so far out of the game when it comes to tweaking OSes these days, I guess I'll need to do some reading up.
cool be good to see after tweaks (shout if you need any btw) Do you recon you might be getting any in to review at all, just wating a decent idea of the performance of the vanilla compared to the deluxe. So far looks to be pretty much the same (barring lower vdimm on the vanilla) and its a good whack cheaper too
Rich has a list of motherboards as long as his arm at the moment (I think we're up to around 14 or 15), so we may not have the time.
managed to squeeze a bit more out of it with a bit of an OS strip down and some extra fans to help keep the NB cool. No services running, all on-board components disabled. 1M 2M Btw, still on stock volts I think the next job is to remove the NB heatsink and reapply thermal paste. It's not been removed off the board.
'Auto' - I tried increasing the vCore but it actually made things worse. This chip doesn't like voltage and if I get time over the weekend, I'll be trying to undervolt it.
Afaik "auto" vcore on the Asus boards actually overvolts as you overclock, could be the reason its not responding to vcore May need to mod title too hehe
1.53v on the multimeter shame that the Dominator has gone back - I can't seem to hit the same clocks with 6400C3 modules, even at 5-5-5-4. I tried reapplying thermal paste to the northbridge, so it could be that this has not worked particularly well for me. I'll have to reapply again and try and get a decent contact with the NB chip.
I thought I'd give the DQ6 - it doesn't want to go any higher than 438MHz FSB at the moment. Still working on it though.
P5B vanilla and a shiny L628 E6600 arrived, will run some tests be interesting to see how much (if at all) the vanilla is than the Deluxe and how well it clocks too...
You're Pi scores do seem a little low, my E6600 at 3.5GHz gets about 14.6s on 1M, thats with a more cluttered OS as well. At 3.37Ghz (more stable ATM) i get 15.5s ish. Maybe thats the diff between the 2Mb and 4Mb chips though?
The AWD9-MAX is shaping up to be faster, any chance of a retail one of those floating in? Need to lap that chip, at the least, and try a good water cooling solution on it. I think it has more in it. Dealing with the motherboard, those chipsets need a lot of cooling, new thermal compound won't cut it. It needs a new HSF or watercooling itself to cope with the thermal load. And too bad about the Dominator stuff, though it was ugly as sin... It did go like stink, so I guess it's all good.
