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5960X @ 4.8385 GHz - RealBench: 220,970

Gobe
Level 8
Went all out with my 5960X on X99-A USB3.1 for a RealBench score of 220,970 at 4838.5 MHz (47 x 102.9) which actually calculates out to 4836.3 MHz, but what's a couple MHz?)

The damn thing was jumping around like an out of balance washing machine on spin cycle, but somehow I got it to finish the benchmark without crapping the bed.

Image Editing: 269,548
Video Encoding: 332,224
OpenCL: 50,817
Heavy Multitasking: 271,946
Score: 220,970

I'll bet Arne's not going to stand for this! Xeons, we're coming for you!
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Arne_Saknussemm
Level 40
Nice! 5960X crown 😄

Sure...I'll have another go one of these days...but there's worse in these waters than me LOL

Menthol
Level 14
Gobe,
Very good score, that is quite amazing passing RB at that speed with an AIO cooler and get your laundry clean at the same time

Gobe
Level 8
AIO yes, but with some help. Ice bucket... sub-zero mixture... dunked radiator... -10°C. And voltage, lots of voltage. We're talking "you'd better have your finances in order" type of voltage.

I could complete the bench at 4.85 GHz, but only a small percentage of the time and not long enough to make the multiple runs necessary to get a run where all the benches hit the top end of the range at once. It's that 5 - 10K variation in the encoding and heavy multitasking scores that makes things interesting... and frustrating.

cekim
Level 11
Nice! and LOL on the voltage...

Gobe
Level 8
I'm trying to figure out why I've got such a large lead on the rest of the field in image editing. 270,000 is huge and I really can't see why I would be 25,000 points ahead of the field on similar hardware. I thought it might be the Samsung 950 Pro NVMe, but I've run from a SATA SSD and got a similar high image editing score. I looked at memory timings, but this also doesn't seem to be it. Could somebody who understands the factors that contribute to a high image editing score comment on it? If there's am image editing secret that I've stumbled upon, I'd really like to pass it along.

Not that I'm complaining or anything...

Chino
Level 15

Gobe
Level 8
Got back from working on the west coast this evening and was sad to learn that my wife wasn't home when DHL tried to deliver the cherry-picked 5960X I bought last week. Probably won't see it until next week. Boohoo.

Got some consolation though and pushed the 5960X I do have a little harder and took down one of the Xeons and moved into 2nd place on the RealBench leaderboard at 223,096. I needed to boost my anemic OpenCL score (50,817) so borrowed another GTX-960 from another system and loaded up the Intel OpenCL support (thanks for that one Arne!) and got the OpenCL up to 106,894. Got the frequency up a bit from 4.84 to 4.86 GHz with a sub-zero ice bucket (got it to -5°C) and scary voltage. Cache and RAM were screaming (4651 and 3382 MHz). Temperatures stayed below 80°C even though I was north of 1.5 volts. Livin' dangerously!

My Image editing and video encoding were actually down from my previous submission, but OpenCL more than doubled and heavy multitasking was up a bit. Seems the extra punch on OpenCL was the magic bullet.

Does one get over this addiction?






















Image Editing:268212
Video Encoding:327269
OpenCL:106594
Heavy Multi-tasking:275586
Score:223096

System Spec


































































CPU:Intel Core i7 5960X
CPU Frequency:4860.7 MHz
Physical Cores:8
Logical Cores:16
Multi:46.0
Bus:105.7 MHz
Memory:G.Skill
Memory Frequency:1690.8 MHz (1:24)
Memory Channels:Quad
Memory Capacity:32 (GB)
Memory Latency:13-13-13-28-1T
Motherboard/Laptop:X99-PRO/USB 3.1
Firmware:2101
GPUs:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
OS Version:Windows 7 Professional
Submission Date:Sat Mar 19 2016 06:09:45

Nice one Gobe! climbing the table! Good run!

You can slot in any GPUs I think....don't have to be the same or running SLI or anything...open CL will just run on anything so if you have an old 580 plug it in too for example

Gobe wrote:
Livin' dangerously!


Livin' like a man who has another CPU in the post... 😉

Gobe wrote:
Does one get over this addiction?


When there are no more CPUs in the post...

I'm dying to get my hands on that chip. It was binned by 8Pack over in the U.K. as being in the top 2%. It's billed as being bench stable at 4.75 Ghz and 24/7 stable at 4.65 GHz at probably around 1.30 - 1.33 volts on custom water.

My current 5960X that I've been abusing needs 1.25 volts at 4.5 GHz for bench stability and 1.275 volts for 24/7 stability at 4.5 GHz. Ice bucket cooling (-5°C) gets it bench stable at 4.8 GHz at 1.4 volts. I've gotten it up to 4.86 GHz, but that's pushing it to the edge with 1.50 volts or higher (which is insane).

I can only imagine what the binned chip will do with an ice bucket. My goal? The 5 GHz club.