P55 Overclocking Showdown - ASUS, Gigabyte, and EVGA at the OC Corral (Page 6 Updated)
by Rajinder Gill on November 6, 2009 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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3DMark Vantage
At high processor clock speeds the CPU test of 3DMark Vantage is great at weeding out board weaknesses in power delivery. Along with WPrime 1024M, this test represents one of the toughest loads these boards will be subjected to when benchmarking for scores. We used a stock clocked 4870 X2 for apples to apples comparisons of both the final score and also the maximum CPU clock we could run the entire 3D mark suite at.
The boards all fell within 50MHz of one another for outright CPU speeds. The Gigabyte board would not complete 3DMark Vantage with CPU speeds over 5GHz for us regardless of voltage changes; although the overall score per clock rate is very good. We utilized both stock memory sub-timings as set by the BIOS and then tuned each memory sub timing option. In the end, any manual changes we made did not increase stability enough to improve CPU MHz scaling the test boards.
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michael19 - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
"Our test sample arrived with the revised Foxconn socket.."how can we tell if we have the revised foxconn socket as opposed to the defective version?
Rajinder Gill - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
No idea at this point. Only Foxconn seem to know what it is they changed in the June revision.michael19 - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
Or perhaps a side by side picture would show us some noticeable visual differences, possibly..cmdrdredd - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
How come the Asus board is left out of the final few notes and tests? It's in the 3DMark and SuperPi scores etc, but there's individual pages dedicated to the other boards...Samus - Monday, November 9, 2009 - link
probably because it failed mid-testingAstroGuardian - Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - link
It's socket burned as a result of not so extreme overclock. It's not ASUS fault, it's Foxconn's faulty socketRajinder Gill - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
Hi,The ASUS board died before I could complete the 750 retail CPU testing. We just got a new board last week so I will possibly update when that arrives here.
later
Raja
cmdrdredd - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
lol well, a dead board spells trouble anyway IMO. Unless something drastic was done to it (extreme overclock for example).michael19 - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
OK, thank you. Would the numbers on the backplate give us any indication? Is there any consistent difference in the numbers printed on the backplate from the old burnt out sockets to the new ones you have now?Corsairs - Friday, November 6, 2009 - link
I'd love to see this board compared to the group reviewed here.