Curious....what is your fastest CPU?

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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34289 Credit: 346,085,388 RAC: 554,277	Message 1338387 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 7:53:16 UTC Last modified: 15 Feb 2013, 8:33:29 UTC
	Mine is the 'Frozen One'.... An i7 920 rated at 2.67Ghz, running at 4.25Ghz compressor cooled to -27.5 centigrade. What are you folks running up in that range? Over 4Ghz. Meow? ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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hbomber Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 May 01 Posts: 437 Credit: 39,323,978 RAC: 27,505	Message 1338406 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 9:10:19 UTC Last modified: 15 Feb 2013, 9:12:18 UTC
	3930K running at 4.6 GHz. Can do 4.8 24/7, but its far more power inefficient this way. Water cooled with 3x140 radiator + 2x120 radiator. Temperature is in low sixties(Celsius). Fastest one I had was 2500K, able to run SETI at 5 GHz on air, but again, very power inefficient, so I ran it at 4.6 GHz, where it used least power per WU. ____________
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34289 Credit: 346,085,388 RAC: 554,277	Message 1338409 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 9:18:52 UTC - in response to Message 1338406.
	3930K running at 4.6 GHz. Can do 4.8 24/7, but its far more power inefficient this way. Water cooled with 3x140 radiator + 2x120 radiator. Temperature is in low sixties(Celsius). Fastest one I had was 2500K, able to run SETI at 5 GHz on air, but again, very power inefficient, so I ran it at 4.6 GHz, where it used least power per WU. Cool stuff, man. It will be a couple of years or more before I catch up enough on bills to even consider any upgrades. Thanks for sharing. And validating what I said. I just hope the kitties can keep the farm running long enough to consider such things. By then......who knows. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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Vipin Palazhi Send message Joined: 29 Feb 08 Posts: 218 Credit: 74,400,586 RAC: 126,445	Message 1338431 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 11:26:39 UTC - in response to Message 1338387.
	...cooled to -27.5 centigrade. None of my CPUs are overclocked and dont even come close to your values, however, I have always wondered, do overclocked CPUs need to be cooled to subzero temperatures to work properly? Wont a decent room temperature or even something like 10 degrees C be sufficient?
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Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19511 Credit: 21,236,793 RAC: 26,757	Message 1338446 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 12:14:05 UTC
	My FX 8150 is overclocked to 4.4 GHZ with aircooling. Its running stable at 56°C for over 2 years now. ____________
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34289 Credit: 346,085,388 RAC: 554,277	Message 1338477 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 15:18:00 UTC - in response to Message 1338431.
	...cooled to -27.5 centigrade. None of my CPUs are overclocked and dont even come close to your values, however, I have always wondered, do overclocked CPUs need to be cooled to subzero temperatures to work properly? Wont a decent room temperature or even something like 10 degrees C be sufficient? It would be now. Not 8 years ago or so. An AMD Sempron (which were nicknamed 'toasters' for good reason) ran at very high temps. You would burn them up, or more likely the host motherboard, when attempting even modest OC's. I went through my first computer, a 233mmx which I did a very small OC on via jumpers on the motherboard, through the AMD Sempy era, and back to Intel when the core2 hit the market. These days, OC'd CPUs don't radically hyperventilate when asked to perform beyond their published limits, for reasons I previously posted. If I were to launch a new platform today, it would be water cooled using ambient air temps. And I could, as at least one other post confirms, outperform my overachieving i7 920 by a good margin without going to the extreme of hosing the thing down to subzero temperatures. I went through an era when it was the ultimate solution to getting the most possible out of a processor. And it worked, with a lot of cost and trouble involved. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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rob smith Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 5473 Credit: 21,219,737 RAC: 135,467	Message 1338536 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 17:21:19 UTC
	To underline Mark's comment, new new cruncher is based on an AMD FX8350, running stock at 4GHz, until a few minutes ago it was running a stock cooler, which I have changed for water cooling due to the ridiculous noise levels. Such is progress, we forget that Mark's rig was at the bleeding edge when he built it, but now it is "middle of the road", if he will excuse me for swearing in his presence... I just wander what he would build today given the time and money that he spent those years ago. ____________ Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?
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Ex Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 2883 Credit: 1,162,259 RAC: 865	Message 1338540 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 17:34:29 UTC - in response to Message 1338387. Last modified: 15 Feb 2013, 17:43:03 UTC
	Mine is the 'Frozen One'.... An i7 920 rated at 2.67Ghz, running at 4.25Ghz compressor cooled to -27.5 centigrade. What are you folks running up in that range? Over 4Ghz. Meow? Now, that's what I call overclocking! Myself I don't OC, I build long life stable systems that run stock and do it well, most systems I've built are either still running for their owners or have gotten so old they've been de-commissioned . I use proven hardware and always pick a proper chipset for the design at hand, and I pair RAM specifically to the CPU in any given build. I like decent but not high-end as the price-performance value is best found in the 18mo old hardware range. That's the philosophy I use. Anyways I haven't built a new system in over a year, but my fastest CPU is a Xeon E3-1230, running stock with 16G RAM in a small quiet server (goal was energy efficiency not crunching :-)) that is more than adequate for my purposes. Six HDDs on the serverboard, all in a micro-ATX package. :-) ____________ -Dave #2 3.2.0-33
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34289 Credit: 346,085,388 RAC: 554,277	Message 1338542 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 17:40:21 UTC - in response to Message 1338536. Last modified: 15 Feb 2013, 17:44:26 UTC
	To underline Mark's comment, new new cruncher is based on an AMD FX8350, running stock at 4GHz, until a few minutes ago it was running a stock cooler, which I have changed for water cooling due to the ridiculous noise levels. Such is progress, we forget that Mark's rig was at the bleeding edge when he built it, but now it is "middle of the road", if he will excuse me for swearing in his presence... I just wander what he would build today given the time and money that he spent those years ago. NO excuses needed, Bob. I shall certainly excuse you. Yes, it WAS bleeding edge at the time.......and it was not too many years ago. What would I build now? I don't have a freaking clue.. Too long gone from those things. I don't have much of an interest in advancements that I am unable to take advantage of. I suppose the fastest Intel CPU, on a motherboard capable of supporting 3 GPUs. Based upon recent fathoming of results, 3 560s would give about the ultimate output......not current gen stuff. But, I was always old school. I could take a few points if I updated my rigs to the latest Jason apps, but I am getting too tired these days to take the time and effort. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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James Sotherden Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 6051 Credit: 14,707,082 RAC: 16,909	Message 1338548 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 18:01:46 UTC Last modified: 15 Feb 2013, 18:02:16 UTC
	My fastest rig is my I7 3770 at 3.40 GHz. Im running stock apps on both CPU and GPU. And it is slowly cacthing up to my I7 920 2.67 GHz. running lunatics op apps. Mark you could probally overclock an I7 3770 to 6.GHz plus using your compressor. Id like to build another I7 But finances have ruled that out. ____________
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Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19511 Credit: 21,236,793 RAC: 26,757	Message 1338569 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 18:44:39 UTC
	Of course its much easier to overclock a CPU with liquid cooling. I`ve sold a FX 8150 @5.6 GHZ with liquid cooling. Myself i prefer a good aircooling. Maybe i`m old fashioned. ____________
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34289 Credit: 346,085,388 RAC: 554,277	Message 1338571 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 18:47:08 UTC - in response to Message 1338569.
	Of course its much easier to overclock a CPU with liquid cooling. I`ve sold a FX 8150 @5.6 GHZ with liquid cooling. Myself i prefer a good aircooling. Maybe i`m old fashioned. Damn........5.6Ghz???? Sheeeeeeeeeeit. And mewowza. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 8944 Credit: 36,844,209 RAC: 60,795	Message 1338588 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 19:38:16 UTC
	if you don't mind me asking Mike, what Motherboard are you running with the CPU ____________ Proud member of TSWB. End terrorism by building a school
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Paul D Harris Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 1097 Credit: 25,439,029 RAC: 40,332	Message 1338613 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 20:59:45 UTC
	My system looks like this below Win8 only see 16gb ram in dual channel because the asus p6t does not have win8 drivers so I need to upgrade the cpu and mb to get full use of my memory sticks. I had a Thermaltake V1 Max-Performance CPU Cooler with Massive 110mm Blue LED Full-Range Variable Speed Fan CL-P0401 but the pins went bad and the air temps were in the 60's and then I had to use the stock intel cooler and the temps were in the mid 90's. With the Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid CPU Cooler System the temps are in the mid 50's. I run Jason's Lunatics_x41zc_win32_cuda50.exe and AK_v8b2_win_x64_SSE3.exe with a rac of over 38,000 and climbing. The AZZA Solano 1000 CSAZ-1000 Full Tower Case (Black) runs real quite and cool compared to my old case which was noisy and I had to leave the panels off and had a fan blowing on the video cards. In the old case the cards ran real hot in the 80-90's. I moved the 2nd card to the 3rd slot and it cooled down. Now they run in the 60's with the fans at about 50%. Operating System MS Windows 8 64-bit CPU Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 57 °C Bloomfield 45nm Technology RAM 24.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 534MHz (8-8-8-20) Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. P6T (LGA1366) 52 °C Graphics G276HL (1920x1080@60Hz) 767MB GeForce GTX 460 (nVidia) 66 °C 767MB GeForce GTX 460 (nVidia) 67 °C ForceWare version 307.74 SLI Disabled Hard Drives 125GB OCZ OCZ-AGILITY4 ATA Device (SATA) Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10L ATA Device Audio Realtek High Definition Audio I just upgraded since September. Coolmax ZU Series ZU-1000B 1000W ATX12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Modular Power Supply = $87.74 win 8 pro upgrade = $39.99 Acer G276HL Dbd 27-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor = $244.76 AZZA Solano 1000 CSAZ-1000 Full Tower Case (Black) = $114.99 Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid CPU Cooler System = $59.99 OCZ Technology 128GB Agility 4 Series SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive( SSD) With Up to 420 MB/s Read And 72K Max.IOPS- AGT4-25SAT3-128G = $99.99 So these upgrades cost a little over $700 including S&H so Iguess I will get the new I7 3820 and ASUS P9X79 which will replace the i7 920 and the ASUS P6T board and get 2 more sticks of corsair vengeance memory and keep my 2 460 cards ____________
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Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19511 Credit: 21,236,793 RAC: 26,757	Message 1338633 - Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 22:00:34 UTC - in response to Message 1338588.
	if you don't mind me asking Mike, what Motherboard are you running with the CPU Of course not Skildude. Asus Sabertooth. ____________
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Vipin Palazhi Send message Joined: 29 Feb 08 Posts: 218 Credit: 74,400,586 RAC: 126,445	Message 1338699 - Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 1:21:54 UTC
	Thanks for the information and those wonderful photographs Mark. Like others have pointed out, I too am curious to see what kind of monster you would build with the present day hardware. And I do remember reading that you may add a 9th rig to your farm. So go for it if time and resources permit. I too, like Ex, build stable systems that are never overclocked. And my hobby is to give second life to old computer components that others may discard as junk. Built and sold many such systems which are still running cheerfully. Due to the fact that the outside temperatures regularly cross 50 degrees C here during summer, I cannot overclock any aircooled rigs and do not want to chance it. And, I had to put all my rigs on high shelves to protect it from an over curious baby who is just starting to walk.
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34289 Credit: 346,085,388 RAC: 554,277	Message 1338708 - Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 1:54:56 UTC - in response to Message 1338699.
	Thanks for the information and those wonderful photographs Mark. Like others have pointed out, I too am curious to see what kind of monster you would build with the present day hardware. And I do remember reading that you may add a 9th rig to your farm. So go for it if time and resources permit. I too, like Ex, build stable systems that are never overclocked. And my hobby is to give second life to old computer components that others may discard as junk. Built and sold many such systems which are still running cheerfully. Due to the fact that the outside temperatures regularly cross 50 degrees C here during summer, I cannot overclock any aircooled rigs and do not want to chance it. And, I had to put all my rigs on high shelves to protect it from an over curious baby who is just starting to walk. Since you liked the photos so much, I'll give you a couple more. This is what I was talking about.......grease. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34289 Credit: 346,085,388 RAC: 554,277	Message 1338710 - Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 2:04:20 UTC Last modified: 16 Feb 2013, 2:05:48 UTC
	I have my dreams, just no money to support them. What would I built tomorrow. Fastest CPU chip available. Cooling would not be an issue, CPUs don't do that much work anymore compared to GPUs. GPUs.....Hmmmmmmmm...right now, I would go for a pair of vintage 590's. OR, if they could be found, a couple of virgin 295's. My 295's tore through work like nothing before or since. Sadly, they are deceased. I have reports that the new stuff just does not work quite right. So, I guess my gifted old age crap is doing OK. So, if I had the money to burn, which I do not, I would opt for the fastest mobo and CPU and RAM available. And load it with a couple of vintage 295's. I would burn your house downs, babys. Yeah, I know what works/ ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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arkayn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 3096 Credit: 40,536,053 RAC: 66,661	Message 1338726 - Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 3:36:45 UTC Last modified: 16 Feb 2013, 3:37:32 UTC
	This is the main system. Case:Rosewill Smart One ATX Mid Tower CPU: AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz Motherboard: MSI 870A-G54 (FX) AM3+ AMD 870 RAM:Crucial Ballistix Sport (12GB) GPU's: EVGA 02G-P4-2670-KR GeForce GTX 670 2GB and EVGA SSC 01G-P4-3652-KR GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB PSU: KINGWIN ABT-850MM 850W SOUND: Digital out to a JVC Home Theater Receiver. OS: Windows 7 Home 64 Monitors: Acer P235Hbmid Black 23" and Acer S231HLbid Black 23" ____________
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