Storm-Chaser

I'm assuming when you say "dual core" you have 4 ports on your radiator? Could this be used as liquid to liquid heat exchanger?

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Very impressive. You are well on your way!

During the CPUz benchmark it's about 130W. However, if I'm running AVX I've see much higher. About 180 W to be precise, but still no where near the limit of my cooling system. I run the system at 5.2GHz 24/7. I can actually ramp the fans down to low and I still can pass a torture test at that speed with the fans set static at about 500 rpm.

lol I need you guys to keep the leaderboard in check. Im doing this comp with one monitor so things can get lost in the shuffle. Please examine your submission and let me know if something is out of place or missing.

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Okay here is the z820 with two E5 2696 v2 processors, this is probably my best result with this rig. It's as high as it's going to go. @SamsTechStuff not sure if this gets me back ahead of your 12-core rig but at least it's somewhat more competitive than my last result (I will calculate scores tomorrow). All core turbo for this rig is 3,1GHz and it has factory water cooling. You can see here I have it compared to a 1950X for reference purposes. Here is my high maintenance heatkiller water block (on the 9600KF) Here is a slightly better result with said 9600KF in terms of pure clock speed. Probably don't want to go much higher on voltage, even though temps are under control.... it's okay though Im not worried about the processor. They are only about $150 used and most of them will OC like a champ.

Nice run! those are definitely good benching speeds Leaderboard Update....

Great looking PC, and those numbers you posted are very good. That processor you have is definitely a beast. But my z820 wont give up this fight I have at least one more card to play, and nine lives to go along with that. lol

I think we are neighbors then!. You are welcome to stop by and check out my setup here any time. I think you are about 50 minutes from me. And you dont have to wear a mask! lol

@The Pookwhy dont you put down a good number and join in on the fun! Lets see what you got.

I keep a very close eye on the reservoir(s). I can tell almost instantly if I have a leak from somewhere in the loop. What I did with this particular build was went back and tightened up all the compression collars a tew weeks later. I also use mechanical advantage on all the other fittings in the system. i.e. I put a small amount of grease on the o-rings and locked everything down.

Thanks - I worked pretty hard on that. It's the fastest 9600KF on HWBOT in terms of frequency, but when compared with the identical 9600K, I'm only about 4th or 5th on that list. The significant take way here is that every rig above me is running liquid nitrogen. Meaning I have the fastest 9600K/9600KF with a conventional loop. The 9600K is a very sick processor with huge overclock potential (that's why I favor it over the 9900K), it has a very high OC ceiling, making it ideal for use with a chiller on cold nights like tonight. I hit over 5.8 GHz before, but even now I think it has some more left in the tank, especially if I can tune my chiller setup for -25 degree weather. It's the best of both worlds. I put the computer and 5 gallon chiller bucket outside, and run the cables under the garage door. Inside it's 75*F because I have a wood burning stove right next to me. Very comfortable for me. Also the msi board has an interesting feature where if the system hangs, I can cycle the PSU and it will force a reboot (it wont just shut down so long as you click power back on within a few seconds)... meaning I never have to go outside in the cold to reset it. I can just use the switch on the surge protector to cycle it. Another trick is to place a box fan in front of the computer while it's outside. That will easily get your motherboard down to 0*C. Talk about making a difference. Best I can muster with the PC indoors (and just the chiller outside) is about 5640MHz, which is still pretty good but not great.

Im going to order two more barrow pumps next month and a submersible 1000L/H pump (AC powered) that will go in the 5-gallon bucket "cold side" of my liquid to liquid heat exchanger to prevent the slush problem on that side of the loop. Also putting the passive 240mm rad back in the loop. It was disconnected because I wanted to keep my flow rate up a little higher. But with the secondary pumps (lol I already have three in the loop) I should have no problem pushing and pulling the coolant at a very fast rate through the loop. The primary restriction in my loop is the heatkiller water block, which is really annoying and gets on my nerves a lot. The heatkiller all copper water block is already high maintenance. I have to disassemble it and scrub it down/clean the micro channels about once a month if I want to keep it at maximum performance. It's about due for another cleaning right now in fact. This block performs ok but the micro channel cuts are much more narrow that you might expect, making an easy target for restrictions, whether that be slush or just gunk build up.... (that's how it has more surface area in more or less the same given space as it's competition). Questions: Can I run methanol in my custom loop here? The advantage I see with this is it's much less viscous than anti-freeze. This will improve flow rate and at the same time my pumps wont have to work as hard. What else can I do to stabilize this CPU at 5730MHz? I think this is about the hard limit of the chip in terms of benching CPU z (so if I can get it a little more stable at this speed I should be able to get close to 700 on single core.) Requires a voltage of around 1.55-1.62 and I have NB at 4500 and SA and IO voltages at 1.4. Ram at 15-15-15-35 320 at 1.55 volts and 4200MHz (b-die, patriot viper steel c19 4133) LLC for this kind of scenario? I have an MSI MEG Z390 ACE and I typically run setting 3 which keeps the voltage more or less stable from idle/load. Perhaps I will try auto next to see how the board responds to vdroop under load.

Yes I had the rig back inside the garage for the past hour. Everything was back to nominal operation, however, after 20 minutes outside I'm AGAIN running into high temps. The heat exchanger could also be compromised with slush on the "cold" side. Keep in mind this is a passive chiller type setup (which is insane that I can still hit really high clocks with) so I think what I need to do is make it "active" by installing a submersible pump and cycling the cold anti-freeze from the 5 gallon bucket, dial in my setup a little more for the cold temps then try again.

I did get this validation but still working on single core not quite where I want it yet... EDIT: Will update leaderboard tomorrow no time today to deal with that...

All I know is the forecast for my loop is slush. I keep having problems after about 20 minutes of my loop partly freezing / slushing. Not in danger of cracking anything, just Need less water and more antifreeze. When that happens my temps begin to idle above 100 so I am seeing if I can change the ratio now so I can run it outside again later tonight. I did just hit 688 single core but could not get a screenshot in time. EDIT: Slush issue resolved for the moment. Running a 1 hour torture test to put some heat back in the loop before I try going below zero again. (and I should be good down to -30 now)

This should fit the bill, don't you think?

lol Tonight again will be the coldest night of the winter (by far). My coolant is only good to -25*F so I'm pushing my luck a bit but I have no doubts (in theory) that I should be able to break a personal best or two, and also hopefully up my single core speed here a bit more....

Did he just say up to 8 CPUs per mainboard? Said something about octal channel memory as well. I'm assuming that's per CPU. Does that mean you could potentially have up to 64 memory channels on a single board? That would definitely break the aida64 cache and memory benchmark (and ALL your benching competition), lol.

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I am interested to see if they have an i5 "little brother" to the 13900K, like the i5 9600K was to the i9 9900K. Seems these have the best cost/performance ratio on the market. And even now with ADL they are doing that. Take for example, the 12600K, which is half the price of the 12900K but performs nearly on par with it. Obviously, it's not going to crush multi core benchmarks as rapidly but will be more forgiving (most likely) when it comes to overclocking as these i5 chips will produce less heat than the flagship chips, so you wont need to build out your cooling system to the extreme to go super fast. Unless you want to Just wanted to point that out. I am done with my six core 9600KF and I'm ready for more cores, but I thought it should be mentioned at least.

Not to shabby! You are close if not ahead of my 5700mhz 9600Kf in multi core. I think that's a pretty formidable processor, always wanted one, to bad I can't run it in my z820 workstation (also LGA 2011). But I do have a 1680 v2 xeon ready to go. And for that I can use throttle stop to OC. Browsing the forum from my phone right now but I will upload your result in the morning at some point.

I had a few modified T61's / T61p's as well. Mostly consisted of faster RAM, top end processor and SSD. I would say SSD was the biggest jump in performance, but we all already knew that. I got into thinkpads around the same time you did and the reason I was able to afford one (I was only in my teens at that point) was because my uncle worked for IBM at the time so I was able to build a CTO system around the hardware I wanted, which made the thrill of getting it that much better. Soon upgraded to a T9300 processor. This I believe runs at 2.6GHz stock, but there is a trick from within the throttlestop settings that allows you to run dual IDA mode, which was a very early form of turbo that Intel had implemented in this family of chips. So that would get both cores to 2.7Ghz, only a mild overclock but it's still something. Then I came across the X9000 core 2 extreme chip. Knew I had to get one and use throttlestop to try to OC. I know, you generally don't get very far with overclocking these laptops, but this time around it was pretty decent at least for pure clock speed. Good enough for 3rd place in frequency rating at HWBOT. /img/logo.png storm-chaser`s CPU Frequency score: 4191.5 MHz with a Core 2 Extreme X9000 HWBOT.ORG

Definitely a good trip down memory lane. Thanks for the sub, that's a real classic. I used to buy/use Lenovo/IBM laptops exclusively bc I loved them so much. And even used my T61p as my primary laptop until 2015. loved the track point in the middle of the keyboard. I always wonder why more manufactures don't integrate them in their laptops. Seems like a no brainer, much easier to use than a touchpad. Gotta watch out for that freezer burn when you are benching with a t61p. LOL