Gigabyte P55A-UD6: SATA and USB 3 are here!
The board I am reviewing today is the Gigabyte P55A-UD6
You will notice that there are many similarities between the standard P55-UD6 board. The one difference and it is a major one is the addition of usb 3.0 and sata 3.0 support on a select few ports. Continue reading »
I have recently had the privilege of getting a cherry Xeon W3570 and one of the hottest GPU’s on the market, the HD5970 dual gpu solution from ATI/Radeon. Continue reading »
At the time of my benching, all these scores were Gold Trophy’s on the bot. I was very limited in what I could accomplish due to CCC limiting my clocks to 900/1300. Also at the time, there was no software based voltage adjustments available.
New bios (S21Z) in the eVGA Classified 760 got me booting from bios at 230+ bclock. This W3540 is a very strong chip, loving the cold. The board would cbb at around -90° to -92°, but the chip wasn’t cold bugging even at -130°! With the Kingpin F1EE cpu pot I was able to maintain steady temps even under extremely heavy loads like wPrime 1024. So 3D benching wasnt a problem since the most cpu demanding bench I was running was 3dmark 2006. On to the results!
One unfortunate happening during this session was when I was benching 2D first. I killed 2 out of 3 of my Kingston Elpida Hyper sticks during 32M runs. All these benches were thus done in single channel mode which hurt things some (especially in aquamark3)
3DMark 2001 Gold (now silver)
3DMark2005 Silver (now 7th)
3DMark2006 Gold (now silver)
Aquamark3 Gold (now 6th) – Could had about 390k if I had triple channel working.
I currently have no 5870′s (this one was for a customers gaming computer) but will revisit this again for sure. I got some new non-explosive hypers in from Kingston. Now with CCC limits of 1200+ on core, adjustable voltages from software, people are pushing these cards to 1050ish core on air, 1125ish on water, and 1200-1300 on LN2. Quite impressive!
Romulan ale and boints, are two of three things I can never seem to get enough of. Those of you who know me, know where the “Rom” thing comes from. For those of you who don’t, Greetings! I am Romdominance and this is my formal Introduction. Continue reading »
Hello everyone!
I would first like to thank RomDominance for the opportunity to blog here with this great bunch of guys. Many of you may have seen me around at xtremesystems, overclockaholics, i4memory or other various forums around the net. For those of you whom havent met me yet, let me give you a short introduction. Continue reading »
The Gigabyte EX58-UD5 : A review by Punx223
Over the past few weeks I have had the great opportunity to work with the Gigabyte EX58-UD5.
Mind you this is my first major full time venture into the X58 1366 socket platform, so let’s continue. Continue reading »
Hot cars, HOT women, High performance rigs … the three things that make life worth living (although not necessarily in that order). Hot cars were years ago, hot women aren’t as numerous as I would prefer, but my rigs are EXTREMELY COOL!! Continue reading »
Yes its true, ocgmj (George Moody) has accepted the position of editor in chief here at pcwormhole.com. I felt he would make a great choice and I am sure you will agree, he is always up to any task we ask of him. Continue reading »
How is it going guys….. It is good to be here thanks for the invitation. Very nice work on the site for all . It is my understanding that Rom, OC and Rom’s brother have done a lot of work here.To all those involved, very nice work on the site. Continue reading »
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Our team’s path to number one in the U.S.A.
Its been far to long since I have written here on the Wormhole. The last couple of months have been filled with late night LN2 bench sessions and overclocks I never thought were possible. The path to #1 in the U.S. was nothing like I thought it would be though. Continue reading »