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Charles Wirth
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Mike Graf
XtremeSystems.org
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Mike Graf
XtremeSystems.org
An overclocking battle:
I made a general statement that did not go over so well on the forums in that Ivy Bridge was in fact a better overclocking chip than Sandy Bridge. A lot of the top guys snickered and Mike spoke up that he has an exceptional chip in that it can do 5.2Ghz on air. Mike did his best to limit my cooling to no 3 stage cascade and for air oc his True 120 had the Intel LC beat.
Results are bit thrown together in this mash up but you will see that the Z77 chipset is a worthy upgrade. The UD3 is a high performance board with tons of great features, a worthy adversary in the right hands with a matching CPU. But in this battle it was against a superior CPU.
Z77 loves RAID 0, pulling over 1k read/write makes this another good reason why you will be upgrading soon. The chipset is a beast, it max out any pair of the best SSD's in RAID 0. I hope to see a raid chipset supporting with 4x ports. You will see a performance hit if you use the ASMEDIA SATA ports on all boards.
This board and chipset will define new limits in DDR 3 bandwidth on dual channel. Four Samsung modules overclocked to 3Ghz is far more impressive with benchmarks showing that the memory controller is really doing work, any more screen WR bandwidth screen shots from AMD without showing memory bandwidth should be pelted with rocks and laughed at. With the Ivy Bridge you will see a drop in latency compared to the Sandy Bridge, this is most likely why you will be upgrading to this platform soon.
Overclocking utilities from all the manufacturers seem to be working great.
No cold bug, but cold boot bug can be overcome with a bump in BCLK by a few Mhz. I took each one to -90c and enjoyed being able to restart without fear of bugging. Sandy Bridge processors still hate sub zero temps.
Some boards ship with mSATA and or mPCIE sockets, I will have a mSATA card soon for testing but I feel the mSATA SSD drive is slower than what I already have.
- Charles
Results are bit thrown together in this mash up but you will see that the Z77 chipset is a worthy upgrade. The UD3 is a high performance board with tons of great features, a worthy adversary in the right hands with a matching CPU. But in this battle it was against a superior CPU.
Z77 loves RAID 0, pulling over 1k read/write makes this another good reason why you will be upgrading soon. The chipset is a beast, it max out any pair of the best SSD's in RAID 0. I hope to see a raid chipset supporting with 4x ports. You will see a performance hit if you use the ASMEDIA SATA ports on all boards.
This board and chipset will define new limits in DDR 3 bandwidth on dual channel. Four Samsung modules overclocked to 3Ghz is far more impressive with benchmarks showing that the memory controller is really doing work, any more screen WR bandwidth screen shots from AMD without showing memory bandwidth should be pelted with rocks and laughed at. With the Ivy Bridge you will see a drop in latency compared to the Sandy Bridge, this is most likely why you will be upgrading to this platform soon.
Overclocking utilities from all the manufacturers seem to be working great.
No cold bug, but cold boot bug can be overcome with a bump in BCLK by a few Mhz. I took each one to -90c and enjoyed being able to restart without fear of bugging. Sandy Bridge processors still hate sub zero temps.
Some boards ship with mSATA and or mPCIE sockets, I will have a mSATA card soon for testing but I feel the mSATA SSD drive is slower than what I already have.
- Charles