Tech Reaction

Long story short. Today I got pretty bored. I’ve been wanting to put my 1090T under dry ice for quite some time now. However, my bench partner has been busy with work so I could not obtain the dry ice pot.

So I was thinking of ways I could cool down my processor, in order to play around with my new 6 core. Since I own a Corsair H50 AIO Watercooling kit, I decided to have some fun.

I hung the radiator in an old lunch cooler and filled it to the brim with ice. I also threw a bit of water in for more cooling surface area. I figured this could get my processor 5°C or below. I was right. Yes, the slushbox idea is not a brand new innovative one, but I wanted to try my chip under something else then regular cooling for now.

So I pushed my processor to frequencies I only previously thought could be attained on dry ice (at least with my deneb’s). It seems these new Thuban chips pack quite the punch when it comes to running up the frequency.

Anyways. Enough with the chit chat. I threw together another youtube short just like the good old days when I played with my denebs. So here you are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwb1K3_G7Mg

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Here are all the screenshot results and validations:

4250MHz Prime 95 Stable 1 Hour

I wanted to see how the slushbox worked under a real stress and if the chip would stay stable. The slushbox doesn’t deal with loads too well, but is still kept below 32C at all times. I believe if I had a good enough water setup, I could attain this stable speed no problem without any slushbox at all.

SuperPi 1m @ 4662MHz

I ramped up SuperPi to see what this chip can do. On my previous deneb chips, SuperPi 1m was my bread and butter, my favourite benchmark to run. Since SuperPi is a single threaded application, I imagine if I disabled some cores or ramped up only one core I could get better results.

SuperPi 32m @ 4500MHz                                                        SuperPi 32m @ 4571MHz

My first run was kind of on the safe side. To avoid a crash. However for second run I ramped up the processor a bit. This was the max I could go while still using all 6 cores. Once again, being single threaded, disabling cores might be able to help my clocking.

wPrime 32m @ 4500MHz

wPrime 1024m @ 4250MHz                                    wPrime  1024M @ 4409MHz

PiFast @ 4500MHz PiFast @ 4553MHz

Cinebench 11.5 @ 4250MHz Cinebench 11.5 @ 4427MHz

3DMark Vantage @ 4427MHz

SiSoft Sandra @ 4427MHz

CPUZ SS @ 4730MHz – Validation

In the video I attained a speed of 4.75GHz, however it was not stable for validation nor screenshot. It was only a taken as a video clip. The cpu did not last very long at 4.75GHz and crashed soon after.