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Hi, I'm 8Pack
I'm currently the UK's number one benchmarker
multiple world record holder within benchmarks,
Computechs OC Main Event champion, and pro-overclocking specialist.
Benchmarking broadly forms into two categories:
graphics benchmarking
and 2D CPU and memory benchmarking.
People benchmark their systems, so they compare against other people with similar
components, and check that they're actually getting the best performance for the
components within their system.
Professional overclockers, obviously do this
to stack up points for their team in line with world records
and recognised, absolute top-level scoring.
But basically, all benchmarking is - is about getting the best you can do on your
system and then comparing with what's possible.
The rig I'm benchmarking here is
based around Z87 platform, or shark bay,
and the new Haswell, Core i7, 4770K CPU - using the
Asus Maximus VI Extreme motherboard
and MSI GTX780 GPU.
Later on, during the 2D tests
such as Pi-Fast and SuperPi that I'm doing,
I'm using an old NVidia graphics card
by Asus - because this performs better in 2D and there's absolutely no
scaling from using a better GPU in 2D testing
All the components I've listed as benchmarking here, are available along
with an extensive range of other components at our website
www.overclockers.co.uk
You can also find fault system builds
that have been tested for both quality, performance, and value for money in any given price bracket.
Here on the video you can see I'm using liquid nitrogen
also known as LN2
to cool the key components these tests that I'm doing here.
Here I'm completing 3D Mark 06, 05, and 01
and essentially for this - I'm using liquid nitrogen to cool the GPU
and the CPU. Liquid nitrogen boils at of temperature of minus one hundred ninety six (-196°)
and obviously, when you're putting a lot of volts to gain speed through components
the cooler the component is the more stable it's going to be.
The hardware here, I'm not trying to push the GPU too hard
so I'm just cooling it to about minus ten on minus twenty.
The CPU I'm cooling to between minus one hundred
and minus one hundred and thirty-five, depending on the stage of the benchmark.
During the CPU tests of the benchmark, I want to cool it a slight bit more to
take into account that these stages
the CPU is going to be producing a little bit more heat
so at that point of the benchmark, pour a little bit more LN2
and take the pot down down to minus one thirty five.
Most of the rest of time, the pot's around minus one thirty.
When the benchmarks are totally idle
I keep the pot at minus one twenty seven to minus one twenty eight -
if you pour too much about stage, temperatures drop too low
and then the CPU does something what's called cold bug - and it locks up the system.
This is basically due to the IMC, or integrated memory controller,
on the CPU, and not being to operate at as such very low temperatures.
Once the CPU is under load and creating it's own heat, you can lower the temperatures slightly.
Here we have some bench results from the session.
This first one here, is with the components that you see on the video.
The 3D Mark 05 score is 71'568
which of the time of making this video is the second best 3D Mark 05 score ever made.
For this, I used CPU at 6.5GHz, uncore 5.9, and a DDR frequency of 2'640 CAS 6.
The graphics card I was using was the MSI GTX780.
Later in the session, in 2D testing I managed to achieve one of only three times less than 10 seconds in Hexus PiFast.
Time here is 9.19 seconds - and at going to shoot - that time is the top two in the world, currently number two.
I did this with a 4770K, again 6.6GHz this time, an uncore of almost 6.2GHz, and a DDR speed of 2'724MHz.
This time I was running the memory at CAS 7.
The final score of note achieved during the session
is a SuperPi 32M score
4 minutes, 42.437 seconds.
This at time of recording, is within the top five on HardwareBot, and in fact I think it's ranked number four.
The highlights of this bench are CPU speed of 6.55GHz, uncore speed of over 6GHz
and memory speed of 2'620MHz at CAS 6.
Tuned very heavily for efficiency within the 32M benchmark.
If you've got any questions regarding this video
just follow the links in the description below.
Thank you for watching Benching Like a Boss with me, 8Pack.