5680 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:55:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png 5680 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Cryo PC smashes world speed record https://www.kitguru.net/professional/workstation/jules/cryo-pc-smashes-world-speed-record/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/workstation/jules/cryo-pc-smashes-world-speed-record/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:51:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=36459 While everyone and their dog can attack the Futuremark records, breaking the SPEC performance record takes some doing. KitGuru has been following the adventures of this Vale of Aylesbury company for a while now, and this announcement is quite special. During a recent, exclusive interview, Cryo founder Alan Johnson told us “Intel itself has now …

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While everyone and their dog can attack the Futuremark records, breaking the SPEC performance record takes some doing. KitGuru has been following the adventures of this Vale of Aylesbury company for a while now, and this announcement is quite special.

During a recent, exclusive interview, Cryo founder Alan Johnson told us “Intel itself has now effectively condoned overclocking by building Turbo Boost into its CPUs, which provides a self-limiting and safe overclock for regular users, without them every really being aware of it”. Alan then went one stage further, “In fact Cryo PC would say the term overclocking itself is now redundant. It’s more a process of ‘right-clocking’ rather than overclocking.  We prefer to think that AMD and Intel deliberately underclock processors for the channel, knowing full well that these chips are capable of giving much more performance with the right setup and configuration”.

OK, so Alan is an evangelist for ‘right clocking', so exactly what specification did Cryo use to beat the SPEC record and what kind of score did it manage?

Cryo PC takes SPEC world performance record with this gorgeous, water-cooled, Lian-Li casing

Dual Intel Xeon 5680 processors with the Turbo Boost facility turned off and the clocks set to 4.5GHz – that's 12 physical cores and 24 thread capability.

How do you keep those CPUs fed? With 48GB of DDR3. Feeding the memory takes a fast SSD drive.

All of that feeding needs energy, which generates heat. Alan's team chose the Lian-Li A77F chassis for this build, with a custom-designed, high-flow water-cooling system.

Congratulations to Alan Johnson's Cryo PC team for taking the SPEC world record, beating the previous holder (the BOXX Extreme) by up to 34%, and significantly ahead of HP, SGI, Dell and IBM

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KitGuru says: Impressive stuff. Nice to see a small UK outfit, that cares, taking on the world and winning. Tally Ho Chaps!

Comments below or in the KitGuru forum.

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OMG (Part 1): Intel Xeon 5680 Chips Served on eVGA SR2 https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/faith/omg-part-1-intel-xeon-5680-chips-served-on-evga-sr2/ https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/faith/omg-part-1-intel-xeon-5680-chips-served-on-evga-sr2/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:46:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=7101 Fast is all a matter of degrees. Roll the clock back 10 years and Intel was happy to supply you with a 1GHz processor. These days, 1GHz is reserved for phones and cheap netbooks. Given that real/raw performance relates more to clock speed and cores than anything else, what if you cranked the GHz score …

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Fast is all a matter of degrees. Roll the clock back 10 years and Intel was happy to supply you with a 1GHz processor. These days, 1GHz is reserved for phones and cheap netbooks. Given that real/raw performance relates more to clock speed and cores than anything else, what if you cranked the GHz score way past 400% up from the CPUs of yesteryear and allowed a PC to run 24 threads. KitGuru today begins a journey of wonder.

OMG ranks alongside MEGA LOLs as one of our favourite text-speaks of the 21st century. Literally OH MY GOD. KitGuru gets its hands on a lot of kit that makes us smile. Sometimes grin. But the most recent hands-on experience produced a serious stream of OMGs, MEGA LOLs and a twitchy desire to sell random possessions in order to buy some of this kit.

You don't need it. But you really do want it.

So what has reduced KitGuru's white-coat-wearing army of combat benchmarking veterans into a gang of giggling school kids staring at the lingerie pages of a home delivery catalogue?

Simple.

Opening these packages.

Xeon 5680 chips arrive
Open, arrange, shoot, flip, shoot. Then realise you're grinning like an idiot. A very happy idiot.
Xeon 5680
No doubt. These are the Kray Twins of the CPU world. You'd pay them NOT to hurt you.
Xeon 5680
Intel Xeons are knitted by grannies. Ultra hardcore punk grannies with implants and plasma rifles.
They look big enough when you shoot them next to the picture of the SR2 on the back of the box

The really fun part was putting the chips on top of the mainboard box.

Anyone remember 2010 when the Russian chap takes a space walk near the monolith ?

Even mighty Xeons get a little nervous in the presence of EVGA's mental SR2

OK. So the OMG series has begun.

Work will commence on the kit in question and we'll be following it all carefully, camera at the ready.

KitGuru says: Can't wait to see how this thing overclocks and benches! Discuss in our forums.


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