Well had a quick test of my new retail CPU Sunday - only had about 25lts of LN2 and very hot - so my session only lasted an hour or so before everything was soaked and LN2 was running low.

These Ivy Bridge CPU's certainly run very hot which may limit their appeal for air and water benchers - but if you have something colder - well they just fly

My CPU seems to be somewhere at the lower end of achievements for retails seen to date - benching 6300+ for Pifast, Super Pi, and Maxxmem with no real issues. No way my board was going to run this cpu any higher though, 6350 was maximum regardless of volts used. Will try another board this coming weekend and see if this is definitely the cpu limit or not

Memory used is Team Xtreme 2600 Kit 10-12-12-31 2T - not maxed out just focused on CPU max to start

Heres a few pics - no real tweaks, just a light os install


Someone order some bandwidth??




PiFast



Super Pi 1M



LN2 refill coming for a weekend of benching