mersenneforum.org Haswell Preview Benchmark
 Register FAQ Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

2013-09-26, 03:25   #331
Prime95
P90 years forever!

Aug 2002
Yeehaw, FL

23·312 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by Prime95 Which do you think is better?
Surprisingly, in prime95's case it is the two instruction version with latency 8!!

Prime95 executes this code in a loop:

Code:
loop:
mul by DWT weight       Latency 5
round value, calc next carry, apply inverse weight
goto loop
In the latency 8 case the next mul-by-DWT-weight can execute in parallel with the previous round-value,etc. code (essentially making the mul free). In the fused-mul-add case, the next FMA cannot start until the next carry has been computed. Thus, what I thought would be one of my most promising remaining Haswell optimizations (using FMA in the carry propagation code) turns out to be a dud.

Last fiddled with by Prime95 on 2013-09-26 at 03:27

 2013-09-27, 23:55 #332 Prime95 P90 years forever!     Aug 2002 Yeehaw, FL 23×312 Posts Oh yeah I just got the replacement CPU for the one I RMA'ed. I fired it up at 4.3GHz, 1.2V, DDR3-2400 and it is running a prime95 torture test (OK after 10 minutes). Temps are in the mid-80s doing large FFTs, mid-90s doing small FFTs. Tomorrow, I'll play more with different voltage/speed combinations.
2013-09-27, 23:57   #333
kracker

"Mr. Meeseeks"
Jan 2012
California, USA

216910 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by Prime95 I just got the replacement CPU for the one I RMA'ed. I fired it up at 4.3GHz, 1.2V, DDR3-2400 and it is running a prime95 torture test (OK after 10 minutes). Temps are in the mid-80s doing large FFTs, mid-90s doing small FFTs. Tomorrow, I'll play more with different voltage/speed combinations.
Good!

 2013-09-28, 01:03 #334 sdbardwick     Aug 2002 North San Diego County 12678 Posts That reminded me: Anandtech did some testing at various memory speeds and timings (but didn't include Prime95, unfortunately). My TL;DR take is that 2400 at C9 is a good performance/time-spent-tweaking compromise. Last fiddled with by sdbardwick on 2013-09-28 at 01:03
 2013-09-28, 01:44 #335 TheMawn     May 2013 East. Always East. 11×157 Posts Loving the memory overclock stats! I might try looking to bring my 10-12-12-31 @ 2400 MHz down to 9-11-11-30 or something...
2013-09-28, 02:02   #336
kracker

"Mr. Meeseeks"
Jan 2012
California, USA

87916 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by TheMawn Loving the memory overclock stats! I might try looking to bring my 10-12-12-31 @ 2400 MHz down to 9-11-11-30 or something...
I can never run LL's overclocked, I always do DC. I guess paranoia of errors.

I mean, look at it this way: Even if you had 24 or 48 hours of stressing you're going to run more with constant LL's for how long. Probably rare, but still...

2013-10-07, 07:20   #337
db597

Jan 2003

7·29 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by Prime95 I just got the replacement CPU for the one I RMA'ed. I fired it up at 4.3GHz, 1.2V, DDR3-2400 and it is running a prime95 torture test (OK after 10 minutes). Temps are in the mid-80s doing large FFTs, mid-90s doing small FFTs.
Does your system increase the voltage by +0.1V when AVX is in use? In which case your 1.2V could actually be 1.3V instead?

On my 4770K, after the Haswell optimisations, I can't get 4.3GHz stable at 1.2V (total after the AVX voltage bump is added). 10mins is OK, but overnight it would crash.

 2013-10-07, 13:39 #338 Prime95 P90 years forever!     Aug 2002 Yeehaw, FL 1E0816 Posts My original Haswell did not bump 0.1V -- it has a BIOS option to turn off adaptive voltage. My new Haswell, the RMA'ed one, does bump the voltage. Thus, when I reported 4.3GHz at 1.2V -- it was really running at 1.3V. Heat was an issue -- mid 80s during LL, 90s during torture. Both CPUs are now running at 4.0GHz, 1.22V and 1.2V respectively, and DDR3-2400. The original running at 1.22V does have occasional unexplained reboots. BTW, memory timings are weird. CPU-Z's reading of the SPD table was different than what the BIOS was setting the timings to from the SPD table. I manually changed the timings to the slightly slower one CPU-Z thinks is correct and my rare ROUNDOFF errors have disappeared (for now).
 2013-10-07, 14:28 #339 xtruder   Oct 2013 2×3 Posts I've seen mentions of speed measuring and CPU utilization at certain memory speeds in this thread, but how do i check those values? Iam using version 2.81. I've been getting rounding errors on certain blocks in blend and have no idea how to interpret them, just to name a few: - Rounding was 0.5 (or 0.455078125), expected less than 0.4 (fft 3360) Whenever i increase CPU input voltage, iam getting this error - Final result was BC12AB39, expected: 874392AC (fft 3584) Giving 100MHz more uncore fixes this error, or lowering ring bus voltage at previous uncore setting. Is there any sense in running particular fft size for more than 15 minutes? In blend, the fft sizes in question getting executed for only for 3 minutes. If i run them manually i get rounding errors 10-30min in.
2013-10-07, 19:17   #340
Prime95
P90 years forever!

Aug 2002
Yeehaw, FL

23·312 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by xtruder I've been getting rounding errors on certain blocks in blend and have no idea how to interpret them
You are not alone. I too am at a loss as to how to best address various overclocking problems in Haswell. The options are numerous, reduce the CPU clock, increase CPU voltage, uncore voltage, mem voltage, tweak memory timings, etc.

Prime95 does nothing to diagnose what your problem is -- it only tells you there is some kind of problem.

In your particular case, the rounding errors are happening with small FFTs (assuming the FFT size was 3584 and not 3584K). FFTs 4K and below in size do not stress main memory much, meaning the problem is likely in the CPU or caches.

 2013-10-07, 19:34 #341 firejuggler     "Vincent" Apr 2010 Over the rainbow 1010011111002 Posts So, the easiest way for now is to not overclock Haswell?

 Similar Threads Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post sdbardwick Hardware 37 2015-02-10 18:49 Pleco Information & Answers 22 2014-07-13 16:03 Mini-Geek Hardware 64 2014-05-27 13:22 Prime95 Software 126 2012-02-09 16:17 retina Forum Feedback 1 2011-09-12 15:32

All times are UTC. The time now is 08:39.

Sun Dec 5 08:39:22 UTC 2021 up 135 days, 3:08, 0 users, load averages: 0.94, 1.17, 1.33