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Combat Pretzel posted:Going for a Asus Sabertooth, Core i7-2600 and 16GB RAM. Everything's here but the CPU I'm honestly curious to know what people are doing with so much RAM? What could you possible need that much for?
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Wedesdo posted:How far have people gotten their 2500Ks in terms of OCs? This is the exact combination of CPU, mobo and Heatsink I just ordered, with approximately the results I was hoping for. This fellow seems to think that the cpu has a bit more leeway as far as voltage goes, though I don't think I'd ever go to 1.5V. http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/908782-sneak-peak-my-sandy-bridge-overclocking.html But 1.4 should be plenty safe 24/7 by the sounds of it. Have you managed to get a bit under 5 GHz stable on 1.4V? Also, what kind of temperatures are you getting?
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Paino posted:How does the P67 UD3 compare to the UD4? It isn't ideal for SLI since one of the PCI-e slots is x16 and the other only x4 (whereas the video card needs x8 minimum, or x16 ideally). Where did you read it doesn't overclock as well?
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Jan 10, 2011 16:36
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LiftAuff posted:There is a post up on OCUK saying not to exceed 1.35v and that anything above 1.42v will kill the CPU. Well that's a good idea - to get more than one person's opinion. I work pretty conservatively myself so will probably do the 1.35v thing.
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Jan 10, 2011 18:58
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LooKMaN posted:In 2 years a midrange card will almost certainly poo poo all over GTX570 SLI. Yup... it'd be like buying a second ATI 3870 instead of just running a single 6850 right now.
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Jan 10, 2011 21:08
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Wedesdo posted:Right now, I have: Mmmmm... 4.75 stable is nice. I'm just hoping for a solid 4.6 after getting a bum E8400 chip a couple years ago that never managed to to go more than 3.4.
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Jan 10, 2011 23:30
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movax posted:Parts arrived today, can't wait to go home! I'm getting crazy blue balled... my package has been in town for two days, and I still won't get it till tomorrow because Purolator doesn't know how to ship a package.
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Turns out my package came yesterday so I was able to build the system - however the Coolermaster 212+ HS/Fan was out of stock, so I have to use the little stock one for now. Was only able to manage 4.2Ghz @ 1.325V for now... Idles low 30s, and highest I've seen after torture test going for 3 hours is 72C. I really haven't spent much time with it though, I just know that it BSOD'd when I started Prime95 at 4.4Ghz, so I backed it down to 4.2. I hope I get a lot better numbers with the bigger cooler once it gets here.. One thing I noticed is that all of the programs (like CPU-Z, RealTemp) were showing my core voltage as 1.06v... Coretemp is the only program that showed my voltage as 1.35v (it was set 1.325 in BIOS). Kashwashwa fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jan 13, 2011 |
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dud root posted:Not that I want to defend the twist clip thing, but they're probably designed for OEMs to install CPU & cooler in under 10 seconds Yeah, I found them to actually go in unbelievably quick and easy.
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Jan 14, 2011 15:53
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chutwig posted:Considering the last time I built a computer was in the days of Thunderbird Athlons, I found this mounting design to be a hell of a lot better than "try futilely to lever very tense metal clip onto tiny little plastic nub that will probably shear off the side of the socket, then slice fingers open on razor-sharp heatsink". Yeah... and the fact that cpu's now don't even have actual pins you can screw up... It seems hilarious to me that I had my system up and running in under 60 minutes after having swapped motherboards, CPU & HS/Fan, and Ram. And that I was able to have it running stable at 4.2 Ghz after changing two numbers in the BIOS. And that I didn't have to reformat the hard drive and the OS literally did all of the work installing drivers and junk. This stuff is so easy compared to how it used to be it makes me sick. SICK. Kashwashwa fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Jan 14, 2011 |
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movax posted:How are you guys applying TIM? Two little lines look like it has good coverage: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=5
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Jan 14, 2011 21:22
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Every CPU I've had with a IHS I drop a miniscule, slightly smaller than rice-grain sized blob of AS5 in dead center, and then let the HSF crush and spread it around as needed. Worked great for P4s and C2Ds.
What will suck is if you apply paste and then keep shifting around the heatsink. Don't do that.
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ehnus posted:Which heatsinks are you people using? Is anyone getting away with 4GHz on Intel's retail piece? I'm at 4.2 on the retail one right now.
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I'm flabbergasted by the Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus... I'm running voltage at 1.35 instead of 1.32 now, and my temps went from 78s (on stock cooler) to 55s under full load. My chip doesn't want to go very high though. I'm able to get 4.4Ghz instead of the 4.2 I was at, but it won't even post higher than 4.4 (while it's rock solid AT 4.4 which is weird to me). I guess I could put more voltage in - 1.35 is still pretty conservative - but I'm a sissy.
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Jan 18, 2011 14:50
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LordOfThePants posted:
You should try to get your voltage down first. You may have a chip that can run at 4.0ghz with way less voltage than the motherboard thinks it needs. I'm assuming you have it set to auto since you haven't said otherwise.
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Jan 22, 2011 15:35
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I kinda wonder how many people will actually be affected by this? No one with one DVD player and one HD (aka 95% of users?) will ever know the problem exists will they?
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Feb 1, 2011 15:14
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:If I'm reading the Anandtech article correctly its not the number of SATA devices its the ports that matter. You can only use 2 devices and still get effected unfortunately. Right, but what I'm saying is if you were only using two, you'd be using both of the 6 GB/s ports (which if I'm not mistaken are unaffected - it's only the 3 GB/s ports that are).
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Feb 1, 2011 15:29
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dud root posted:I just bought a board that uses the Realtek RTL8111E- the same as that MSI board. Whats the deal with the realtek onboard nic? Just how bad is it? I think it's another case of nerds being dramatic. I have a Gigabyte P67 UD3 and it's absolutely fine.
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Nonpython posted:It is not so much drama as it is random. Realtek has little to no quality control, so if you are lucky to get a working chip, it may be passible for non-intense use. (If you ever want to torrent anything ever, stay away.) I must be 'lucky', because my HTPC which has the same onboard nic let's me download at my service providers maximum speed, in addition to my main gaming pc (8 mbit or 1,000 kb/sec), all day long.
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Weee.... NCIX email: quote:we have an available replacement board for your GA-P67A-UD3 I guess this means I get to completely rebuild my system.
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Mar 18, 2011 22:37
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I must have got a poo poo chip  ... it won't stay stable above 4.3ghz and that's with 1.35v. I thought the new motherboard might make a difference, but I get identical results as my last (Gigabyte P67A-UD3).Granted, I haven't really messed around with any other settings. At least it stays extremely cool with a Hyper 212+ HS & Fan (have yet to see 60 degrees).
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Mar 31, 2011 19:23
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Shmoogy posted:They're replacing them for free, it's a minor inconvenience to swap it out, but you should do it. Also resale value if that matters to you... people will be more likely to buy a 'non-faulty' board I'm sure.
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The performance of my system seems to be degrading or something... it keeps freezing while playing Bad Company 2. Now I'm running at everything being stock speeds, and it seems to be stable, but what is this poo poo? I'm running memtest to see if there's a problem there, but I'm not really sure what to try next. I noticed there's a new BIOS update from gigabyte, so I'll try that too.
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I should have updated my post yesterday. There were two problems - my video card was overclocked (which I forgot), apparently too much. BC2 was causing my video card to crash or something, causing my entire system to freeze. Then, I had an old version of my motherboards BIOS, which would cause it to reset and revert to default BIOS settings if the reset switch was pressed - which is what I would do when my system froze up. So I updated my BIOS, set video card to default specs, and everything is going good.
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