octopus13

Thanks Afrodisiac, by the way that has to be the best avatar i have ever seen.

I just checked "CoreTemp" and it says i have a VID of 1.0750. my god.... that has to be false

whe3ls

core temp..

id say for for it. i dont think youll get it on air cooling thou.



do you have speed step enabled, if you run prime 95 for a couple minutes and it will go up

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octopus13

yup. It went up to 1.2 after 3 minutes.

I cant get my computer past 4.0ghz no matter what i do. I think its my memory holding me back. I have 4 gigs of G.Skill 800. I cant put the divider any lower so i still haven't actually reached 4.0ghz on this board. Kinda wish my friend would sell his maximus extreme to me. His board is what i reached 4.0ghz on air on. Right now i am on a sweet DFI LP LT P35 T2R. It is an amazing board for the price.

SyncMaster753

you picked a bad time of year to max out your chip. summer's only flaw.

But i'm 99.9% sure you shouldn't run your CPU hotter than 71C, its what intel's documentation states as a max Temp.

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gonX

If you're running 2 sticks then you should be fine. But if you're running 3 or 4 sticks, then you should try removing some so you have 2. Anything else tends to stress the memory controller.

Additionally... do you run on the 1:1 divider? You might want to try something else, 1:1 is known to tax the motherboard a lot more than a lot else. 3:4 is probably a good place to start at - hell even 4:5 would do better than 1:1.

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octopus13

My motherboard doesn't have those style dividers. This is something i have always kindof ignored. I would just go through the dividers and see wich one was closest to 800.

Mine are like 266/333 or something like that.

SgtSpike

Intel's max is the maximum that you can run the chip without a reduction in the life of the chip. So you shouldn't run your CPU hotter than 71c if you want your chip to last as long as the MTBF, but if you don't care if it lasts more than a couple years, then go for it. Even then though, heat isn't near as damaging to a processor as everyone makes it out to be. The worst I've seen it do is reduce stability.

I've never heard of a chip dying from too much heat. Only from too much voltage.

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Lord Xeb

Go for it if you can get it stable. You will see a major jump in anything cpu intensive.

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slothfish

You could probably sell your chip for upwards of $200 considering the VID and the overclockability of it. Just something to consider...

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octopus13

Thats more than I bought it for

I think i am going to want to keep this a little bit longer or at least until i get my chiller up and running with my water setup and dual 4870x2's. That should make for a nice benchmark.