nicoloco

I am going to steal reply nr 4000 and say that this is one awesome thread!

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Robilar

Its nice to have my thread appreciated so much

Picked up my EVGA 780i this evening. I started a thread for it. Once I get it built, I will post pics of the board and bios shots. I intend to create an overclocking guide for the board similar to this one. Littlratt has graciously consented to assisting me in the process once he gets his board as well.

Stay tuned

nicoloco

Nice! That sounds SO good! I actually ordered my Spirits today through work. Delayed christmas present. I also ordered an additional Sunbeam Reobus and a HR-03 for my 8800GTX. Now I am only wondering if the mosfets will need cooling, as the stock cooling has cooling over them.

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Yes, you will need to replace the mosfet cooling. The Swiftechs are popular for this.
Possible, but not guaranteed that that is the problem.
Sb seems a little high for 3.2, try 1.5 instead of 1.55.
GTXs exhaust hot air into the case also, ensure that you have good airflow.
How high have you gone on vcore? I wouldn't expect vcore to be the issue as you are prime stable. Did you blend test or small fft?

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juanchipms

Robilar now that you are getting the evga 780i i have a question for you. i heard that the asus 780i is coming out the second week of this month do you think that evga will be better than the asus?


also lets see if you can help or someone else.

I OC my q6600 to 3,2 ghz (1422 fsb, 9 multi), vcore 1.3375, 1.2vt=1.3, nb= 1.4, sb 1.55 and vtt 1.55. Ran prime95 25.5 for a couple of hours and stable no erros. i start playing Gears of war and got the vista error Gears of war has stopped working and same with crysis. Now i clear de cmos and left the settings to stock. play the game with no errors. does this mean that my overclock is primestable but not gamestable? any ideas how to fix this?. i also try raising the voltages of the nb and vcore but nothing happen.

Robilar

My understanding of the Asus board is that there were issues with 45nm quads still (after all the asus 780i is essentially a 680i striker with a pci-e 2.0 controller chip). Given that the 680i striker (Which i owned) did not support 45nm quads, I have to wonder if they will have to retool the gtl voltage reference controller or leave it as is. There apparently is a alpha bios that allows the 680i striker to work with 45nm quads but I doubt very much overclocking would be possible.

NCSA got a DFI 680i to overclock a QX9650 to over 4 ghz but at over 1.8 vcore!!!

He indicated that was the only way to offer limited stability.

I would wait and see. The EVGA is a solid board and their 780 will doubtless be fine (more on that once I test it a bit). Asus has always been a favorite of mine so we will have to see what they can come up with. Given their resources, I expect they will resolve it but it may delay the board further.

nuclearjock

Just saw THIS in another forum. I wonder if there is still hope for 45nm quad support on the P5N32-E??

I've still got mine.

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juanchipms

Thanks for you repply Litlratt. I did both blend and ffft for about 2 hours each of them with no errors. I have one thermaltake spirit II on each of the chipsets. But i have to say that the nb even with the active colling still get really hot when i touch it.

About the air to the gtx 8800 i think im ok with that. the temps are idle 53 and load about 75.

I also have set the settings in the bios as it says on the first page of the post.

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Litlratt

And the mosfets?

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Robilar

Bear in mind the striker extreme already worked at stock with the QX 45nm. I don't think overclockers will consider a bios revision that allows us to use a quad at stock only.