EVGA 750i FTW Overclock Thread

[10acjed]

@ DK ...... in the bios page where clock freq - system voltag etc. is you will see a thing on the bottom to "save" save as profile 1.. Press F10 to save and exit..

Also in Advanced Bios>CPU Feature - Disable Speedstep & C1E

PS: Anyone else notice this board runs real hot? Everest shows 82c.... Ouch... anyone got a marshmellow?

Originally Posted by Microsis

ouch that sucks. What settings were u messing with? I just leave my PCI-E freq stock...

At the time it happened nothing.... I was running fine, then it froze in a game.... so I restored defaults to m cards. and ran OCCT 2hrs no problem.. started running FurMark stability test and bing bang zap.....

[//.DK]

Originally Posted by Microsis

DK, check your PM's...

try changing the "1:1" ratio to synchronous. (that way CPU and RAM will run at same speed)

Thanks! finally something i DIDN'T screw up today haha

Originally Posted by 10acjed

@ DK ...... in the bios page where clock freq - system voltag etc. is you will see a thing on the bottom to "save" save as profile 1.. Press F10 to save and exit..

Also in Advanced Bios>CPU Feature - Disable Speedstep & C1E

PS: Anyone else notice this board runs real hot? Everest shows 82c.... Ouch... anyone got a marshmellow?



At the time it happened nothing.... I was running fine, then it froze in a game.... so I restored defaults to m cards. and ran OCCT 2hrs no problem.. started running FurMark stability test and bing bang zap.....

alright will do, thanks also!

[Tufelhunden]

Originally Posted by 10acjed

What PCIE Freq are you guys setting in bios???
I had read over at evga forms that 125 would help stability..

But

I just fried a vid card...

Im real gun shy at the moment... Wondering if its my PSU.. I dont have a tester, have to pick one up tomorrow...

I was doing some graphics stability testing with FurMark and came in to find my pc shut down... wouldnt power up at all... open the side and smelled the worst thing an enthusiast could smell... I almost cried....

Pics attached of my findings... thats a heatsink from my older 8800GT... and yes that is a piece of the mem it was cooling still stuck to it....The new one I got yesterday is fine..

Just dont wana do it again... I was lucky enough to be able to shell out the $ for a new one, gona see how my 1yr warranty holds up on it since its supposedly covered.

Aww man. Hope that gets fixed. I read somewhere that increasing teh PCIe doesn't do much but can cause damage to the video cards. Hope that gets fixed.

[10acjed]

Hey all...
Here's the vdroop pencil mod fix if anyone interested..

vdroop pn mod fix from evga.forums

Originally Posted by Tufelhunden

Aww man. Hope that gets fixed. I read somewhere that increasing teh PCIe doesn't do much but can cause damage to the video cards. Hope that gets fixed.

Thanks man.. it really sucked
bought another and Im trying to get the 1yr warranty on the burned up one, but not to skeptical on that.....
good thing bestbuy had em on sale this weekend for 179...

just hope the pcie freq was the issue... Im at 100 now, could care less about better performance from setting it higher.. SLI = Better performance

[StarMick]

Im planning to buy this mobo icw 2 8800GT's and a E6850 (Scythe Mugen cooled). Is it possible to OC'ed the components a lot? I want to get my E6850 to the 3,6 ghz (not stable with P35 Neo2 mobo. Now @ 3510mhz)

[10acjed]

Originally Posted by StarMick

Im planning to buy this mobo icw 2 8800GT's and a E6850 (Scythe Mugen cooled). Is it possible to OC'ed the components a lot? I want to get my E6850 to the 3,6 ghz (not stable with P35 Neo2 mobo. Now @ 3510mhz)

really depends on the cpu... if its just the motherboard holding you back then yes this board OC's very well...

I was stuck at 3.2 on my p965-s3 and able to get to 3.4 with this board, could surely do 3.6 but I dont like my volts past 1.5...

Its a very solid SLI board... had 13181 3dmark06 with Q6600 @ 3.24 and 1 8800gt, now have 17190 with 2 8800gt's and Q6600 @ 3.4..

I like it...

[Tufelhunden]

I hit 3DMark06 scores 1000 points higher on this board than on the P5N-D. Now granted this is not a 24/7 overclock just a bench run but all in all not bad.

http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

[nazzzcar]

10acjed,
Have you done any studies on using push/pull with your TRUE 120 versus using just push, I am about to order one today and contemplating the dual fan, although I have two 80mm fans immediately behind the CPU on the chassis.

Nazzzcar

[10acjed]

depends on your front fan doing the push... my secondary is just the one that was originally directly behind it on the case. My front fan is the good one, i got 2-3c drop in load temps by putting it on the true rather than the case, and tried reversing them and it bumped my temps up 5c+ under load, so the push fan is the important one.. My advice is to get a good 120 for push, then a cheapo for the pull, it really just helps out. I also have a 140mm fan on my PSU pulling air up about 1/2" above it.

if your on a tight budget, dont worry about it for now.

[10acjed]

Can we get a collective on motherboard temps?? Im using everest and it says 82c...

Ive heard nvidia chips run hot, but thats nearly 3 times my p965 s3 board??