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Originally Posted by {core2duo}werd whatever came wiht it lol i have had about an hour with it. i think i know my problem though. my memory is ddr3 1600 @ 1.9v but to keep it under 1.65 i can't go over ddr3 1033 time for new ram i guess.

that is most likely it... mine works perfectly up to 1333...anything higher and it wont even load windows..

btw pictures now or else!!!

 

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Originally Posted by {core2duo}werd it says that 1.55 is the absolute max, and i wouldn't push it that high, but it doe NOT say that 1.375 is the maximum safest voltage. edit maybe you are confused because it says the max vid is 1.375. that is the max stock voltage they will make a chip with, and there is always room above that for overclocking.

I thought 1.45 was the absolute max for hte yorkfields and I ran mine over 100 times at 1.65..

ive already ran the i7 at over 1.52 many times

 

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on the stock cooler when I ran intel burn test the temps shot to 80c and boy did I close it that fast lol with water max was 63c after 5 runs

 

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Originally Posted by Oupavoc your vantage performance score cant be right? I get around that with my setup

why say that and not post your orb compare link? lets see

 

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Originally Posted by bowman Just about 0% difference, as expected. Reviews that test the games at resolutions people actually use show this, while some decide to pointlessly test the games at 640x480 and get multiple hundreds of FPS and big differences - as if it matters. It's not for gaming.. Unless you're like me and your two year old card is actually bottlenecked by your CPU.

I dunno about single gpu setups

but tri sli and other multiple gpu setups see good gains.

no way does a core2dou compare to i7 clock to clock, my core i7 whoops the behind in gaming also say from 3.9 (i7) to the qx9650 at 4.20

 

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I have been playing with some settings and this is what I have so far.

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Originally Posted by gooddog As an example, I haven't seen anyone do a 965 at 4.8G on water.

4.65 and that was before tweaking some things today... I dunno if it will help my benching overclocks but if it helps oh wow

before all I could manage was at 3.8 vcore at 1.325

 

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Originally Posted by 003 I didn't even think about that! I can still use the stock cooler, I will get right on it! I was planning on letting it sit in the box till I got the mounting kit, lol...

just leave the screws on the mobo for the water cooler mount loose and tightening the cpu block once in place will work.

for socket 775 to ghetto rig i7 socker

by the way congrats and sick setup!

 

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not only that but that version of real temp is off, I had it and updated to the 2.90 and my temps read about 6c higher. it was updated for i7. I would have idles of 34-36 c now its 40-41c...

 

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Originally Posted by {core2duo}werd i'm thinking i got a bad mobo no matter what i do, or what multi i set i can't get over 185 bclk... i'm thinking about getting a new one and hoping the new one OCs better.

could be cpu also, mines is stuck at about the same number also. have you searched for newer bios? I know the new f4* for my mobo is giving many people WAY higher overclocks, I am still on f3 though kind of scared of going f4 and not being able to overclock as high anymore and also waiting for more people to confirm it.

 

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lol I noticed that my super pi times for anything over 4.58 got slower.... talked to some guys over at xs and they helped me get 4.6+ faster then 4.58.. To think I have been benching at 4.6+ for 3dmark I wonder how much it affects the scores hmmmm

btw 8 second super pi

 

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with more help from the guys at xs I have gotten some pretty sick stable clocks lately.

passes orthos for 2 hours (long as I tested it)

 

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Originally Posted by Duckydude Does anyone else think that Realtemp (along with any other temp monitor) can't accurately measure i7 temps? My EVGA onboard temp monitor says I'm getting 62 Load, while realtemp says 75. Plus I could feel the air coming from my TRUE and it defiantly wasn't that hot. Even more bogus, Realtemp says my idle is 40 C, no way in hell that is true .

I feel the same way, temps are way way off IMO.

 

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same here

 

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Originally Posted by Duckydude What problems are you having with it? I know all X58 boards have various issues, like most X58 boards do not have the ability to wake from S3 mode when the CPU is heavily overclocked.

Mines at 4.2 works fine... but I still have the tri channel problem lol

 

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Originally Posted by codymackay I don't understand how people are getting 4ghz at such low voltages. For mine to be stable m Vcore has to be atleast 1.4+ and QPi 1.4+.

1. not all chips will overclock the same...
2. dont believe everything you read.. (since I have had setups that would pass a stress test one day but where on such the edge of stability the next day they wont pass it or would only pass it randomly)

It took me opening 4 i7 965s to find one that would boot at under 1.360 vcore over 4 ghz and it turned out this one can do it at 4.3...