Best Sandy Motherboard For Overclocking
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There are tons of threads on this already, but you should know the bioses suck at present, especially Asus imo. Each new bios revision seems to improve the mutliplier walls I was hitting on both boards (I've got both an MSI GD65 and Asus P67 Pro).
Depends what your asking aswell... 24/7 stable OC or just hit the best speed for a quick bench?
The GD65 is by far better for a high 24/7 OC (4.6ghz on 1.352v max vcore under load), but the the asus will bench at 5.203ghz (1.47v load). The Asus needs more vcore and over compensates vdroop with LLC on compared to the MSI at same 24/7 4.6ghz clock but the MSI wont boot to windows with a 50x multi no matter what BCLK.
Really depends what you want. For me I find the MSI vastly better for a 24/7 setup hence thats what im keeping. At least with current bios revs this remains true...
Depends what your asking aswell... 24/7 stable OC or just hit the best speed for a quick bench?
The GD65 is by far better for a high 24/7 OC (4.6ghz on 1.352v max vcore under load), but the the asus will bench at 5.203ghz (1.47v load). The Asus needs more vcore and over compensates vdroop with LLC on compared to the MSI at same 24/7 4.6ghz clock but the MSI wont boot to windows with a 50x multi no matter what BCLK.
Really depends what you want. For me I find the MSI vastly better for a 24/7 setup hence thats what im keeping. At least with current bios revs this remains true...
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You have to remember benching is to just show how high you can get, whats most important is what you are going to run your 24/7 pc at.
my msi p67 gd 65 is running 4.7 24/7 @1.32v
^^^obviously a tasty a chip you've got there - but thats another happy MSI GD65 customer for 24/7 OC.
Im sure all the boards arent too far away from each other in OC capability so its likely to come down to a number of other factors that sway the decision. For me, and my requirements, the MSI is king. Just count the number of "Asus P67 issues" threads and you'll see what i mean about the bios issues as im sure thats what the problem is rather than hardware.
Take a look at ASrock - if I was buying now, thats where my money would go, although very happy with MSI i've heard nothing but good things about the ASrock's - like the stability of MSI, OC potential of Asus and clean functional EFI not far off the solid traditional bios interface of the Gigabytes...
Im sure all the boards arent too far away from each other in OC capability so its likely to come down to a number of other factors that sway the decision. For me, and my requirements, the MSI is king. Just count the number of "Asus P67 issues" threads and you'll see what i mean about the bios issues as im sure thats what the problem is rather than hardware.
Take a look at ASrock - if I was buying now, thats where my money would go, although very happy with MSI i've heard nothing but good things about the ASrock's - like the stability of MSI, OC potential of Asus and clean functional EFI not far off the solid traditional bios interface of the Gigabytes...
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something like this?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-152-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906
I had the same question
MSI GD65:
4.6GHz 2500k IBT stable and Prime stable for 10 hours.
Using Vcore of 1.275 in BIOS (1.288 in CPU-Z at idle, 1.328 under full load) but not tried higher multipliers with this yet, I'm pretty sure it'll go further as I was stable at 4.4GHz with stock volts and BIOS v1.4 (now on v1.7).
4.6GHz 2500k IBT stable and Prime stable for 10 hours.
Using Vcore of 1.275 in BIOS (1.288 in CPU-Z at idle, 1.328 under full load) but not tried higher multipliers with this yet, I'm pretty sure it'll go further as I was stable at 4.4GHz with stock volts and BIOS v1.4 (now on v1.7).