My latest system tweaks:)

stulid · 4 Jun 2011 at 19:54

And a quick session of Prime95 saw the cores hitting 50-52 C

RJC · 4 Jun 2011 at 20:02

Is this with the cpu @ 4.2ghz?

I am really tempted to change to SB, sell my AMD or Intel system

stulid · 4 Jun 2011 at 20:16

RJC said:
Is this with the cpu @ 4.2ghz?
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that was at 3.3GHZ.

At 4.6GHZ I get,

The temp was going up and down by around 1 C or so, so leaving prime running longer wouldnt change much.

Admiral Huddy · 4 Jun 2011 at 21:25

Nice read stulid.. good pictures too.. Good link btw for the Asrock. Looks pretty decent.

R088ieS86 · 4 Jun 2011 at 23:37

Nice work Stulid, I was going to post some readings from my Asus P8Z68 for comparison. But.... Um... If u turn OC tuner on in the BIOS the PC goes into a reboot loop. And um.. Enable Lucid and... It blue screens.
This thing really needs a BIOS update asap.

BringTheRain · 4 Jun 2011 at 23:38

Nice work bud

Moothead2 · 4 Jun 2011 at 23:40

I was wondering how much faster your system is going from the Phenom II X4 955 to the i5 after doing the overclocking? I'm doing the same now (Going from a Phenom II X4 940) but my i5 won't be here until Monday

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stulid · 5 Jun 2011 at 00:05

Well its definitely faster, thats without question, playing games is like fitting a better GPU, the faster CPU has unleashed the full potential of the SLI setup.

unfortunately I didnt take any notes of the Phenoms performance, it was running at stock all its life anyways, so I dont have anything to directly compare and show you the difference.

Nogimmix · 5 Jun 2011 at 10:46

Really nice setup mate. You've tempted me in changing my Phenom II X6 (1050t) and move over to Intel.

I run my system on stock so I don't really know if I would get much of a gain going over to the 2500k but due to your thread I've got the urge to upgrade

chippy08 · 5 Jun 2011 at 11:06

You should notice the difference im tempted in this board my self if i can find it for a good price like stulid did.

opethdisciple · 5 Jun 2011 at 11:17

stulid said:
Well overclocking is child's play with this, theres even a pick your own desired speed menu

Does that feature work?

Or you have to do a little more tweaking afterwards?

stulid · 5 Jun 2011 at 11:23

It works, the motherboard is behaving perfectly.

chippy08 · 5 Jun 2011 at 11:41

That was a good price i wonder where from hint hint.

chippy08 · 6 Jun 2011 at 12:38

Hows the board now any problems to report before i order ?

stulid · 6 Jun 2011 at 12:41

As Jamie Oliver would say, its pukka.

Stoner81 · 6 Jun 2011 at 12:52

stulid said:
The Corsair H60/70/80/Antec Kuhler thing has crossed my mind a few times and is still lurking in the back of my mind, but a full custom watercooling kit isnt something that interests me despite the case being huge.

The Kuhler is a great piece of kit m8 in my book, I have the 920 version on my i7 930 @ 4GHz. Temps at idle are about 40 degrees and under load never go higher than 55 degrees.

Stoner81.

chippy08 · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:17

Ordered my board now.

stulid · 6 Jun 2011 at 19:02

chippy08 said:
Ordered my board now.

Good, I have also ordered some bits today.

~Mike~ · 6 Jun 2011 at 19:25

Nice build, can't wait to build mine later this week.

chippy08 · 6 Jun 2011 at 21:02

Mike306 said:
Nice build, can't wait to build mine later this week.

Have you gone for the same board then mike ?