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pgi947 · 29 Aug 2011 at 17:52

Personally I'd favour z68 over p67.

The sabertooth is one sexy looking board, but that 'armour' apparently hinders rather than helps it, trapping dust and raising chipset temps.

Jordan97 · 29 Aug 2011 at 19:22

No stick with the Z68 board, there is no point on spending more money on a board with less features.

Crezzlin · 29 Aug 2011 at 23:23

z68 all the way

Banzai_Joe · 30 Aug 2011 at 14:32

Just got a P8Z68-V Pro, one button click overclocked my i7 2600k to 4.7Ghz......very impressed.
Only downside? No frikkin coax SPDIF port for my 4.1 Altec Lansing setup. Can't seem to find a bracket anywhere either. My P6X58D had one onboard

Is there such a thing as an optical > coax SPDIF connector?

Banzai_Joe · 30 Aug 2011 at 14:47

XRAY said:
- Pray tell, where is this magic button? I'll need to remember that...

http://www.******.co.uk/coaxial-to-optical-digital-signal-convertor-29291?c=froogle&u=29291&t=module - Is that what you need? Or is it the wrong way round...

In the AI Suite, you go to the Tools option and it does it for you, and stress tests it, until it fails then it settles at an appropriate setting. Mine settled at 4.7GHz.
Doubtless those with more knowledge could manually tweak more out of theirs...but i am happy with 4.7GHz.

Err...that link didn't work mate, i replaced the ***** with a popular auction site.

pgi947 · 30 Aug 2011 at 17:49

4.7 is quite amazing for a AI suite OC, mine only hit 4.3ghz! Please note if you do the auto OC to check your blck after, it likes to set a higher blck and lower multiplier rather than leave it at 100xmp

Banzai_Joe · 31 Aug 2011 at 08:03

Is that a caution or are you interested in what it sets it at for reference?
I'm using a Corsair H80 to cool the chip, it hovers at around 39°C (on lowest fan setting) on idle at 4.7GHz.
Happy with that.

chillidog · 31 Aug 2011 at 14:20

Banzai_Joe said:
Just got a P8Z68-V Pro, one button click overclocked my i7 2600k to 4.7Ghz......very impressed.
Only downside? No frikkin coax SPDIF port for my 4.1 Altec Lansing setup. Can't seem to find a bracket anywhere either. My P6X58D had one onboard
Is there such a thing as an optical > coax SPDIF connector?

i would second and third that go p8z68-v pro had mine now for around two months now and as it says on the box one click autoclock that's all i did with mine and got 4.6ghz with a 2500k and plus it got some nice features included
money well spent

pgi947 · 31 Aug 2011 at 18:38

Banzai_Joe said:
Is that a caution or are you interested in what it sets it at for reference?
I'm using a Corsair H80 to cool the chip, it hovers at around 39°C (on lowest fan setting) on idle at 4.7GHz.
Happy with that.

A bit of both, ideally the blck should always be at 100 (or there abouts) as its linked to the PCI bus or something, if theres any confusion on it I'm sure someone more clued up than me will help, my auto OC went to 103x43, I manually changed it to 100x44 and now 100x45, I'll take it higher once I have a better cooler (or mod my current one).

fowler002 · 31 Aug 2011 at 19:02

its best to keep the blck 100mhz but you can get away with upto 110mhz from what I've read, higher than that it starts messing with the memory controller, pci etc.

couple mhz over 1000mhz isn't the end of the world and wouldn't see a significant shortage of life of the cpu(warning on the sandy bridge ocuk store pages says higher than 100mhz shortens the life of the cpu).

Steves_pc · 31 Aug 2011 at 22:57

fowler002 said:
its best to keep the blck 100mhz but you can get away with upto 110mhz from what I've read, higher than that it starts messing with the memory controller, pci etc.

couple mhz over 1000mhz isn't the end of the world and wouldn't see a significant shortage of life of the cpu(warning on the sandy bridge ocuk store pages says higher than 100mhz shortens the life of the cpu).

Also got the v-pro and quite happy, wasnt too keen on it jacking up the bclck though so manually oc'd it and still doin 4.6, also found the auto oc put vdimm up to 1.65 & cpu core was up1.39v! got a tad toasty too hence i went for a manual oc and now sits around 50c.

chillidog · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:12

Steves_pc said:
Also got the v-pro and quite happy, wasnt too keen on it jacking up the bclck though so manually oc'd it and still doin 4.6, also found the auto oc put vdimm up to 1.65 & cpu core was up1.39v! got a tad toasty too hence i went for a manual oc and now sits around 50c.

steves what is your settings on manual to get 4.6.if you would like to pass them on