Is it worth the extra for dominator ram?

Not particularly. My Gskill only has normal heatspreaders and they barely get warm. I used to have Dominator and it was'nt any better than other ram i have had. If anything the higher heatspreaders could cause problems with larger cpu coolers. The Kingston HyperX is good stuff and at a reasonable(ish) price too. I have a kit in my second pc and it has'nt let me down. Compatiability with motherboards seems very good with the Kingston stuff too.

I have settings for 3.8, 4.0 and 4.13Ghz too when you are ready.

Cool as I got some xms2 pc8500 4th for £50

So looks like I am all set

Just got to sell the 6600 and RAM now! Eek it's getting expensive

pastymuncher said:

Not particularly. My Gskill only has normal heatspreaders and they barely get warm. I used to have Dominator and it was'nt any better than other ram i have had. If anything the higher heatspreaders could cause problems with larger cpu coolers. The Kingston HyperX is good stuff and at a reasonable(ish) price too. I have a kit in my second pc and it has'nt let me down. Compatiability with motherboards seems very good with the Kingston stuff too.

I have settings for 3.8, 4.0 and 4.13Ghz too when you are ready.

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Could you post those settings please (4.13GHz def).

You are going to need PC2-8500 ram but here you go.

3.8Ghz.

8.5x448 (3800mhz)
Vcore - 1.2500v
CPU GTL Ref - Auto
CPU PLL - 1.50v
FSB Termination voltage - 1.20v
NB Voltage - 1.20v
SB voltage 1.10v
PCI-e Sata voltage 1.50v (mimimum)

4Ghz

8.5x471 (4000mhz)
Vcore - 1.28750
CPU PLL - 1.56v
FSB termination voltage - 1.26v
NB voltage - 1.26v
SB voltage - 1.10v
PCI-e sata voltage 1.50v

4.13Ghz

8.5x486 (4130mhz)
Vcore - 1.325v
CPU PLL - 1.58v
FSB termination voltage - 1.28v
NB voltage - 1.30v
SB voltage - 1.10v
PCI-e sata voltage 1.50v.

Like i said before, your's may need different settings to mine but these should be a good base to start from. I am very close to getting 4.2Ghz stable as well, but it need's a bit more tweaking yet.

I assume 4Ghz+ is under water?

It's all under water. Priming at 4.2Ghz gives me load temps of 55 degree's. (window mounted rad).

pastymuncher said:

It's all under water. Priming at 4.2Ghz gives me load temps of 55 degree's. (window mounted rad).

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Very nice, will be interesting to see how I get on with the Noctua then. I am hoping for 3.8 under air.

Mikey, you happy with the purchase at the moment? seen any results over the Q6600?

iTek said:

Mikey, you happy with the purchase at the moment? seen any results over the Q6600?

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Haven't got the bits yet, so I'm still on my B3 etc.

V v tempted to order a Corsair 700D this week as I'll have the PC in bits etc.

Even though OCUK ****ed me off with the last 700D order

Got it all installed last night into my Corsair 700D, got a few issues to work through. Hard drive vibration that I didn't have before so going to mount the offending drives in the bottom.

Sorting cables out on the back etc. as I can't put the case side on at the mo.

Got a big difference in core temps, so need to re-check the thermal compound application etc etc.

Finally I have only been able to get to 3.6GHz so far on the chip, so got to look at that tonight too.

Still need to decide whether I want to put my extra Noctua fans in the case.

Temps are about 35C Idle and 54-59 under intel burn test

Think I need to do the HSF again as I've got

38C
36C
30C
38C

across the cores clocked at 3.6GHz

doesnt sound too unusual tbh given the speed.

creed said:

doesnt sound too unusual tbh given the speed.

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Will see how the AS5 beds in etc.

just got to decide if I put two extra Noctua fans in the top of the 700D case

Mikey said:

Think I need to do the HSF again as I've got

38C
36C
30C
38C

across the cores clocked at 3.6GHz

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What is the CPU temp?(not core) try HWmonitor to find that out.