Beginner Z68AP-D3 guide for Intel i5 2500k

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Guys could someone help me :(
Every since I got my new cooler yesterday I have been messing with the bios settings.
now it just won't get past the gigabyte screen, I have tried removing the Cmos battery? but it doesn't do anything.
Did I just fry my motherboard and possibly my CPU?
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Edit: it's ok guys, I got it sorted phewww :D

Glad you sorted it. what did you do to fix??
 
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Hi guys

Im just about ready to join the party late,should have mine in the morning. I think there will be a few late comers to the party as this board is so cheap on overclockers now


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What I found with BIOS was that if it does everything you want, keep it it, dont fix what aint broke :)
I only had to flash my BIOS when my new motherboard wouldnt take my new GPU, the other time I did, I nearly/thought I bricked the motherboard :o
 
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What I found with BIOS was that if it does everything you want, keep it it, dont fix what aint broke :)
I only had to flash my BIOS when my new motherboard wouldnt take my new GPU, the other time I did, I nearly/thought I bricked the motherboard :o

Think you might be right,better to be safe than sorry


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iv been playing with my combo today, just managed 4.6ghz, so far prime95 stable, will post my bios setting pics once i confirm this is stable, and what revision of board and bios im using
 
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hmm....it blue screened about 5 mins in prime, im completely stable at 4.5 but any more becomes unstable

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grabbed this before it did
 
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gona take a few pics in a sec of the bios, think iv got it stable now

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will edit this post if the settings work ok


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4.6ghz stable

bios settings for mine

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updated post, temps are approaching 70 when under 100% load, been told upto 80 is fine, coretemp is recording 1.3711v while cpuz reports 1.392v at idle, coretemp does not budge when under load but cpuz reports the voltage to drop to around 1.34v is this normal?
 
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updated post, temps are approaching 70 when under 100% load, been told upto 80 is fine, coretemp is recording 1.3711v while cpuz reports 1.392v at idle, coretemp does not budge when under load but cpuz reports the voltage to drop to around 1.34v is this normal?

If can never remember the difference but that sounds like vdrop or vdroop.
 
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