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Nelly said:
Hey coupe69, thanks for sharing the info/pics etc enjoyed reading etc thanks.

Just a couple of questions.

1) Do you get the fan with the actual Scythe Ninja II Rev. B CPU Cooler ?

2) With the fan installed as show in the pics, do you think you could fit 4 sticks of ram in? i.e. could you put 2 sticks in the black slots or does the fan block it, hard to tell if it would or not from the pics.

Cheers anyway.
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Yes you get a scythe 120mm fan with it, although it's not pwm. It does run at a constant 1000 rpm which seems to do the job well and still remains very quiet.

You could fit 4 sticks of the ripjaw in without putting the fan too much higher, but I now wish I'd had gone with the Geil 2133Mhz stuff which doesn't have the silly fins on. That way you'd easily fill all 4 banks, with no problems whatsoever.
 
Nice board but a bit damn pricey for a "budget" Nehalem system IMO. Are such boards really worth the extra over and above the cheaper models?

(Serious question as I'm looking at a P55 system myself and haven't a clue on mobos).
 
P55 isn't really 'budget'. It takes in mainstream to enthusiast. A good p55 system is pretty much as good as any i7920 apart from a handful of applications and benchmarks. If fact, an i7 860 is quicker at stock and uses less power.

It's all swings and roundabouts tbh. Depends what you want to do with your system.
 
Hey coupe, nice work dude :)

Any chance you could post those bios settings? Especially interested in cpu settings. vcore and vtt seem to be a tough balancing act on this platform.

Which bios version are you using?
 
bfar said:
Hey coupe, nice work dude :)

Any chance you could post those bios settings? Especially interested in cpu settings. vcore and vtt seem to be a tough balancing act on this platform.

Which bios version are you using?
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Thanks, I'm using the latest A29 bios, have added bios screen pics above for a 4.1GHz prime stable overclock :)
 
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Vertigo1 said:
Nice board but a bit damn pricey for a "budget" Nehalem system IMO. Are such boards really worth the extra over and above the cheaper models?
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After looking around at what everybody on this site seems to be getting, then I think the answer is a resounding no. People seem to be getting to 4GHz as easily on the budget boards such as the Gigabyte UD2 mATX as they are on the more expensive boards. I guess it just depends on what sort of expandability and features you want.

Having said that, this has been by far and away the easiest mainboard to get a good stable overclock that I have ever worked on.
 
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What are the difference in hole centres between s775 and s1156, as looking at the pic the s775 holes are slightly rotated from the s1156 ones, and if you were to turn rotate them square they dont look that far out ? ....
 
Vogon said:
What are the difference in hole centres between s775 and s1156, as looking at the pic the s775 holes are slightly rotated from the s1156 ones, and if you were to turn rotate them square they dont look that far out ? ....
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Not a lot of difference really, if you have something like a noctua or a megahalems, you could quite easily twist it so it was square anyway.
 
New P55 F.T.W A35 BIOS is out:

10/06/2009

The following has been updated in A35:

Improved XMP Support
Adds IDE Config into Profile Saving
Improves VGA Compatibility

Linky
 
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Looking at that, I am thinking with opening up some holes on the backplate and mounting plate, you could probably fit a 775 water block on a 1156 fitting only mobo with very little problem :)
hmmmmm .... ;)
 
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