Has anyone OC'd i7-930 and X58A-UD5?

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Hi folks, I have the above two pieces of kit and I already have the settings for the 4GHz OC. But for me that is a bit overkill and I do not have the cooling to support it.

I was wondering if anybody had the settings for a 3.0GHz as that should be more than enough for me to run BF3 when it is released. I am betting on the temp difference being much lower than the 4GHz OC while still giving a nice little boost for XFire to exploited.
 
What is your current cooler, and what temps do you get at load? 3.0ghz could be a bit of a bottlekneck, depending on which cards your crossfiring. You could run 3.0 ghz on default settings, just by upping the bclk to 137, (22x multi) but its such a tiny increase over stock speed it wont make a vast difference.
 
The megahelims is an excellent cooler, using one in the spec in signature, copes with it with ease, hits the mid 60's in game, mid 70's under prime/intel burn test, well within safe limits for an i7.
 
3.4-3.6 would be fine, but seeing as you have a decent cooler, the settings for 4ghz, why not go for that and enable power saving features such as speedstep. Therefore, the cpu will only ramp up to 4ghz in heavy load tasks, ie gaming.
 
Sorry to keep this thread alive, but I am considering going for a H80 because I have £100 in gift vouchers on Amazon. Will I see much of an improvement over the Megahalem? I see conflicting comparisons on various websites so I am a little confused.
 
I doubt if youll see any major improvement, the all in one water coolers are generally on a par with some of the high end air coolers. It will take up less space though, but thats the only benefit i can see. What fan/s are you currently running on your megahelims?
 
Now that is a thought, I could upgrade all of the fans on the case and I imagine I would have enough cash left over for something later. All I know is the fans in the case are pretty loud and it would be nice to sort that out.
 
Generally, for case fans i dont spend an awful lot, yate loons at a fiver a pop, pretty good fans though for the price. Ill spend a bit extra on quality fans for cpu cooling, hence the akasa vipers. Theese have the advantage of being speed controlled automatically, quiet for web browsing etc, yet theyll speed up under high cpu load.
 
Aye, but I just want to spend the gift voucher on amazon lol... so I might just go ahead and replace the four 120mm's at the same time haha. Gotta thank my employer for that, they gave me the vouchers.

I am currently asking people on another forum if the fan speed controls on the case will control the speed of the fans when put in the case. I don't want to mow you down with my questions because you have been a massive help already and in effect could have saved me a lot of money. I thank you for that, you have been amazing in assisting me. This site needs a kudos system ;)
 
Hi, sorry to raise this old chesnut folks. Does anybody know the settings I need to put into the BIOS for a 3.6GHz OC?

Checked on the fans and the current ones seem too get the same (and sometimes better) performance for simular noise level competitors.
 
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