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***Haswell -E Owners Thread***
- Thread starter Boomstick777
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So far so good
msi SLI plus, 5820, h55i and a 970 ( and super flower 750w psu) with a new 240gb Samsung EVO
Booted up 1st time, installed Wim8 with no issues, rebooted and installed mobo drivers and it actually rebooted again without issue Im actually slightly amazed after the gigabyte boards earlier this month hahaha
1st use of watercooling so going to take it slow to start
msi SLI plus, 5820, h55i and a 970 ( and super flower 750w psu) with a new 240gb Samsung EVO
Booted up 1st time, installed Wim8 with no issues, rebooted and installed mobo drivers and it actually rebooted again without issue Im actually slightly amazed after the gigabyte boards earlier this month hahaha
1st use of watercooling so going to take it slow to start
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I'm literally in the middle of putting together a 5820k + Asus X-99A. Was forced to upgrade due to a leaky radiator which killed my old mobo.
Only problem was while racing to meet the 4pm same day dispatch deadline I bought the OEM CPU so I'm having to wait till Monday for a cooler now
Only problem was while racing to meet the 4pm same day dispatch deadline I bought the OEM CPU so I'm having to wait till Monday for a cooler now
I'm literally in the middle of putting together a 5820k + Asus X-99A. Was forced to upgrade due to a leaky radiator which killed my old mobo.
Only problem was while racing to meet the 4pm same day dispatch deadline I bought the OEM CPU so I'm having to wait till Monday for a cooler now
FYI Intel do not include fan etc in retail chips either anymore ( which I only found out recently)
Hope your new setup works 1st time
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Thanks! I hope so too, having no pc for a week is torture, I've had no distractions from jobs around the house!!
So what do you get with a retail chip nowadays? Only fancy packaging?
CPU and Mobo performing really well today, survived benching and BF4 session @ 4.5Ghz.
24/7 clock is now 4Ghz + XMP 2666mhz. Memory not causing any crashes working really well. Normal volts with +0.075v. Gives 1.229v under full load at 4Ghz and downclocks to 1200mhz / 0.878v when idle. Loving this setup.
24/7 clock is now 4Ghz + XMP 2666mhz. Memory not causing any crashes working really well. Normal volts with +0.075v. Gives 1.229v under full load at 4Ghz and downclocks to 1200mhz / 0.878v when idle. Loving this setup.
I don't see any need to go beyond 4.0Ghz for 24/7 day to day use, gaming / web browsing etc. I like the low temps @ 4.0ghz and very quiet PC. It's so ridiculous fast anyway that I don't see the need for it to be faster
. Only crank it further for benching, up to 4.5Ghz 
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4.0-4.2 very easy OC. With like 3.5cache and 2666 mems thats teh way to go.
Soldato
As above.
Especially good samples. Mine has been doing 4.375 @ 1.19v since launch
Especially good samples. Mine has been doing 4.375 @ 1.19v since launch
Have to fully test admittedly (so I may regret this post later lol) but with my 5820k Im hitting 4GHz without any extra voltage (on water admittedly).
Anyone got any ideas what Ive done - my setup now wont turn on without me using the onboard motherboard power switch, even after re-setting the bios a couple of times it just ignores the chassis switch completely. Use the motherboard switch and it fires up every time.
Anyone got any ideas what Ive done - my setup now wont turn on without me using the onboard motherboard power switch, even after re-setting the bios a couple of times it just ignores the chassis switch completely. Use the motherboard switch and it fires up every time.
Not sure how stable those clocks will be with such low volts though.
To get 100% stability, I use: Normal volts: (+ 0.075v) this gives 1.229v for 4.0Ghz. V ring @ 1.15v.
Benching only: 4.4 Ghz I need 1.35v (+ 0.200v) V ring @ 1.5v and for 4.5Ghz I use 1.4v (+ 0.250v) V ring @ 1.2v, this gives 100% stability.
Mine was working initially, but then it was failing to recognise an SSD as a boot device, reinstalled windows and on first reboot during the reinstall process, it failed to start and was a brick ever since.
How are y'all choosing motherboards for your Hawell-E's? I've read CustomPC (only reviewed a couple of mobos), and had a flick through customer reviews, but still really struggling to choose.
Are the cheapy ones really much worse than the premium ones?
Are the cheapy ones really much worse than the premium ones?
It's just features really that you pay extra for, better power dist, phases, components etc.
e.g. The EVGA X99 Classified doesnt have wifi or bluetooth, for me I dont need them so thats my board of choice when it comes in stock, it will still give a good overclock. Whereas the ROG will be much the same but has a wealth of OC features and has a lot of bells and whistles added. Do you need them ?
Imo, the cheaper ones will have crappy bios's.
I don't need any bells and whistles; I'd just like something really stable, with a good BIOS, and preferably a really quick boot time.
I wish mobo specifications included typical boot times with SSD/HDDs, because although there shouldn't be much difference I've noticed quite a large variety of times with different motherboards over the years.
I wish mobo specifications included typical boot times with SSD/HDDs, because although there shouldn't be much difference I've noticed quite a large variety of times with different motherboards over the years.
On the same chipset? That's surprising...