I has Sandybridge - Excellent service OCUK

rchads89 said:
But 1.4volts i wouldnt put that into any of my cpu's of intel for every day use and gaming etc.
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depends on the chip. Q6600 will take 1.4 all night long.

Ultimately I don't think anyone has anything to show that running a certain voltage to drastically reduce CPU life. In theory the smaller the fabrication process the lower the voltage you want to run through it but even then its more guesswork than hard fact.

I've love to see a brand new batch of chips set to run at different voltages full load until they pop just to see what happens.
 
Skyrocket said:
where are the 4.5+++ runs of this beasty?
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I think what happens is that people read about these 4.8 - 5.1 speeds but do not fully appreciate whats involved to get that high be it high volts extreme cooling BIOS tricks and golden chips.

Your average Joes chip can realistically expect around 4.3-4.4 and the OP seems to have reached 4.2 maybe there is a reason he is not willing to go higher.
 
dave_beast said:
For some reason, whatever I set the vcore in the bios to, it stays at stock volts. So i've been running 4.2ghz on stock volts!!!

Any pointers with MSI bios's??
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Hey 4.2 on stock volts is not bad, maybe only a slight increase to get you to 4.3-4.4. I also now have Sandybridge http://img152.imageshack.us/i/dsc00205hx.jpg/

but I do not have my RAM or Case as they have not arrived yet still once I have the RAM I will be able to assemble outside the case

EDIT: The ram was in my letter box doh! http://img254.imageshack.us/i/dsc00207w.jpg/ may build outside the case tommorow!
 
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Nice one Dave.

Can you give us any idea of the temps you are running?

I also have a CM Hyper 212+ and was wondering if it was worth upgrading to something bigger for Sandy Bridge?

Thanks.
 
Just went into the bios and did the live update via the net, said it was doing this and that and rebooted, then when setting vcore it stuck!

Ram is at 1600mhz atm, aiming for 4.8ghz so will touch it when i've achieved that lol. In the bios it's pretty simple and lets you choose 800/1066/1333/1600/1800/2000 etc etc as it's not linked with FSB or anything olde worlde like that ;)

CM Hyper 212+ is good, idle temps at 4.5ghz are 31ºc with 50% fan and max I saw is 68ºc when running prime95 small fft for 20 mins, fan had ramped up to 67.5%

New benches

Cinebench 11.5 @ 4.5ghz

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SuperPI 1m


0min 08.330s

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SuperPI 32m

7min 47.096s

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dave_beast said:
Just went into the bios and did the live update via the net, said it was doing this and that and rebooted, then when setting vcore it stuck!
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Very interesting, download and flash from within the BIOS. The 21st Century has finally found the BIOS!

dave_beast said:
Ram is at 1600mhz atm, aiming for 4.8ghz so will touch it when i've achieved that lol. In the bios it's pretty simple and lets you choose 800/1066/1333/1600/1800/2000 etc etc as it's not linked with FSB or anything olde worlde like that ;)
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Much better.
 
very close to what i was going to get for my dad :D
you might be able to squeeze more stability out with 100fsb, and higher multiplier. these chips remind me of the orginal athlon and durons :D
 
Ok, jelousy is setting in, I was going to hold of ordering any more after my new Grfx card but now I caving and and order will be placed Sunday :rolleyes:
 
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