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Mine is at 4GHz using 1.34v. Little beast of a CPU really. I was going to wait for Ivy Bridge, but might hold out until Haswell now.
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Is now a good time to upgrade my Lynnfield i5 750?
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Im in same boat , though my i5 is stuck at 2.67 ghz , being on an OEM HP indio motherboard that has no bios at all . So overclocking is out of the question without getting another MB .
With that in mind , iv spent so long dithering over sandybridge , im waiting to see how things pan out with IB .
It will be passed down the food chain in my house though as a second or third pc , question is is an i5 750 not overclocked , better or worse than an q6600 at 3,2 ghz , which my daughter uses ?
With that in mind , iv spent so long dithering over sandybridge , im waiting to see how things pan out with IB .
It will be passed down the food chain in my house though as a second or third pc , question is is an i5 750 not overclocked , better or worse than an q6600 at 3,2 ghz , which my daughter uses ?
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Same as this.
Sorry for slight hijack but you've all convinced me to sit tight on my i5 760! To the OP - perhaps a ssd might make your pc experience a little nicer, even if you have to connect it to sata 2, at least when you do upgrade you can just pop it in at its full speed 
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I made the jump from my 760 @4.2Ghz to my 4670k @4.5Ghz and wished i hadn't bothered. The increase is not that great plus now it look's like i have no upgrade path as the Haswell refresh, although still on 1150, looks to be needing a new chipset. The only good thing is that i got excellent prices for my 760 and mobo plus i paid less than £240 for both my 4670k and Asus Z87-A both brand new and sealed.
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Good deal there! You can't complain too much then
What clocks you running at, with what cooler and whats your highest temps?
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What clocks you running at, with what cooler and whats your highest temps?
Cheers
Man of Honour
My 24/7 overclock is 4.5Ghz core, 4.5Ghz cache. Normal gaming temps are in the high 40's/low 50's but that's with high end custom watercooling (spec in siggy) where both rads are mounted in a box on a windowsill sucking cooler air in from outside. Just played Crysis 2 for a couple of hours and my water temp is 19 degrees. 
It will do 4.8Ghz but needs silly volts and temps approach 90 degrees when running Linx. never thought i would ever see temps like that with my cooling setup but Haswell is so hot running.
The best thing i have found with Haswell, apart from running my SSD at full speed now, is the memory overclocking. It was so easy to get all 4 sticks of my Sammy greens running at 2133mhz with tight 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier timings and only 1.5v. No other voltages touched at all!! It was a pig to get it to run at 2000mhz with a lot of fettling on P55.
It will do 4.8Ghz but needs silly volts and temps approach 90 degrees when running Linx. never thought i would ever see temps like that with my cooling setup but Haswell is so hot running.
The best thing i have found with Haswell, apart from running my SSD at full speed now, is the memory overclocking. It was so easy to get all 4 sticks of my Sammy greens running at 2133mhz with tight 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier timings and only 1.5v. No other voltages touched at all!! It was a pig to get it to run at 2000mhz with a lot of fettling on P55.
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I changed from an i7 860 at 3.4GHz to a 4770k at 4.6GHz and the performance increase really isn't noticable. SATA 3 is though. I wouldnt take the plunge yet.
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Sounds like a very nice setup thereMy 24/7 overclock is 4.5Ghz core, 4.5Ghz cache. Normal gaming temps are in the high 40's/low 50's but that's with high end custom watercooling (spec in siggy) where both rads are mounted in a box on a windowsill sucking cooler air in from outside. Just played Crysis 2 for a couple of hours and my water temp is 19 degrees.
It will do 4.8Ghz but needs silly volts and temps approach 90 degrees when running Linx. never thought i would ever see temps like that with my cooling setup but Haswell is so hot running.
The best thing i have found with Haswell, apart from running my SSD at full speed now, is the memory overclocking. It was so easy to get all 4 sticks of my Sammy greens running at 2133mhz with tight 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier timings and only 1.5v. No other voltages touched at all!! It was a pig to get it to run at 2000mhz with a lot of fettling on P55.
I take it you just have the pipes running into your tower some how?
I'd be happy if I could run at 4.4-4.6 when I get mine, If I cant get over 4.2 I'd be a bit dissappointed.
Man of Honour
I have a pair of 6 foot long 15mm copper pipes running down my copmuter rooms back wall and through the interior wall to the landing. They terminate in 15-10mm step downs bored out to 12mm at each end. To the step downs are mounted 7/16" tubing, a short run to the rad box and the other end has a pair of 4 foot runs to the pc. Also near the end of the copper pipes in my room is another box (soundproofed) which holds both pumps (in series), the res and a small psu that powers the pumps and rad fans.