Ivybridge-E Overclocking

[alex_123_fra]

Hi all, many of the current SB-E owners are considering dropping IB-E chips in their current motherboards when they come out in a month or so.

When transitioning from SB to Ivy, overclockers soon discovered that crap TIM under the lid resulted in some poor temps and limited OC potential. In terms of Ivy-E, provided there has been no cheaping out by Intel, what differences are we expecting to see in terms of IB-E overclocking? The latter chips are also said to have much stronger IMCs. What sort of memory speeds do you think we'll be able to push. I found my system did not like anything above 2400Mhz which actually gave me no performance increase vs slightly tighter 2133MHz. My R4F board I believe is only rated to a max of 2600MHz.

 

[alex_123_fra]

Encouraging to hear that we should at least get much better memory performance.

I am planning to buy a Trident X kit (if I can find any vendor that sells them!) or Dominator Platinums but I really don't know what is best in terms of overclocking potential. Are 2 x 8GB kits any different to OC over 4 x 4 GB? I doubt I need 32 GB for the sorts of tasks I do (sometimes large spreadsheets and games).

This may be wrong, but in my mind I always thought that (large) overclocking was harder to achieve on larger capacity kits.

 

[alex_123_fra]

Thanks 8pack. Any experience with the Dom Plat 2400 C9 kit? Significantly cheaper than 2666 C10 and I imagine should OC to similar levels?