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Ivybridge-E Overclocking

alex_123_fra

alex_123_fra

alex_123_fra

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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.
 
Depends on the memory kit and the user tbh, I'd dare say 8 Pack will be hitting somewhere in the region of DDR28-900 tight, the rest of us will likely be sitting somewhere in the 26-700 region.

The 'max' on your board I believe will just be the highest memory divider not the highest attainable memory speed, chuck it on the 1.25 strap and get raising the base :)
 
Quad Channel DDR3000 is possible. For sure!!

I have not tested this yet but probably, four sticks of PSC or BBSE on LN2 at around C6 2600 or C7 2700 will yield the best perf.
 
Unfortunately apart from a couple of noches on the blk there isn't anything to overclock on this platform.. :( Ah well, I don't think I am even brave enough to overclock a pair of CPUs worth £4K.. ;)
 
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.
 
You need 4 sticks for quad channel.

2666mhz C10 Dominater Plats or 2800 C11 Dominator plats are a great choice. Trident X 2800 C11 are an amazing kit expensive and rare but class!!!
 
4th or 10th it said.These will be unlocked right guys i mean IVY-E should still be a little exciting right? Yes the TIM is rotten and the temps soar but most of you lucky guys have them under water anyways.And the IMC is also improved so with the sort of silicon on most of these expensive cpu's i would be expected 4 channels of 2400mhz C10 at a minimum.And it will show better on benchmarks and in games just like it does from the quad versions.


PS what platform is ZXspectrum on Xeon or something? I really hope these chips have unlocked multi's right up to at least X50.So how come his cannot overclock?
 
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I thought the rumours were that the TIM is gone and these will be 'fluxless solder' contacts? OC's heaven.

The 4820 (4 core) is rumoured (confirmed?) to be a full K variant this time which could produce some very interesting numbers.

One thing for our resident enthusiasts is who would buy the 4820K instead of the 6 core 4930K (the 4960x for epeen only) when for the money its very likely that Haswell 4770K would offer as near to the performance of a 4820K at a much cheaper price point (given cost of memory/motherboard and CPU). Are their applications where the 2011 platform comes into its own?
 
=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
Are their applications where the 2011 platform comes into its own?
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Its for where you need one (or more) of the following 3 things :

- More than 4 cores with good overclocking ability (That's why I'm on X79).

- Huge memory bandwidth with the quad channel.

- More PCI-E lanes for ridiculous multi GPU setups.

All very specialist niches of different types but the platform is undeniably better if you into one of those groups.
 
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