OC 4 GHz bundle questions

[byron_hinson]

Thinking of buying the overclocked bundle and just had a few questions about it. I already have a BFG GTX 295 - how good will it be with this setup over say my current Q6600 which is at 3.0ghz.

Does the motherboard allow SLI for nvidia cards?

How good is the performance in general!

 

[BigBruiserAl]

For gaming i doubt you notice anything major maybe a few FPS, yes you can sli the board and inn general x58 & i7 are exellent

 

[rick fowler]

well to me i think gaming is much improved esp if you are going to play arma 2 much better than my previous build which was a q6600 and that was at 3.4ghz

 

[rjk]

UD5 is trisli compatible

you can run two 295's in quad sli but one card should be fine for everything

the performance is more noticable in cpu intensive tasks like encoding

but the overclock has the benefit of speedstep and turbo mode meaning it boots at 3.8GHz

goes to 4GHz when under load and drops to 2.4GHz when idle

meaning the voltage changes in accordance to your usage

i designed it to avoid heat saturation on the heatsink and to make sure that it uses juice only when its needed

 

[byron_hinson]

Cheers for the reply - sounds good then - what is the best way to apply the thermal paste when I get it? and is it pretty easy for a novice!

 

[BigBruiserAl]

UD5 is trisli compatible

you can run two 295's in quad sli but one card should be fine for everything

the performance is more noticable in cpu intensive tasks like encoding

but the overclock has the benefit of speedstep and turbo mode meaning it boots at 3.8GHz

goes to 4GHz when under load and drops to 2.4GHz when idle

meaning the voltage changes in accordance to your usage

i designed it to avoid heat saturation on the heatsink and to make sure that it uses juice only when its needed

Mines stable at 4.Ghz will using speedstep help to reduce my electric bill then as the cpu will still be getting the same vcore....or was that a really dumb question?

Cheers for the reply - sounds good then - what is the best way to apply the thermal paste when I get it? and is it pretty easy for a novice!

There is no best way mate, i have used a tiny pea/rice size in the centre to spreading with a credit card and using my finger. More important is the amount IMO. Just remember TIM is used to fill the micro holes is not meant to an layer between the two

 

[BigBruiserAl]

UD5 is trisli compatible

you can run two 295's in quad sli but one card should be fine for everything

the performance is more noticable in cpu intensive tasks like encoding

but the overclock has the benefit of speedstep and turbo mode meaning it boots at 3.8GHz

goes to 4GHz when under load and drops to 2.4GHz when idle

meaning the voltage changes in accordance to your usage

i designed it to avoid heat saturation on the heatsink and to make sure that it uses juice only when its needed

Mines stable at 4.Ghz will using speedstep help to reduce my electric bill then as the cpu will still be getting the same vcore....or was that a really dumb question?

Cheers for the reply - sounds good then - what is the best way to apply the thermal paste when I get it? and is it pretty easy for a novice!

There is no best way mate, i have used a tiny pea/rice size in the centre to spreading with a credit card and using my finger. More important is the amount IMO. Just remember TIM is used to fill the micro holes is not meant to an layer between the two