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Oxide™

Oxide™

Oxide™

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Just purchased my 5 year upgrade - see sig for current system
Could you please tell me if it's ok and put my worries to rest hopefully - I went for best bang for buck and total is £485

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Brummies said:
looks good, just curious why you chose that CPU cooler?
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Read a couple reviews on it and they all seem to say for the price it competes with pricier coolers and even comes with okish thermal paste and a decent fan so a bit of a saving. May not be a well known brand but £25 with good reviews you can't go wrong

I'm not clued up on overclocking so I'm hoping for a 3.7Ghz OC using the auto tuner within the bios
 
A few people have had problems with fixing the AKASA SSD to the case.
I have an Antec 300 case which this SSD mount works fine, but people with other cases have to drill holes into it.
The thermal pad is crap. You can't slide an SSD drive over it.
 
The autotune utility on that board is good, up to a point. Set it to try and performance tune, and it tends to go a little overboard with voltages. It had my cpu set to 1.45v for 3.8ghz, despite me having 4ghz stable at 1.25 myself.
That, and it bumped my QPI volts up to 1.7v, which I read is incredibly high. Again, stable at 1.35v.

P55 chipset boards are, in honesty, very easy to overclock IMO. You dont have any northbridge volts/speeds to worry about, so its just that bit simpler
 
thanks guys I'm very excited now to receive the bits tomorrow, dont suppose you have some OC settings for me to use? I dont want to auto tune it and it sets the voltages too high (I won't know they are too high and just believe what it sets them too)

My mate has the SSD mount and says after you peel off the sponge layer, it reveals the thermal pad and the SSD slides right in with no issues
 
I dont have an i5 myself, but an i7 860. Not hugely different so this should at least slightly help.

Now, without going into my BIOS, the settings I'm sure about are:

Base clock - 184mhz
Multi - x22
QPI - 2938mhz
Core voltage - 1.25V
QPI voltage - 1.35V
DRAM voltage - 1.65V
DRAM ratio - 2:8

Off the top of my head, thats all I have. I'll check properly later when I'm at home

Your ram will most likely be happy a higher ratio, with it being 1600mhz and mine being 1333mhz. In honesty I was surprised my cheap RAM is perfectly stable at 1470mhz :p
 
Oxide™ said:
Read a couple reviews on it and they all seem to say for the price it competes with pricier coolers and even comes with okish thermal paste and a decent fan so a bit of a saving. May not be a well known brand but £25 with good reviews you can't go wrong

I'm not clued up on overclocking so I'm hoping for a 3.7Ghz OC using the auto tuner within the bios
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Yeah should be able too, good choice just unusual because a lot of people usually go for H50 etc... nice to be different ;)
 
well pc all setup and rocking :)

things are much snappier

I did the XMP OC within the bios which put the DRAM frequency to ~1537Mhz 8 8 8 24 2N and cpu is now 3.66Ghz with bios showing it's temperature at around 50 - is that within safe limits?
 
Load or idle? For reference, my 860 is at 40 idle and 65-70 load. The nehalem chips are safe up to roughly 95 degrees, but ideally you dont want to be much over 70 under full stress
 
Thanks, for some reason I thought 50 was the limit under stress

not checked under load yet - its around 48 just looking at the temps within the bios

got evga precision OC the gcard but it doesn't monitor cpu temps (used to have rivatuner but cba faffing setting up it's fan profiles any longer)

What's a good, non resource intensive program that monitors temps? I'm aware of speedfan, sisoft sandra?
 
realtemp, I use

Linky

Also, I let Asus Q-fan do all the cpu fan controls, I just have it set to the normal profile and it works fine for me. Hottest I've seen was 72 degrees running Intel Burn Test. Prime maxes at about 70 and games rarely push it past the early 60's
 
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I would have changed the ram to either Corsair or OCZ incase something goes wrong since they have much better rma support and turn around then g.skill, but aslong as they work looks like a good setup.
 
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