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***The Official Core i3 Overclocking Thread***

Azza said:
Not 100% sure yet, maybe a 530.
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I'm torn between and 530 and a i5 750

I will be getting an EVGA mobo I think as they have s775 mounting holes so I can just use my old waterloop without faffing changing blocks and stuff.

They do p55 and H55 mobos with s775 holes.

Just need to decide on the chip.
 
maddness said:
damn it this is tempting!

Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - OEM £88.99
what happened to the geil dual channel 4gb 2133 kit? £75?
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Its good to see the OEM 530...looks like this is probably my route now.

Overclockers staff....What about getting some H55 EVGA mobos in?


And that Geil Ram?
 
resinis said:
hello everyone

i just bought a i3 530, an asrock H55m Pro, and 2x2gb gskill (not geil) ripjaw ddr3-2000 memory.

i plan on overlcocking the crap out of this on just an arctic freezer 7! i can post back with results thursday. i didnt see a reason to go with the P55, since this chip has the video you might as well get a H55 motherboard, unless you want to run two video cards someday (i never do!)
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Will be interested to see how that mobo clocks.

I loved Asrock mobo when building systems on the cheap for people. :p

How much was it?


Welcome to the fourms
 
resinis said:
thanks

was $110 (might have been shipping, i cant remember. right now i have my e5200 running at 3.7ghz on the cheapest asrock 775 matx mobo you can buy... it came free with the purchase of the cpu for $100 shipped all that time ago. been running at that speed since i got it, asrock is top notch in my book (long time asus fan too). the board doesnt even support cpu voltage adjustments either, i had to slap conductive paint on the bottom of the cpu to raise the VID just to get it to o/c!

this i3 should be nearly as fast as my o/cd e5200, and once i o/c the i3 i should see a hefty gain in speed. i really bought this stuff to get off the ich7 chipset, its far too outdated for my tastes. im sure later on ill find a 1156 i7 cpu for cheap as well... and if nothing else, ill have really good ddr3 ram out of all this :D
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Dude remove the link to competitor.


You must be from the US?
 
mattyj1085 said:
Just got a i3 530, Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H and OCZ Obsidian 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9

Initial clocking results are looking very promising had a quick play last night and got it to 4Ghz booting on stock volts (didn't have time to test stability but it booted windows fine) and I got 4.4Ghz on 1.32v will do some stability tested tonight and see if I can push anymore

Got it under a H-50-1 so temps are cool 20's idle and max I saw with quick ten min run of IBT was 65c that was when it was clocked to 4.4Ghz @1.32v

Whats max safe voltage I can pump through this little chip?
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Thats very exciting.

If i can have a 530 at 4.5ghz without undue vcore pumping through it and it being on the edge of its life I will be happy.
 
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