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Those of you with OcUK OEM 2700K Official OC Results thread!!

Gibbo said:
Why are you putting words into my mouth Bulldog?

Where have I said all 500 chips will do 5GHz?

What I said is its look like **MOST** will do 5GHz.

As it appears your trying to accuse me of saying something else I will say it again it is looking like most will do it.

I also want to add its looking like most will do it on the basis the CPU has good cooling, by this I mean keeping the CPU ideally under 60c with load and certainly no higher than 70c, otherwise heat is certainly going to be a determining factor.

Also motherboards can greatly effect overclock, OcUK has not yet had time to look into which motherboard yields the most stable overclock, the Asrock board boostjunky has seems a good one as does the Asus Maximus though that is expensive. We did test with an Asus Sabertooth and this board caused issues wheras the Maximus did not.

So just to make it clear that as long as your CPU has good cooling along with a decent clocking mainboard and someone who knows whay they are doing I do feel **MOST** of these will do 5GHz with 1.40-1.45v with a very good air or water cooler.

But I have not said all 500 will do 5GHz, if I have said this show me where I've said it and I will ammend it because I don't remember saying as such and if I did it was no doubt more in excitment than actual fact.

Also lastly might I add OcuK are not guaranteeing any kind of overclocks on these CPU's or any other as not all CPU's have the same OC abilities, some clock better than others this is a known fact. However this is a good batch were building systems rated at 4.8GHz which we have to be confident will not fail.

When we get time we may look into researching a 5GHz bundle but such development could take days/weeks and as were experience record breaking sales at the moment all time is on getting systems orders built, tested and orders despatched.
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I'll have to correct you a little bit there Gibbo. I've built about 40 overclocked machines that we run as servers in data centres, all clocked at 4.8-5.1Ghz, based on the Maximus Extreme IV *P67* motherboard with 2600k's in them. Whilst this has been brilliant and I've gotten very high clocks at relatively low volts, I got 2 x Maximus Extreme *Z67* boards to see if they could do any better, and with trying multiple CPU's, RAM etc tried in each of them I couldn't get a stable overclock beyond 4.6Ghz. Something to do with the graphics perhaps?

Long story short - the P67's are amazing overclockers, the Z67's are most definitely NOT.

:eek:
 
DamoTourettes said:
I'll have to correct you a little bit there Gibbo. I've built about 40 overclocked machines that we run as servers in data centres, all clocked at 4.8-5.1Ghz, based on the Maximus Extreme IV *P67* motherboard with 2600k's in them. Whilst this has been brilliant and I've gotten very high clocks at relatively low volts, I got 2 x Maximus Extreme *Z67* boards to see if they could do any better, and with trying multiple CPU's, RAM etc tried in each of them I couldn't get a stable overclock beyond 4.6Ghz. Something to do with the graphics perhaps?

Long story short - the P67's are amazing overclockers, the Z67's are most definitely NOT.

:eek:
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sounds like you have a fake as there is no z67, there is z68 however ;)
 
For those who were following how I was getting on, I've now ordered a customised system from OcUK which is due early next week which comprises of:

Coolermaster HAF-X
OcUK V12 360mm Rad W/C setup
Maximus Extreme Motherboard
i7 2700k @ 5Ghz g'teed
8GB RAM (will upgrade this to 2x 8GB as OCUK don't sell 8GB sticks)
ATi Radeon 6990

Will be selling off my complete system on the bay shortly ;)
 
axer said:
For those who were following how I was getting on, I've now ordered a customised system from OcUK which is due early next week which comprises of:

Coolermaster HAF-X
OcUK V12 360mm Rad W/C setup
Maximus Extreme Motherboard
i7 2700k @ 5Ghz g'teed
8GB RAM (will upgrade this to 2x 8GB as OCUK don't sell 8GB sticks)
ATi Radeon 6990

Will be selling off my complete system on the bay shortly ;)
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Nice one mate, good luck with it.
 
My Z68 board is the worst I ever had experience. I might consider switch to P67 board next time 'Maximus Extreme IV P67'[/QUOTE]

thinking of doing the same wished id got it last week when was on special
 
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alex h said:
My Z68 board is the worst I ever had experience. I might consider switch to P67 board next time 'Maximus Extreme IV P67'
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thinking of doing the same wished id got it last week when was on special[/QUOTE]


I'm not sure if it's the BIOS or what, but the difference between the P67 and the Z68 Maximus Extreme mobo's is phenomenal. I've literally tried multiple different RAM and CPU's, and every time I'm flat out getting even a 4.6 overclock, regardless of even pushing 1.4v vcore through the sucker. On one instance I pulled the same (2600k) chip out and put it into a P67 and ended up with 4.9Ghz @ 1.385v vcore rock solid - so it's definitely not the chip...

Steer clear. The Z68 Maximus Extreme IV sucks the big one and no mistake.
 
Kelt said:
Out of interest, how come you dropped the watercooling?
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Two reasons:
A)- time
B)- patience.

Since having kids I don't really get the time to use my PC as much as I used to mate, them all night gaming sessions are now all but a distant memory - lucky if i get an hour on the weekend nowadays tbh!.

Watercooling is great don't get me wrong - its super cool (performance wise!) and keeps the noise levels down low. I chop and change my system so much these days its all the hassle with emptying the loop, rejigging, then refilling, bleeding etc that just takes up too much of my time.

I love doing it as to be honest I prefer actually 'fiddling' with my PC more than I do using it lol. Just a shame I don't have the time anymore :(

Sold my graphics blocks - the rest is in the MM here ;)
Silver Arrow is due for delivery today so will prob report back with some temps and results over the weekend (If I get chance! lol)
 
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