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[cheesy999]

or the cooling potential of the heatsinks?

thats kind of related to VRM's the chipsets don't really heatup so its only power delivery that causes problems and since they have 95w TDP even thats limited

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Any Gigabyte or Asus board should be fine they all clock nearly the same, heard the ASrock board was pretty good for the price but its not mATX. Heh NdMk2o1o seems to like the ASrock board too but im imagining IC can only fit a mATX board in the case its going into.

Any P67 or Z68 will net you near enough the same OC unless you are going for the extreme, it's not like the old 775 days where there was a big difference in OC potential between low-mid and high-mid range boards.

So any P67/Z68 mATX board will net a damn good OC, now you don't have to focus on the OC potential but rather the other features of the boards you will use

 

[MightyMission]

what kind of bandwidth(maxxmem) figures do you guys see with 2ghz of ram speed?
i guess 2ghz would be the easy eanswer but i mean throughput,what is actually usable

 

[cheesy999]

what kind of bandwidth(maxxmem) figures do you guys see with 2ghz of ram speed?
i guess 2ghz would be the easy eanswer but i mean throughput,what is actually usable

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/memory/2011/01/11/the-best-memory-for-sandy-bridge/3 -as the link says best mem for sandybridge, timings and ghz benchmarked

 

[NdMk2o1o]

what kind of bandwidth(maxxmem) figures do you guys see with 2ghz of ram speed?
i guess 2ghz would be the easy eanswer but i mean throughput,what is actually usable

14.5k, 22.7k, 16.5k read write copy, latency is a schweeeet 37.7ns

dunno for some reason my read/copy seams low, sure they used to read a lot higher

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Cheers for the input guys.

I'm hoping, once Bulldozer is released, that 1155 boards will lower in price & I'll be able to jump on that bandwagon. Kieran is right, I only want mATX (may even look into mITX) as I'll either be getting a Silverstone FT03 or a Fractal Design Arc Mini.

I love my current setup but as I can't push it any further I want something new to play with. Guess I better start saving.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

6990's are hard to find!! going for 2 6970s instead!!!

I still like the look of the synchronized avi's btw

 

[cheesy999]

6990's are hard to find!! going for 2 6970s instead!!!

I still like the look of the synchronized avi's btw

Yeah if only IC would join in...

6970's probably better in the long run as you'll have lower temps = higher overclocks if i'm right

 

[FreedomEclipse]

most places have stopped stocking the 6990 -- they dont have an eta on new stock, and whoever still has them in stock only has one or 2 but sells them at excruciatingly high prices. so high you could be in Amsterdam getting jiggy with the ladies all night for a week or 2 and still have a few quid left for a beer when you get back to the uk.

shadedshu

 

[Bo$$]

anyone know XFX mobo warranty period?

 

[cheesy999]

anyone know XFX mobo warranty period?

whats the chipset?, different for different chipsets

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Yeah if only IC would join in...

Join in with what, Trekkie avatars? Nah, I'm a'ight thanks. I'm a Trekkie, but not to that extent.

 

[cheesy999]

Join in with what, Trekkie avatars? Nah, I'm a'ight thanks. I'm a Trekkie, but not to that extent.

its only till next Friday... (or maybe longer i'm happy with this avatar)

 

[Bo$$]

whats the chipset?, different for different chipsets

Oh right? 750i

 

[cheesy999]

Oh right? 750i

no idea unfortunately, i've found the T&C online

 

[Bo$$]

no idea unfortunately, i've found the T&C online

i saw that but it doesnt tell me anything

 

[cheesy999]

i saw that but it doesnt tell me anything

have you looked at the box?

 

[Bo$$]

nope, i thought it has a 3 year warranty, just wanted to double check before i waste money arguing with them on the phone

 

[cheesy999]

nope, i thought it has a 3 year warranty, just wanted to double check before i waste money arguing with them on the phone

go through the online thing first 60p/min is expensive

 

[FreedomEclipse]

nope, i thought it has a 3 year warranty, just wanted to double check before i waste money arguing with them on the phone

Its times like these that make you wish the 'Chewbacca Defense' really existed.

 

[cheesy999]

Its times like these that make you wish the 'Chewbacca Defense' really existed.

it doesn't?

 

[MightyMission]

i spent hours on my boys computer trying to restore it to some kind of functionality,it took ages to turn on and would be at 100% cpu usage all the time,
after going through all the processes and sub processes and checking all the components,nothing helped.at all.
so i unplug it all and put it under a spotlight to see if theres something i missed,badly inserted component or something?
then i wonder whats been changed and i realised that it was alright till i plugged in a new gpu,hmm the gpu seems fine so maybe its a driver?ati are well known for there quirks in the driver department.
upon plugging it all back in i plug the monitor into the second dvi output for osme abstract reason and presto,cpu usage drops to negligible and the computer is now usable!

how on earth can that make sense?

 

[cheesy999]

how on earth can that make sense?

Its probably the CD drive

 

[MightyMission]

haha
you know,that did pop up in advanced system manager as a possible fault!

i left MSE running overnight to complete a scan of a drive with just a fresh install of xp sp3 etc and it was still running this mornin lol

CPU temps were pegging 63-5 too,yet changing the monitor output dropped it to 35 WTF?!

it kinda makes sense now,must have been a short in the first output.

have you guys got any experience of speedfan? i had to max out the fan speed to keep the cpu cool enough to use,but that throws up some anomalies in a couple of bars too..

 

[cheesy999]

you know,that did pop up in advanced system manager as a possible fault!

one thing my time at tpu has allowed me to learn, is that anything illogical is either a loose cable or a CD drive

Speedfan hasn't worked on any motherboard i've ever owned so...