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Best "Air" OC w/ E8400 & these MB's:

looper

looper

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Best 12 hour stable "air" OC with E8400 and these MB's:


Asus Formula Maximus II:


Asus P5Q-D or Pro:


Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P:


Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6:



Whichever MB is yours, put in your OC and details...THX









 
I have 4050 mhz on an original Maximus Formula (not a II) Supoosedly the P45 II will go farther, espicaly w/ quads. note this is not an E stepping cpu its a C stepping
 
Thx, Arcane...

At this point I'm really leaning to the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P...the DQ6 is better I think OC'ing quads, but I have an E8400, and don't see myself doing another upgrade to a 775 platform...this will prob be my last upgrade to this rig...I "blew-up" my P5B-D Asus.

Around 4.0 is nice OC without getting crazy going for 4.2-4.4...

May also get the VRaptor 300 gig HD....sweet drive. And will go w/ 8 gig ram, probably this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231166

Think that is good OC'ing ram for this rig?

And because I want to run w/ 8 gig, I have to go w/ Vista64bit...rather just wait for Windows7, but who knows how long that will be...
 
Personaly I stick w/ Asus or DFI boards myself, Gigabyte is not a bad choice, just not my personal pref. Its harder to Overclock w/ 4 dimms, It puts alot more stress on the chipset so I would make sure whatever board you end up getting has good NB / chipset cooling. The Maximus II or DQ6 are prolly a waste unless your going w/ a quad or really pushing for > 4ghz, the P5Q would probably be my choice of the boards you listed. Really any P45 chipset board w/ good NB cooling and the features your looking for isn't a bad choice. If budget isn't really a concern then by all means go w/ the Maximus II or DQ6 otherwise stick w/ the P5Q
 
I would like to try for about 4.0 OC on the E8400 w/ Xigmatek S1283 cooler. Will only run one vid card, the one in my "sig", or a GTX280 if I can afford it... no crossfire or SLI...also, getting a WD-VRaptor 300gig HD...w/ Vista64bit...hate to get that, but Win7 prob won't be here 'til end of '09 or early 2010, right?

So, my rig w/ 4 gig of ram will be more stable OC'd than w/ 8 gig ram...

What kind of specialized cooling could I get for the NB chipset? Not familiar w/ any cooling solutions there...
 
You'll get pretty much the same OC with any of those boards. They're all going to be within 50mHz of each other probably. Just pick the one with the right features and the right price for you
 
Also, the raptor drive really isn't necessary. You can spend ~$70 on a WD caviar black edition 640gb and have a drive thats 90% as fast while having more than double the storage at a MUCH lower price.

As for the ram, you will be able to clock your processor to 4800mHz before the ram even starts to overclock, so you're good there. You shouldn't need to worry too much about NB stability, I had my rig running stable at 3.9 in the past with 4 1066mHz DIMM's at only 1.3 NB volts. I'd be sure to get one of the motherboards that has a heatpipe linking the NB cooler with the mosfet cooler though, to draw the extra heat away. You shouldn't need any special cooling on top of that if you have a few good case fans

Why do you say you'd hate to get Vista 64?



 
If the board you get already has good NB / chipset cooling like heatpipes you just need decent case airflow, Espicaly if you using the stock cooling on you Video card that exausts air out the back of the case you prob. won't have an issue.

But if you have a setup like me w/ a 120mm fan and an AC S1 blowing all the video cards heat towards the chipset Even Heatpipes might not be enough w/out extra active cooling, I use an Antec Spot cool over the Memory and chipset to help keep it cool, drops about 6C off temps compared to not having it. Thermalright makes good chipset coolers the HHR series...(if you want after market chipset cooling just get the one that will fit your board)

Vista 64 is fine w/ the hardware your going with (I dual boot), and You can do 2 x 2 GB np w/ most boards but some have trouble with all 4 dimms and it can in some cases limit your max overclock. It just puts more stress on things.

As you currently only have ddr 800 memory based on your sig that limits you to 400 mhz on the bus speed you need to hit 450 mhz or ddr 2 900 to get 4.05 ghz on the E8400, with how cheap memory is atm thats not to hard. You just need to get DDR 2 1000 or 1066 to be safe and not limit your overclock w/ 1:1 fsb/mem raitos.

Nothing is wrong w/ the 300GB raptor, but the WD 640GB back drive does have better price performance and is still damn fast.

Hopefuly this helps 🙂
 
Not that I have any gripes about Vista...just that will very possibly have to go to Win7 within a year or so. But need 64bit to run 4 gig of mem or more now...

Other than the ram issue, I've been fine w/ XP Pro on that below "sig" rig.

So, the VRaptor gives you only about @ 10% better performance over the WD "Black" as my new primary drive? That install of Xp and all my apps and files on the original HD will need to get formatted/re-installed because of new MB, correct? I'd like to run a dual-boot system...XP32 and Vista64 on the new HD...hard to setup? Never done that before...

New rig would be...
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P or DQ6 MB
E8400 cpu... OC to 3.6-4.0
Below vid card, or gtx280 if I have the bucks
New 8 gig of GSkill mem - http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231166
WD "Black" HD as new primary drive, existing HD as backup (do dual-boot on primary)
same PS and case...and 3 new stronger 120x25 case fans(Minebea 4710's)

 
The ram you went with is fine (I use the 1000mhz version it uses PSC/powerchip chips) , yes you'd prolly have to reload windows to get it to work corretly / smoothy. Dual booting is pretty easy, Load Xp first then Vista, make sure you have a seperate HDD or partishion for XP & Vista.

edit: you can google dual booting and it will give you some good guides.

I would go w/ the WD black drive plus the GTX 280 over the raptor and your existing video card.
 
Originally posted by: yh125d
Also, the raptor drive really isn't necessary. You can spend ~$70 on a WD caviar black edition 640gb and have a drive thats 90% as fast while having more than double the storage at a MUCH lower price.
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Where did you find a 640GB Black AAxx? I have only seen the 1 TB model. The current 640's are aaks and are called blue.
 
From what I've read, the Gig DQ6 MB is supposed to be more stable w/ 8 gig ram and OC'ing than the UD3P board.... so I'm leaning that way.... It's a crap-shoot anyway...you don't always know what will happen...
 
Originally posted by: Tweakin
Originally posted by: yh125d
Also, the raptor drive really isn't necessary. You can spend ~$70 on a WD caviar black edition 640gb and have a drive thats 90% as fast while having more than double the storage at a MUCH lower price.
Click to expand...

Where did you find a 640GB Black AAxx? I have only seen the 1 TB model. The current 640's are aaks and are called blue.
Click to expand...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136319

You're looking for AALS or FALS model numbers
 
I don't have the WD black edition drives , I purchased my pair of AAKS drives before they had "blue" or "black" edition drives 🙂 right when the AAKS 320gb platter drives were released.

As yh125d stated "You're looking for AALS or FALS model numbers" KS = 16mb buffer LS = 32mb buffer
 
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