Picked up the Microcenter 2500K Asus P8P67 Pro combo with 8gb's of Corsair Vengence ram last week and just rebuilt my system a couple of days ago 
Rebuilding the system was kinda pain in the arse as I'm under water. I decided I'd do some wire sleeving and replace my upper fan with a pair of 120's while I was in there anyways!
My goal is gonna sound funny but it's to get the best overclock while keeping all energy savings functions as well as S3 sleep enabled.
Temps....What temps these babies run very cool. At 5ghz the hottest core hovers just below 70*C
This is what I've gotten to which seems pretty good so far
From this point on I had to follow the guide at the bottom of this post which seems to kill the S3 sleep function. I'm happy with 4.7ghz anyways. Pretty much just wanted to see what my chip was capable of before I invested alot of time in stability testing it. I don't think the voltage jump from 4.7ghz >>> 4.8ghz and beyond is worth the performance gains anyways!
I did try higher....Stable
And higher....Stable
And a little higher....Stable
Sandybridge overclocking is kinda strange and the P8P67 Pro bios is kinda cool but has alot of stuff to mess around with. I didn't have to change much to get to 4.7ghz
Beyond 4.7ghz I had to use the following guide which seemed to do the trick.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578110
Quick photo of the insides
Rebuilding the system was kinda pain in the arse as I'm under water. I decided I'd do some wire sleeving and replace my upper fan with a pair of 120's while I was in there anyways!
My goal is gonna sound funny but it's to get the best overclock while keeping all energy savings functions as well as S3 sleep enabled.
Temps....What temps these babies run very cool. At 5ghz the hottest core hovers just below 70*C
This is what I've gotten to which seems pretty good so far
From this point on I had to follow the guide at the bottom of this post which seems to kill the S3 sleep function. I'm happy with 4.7ghz anyways. Pretty much just wanted to see what my chip was capable of before I invested alot of time in stability testing it. I don't think the voltage jump from 4.7ghz >>> 4.8ghz and beyond is worth the performance gains anyways!
I did try higher....Stable
And higher....Stable
And a little higher....Stable
Sandybridge overclocking is kinda strange and the P8P67 Pro bios is kinda cool but has alot of stuff to mess around with. I didn't have to change much to get to 4.7ghz
Beyond 4.7ghz I had to use the following guide which seemed to do the trick.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578110
Quick photo of the insides
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