SB watercooled overclock results?

[faxon]

I'm still running the system in my sig, and with time and constant 24/7 load my motherboard is starting to degrade. I'm looking to see what sandy has to offer before it becomes a problem and wanna know what you lot are getting overclock wise with these chips under water cooling. Also, is it worth buying the 2600K vs the 2500K if one plans to water cool? How big of a difference in overclock will you get if you buy the higher model, if any? If the difference is at least 200MHz i might consider it, but that $100 could get me an extra 8gb of ram, so the sooner i know the sooner i can start planning my build.

on an unrelated note, what does everyone think of the new UEFI interfaces being released? any stability issues to note?

 

[Diogenes2]

They should overclock the same. There is a trade off in features. No HT for the 2500 for one. 2600 has more cache for another..

Depends on applications where one might outperform the other ..

 

[Castiel]

Most of these chips will reach there "Wall" around 4.6-4.8ghz on air

 

[nyker96]

I don't know who has the SB here and using water, but initial reviews show that this particular line of cpu isn't sensitive to cooling as previous generations does. like Castiel said they seem to top out at about 4,8 no matter what type of cooling you are using. HardOCP actually did some experiements that shows worsening results when temp feel below 20C or so. So in fact it does best in luke warm conditions not cold. so doubt water will buy you very much.

As for speed comparing to your q9xxx@4,2 I'd think it's on par to PII x4, sandy beats it anywhere from 25-50+% depending on task (same base clock), you should check anandtech reviews etc to determine if your usage pattern will benefit from an upgrade. But to be honest, a q9xxx@4,2 is quite capable, you can probably drag it out to Ivy and 6/8 cores variants for a real upgrade, unless your current needs already exceeded what you have.

 

[faxon]

I don't know who has the SB here and using water, but initial reviews show that this particular line of cpu isn't sensitive to cooling as previous generations does. like Castiel said they seem to top out at about 4,8 no matter what type of cooling you are using. HardOCP actually did some experiements that shows worsening results when temp feel below 20C or so. So in fact it does best in luke warm conditions not cold. so doubt water will buy you very much.

As for speed comparing to your q9xxx@4,2 I'd think it's on par to PII x4, sandy beats it anywhere from 25-50+% depending on task (same base clock), you should check anandtech reviews etc to determine if your usage pattern will benefit from an upgrade. But to be honest, a q9xxx@4,2 is quite capable, you can probably drag it out to Ivy and 6/8 cores variants for a real upgrade, unless your current needs already exceeded what you have.

you missed the part where my board is slowly dying , i have a HORRIBLE track record with keeping boards working for a long time, and it's already started showing early symptoms of board death. as it is, it hangs about once every other week randomly (i have 2 roughly identical systems so i swapped the boards and then that system hung), it wont actually reboot at all, you have to turn it off and bring it back again, and my OC has degrade to 4GHz on this board vs my other UD3P which will still do 4.2. I'd have no problem dragging it out longer, but that upgrade itch is starting to get me anyway, and i think by the time i make up my mind on what to do it will be spring break for my college and ill have the time to put down and build something. i plan far in advance on all my builds now so im ready when i want to jump on it