i7

[Ya Mother]

thinking about going i7 soon....theres so much choice of mobos...thinking maybe a asus p6t deluxe http://www.guru3d.com/article/asus-p...-motherboard/7 or a gigabyte UD5 http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.p..._motherboard/3 with some patriot ram http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.p..._latency_kit/2
and of course a 920 chip.
Im leaning towards the asus mobo just cos of the colour scheme tbh.
but the ud5 is slightly a better board....your thoughts?

[Lloyd_mcse]

I'd go Asus
But the new Gigabyte boards atleast look good now, i might grab one to test when i get all my i7 bits

[Ya Mother]

Before i even go there i would like to get my q6600 back at 3.6ghz...tried and failed with my new p5q-E mobo....slightly diff bios to my p5k...all i normally do with me p5k is 400x9 and up the voltage to 1.45....no joy with my new mobo....tb and lloyd will probs have same bios as me p5q-e....any thoughts?

[{SAS}TB]

All i do is 400x9 - CPU volts on auto do work - but I set them to 1.44 and I up the RAM to 2.1V (it is rated upto 2.2v)

What can you get out of it ?

Are you adjusting anything else ?

[Ya Mother]

i just done 400x9 at 1.45....and when i reboot it says overclocking failed
anychance of a pic of your changed bios settings....i will just mimick yours. thanks.

[{SAS}TB]

Im at work ATM but I will do later tonight

TRY - When you get OC failed - press F1 to enter BIOS then just hit F10 to save and restart - sometimes that is enough :P

[Ya Mother]

Done that still the same. on my p5k you put 9 in.... but on this mobo it says 0.9.00....is that right?

[{SAS}TB]

Multiplier ? - IIRC its 9 - but i leave @ Auto

[Ya Mother]

yes....so what do you actually do...just change 266 to 400 and up the ram and cpu voltage?

[{SAS}TB]

yep

[Ya Mother]

doesnt work for me....im also getn cpu fan error press f1....can i disable this as i dont have 1?

[{SAS}TB]

buggers - Yes goto monitoring and select "ignore" against the CPU fan

[Ya Mother]

buggers - Yes goto monitoring and select "ignore" against the CPU fan

Wheres monitoring? in bios? Ive just updated the bios to new 2001 to see if that will make a difference.
Also while your on what did you do to get 3.8ghz....wanna bench this rig asap.

[{SAS}TB]

Yep, BIOS, looking at the manual its:

Power => Hardware Monitor => CPU Fan Speed - Ignore

I can get stable at 3.8 on auto or 1.45 (but a bit hit and miss) but also have to ramp the CPU to 1.6V to get stable when doing serious benching :P

[Ya Mother]

Yep, BIOS, looking at the manual its:

Power => Hardware Monitor => CPU Fan Speed - Ignore

I can get stable at 3.8 on auto or 1.45 (but a bit hit and miss) but also have to ramp the CPU to 1.6V to get stable when doing serious benching :P

Done thanks...... cant get 3.6ghz wtf?