Quote:
Originally Posted by zfactor
so none of those were stable at all?? see it seems to me everyone may be feeding me crap... not here but on other forums everyone says with this mobo i should be able to do a stable 450+ on air on a quad no sweat at all.. 24/7.. they claim to be able to run around 3.8-4.0 24/7 with this mobo...
is this crap in your opinion?? i mean i can achieve 3.6 on a quad with nearly any p35 or x38 mobo out there so then spending more money on a so called better board seems piontless does it not?? or is it just me?
i have a freind who runs his q6600 at 3.7 27/7 on a 110$ blood iron?? |
450x what? 450x9? If people are telling you that you will definitely be able to do 450x9 stable, then yes, they are "feeding you crap".
I'll say it again, no overclock is guaranteed, all hardware will give you different results, and if you have an average clocking
CPU, you will get average clocks, regardless of the board that you use.
Quote:
|
i mean i can achieve 3.6 on a quad with nearly any p35 or x38 mobo out there so then spending more money on a so called better board seems piontless does it not?? or is it just me?
|
If that's the case, why not just go and buy a board and have done with it?
The thing that you seem to be missing is that it's not just about the board. Lot's of reviews use hand picked CPUs or engineering samples. We don't, we use retail, off the shelf
CPU's, which is more likely to give similar performance to what you'll see yourself if you put a little time and effort into the board.
To give you an idea, this
CPU used to do around 510FSB when it was new, and now, it is struggling to hit the 470FSB without a generous amount of voltage. I personally haven't had this on an Intel
CPU before, so make of that what you will.
I will have another
CPU to test this week, and will also be testing the phase unit, so still a long way to go with this board.
P.S. Don't forget that I'm using air cooling as well at the moment.
,
Linear Mode
