Author Topic: Re:Sandy Bridge (Read 10525 times)

Clock'd 0Ne · **Reply #75 on:** February 13, 2011, 13:04:21 PM

Re:Sandy Bridge

Reply #75 on: February 13, 2011, 13:04:21 PM

I've had problems with this baord (ASUS IP-35 PRO XE) and keeping my system stable with my memory - at the time it was the fastest available RAM and few boards could take it - there doesn't seem to be settings I can change to keep my memory divided correct vs 333Mhz FSB (1066Mhz) AND crank up the chip, as the multipler only goes up to 9

So I'm giving up on trying to overclock it at all.

Good points there though, Shaun. I was talking about this last night with knighty, SSDs definitely seem to be the biggest noticeable speed improvement you can make in a system now, as aside from Photoshop, sound/video editing and WinRAR who actually does anything demanding/time consuming with their PC really? Games don't need a monster CPU after all. Other than an SSD I can't see me needing to really upgrade for a long time actually. My laptop feels just as powerful even though the numbers would suggest it is slower, I put that all down to these impressive architecture improvements, it's quite funny that my laptop seems to have a more capable graphics card than my main rig, but I chose that one for silence (it's a Sapphire Ultimate heatpipe card).

Consider me a n00b, what's Speedstep?

Shaun · **Reply #76 on:** February 13, 2011, 13:47:07 PM

Re: Re:Sandy Bridge

Reply #76 on: February 13, 2011, 13:47:07 PM

Read about speedstep here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedStep

The board you have was one of the best 35 chipset boards for OC'ing IIRC, the way around the divider issue is to run high enough that the Ram fall back into around the right speed using a slower divider, so instead of running stock speed of 9 x 333, try run it at 8 x400 using the next slower divider so the ram would still run at around 1066, I ran my Wolfdale at 9 x 445 with the ram a bit slower than rated speed because the extra clock speed give more performance than the loss on the Ram, you would more than likely need to increase the chipset voltage a bit as well to get it too that speed.

But yep SSD do make a big difference I was surprised how much of a upgrade it was from raptors in Raid0

Clock'd 0Ne · **Reply #77 on:** February 13, 2011, 14:03:10 PM

Re:Sandy Bridge

Reply #77 on: February 13, 2011, 14:03:10 PM

Now you have explained it like that, it seems completely obvious and I don't know why I didn't think of that before!

Well I might have a go later on and see if I can juice it up a bit more now

Brian_A · **Reply #78 on:** March 04, 2011, 00:03:30 AM

Re:Sandy Bridge

Reply #78 on: March 04, 2011, 00:03:30 AM

Hi guys,Well now the sandybridge b3 motherboards are in stock tomorrow is the day i go to tekheads and get my bits to build,Wish me luck cos i think i need it...

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