Intel Sandy Bridge Thread

[Champman99]

Thanks for those guys. Still a bit undecided between Asus Pro vs Giga UD4 but in the end I went for the Asus based on the link given above. I think I wouldve liked the reassurance of the old blue-screen BIOS on the Gigabyte but I guess I must adjust eventually!

Gone for a 2500K, the and 8GB (of course 4GB is sufficient, but thats what I have at the moment and thats hardly progress!) Corsair 1.5V RAM as well as the Asus Mobo. Total came to around £430, which isnt too bad for brand new tech! (is it?!)

I'll let you know how I get on with the overclock hopefully. Unless I fry it in which case I'll be too distraught to mention it!

Should get on Tuesday if scan are their usual efficient selves.

[planet436]

Thanks for those guys. Still a bit undecided between Asus Pro vs Giga UD4 but in the end I went for the Asus based on the link given above. I think I wouldve liked the reassurance of the old blue-screen BIOS on the Gigabyte but I guess I must adjust eventually!

Gone for a 2500K, the and 8GB (of course 4GB is sufficient, but thats what I have at the moment and thats hardly progress!) Corsair 1.5V RAM as well as the Asus Mobo. Total came to around £430, which isnt too bad for brand new tech! (is it?!)

I'll let you know how I get on with the overclock hopefully. Unless I fry it in which case I'll be too distraught to mention it!

Should get on Tuesday if scan are their usual efficient selves.

Hope you enjoy it . Ordered a Asus Pro, 2500k also with a 6950 and 8GB Mushkin ram. Won't be able to build until the weekend but exciting nonetheless.

[306maxi]

I've ordered myself the following

2500k
Gigabyte P67 UD5
Thermalright Venomous X RT
2x2tb seagates to chuck in my current PC to turn it into a WHS.

Already got a P183 and a CP850 waiting for it all to slot into.

Haven't ordered any ram yet as I'm not sure whether the cpu cooler will stop me from using dominator or vengeance so for the first week or so I'll be running with 2gb of XMS3 from the wifes PC. Will be going for 8gb of Corsair RAM, just not sure if it'll be Dominator, Vengeance or XMS3. Going to jump onto the SSD bandwagon in February or march when the next load of SSD's get released.

Quite looking forward to seeing what the performance increase is from my current PC which is am E8400 at stock clocks on an Asus P5K premium with 4x1gb of DDR2 Dominator and a HD4870 512 which I'll probably replace the next time AMD and NVidia roll out a new generation of GPU's.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

1 failure?

Here is another:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18227516

[Champman99]

This is scary! Might run at stock for a little while until I can read some more about the issues. Was only going to try to hit 4ghz or so anyway!

[Blackmage]

I'm thinking if i should get the 2600K, needs to last me to at 2014?

[Uriel]

OCUK have just announced that they think 1.38v is the maximum safe vCore.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=115

Seems like these things are a bit fragile.

Edit: It will be startlingly good customer service if OCUK stick to this promise...

These are just guidelines we recommend you follow, if you want to push more voltage through your CPU's then just be aware they could die on you. Your warranty is un-affected and we will honor any CPU's that die, we just won't ask questions as to how you killed them.

[Grey M@a]

OCUK have just announced that they think 1.38v is the maximum safe vCore.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=115

Seems like these things are a bit fragile.

Edit: It will be startlingly good customer service if OCUK stick to this promise...

Yeah been watching the threads, think I will stick to the Q6600 a little bit more

Seem's Intel are recommending they run with memory rated at 1.5v too, most people have been running them with 1.6 - 1.7v which they think may also cause an issue.

As with anything though, new chips they will be pushed so the early OC'ers find the issue's or it could genuinely be a bad batch.

[sloaney007]

just ordered the following bits of tech...

Asus P8P67-M PRO, Intel P67 Express
Intel Core i5 2500K Unlocked
1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3
1 x Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz PC3-12800 240pin DIMM
1 x Samsung SH-S223C DVD Writer SATA
Coolermaster CM 690 II Lite, Black
650W Antec TruePower New, Modular

went with the asus in the end after abit of research. just gotta get some fans and a gpu now and im ready for the build. Thanks for all the advice guys.

[Champman99]

I think I've worked up the confidence to try a little overclock, although the stuff arrives tomorrow not sure I'll be able to build.

Just going to try and keep the voltage as low as possible and I had already ordered 1.5V memory so thats one parameter that is controlled.

I'll be quite happy at 4ghz!

[davidcrofter]

With 1.38v I think quite a few poeple are going to be quite a bit short of hitting the 5ghz mark that seemed quite easy according to early reviews ... probably looking @4.5 max now and you can be sure it must be a meaningful problem if OCUK are giving out free advice - seems very strange that they would happily accept any dead chips back??

Maybe they are thinking that they will get a lot more business with that sort of promise and Intel will ask no questions.

[Champman99]

It's here! Don't think I have time to do assembly tonight but I am very excitied!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Doh! Double Ferrets of destiny and teacakes!

Wrong thread!

[Brownz]

If you go to http://ark.intel.com/ you can select the chipset of choice e.g. Q67 / P67 etc and then bring up a list of compatible processors which includes details and pricing etc etc. Useful little site.

[dangel]

It's here! Don't think I have time to do assembly tonight but I am very excitied!

Mine is too - P8P67 deluxe/2600k/8gb - waterblock arrives tomorrow, assembly on monday most likely. Dammit.

[Terbinator]

Mine is too - P8P67 deluxe/2600k/8gb - waterblock arrives tomorrow, assembly on monday most likely. Dammit.

Pictures!