Vista - Post Your Overclock Results.

You can run with one card and that's all I have at the moment but I got this board so I can buy a second one for SLI and thats what you are really paying for with this board or any Nvidia SLI board.

Either way it's still a great board. As far as the 2Gb's of RAM goes, once you have installed Vista put in the other 2Gb's and your good to go.

If you live in the U.S. Evga have a step up program that runs for the first 90 days, so if you are not happy you can exchange it for the difference on a new board and I think you also get lifetime Warranty on some products....Lucky Bstards

Sorry just noticed you are from the U.K...Oh well

haha no worries, and thanks for that... just one more thing, i often see people's posts sayin stuff about updating the BIOS.. what do the update's do, and how do you get them? do you have to purchase them..

that all of my questions now.. nice one

Yes you should update to the latest bios which you can download from the manufacturer's website free of charge, the update are usually fixes for incompatibility issues and improved performance.

Hope you have all the answers you were looking for.

i do... thanks for that mate..

Hello to all

This is my first post here, and I would like to share my overclock settings

My current settings are:
C2D E8200 2.66GHz running @ 3.73GHz at ~1.385v
4x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066MHz @ 1117MHz
ASUS P5E Motherboard
Scythe Shuriken CPU cooler

My idle temp of processor is 46C, full load temp gets around 65-66C
Entire system idle temp oscilates around 34C, thanks to 2x92mm NoiseBlocker Fans (front running at 1000rpm, back runs at full speed 1700rpm), 1x80mm NoiseBlocker Fan above the processor (running at 1200rpm)
and 1x100mm Scythe Fan (that was taken off the Shuriken cooler, running at 1000rpm) above my GPU
When fully stresses entire system temps goes to ~40-42C (room temp is 22C), so I think that's not too bad Noise getting out of the system is not too loud, gets around 40db when gaming

In a short while I'm going to switch to a bigger cooler, Scythe Andy Samurai Master, so my CPU temp should get a little lower

When I get back from work I'll post some benchmark results of my system

What do you think of my current setup ?

Nicely done sir. Looks pretty good. thats a great OC for the e8200. well done. temps are just about at the Max comfort zone for me. I'd be worried.

you really should get a better cooler, personally the BEST hands down is the Thermalright Ultimate 120 Extreme.. the extreme version is the newer one with 6 heatpipes.. they also have a black edition thats 20 more.. paste of money. get the extreme.. called the TRUE. thats the best. comes with no fans. but you can add some and it's the best cooler out. Next to contend with or beat it is the OCZ Vendetta 2, and the Xigmatek s-1283, then the Tuniq. I'd recommend any of those 4. the OVZ Vendetta actually at stock beats the TRUE, but once you put a fan of your choice, the TRUE is better. plus the open heatpipes of OCZ, and Xig claim to be good, but in high heat, high overclock settings the TRUE also excels. So I'd recommend it. If you can't afford it, the Xig is $39.99, cheaper than the True, also the OCZ Vendetta is 49.99 on Newegg.com and usually has a rebate.

these are your choices. you can't go wrong with either 4. but I personally would not get anything different.. and the true could keep that chip under 38c idle and around 55c load or so is my guess.

Welcome to the Forums, glad to have you. and your welcome to post some benchies all you want.

enjoy ur time here!

Thanks

Yeah, I know it's kind on the max setting. For this model Intel states that it can bare 72C per core, I never reached this temperature. I know my vCore is a little higher than Intel states, but I suppose it shouldn't kill the CPU I replaced the fan on Shuriken cooler with a custom 92mm fan that blows more air, and is quieter then original. In my case there is no room for such big coolers like you propose, that's why I chose Samurai Master Cooler. It should fit in perfectly I will also change the fan on it to a 120mm better one, which will blow more air But I think I've reached OC limit on my CPU because when I try to go further, to 3.85GHz, he needs much more vCore to boot to OS only, more than 1.42V, and it's not stable on that setting at this vCore, so I stay just where I'm right now, I'm satisfied with this result, because it's perfectly stable on this settings (ran a whole night stress prime orthos check)

Here is a good one for you all!!
CPU-Z WTF.jpg

WTF??
Must be a typo.

Must be hot with all that solder dripping out of the case!