Holy Moly GIGABYTE miniITX H55N-USB3 rocking d i5 655K@4.9GHz 3DMARK06 on air cooling

[dinos22]

When news first surfaced of this board i thought...hmmm something i need for the multimedia machine.....i better give it a crack. Next thing you know guys are saying i should overclock it etc so why not

I sat down putting it all together and MSN lights up with youngpro going bananas over the board......i'll let him show off the clocking he did with his Core i7 860 later

Suffice to say this little pocket rocket is exactly that. It's dead easy to OC and pushes the new Core i5 655K chip hard. I thought i would crank the voltage and do some 3DMARK06 CPU test runs for a laugh. I started off at 4.2/4.4/4.5/4.6....im thinking wtf this is nuts.......4.7/4.8/4.9 faints. I left it to finish a 32M Superpi as well...didnt tweak obviously as it was single channel on w7, just wanted to see if its stable with pi too

Hardware setup:

• Gigabyte H55N-USB3 mini-ITX (F2 shipping bios)
• Intel Core i5 655K Unlocked CPU
• Intel Core i7 875K Unlocked CPU
• CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus CPU Air Cooler
• Corsair GTX2 Dominator (had clearance issues so just used one stick)
• WD 600GB SATA3 VelociRaptor
• MSI HAWK 5770 PCIe Graphics Card
• Corsair HX620 PSU
• Windows 7 32bit

5247MHz validation on air EEEEEK

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1232075




4.9GHz 3DMARK06



4.6GHz prime for a couple of hours eek




Core i7 875K Unlocked CPU results

PRIME at 3 hour mark




3DMARK06 at 4.1GHz



32M SuperPi at 4.4Ghz












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[PatRaceTin]

wow great

how about room temp?

[dinos22]

wow great

how about room temp?

room temp 20C

i am just priming at 4.4GHz hitting 69C on one core and 77C one other...thinking the mount aint all great

[dinos22]

bumped it to 4.6GHz and still goingggggggggggggggg

[massman]

Great performance/cm² ratio!

[dinos22]

hahah good one
i get excited and you knock it down

[massman]

I wonder ...

Since the DIMM slots are closer to the CPU socket, is the default (or maybe manually adjusted) RTL lower than on a normal size board?

[dinos22]

watch out for James' writeup
he's done some interesting RAM testing actually

[dinos22]

I've started priming about 2.5 hours ago with 4.4GHz bumped it to 4.5 at hour mark and 4.6GHz at 1.5hour mark

I just bumped it to 4.7GHz and it's still going

[OhNoes!]

That's nuts! Has this board been released yet?

[dinos22]

should be coming out in the next coupe of weeks

[SimpleTECH]

Gigabyte made a mini-ITX board? OMG!

[dinos22]

hahha

i was pushing this MSI Hawk 5770 last night....really nice little card and doesnt clock too bad on air cooling either

here are the max clocks i could get out of the setup

[dinos22]

5.2GHz+ validation easy eeeek

im sure if i tried some more i could stick that 5250 i had maybe even 5300 crazy stuff

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1232057

[dinos22]

5247MHz ahhaahaha

i dont want to push more volts .... dont want to kill the chip yet lol


http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1232075

[alpha0ne]

Damn it, looks like my next 'must have' buy but mine will have a far easier life playing back blooorays

Its amazing how good Gigabyte boards are these days but to torture a poor little m-itx like that dinos is just sadistic

[WhiteFireDragon]

i'm amazed that a mini-ITX was capable of this. gigabyte sure raised the bar in this form factor. now only if the performance per area ratio could be projected onto the SR-2 board

[dinos22]

Damn it, looks like my next 'must have' buy but mine will have a far easier life playing back blooorays

Its amazing how good Gigabyte boards are these days but to torture a poor little m-itx like that dinos is just sadistic

oh im not done yet man

second test unlocked 875K

and then if all alive still LN2 with 655K

[stasio]

Dino,try with F3 BIOS.

[kayl]

crazy results man

[r0lfi]

Sick!! going to buy this board as soon as we get it in stock at work :-)

[dinos22]

Dino,try with F3 BIOS.

no need everything works fine

[Etihtsarom]

Ooh yah
Now please be around 100. Probably more like ~140.

[chew*]

Looks fun dino.

I think you need to try out a 5970 in there

[R3DCrocker1]

Have you tried max BCLK on this little board?