Thanks to Gigabyte for making my Intel dream came true
First touch with the board, I found the design was very attractive & impressed with the high quality of its’ components.
I absolutely enjoyed the Multiplier/ Bclk buttons which makes overclocking much fun & easier than ever. Playing with those buttons gives me a feeling like driving a sports car & trying to accelerate by shifting up the gear & stepping on the gas pedal
Stability is also found in all aspects in terms of 2D/3D benching on this 1.0 version
This X58-OC version is surely designed & born for overclocking SPEED…
Frankly, I like this board more than Hicookie ! ooooops….
Rig:-
Gigabyte X58A-OC
Intel Gulftown 990X
NV 470
Corsair 1600 C6 2gx2
Silverstone 1500w
GC2 Compound
Eric's Gulftown Killer
Without having to do any hard mod and stuff, just put grease on the board, get set & go!
Here we are…6.94G 6C12T
Crazy old Mad didn’t realize HT was enabled til CPUz validation
With HT disabled @ the right volt. & Temp., 7G was a pc of cake
How far this chip can go ?! Hmm….
wPrime 32m/1024m seems the best 2D benchmarks that 990x can do atm
But PI/Pifast is absolutely benchable from 6.5g to 6.6g for this chip.
PI bug wasn’t so serious than I thought when I get to know the board better
PI1m @ 6.5g single channel with auto uncore was around 6.4s, so did not bother to do any screen shot
Once I’ve found the mounting for the LN2 pot (dunno where they are in my OC room), will do further testings & some heavy duty 3D !
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