Quote Originally Posted by powergiga08 View Post
Nice !, I am still looking for different brand 1156 maybe like Asrock P55 Pro look promising ? I like their layout board really neat with 3 smart buttons, can use 775 coolers and LED on board is a plus.

I know gigabyte p55m ud3 is good also.

BTW, I already tired of my old P45 775 Gigabyte UD3R.

dg
Theoretically, there is a substantial difference between 4 phase PWM and 8 phase...I'd say the extra $20-30 is worth it for OCing stability. However, the additional $80-100 for 12-24 phase is definitly not

A friend of mine did a nice comparison of a few low end mATX P55 boards recently, you might want to check it out before you buy the ASRock. He also was hoping that the ASRock would be mice and I think he had a slight bias towards it at the beginning, although his results told a much different story
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=618867


I'm sorry to quote my own article here guys, but there really is no point in me writing all this again
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=235289

So, a quick update to my stability testing on the i5 750. After hooking up my basic custom water cooling system...I was able to achieve slightly better results. I was stable for about 15 minutes at 4.45GHz, but impatient as I am, wanted to try to hit 4.5GHz...so I pushed up the slider a knotch and crashed it immediately. Luckly, I got a quick screen here:



Since I knew I was at the edge of Prime95 stability, and I wanted to let it run a bit longer for you diehard stability testing guys...I backed it off a hair and did about 100 minutes at 4.4GHz...not to shabby for a $200 quad



When I got home from work tonight, I found a nice new retail i7 870 waiting for me...thank you Gigabyte Japan While I was hoping for some sweet cherry picked ES or something...what I got was a retail CPU off the shelf...a quick glance at the box showed this thing is a very close relative of the golden i5 I've been playing with



So, out came the 750, and in went the 870....right off that bat, I'm impressed. Stable at 3840MHz WITH ALL STOCK VOLTAGES forced in the BIOS (auto overvolting is normal when Turbo mode is enabled)



A quick run at 4.2GHz shows that this one should also be a pretty decent clocker I'll be putting it under my F1EE in a few days.