-
One thing that (we) are running into is the same problem we had with the 9950BEs, alot of the cheaper motherboard's power layout has issues with very high vcore and crashes because the mobo's FETs are overheating.
For example no matter how much voltage or clock speed I use anything over 1.55v instantally crashes. Alot of people like myself on cheaper boards are having this issue ie MSI, Biostar and the like.
I have heard some of the DFI's are less prone to this since they use a digital PWM and Asus is generally of high quality, the same can be said of Gigabyte. In either case if you intend to use a tower sink be sure to have some kind of airflow over the power regulation heatsink as that will honestly be the limiting factor, that and heat as these chips do NOT like getting hot (50c+).
Also these chips seem to have the same quirky behavior in Vista64 where they clock significantly lower than their 32bit cousins. I really dont understand why but it has been well documented.
Finally these chips appear to have "ACC" enabled by default so you do not have to have a SB750 to get the higher clocks, so far the average across all motherboards both amd and nvidia alike are hitting in the same range of about 3.5 on the low end and 3.7-3.8 on the upper end with air.
Last edited by Sentential; 01-11-2009 at 09:47 AM.
NZXT Tempest | Corsair 1000W
Creative X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
Intel i7 2500K Corsair H100
PNY GTX 470 SLi (700 / 1400 / 1731 / 950mv)
Asus P8Z68-V Pro
Kingston HyperX PC3-10700 (4x4096MB)(9-9-9-28 @ 1600mhz @ 1.5v)
Heatware: 13-0-0
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
Bookmarks