**Official** GIGABYTE 333 Onboard Acceleration P55A Series - P55A-UD6/UD4P/UD3

[Temujin]

That makes sense, Buckeye. I rarely get any retail chips which would be nice on occasion. But, I have also been given some leaky ES chips which a more experienced LN2 friend used to drop some records.

Speaking of leaks, here are a few pics of the P55A-UD6 demo system from Intel's Infernalan up here in Washington state. While I like the stream lined appearance of an integrated liquid cooling systems, you're stuck using it till you move over to something new. The external Koolance Exos 2.5 comes in handy since I can move it over like with this customized Antec P183. Hope we can get one with a black interior chassis for future events. :o



I had the Kingston HyperX 2133MHz Dual Channel at 2225MHz 9-9-9-30 which pushed this 870 in to really hot territory. Coupled with the GTX295, it played everything over 60 frames on a 1920 x 1200 monitor.



I'm going to give this latest BIOS a try for some crazier frequencies. It's SuperPi stable when I push more than 4.3GHz, but 3D is a little sporadic. Some of the Auto settings aren't cutting it. Maybe drop the Uncore a bit today and see what happens.



By the way, PugetSystems.com are currently offering the P183 and P193 cases all customized with windows and integrated Koolance systems. The P183 costs something like $140 to $150 with the window. Good prices.

[Buckeye]

Nice looking setup.

I should give Water Cooling a try and I am getting tired of SS Phase 24/7

[Temujin]

Alright, since this machine is water cooled and can dissipate 1400 watts of heat, it must be pushed. I flashed the system with the latest (GBT USA listed) F5 BIOS which yielded some interesting results. First, the Auto settings were more stable to 4.1GHz, which isn't much more than the F3.

However, the F5 quickly and easily accepted 4.2GHz with manual CPU, PLL, and VTT voltage settings (set just a bit more than where it should be when at this frequency in Auto). The CPU voltage was set to 1.42 volts. CPUZ and a couple utilities confirmed that there's no V-droop at these frequencies.

Here's a screen shot of the nice performance gains. The Single CPU test in Cinebench just broke 6,000.