Sandy bridge OC Guide

[sin0822]

yeah, but it sucks short before release... all reviews are written and now it looks like the intel is the best OC board only because they don´t share the info / setting the partners.

@ _mat_

yes its the "Internal PLL voltage override"

Yea man Thanks for all your help! i am sure the companies GB and ASUS are greatful! Thanks for helping out the community, I think all boards even the value boards shoudl have this, idk why Intel didn't tell em. hopfully it can be implemented with a simple BIOS flash.

Too bad its not as easy as puching the CPU PLL voltage, even so changing a setting to enabled is easier! lol

-Aussie- nah you don't need all those phases to power any CPU just more phases helps output very clean voltage. I think after looking at my own power coonsumption numbers only 4-8 phases are needed to power these CPUs, but for OCing it seems the more is ussually better, but you have to look at quality, if the boards price scales then there is somthing good, like Gigabyte and Asus boards even MSi in many cases.

What really scares me is all the reform in China over labor laws, I read that its going to push production cost high and that all manufacturers are hit, we will be seeing a 10% increase across the board it seems. Not that reform is bad, people need to live well too.

[aussie-revhead]

Yea man Thanks for all your help! i am sure the companies GB and ASUS are greatful! Thanks for helping out the community, I think all boards even the value boards shoudl have this, idk why Intel didn't tell em. hopfully it can be implemented with a simple BIOS flash..

Not nice Intel, but the other manufacturers will pick this up very quickly.

Too bad its not as easy as puching the CPU PLL voltage, even so changing a setting to enabled is easier! lol.

So true

-Aussie- nah you don't need all those phases to power any CPU just more phases helps output very clean voltage. I think after looking at my own power coonsumption numbers only 4-8 phases are needed to power these CPUs, but for OCing it seems the more is ussually better, but you have to look at quality, if the boards price scales then there is somthing good, like Gigabyte and Asus boards even MSi in many cases..

The other thing that makes prices scale is all the extra pcies and Im not really worried about that atm, so for me its UD4 or 5 but UD5 has big jump in price due to 3x pcie and Im not sure what the Evo offers over the pro, but the deluxe and higher are 50%+ more cost than a pro so the pro looks like the best value atm.

What really scares me is all the reform in China over labor laws, I read that its going to push production cost high and that all manufacturers are hit, we will be seeing a 10% increase across the board it seems. Not that reform is bad, people need to live well too.

The world has been taking advantage of cheaper labour overseas for a long time at the cost of local jobs, its about time these workers reaped some benefits for their work too.

Do we have a confirmed release date for the K series? I read it may be 1.5 weeks after the others, is this true?

[Smartidiot89]

Nice guide! Although to me Sandy-Bridge clocking seems kinda... dull? Also if it's true that it doesn't scale with cold. Not saying it's bad but this combined with somewhat limited BCLK adjustments doesn't seem to make this a fun overclocking/tweaking platform unless I missed something?

Do we have a confirmed release date for the K series? I read it may be 1.5 weeks after the others, is this true?

I think that s1155 and Sandy-Bridge is to be released during CES which is just in a few days(?) or am I mixing it up with AMD Brazos?

[_mat_]

I think that s1155 and Sandy-Bridge is to be released during CES which is just in a few days(?) or am I mixing it up with AMD Brazos?

The NDA for press was lifted 3 hours ago. But processors are still not allowed to be sold until 9th of january. The Dualcores and some mobiles have to wait until 20th of February.

[massman]

The NDA for press was lifted 3 hours ago. But processors are still not allowed to be sold until 9th of january. The Dualcores and some mobiles have to wait until 20th of February.

Really? The NDA for selling the chips is later than the press NDA

[prava]

What really scares me is all the reform in China over labor laws, I read that its going to push production cost high and that all manufacturers are hit, we will be seeing a 10% increase across the board it seems. Not that reform is bad, people need to live well too.

Dont worry. The moment the companies see that there are cheaper places to go they will move their fabs and thats it.