in follow-up to https://teksyndicate.com/forum/other-hardware/power-supply-paradox/144195
Ok after my mobo almost burned down (and still is burning down until I replace it) , I decided to follow up the advice and get a decent motherboard.
though I have been disobidient, as I didn't follow brennan's advice (he would take The M5A99FX Evo).
(...a bit against my will, since I heared bad stuff about asus in a certain RMA topic but...)
Here it is. I mean... jesus... just look at that!
Yeahhh... Its the sabertooth 990fx (r2), sorry for refusing the MSI; But I heared SO MUCH good stuff about it, like infinite wall of pro's.
Yeah, its still in the package. Still at work (got delivered here) And im waiting like someone who had way to many caffeine to install and test this mobo.
I'm going to update this topic with how far I get with a h80i, a 8350, ....
And a case with alot of fans, designed to cool down a burning motherboard with crappy heatsinks and only 4+1 phases. I'm fairly confident I can push some very impressive clocks! I heard this one has 8+1 <3.
Hold on for the updates!
yay! nice choice. best of luck with the oc.
Thank you. I'm still waiting to get to it!
I just installed a H80i its not bad my 8320 at stock under a full stress test was 40c my old 212 evo just wasent cuting it in my hot flat.
Make shure you pick up the corsair link software (thay dont inc it in the box for some reason and its a bit noisey anless you turn the fans down with it.
Now its in quiet my pc is silent.
http://www.corsair.com/us/media/cms/drivers/CorsairLINK2_Installer_v2.3.4816.exe
yes sir, the corsairLINK is a nice piece of software :)
However used for quite the opposite, I'd like to turn the fans UP so I can OC more brutally when I go into performance mode. (Yup, i got noise canceling headphones and I'm not afraid to use them while gaming)
say, is that 40c on stock speeds? what Ghz u at m8?
3.5ghz for the 8320 at stock
Quiet, full stress, 40 degrees. Yup. thats nice indeed.
great build, you're going to get a beast performance!
Thanks! And lets see how the build and performance goes :)
The asus sabertooth has a 8+2 powerphase and digi vrm. with a decent cpu cooler, you wil get 5 GHZ on a FX8350 without much pain , if you know what you are doing ☺
You can even get over 7 GHZ with a boiled ice coone ontop of the cpu, on this board haha :P
If you look at the older topic with the crappy mobo, I already was boiling silicon beneath the phase mosfets :)
So I know what I'm.. uh.. Actually that sounds like I have no idea what I'm doing.
I'll manage.
i think this will get a happy end ☺ haha.
maybe a good idea, to make a topic in the overclocking section. to share your experiance with others. ☺
No, I would have taken the Gigabyte UD5 990FX ;)
Great motherboard, should get you to 4.6 on that H80i before you start melting.
rofl brennan.
The system is up and running. Looking very good! I will post some OC's after some settingsearching and long pi benchmarks :)
in initial tests the cpu started throtteling at stress at 4.6 ghz 1.475V, But I expected this, as I was to lazy to redo the thermal paste from the previous setup.
After finding my suprise "antec formula 7" thermal paste for special occasions, it doesn't throttle anymore at prime95, it even hovers around 49°. considering prime95 a real destroyer, I think its a fine OC.
I'm going to try to get it higher, but I fear I hit a thermal ceiling. What kinda suprised me is that;
- although I have been able to maintain a stable 4.66ghz clock with my older gigabyte motherboard with prime95 w/o throtteling ( tho it was burning down), I can see The raw performance of my 4.6ghz clock on the sabretooth is about 5% higher in benchmarks. I can really see the sabretooth pulling some strings to push out more for less.
- The voltage calibration on this board is amazing. When i say 1.475v with load line calibration, it stays that way. even in prime95. (my gigabyte bord would bounce back and forth even to 1.5v) This seems far more healthier for the CPU.
And ofcourse the board isn't burning down. I'm going to count that as a pro aswell.
current clock is 200,7 x 23 = 4616.1mhz @ 1.475v. What im going to try now is to raise the "HT Ref clock" (200) higher and lower the multiplier. This will generally generate more raw power; my gigabyte motherboard always crashed when i went beyond 203mhz, The sabretooth seems to handle it.
well 250x18,5 worked, but it had the same performance. weird, I thought otherwise.
I went to a stable 202,7x23 = 4662.3mhz, and tweaked the cpu powerphasecontrol & cpu loadline calibration a bit further (I find it wonderfull now those components actually work, at the gigabyte they did not.. at all...)
I can now run the above clock @ 1.464V ... and its not spiking... ever. Im very pleased with this, I think I largened the cpu lifespan ALOT with this!
With the slightly raised reference clock, the memory is now running at a Dual Data Rate of 810mhz, which puts it at 1620mhz. since the voltage of the corsair vengeance hasnt changed I consider that a micro bonus as it seems to be running stable. (they are rated at 1600mhz, but I guess the good reputation of the RAM and mobo is letting me of the hook for changing timings for this small derivation )
with the finetuned phasecontrol & calibration I was able to reach 4.76ghz without throtteling at the prime95 torture test (the reached voltage is 1.476V, up a bump), so I decided to bench that score. But note the cpu was at 55° C with this clock, its really pushing the thermal limits. This clock won't work on high ambient temperatures (when its hot outside).
Yup, thats right. at a certain test (integer native - sisoft sandra) I was able to make a fool of the 3970k at turbo clock. Do note this is just one test (multi media); I didnt managed to do so much damage in other tests (pure arethmic) there I fall behind.
Looks good ☺
i have moved this topic to overclock section on the forum, i think this is more interesting on here
grtz Angel ☺
