Bob's Refunded PC Upgrade: No Longer Overshadowing Rain

Thats insanely low voltage for 5Ghz, not unheard of for booting so my only question is does it burn or does it crash? Anyways time to submit to the clubs lol. One only needs a cpu-z verification theyre kinda pussies the other if you dare requires a few passes with some burn test.
 
It crashes in about a minute with low load at >4.9GHz. In its defense, I'm only using the Hyper 212+ with a single fan and no air conditioning. I literally saw Firefox load up the 5ghz validation and it crashed right as it appeared.
Oh, and voltage was about 1.43v for the 4.8-5.0 validations.
 
Bobsama said:
It crashes in about a minute with low load at >4.9GHz. In its defense, I'm only using the Hyper 212+ with a single fan and no air conditioning. I literally saw Firefox load up the 5ghz validation and it crashed right as it appeared.
Oh, and voltage was about 1.43v for the 4.8-5.0 validations.
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Still not too bad man, I hope I can make it around 1.4 for validation 1.35 for a daily speed around 4.7 maybe 4.8. I mean I will settle for 4.5 for daily but anything extra why not lol. Did you go HT off because you had to or just to make the last push easier?
 
RainMotorsports said:
Still not too bad man, I hope I can make it around 1.4 for validation 1.35 for a daily speed around 4.7 maybe 4.8. I mean I will settle for 4.5 for daily but anything extra why not lol. Did you go HT off because you had to or just to make the last push easier?
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As I said it crashes. It won't even boot at 5.0; I had to use EasyTune6 to set the multi from 45 to 50. I can boot at 50 but it won't stay long.

I'm thinking of picking up a Corsair H50 for $40, but I'd rather get a capable cooling setup. Maybe I can try my hand at a small (say, 300W) single-stage.
 
OK so I'm returning the CPU and motherboard to Newegg for a full refund. Gigabyte determined the motherboard was probably faulty and Newegg was willing to pay return shipping and waive the 15% fee. I was quite disappointed by the flakiness and not too impressed with the 2600K. It failed at booting. The refund option makes good business sense. I'm getting back at least $470. My friend wants to buy the RAM for $80. That means I could profit about $30 from just the RAM and another $25 if Newegg forgot the combo discount (and I keep the $25 incentive; I'm not counting on that though).

I'm interested in Zambezi; an FX-8130P (3.8GHz, 8 cores) and AMD 990FX board would be awesome. I'm also considering an X6 1090T BE and lower-end board but I'll decide that when the time comes. This upgrade was disappointing. While 50% faster in 2D, I never got the chance to check the 3D difference. It was underwhelming, even coming from low-end Yorkfield
 
That sucks dude, well look at it this way past 30 days that etron usb 3.0 controller was probably gonna fail you anyways. Lets hope I have better luck.
 
Quite. You have an actual upgrade ahead of you. Had I stayed with my E6300 Wolfdale, I'd probably have kept the i7-2600K and found a new motherboard instead. Right now I'm back up and running with the Q8300 and 2GB DDR2 (I moved the 2x2GB kit to the server; I'm going to put in the 2x512mb kit to my main and hope it works).
 
Why not stick with the P67 chipset? It doesn't seem to have the problems the z68 does and it's damn near the same thing.
 
sixer9682 said:
Why not stick with the P67 chipset? It doesn't seem to have the problems the z68 does and it's damn near the same thing.
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A bad boards a bad board but it did seem to shove him in a different direction instead of fixing it. I cant say ive heard of a single problem with z68 that wasnt a z68 exclusive feature related. Luicds software layer isnt great performance wise thats for sure. Overclocking say between the asus p8p67 and p8z68 seems to be the same and they both have the common sleep resume issues. I know i havent read and experienced everything yet though.

By the time I have my rig together your amd system should be available lol. I'm debating putting my system off by a month and getting my tv/monitor before the end of june. I am currently waiting for some of my parts to actually be available for market purchase and maybe a deal or two to come along.
 
sixer9682 said:
Why not stick with the P67 chipset? It doesn't seem to have the problems the z68 does and it's damn near the same thing.
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Just like Intel CPU's, most of them are the same exact silicon. Everything from H61 to Z68 is the same so unless there's a problem in a specific feature implementation, they'll all have the same issues.
 
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