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Sweet! How much voltage were you giving it to get there?

Well I've been trying to use the validation tool on CPUz and it won't work- I keep getting this message when I try to validate "probleme de taille fichier" Has anyone else successfully tried it? Is there any other good validation tools? EDIT: OK I got it to work- you have to make sure that...

Speaking of outrageous overclocks, just for a hoot, I thought I'd play around with photoshop- this took me less than five minutes to do- I wonder how many of those awesome overclocks posted out there are done just like this? I think most people are pretty ethical, but the internet's a big...

HAHA- oops, I meant 3.84 The t-line is a long story, but in the end, it's eaier to drain. My r50s were getting pretty warm before I put those ramsinks on- They also stopped the squealing sound from the chipset area. Thanks for the warning about the pump- I didn't know there was a bad...

Better cable routing in this recent pic:

I just finished an evga 680i WC build and I thought I was pretty clever for sticking these heatsinks on the r50s around the CPU, but I see you did it too- and with much sexier ones! It really helps, whah? I also did a top mount, but with the fans inside blowing out. If you haven't already, you...

I compared the two boards (AR, A1) using a couple of C2Ds and didn't find any overclocking or general performance difference between the two versions for the dual-core chips (there definately is for the quad cores, of course). The overclocking improvements I've been finding have just been from...

From all I've gathered, the southbridge on that board and all pure 680i boards (such as striker extreme) is a 590- the 680i refers to the northbridge. EVGA has switched the 590 back to a 570 on the revisions- it's not clear whether they are all like this, but you can tell by looking at the...

An interesting discovery-- For the A1 revisions, they have been replacing the 590 southbridges with 570s- that's the real reason that linkboost is disabled- it's not available on the 570- admittedly a useless feature, and according to EVGA it's the only real difference between the two but it...

I think I realized why I'm having no luck with the e4300 on a 7X multi- is it because of the 800MHx fsb rating of the cpu? Would that would prevent it from going over 400MHz? If so, I'll have to try the e6400 on 8X to find my max again with the new BIOS

Mine has been 450 as well, but I flashed to the new p27 bios yesterday just for the heck of it (evga said that it was just for some quad-core oc improvements), but I have the e4300 in there right now, and I increased my overclock from 3.3 to 3.5- pretty amazing improvement- That's still at 9X so...

Thanks for the fan advice! Is that 3.4 (1.6V) on air or water?

here are the .bin files- i wasn't having any luck with the iso's which are also posted in another sticky there- (I have all the volatges increased, but none over 1.5) I really shouldn't complain about an 80% overclock, but all things equal, I should be able to get closer to the e6400- I'm...

Thanks Rob- I was hoping you'd weigh in- I lost a zero on the fan speed- I meant 1000rpm- Also-i've been flashing bioses using a .bin file and a cd and it's worked fine. I'm thinking that I might just have hit the limit on my cpu- the temps aren't too bad- I'm maxing out at 63C on Orthos- I'm...

Hi- I've been overclocking an e4300 on both the AR and A1 revision of evga's 680i, and the experience has been very similar on both, but with some peculiarities. First of all here's my setup: Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 680i e4300 at 3.2 GHz, 1.45V (also an e6400 that will clock to 3.45...

Wow-- there's a real niche open right now for some company to swoop in with a new board that doesn't have any of these quirks, and supports high fsb and memory speed. It's amazing that selecting a motherboard these days is a matter of deciding which bugs, glitches or foibles you can live with-...

Thread has fizzled but oh well 3dmark 06 10331 This was done with my e6400 at 3.2 GHz- I now run it at 3.4 but unfortunately my copy of 3dmark has since become corrupted and with with very slow dial-up I can't re-download it to try it again. using e6400, 8800gtx, evga680i, ocz gold 800mhz...