Who's waiting to buy a new PC for SoW?

I saw sandy bridge OC'd to 4,9GHz on air. If that costs 300$ extra I don't really care and I'd be interested to see some sources behind that claim.

Intel press release, the new sandybridge will have special UNLOCKED revisions, normal revisions wont OC, locked on chip, intel saw all the 920 OC and realized how much moeny were loosing decided to put a stop to it. but next amd revision will have unlocked cores.. i own ALOT of amd stock right now haha

[Blackdog_kt]

Thanks for the tips so far.

After running CPU-Z it turns out my CPU is a C0/C1 revision, so i can't go that high
The case is not anything spectacular but it's roomy and has space for a couple of extra fans, so i think that i could create some proper air circulation if i wanted to overclock.

The good thing is that even this way, it looks like i can safely get it over 3Ghz without spending too much. I don't think i'd run it as high as 4Ghz even if i had a D0 CPU. We have really hot summers where i live and the PC is in a small room without air-conditioning, if the PC doesn't fry during the summer i will from all the heat build up
I think 3.5Ghz would be good enough for me.

I guess that i could spend 100 Euros on an aftermarket cooler and 1-2 case fans and go for it if SoW happens to give me trouble. On the other hand, i could maybe sell my C0 revision CPU and get a D0 one

ok well in your situation, if you dont want to OC too high i wouldn't spend anything yet.. stock fan will most likely do just fine at the very least to 3.2 maybe you could add one case fan for very cheap probably less than 10 dollars shipped, then you just screw it on and plug it on the asus board where their is 3 or 4 pins and says fan1 or fan2

but i dont see any reason why you cant OC now, i just personally wouldnt want to run a hot case for long periods of time has a small chance to cause a problem, sounds like all you need to do is get OC

heres tools youll want/ need

intelburn
http://downloads.guru3d.com/IntelBur....html#download

core temp
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

CPUZ (already have)

heres where to start
first thing you must know is if anything goes wrong , which is to be expected, you may see blue screen, or may lock up... perfectly normal nothing is harmed, just reboot and the bios will automatically reset stock timings so you can boot again into bios..
hope you know how to get into bios... looking like this

[QUOTE]

heres a resource for you in case you want to learn about your BIOS
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=9

also i need to know what is your ram stock speed? it is likely that even your ram is running slower than it should you often have to go into bios in order to get it to run at the advertised speed

for instance you buy ddr1600 and when you install it its running at 1066 speed, most will never even realize it

once you got the ram speed to me i can tell you what to change (advertised ram speed not actual)

Been happy with the new rig for about a month now:

Antec 1200 case
Gigabyte motherboard: GA-X58A-UD3R GA-X58A-UD3R
12 gigs Corsair RAM
Corsair 1200 psu
i7 980x processor
GTX 480 GPU (just one for now)

I'm surprised how quiet it runs with all those fans - even when it's working hard with the 3D graphics program - sounds like a Harley purring on the freeway at 100 mph.

Been saving up for this for a long time and paid a heavy emotional price when the wife found out I transferred a few thousand dollars to our personal account to pay for it. She hasn't divorced me yet but she doesn't bring meals when I'm online any more either

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by techpowerup

Intel press release, the new sandybridge will have special UNLOCKED revisions, normal revisions wont OC, locked on chip, intel saw all the 920 OC and realized how much moeny were loosing decided to put a stop to it. but next amd revision will have unlocked cores.. i own ALOT of amd stock right now haha

I tried to google for press releases on the subject but could not find anything with info about prices. I found that H67 has locked multipliers for frequency but that's about it. Can you send me a link.. especially if it has more proce details.

Any thoughts on the GPU / CPU split of SOW or are we still on guessing game with no clues from Oleg about that?

Edit: Did the techpowerup guy really get banned or is that just some witty tweak in the profile?

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by whatnot

I tried to google for press releases on the subject but could not find anything with info about prices. I found that H67 has locked multipliers for frequency but that's about it. Can you send me a link.. especially if it has more proce details.

The OC issues with Sandy Bridge seem to be related to the PCI and memory clock being locked to the CPU clock.

In reality very few people overclock.

yep he's banned, I think he posted what some thought was a joke, but no-one was really certain