whats best OC spec for this.i em XMP with high performance on at 1833htz. Anyone have luck on pushing this thing without puching to hard????
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I bought a 2x8 1600 and could not push it any further than 1866 increasing v and cl, stable but dissapointed with patriot oc, had a 2x4 kingston blue 1600 that could reach 2133 1,65 cl11 or cl12 i dont remember, heatsink in this patriot series is a toy, get a 2x8, its better for OC
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this board is rated to DDR3-2400 so you are fine... I don't know where those other answers are coming from, it will clock correctly for your CPU / Ram combo then you can OC to wherever you want.... these other answers are completely wrong... it won't crash anything... it's completely automatic and works great... jeez
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It worked great for me. And I'm not overclocking. Under heavy load mine goes to 54c.
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GPU clock: 823Mhz Memory:1002Mhz Shader: 1645Mhz. can OC to 924 stable with stock fan. If you want to buy I'll offer it for $90 since I'll be upgrading soon.
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Hi. I've used on 144 mhz with no problem at all. I believe it will work fine at 900 mhz also. Have fun.
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I'm using it at apprx 5.5cfm and it's fine. Could go more but I've never needed to. I run it at 125psi
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Use OC profile 1 at your bios... it will automatically configure to use 2400 MHz Ram speed..
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Mine works great with it and I have overclocked. The board is a beast and I have had nothing but a positive experience with it.
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HI I HAVE THIS BOARD WITH AMD 8350 AT 5GHz ULTRA stable this board is a beast
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Hello, Out of the box CPU runs @ 3.6 with no overclocking... I am very pleased with unit.
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I had a 240 and the upgrade wasn't amazing straight out of the box - if you're lucky and get one that you can unlock, then you're obviously in good shape. Otherwise you won't notice much improvement until you overclock it a bit - luckily there you have a lot of guides on the Internet specifically for the Phenom X2 550. Mine's running comfortably at 3.72 GHz, (1.45v, x15.5 multiplier, CPU up from 200 to 240) - it's on all the time because it's a work/media server, and restarts are only necessary when I'm installing updates (or it crashes playing Far Cry 3). For the price, it was a good stopgap upgrade, but I'm still looking to move to Intel at the middle-to-end of the year.
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Memory becomes a fanboy issue, I've never had ram fail, and have used Corsair, Crucial, Patriot, Mushkin, Kingston ... currently I'm running 4 sticks of Patriot IEM Viper 3 @2133mhz
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i wouldnt suggest OC on stock heatsink. the EVO 212 looks similar to what i got (Arctic Freeze 7 pro), i have my system OC at 4Ghz and in a full tower case i get no more that 55 C during the summer (in oklahoma we have high humidity for the summer), and now with winter set in it stays sub 45 C
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I use it for gaming. It's a great MB, even has some special features like the scout audio. OC is a breeze also.
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It's hard to answer this without more detail on your setup (motherboard, memory, overclocking, etc), but my experience with this chip in a different build is that it's borderline - you may max out cores. If you're thinking about buying this chip now (that is - you *don't* already own it) I'd suggest getting the FX-8320 instead, which only costs a little more, runs cooler, and responds well to overclocking (I've been running both of these chips with Evo 212 coolers at 4.5GHz for several months 24/7 and the FX-6350 runs MUCH hotter).
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The XMP wasn't part of the name, but it's in the description, Intel XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) Support is apparently one of the features of these matched DIMM sets and must allow some custom tweaking unique to Intel control chipsets. My board was the MSI 880GM-E43 and just about everything was adjustable
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I am using the M5A97 and it has no problem with the FX 6100 using hyper X DDR3 1600 rams. You can OC by using the evo utils or advance bios manually. I was able to hit 3.8ghz/4.2/4.5 turbo using stock heatsink and temps were never higher than 39c.