Post Your Overclock!

Britton30 said:

This is why we want to have the latest BIOS, to choose UEFI2...without the spooky face.

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That looks pretty cool, Gary. If you don't like it I will swap your board for mine. Mine (2nd one) just arrived and looks good, except for the 2 bent pins in the CPU socket.

essenbe said:

Britton30 said:

This is why we want to have the latest BIOS, to choose UEFI2...without the spooky face.

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That looks pretty cool, Gary. If you don't like it I will swap your board for mine. Mine (2nd one) just arrived and looks good, except for the 2 bent pins in the CPU socket.

Does the i5 come with it?
This is better, but the board is another POS, won't run anything except default settings ASSrock, bah!. Nah it's worse, RAM is 800MHz and it's 1866. Double bah!

Thanks Gene. You know, I've built quite a few computers and have never had a bad motherboard out of the box. Now, 2 in a row. I still think it is Gary's fault. His luck seems to be rubbing off on me.

That face would drive me nuts lol
The second splash screen look good though.

Mines pretty plain jane looking compared to ASUS, AsRock, MSI etc ... but its functional.


I didnt take that screen BTW, just an example as I was to lazy to reboot and get one. But its identical.

essenbe said:

Thanks Gene. You know, I've built quite a few computers and have never had a bad motherboard out of the box. Now, 2 in a row. I still think it is Gary's fault. His luck seems to be rubbing off on me.

Not all of it, I still have some left for me. :)

Wishmaster said:

That face would drive me nuts lol
The second splash screen look good though.

Mines pretty plain jane looking compared to ASUS, AsRock, MSI etc ... but its functional.


I didnt take that screen BTW, just an example as I was to lazy to reboot and get one. But its identical.

Whoever did that was lazy too, they snapped a pic. Yes that face was creepy and too much red.

essenbe said:

Mine (2nd one) just arrived and looks good, except for the 2 bent pins in the CPU socket.

Damn I wonder if it's a refurb

Either way that's poor bloody form

4.5 GHz at reasonable temperatures finally!

I had to give up on the Hyper 612 (see below and attached images) - I could only get comfortably up to 4.3 and I knew it wasn't cooling right and knew why. So I put in my old trusty Hyper 212+, fired it up, and got right up to 4.5 GHz with 72c maximum on IBT. prime 95 in the low 60c. And the Arctic Silver 5 TIM his fresh on the chip and not cured.

The only thing I have configured that is not standard Intel voltages, etc, are the Vcore, the VRM phase is set to optimal, and the low power C states off (but EIST enabled). All the other voltages I took off auto and set so they measured at the "typical" middle of the spread DC voltage per Intel spec. Vcore under load is 1.246v. Pretty decent I think. I think I might back of to 4.4 GHz for 24x7.

So here is the problem I had with the Hyper 612 - see the attached images. It is huge and should cool great if it would make good contact the CPU! As you can see from the photo, unlike the Hyper 212+, you can't screw it in from the CPU side because screws (well they really are bolts) are under the cooling fins, and the screws go right through the motherboard. It is a PITA to install - you need two people. So the bracket s holding the screws accommodate different sockets by allowing the screw to be moved to 3 different idents in the bracket, where the screws are held in place with springs. 1155 is the middle indent. Once the screw is in the indent, it is not supposed to be able to rotate. Problem is, one screw on each of my brackets would rotate. You could feel the nut tightening, then the screw would rotate out of the indent. I could not get it to tighten securely enough. You can see the result by the pattern of the TIM, which was initially spread on the CPU. The fact that I could get it up to 4.3 GHz under 72c IBT is pretty amazing.

Anyhow, rant over. The reason I brought it up is I am not an isolated case with the 612. I found a review at Amazon or someplace from someone with the same issue.

EDIT:
So I have inspected the brackets on the Hyper 612 and I think the problem is that the bracket is slightly bent towards the MB giving the screw room to pop out of its indent as its nut is being tightened (if you look at the picture of the end of the screw, the thread doesn't go all the way up to the screw head). So anyone with a Hyper 612 experiencing these issues, check that your brackets are true.


Cheers!

Wow. That's a prime example of bad contact right there

70-72c under Prime load .. that looks pretty good IMO.

That should mean the most heavy real worl load should probably hit maybe 62C. Which is a really good place to be I think.