Thread: Overclocking your 1156 CPU? might want to read this before you do.

This video has made me think twice about MSI being shit :P This post has been edited by nesquick : Today, 04:19 PM

Care to elaborate?

QUOTE (.:Cyb3rGlitch:. @ Nov 7 2009, 05:12 PM) Care to elaborate? Shoddy, buggy, cheapish, tatty, generally of lesser quality... you get my drift. It just seems that every time I encounter someone who has troubles with a motherboard... it's an ASUS. -------------------- Quote By Nesquick: "...maybe just do that, or what SceptreCore said." You heard the man... do what I say. /Whaatisshh

QUOTE (nesquick @ Oct 27 2009, 10:09 PM) QUOTE (Bolter01 @ Oct 27 2009, 08:55 PM) This concerns me quite a bit. I was considering a Socket 1156 for a future build, I would like to OC a bit and that puts me right off. Sure it happened past 4.3 but still gives me the gebbeez. Looks like it will be a Socket 1366 for me. more heat though and higher cost. I haven't really bothered to OC my i7 860 since its...

Saw this the other night on extreme systems. Seems to only be effecting people who are putting 1.5v or more into there CPU. Still abit of a shame about build quality. Interesting enough Most of the boards and CPU's still work fine. Even the Board picture is now running a 860 as apposed to the 750 that was running at 5.4ghz when this happened.

QUOTE (nesquick @ Oct 27 2009, 10:09 PM) I haven't really bothered to OC my i7 860 since its fast enough with turbo mode on. ahem i did read that right right nessie lol!!!! (haha play on words) ...yes, i am easily amused This post has been edited by tunksy : Today, 09:39 PM

QUOTE (.:Cyb3rGlitch:. @ Oct 18 2009, 12:27 AM) You should probably mention why. The 1156 socket has 66% of the power connections compared to the 1366 equivalent, and thus relies heavily on the solid contact of each pin on the CPU socket. Bad contacts means high resistance, which, from what I gather, means the remaining pins draw more power to compensate. The result is a fried CPU when the CPU is pushed too...

asus is pretty decent :/... ANYWAY back onto the artical, it said the some evga ftw boards use it, correct? how would you identify if yours did?

I have a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 and a Core i5 overclocked to 3.0Ghz and its fine.. -------------------- Intel Core i5 750 @ 3.0Ghz Zalman CNPS9900-NT CPU Cooler (28 to 30 Degrees Idle - Maximum 54 Degrees Load) Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 Motherboard G.skill Ripjaws 4Gb DDR3 1333Mhz @ 1500Mhz Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB Cooler Master CM Storm Scout (Modded Clear Side Window) Ikonik "Vulcan" 850w PSU Matrox G450 Graphics Card...

I have owned heaps of Asus boards and have had no serious complaints with them, but, I don't buy cheap mobos....Gigabyte have let me down/given me grief on quite a few occaisions (not only mobos, vid cards), MSI have brought out some reasonable boards, but, they've brought out more than their share of shockers too, same as Abit - I've had some brilliant Abit boards, but just as many have broken my heart. DFI aren't bad...