November 17, 201114 yr Hey all! So im having loads of problems with the Gigabyte P67A-UD7-B3 board, the last owner did not get over 5.2GHz from 2600K, I bought the board and cpu and tried myself, same, sold the cpu and bought another 2600K, exact same results. So im buying a Z68 board, I mean a real cheap one that the same owner bought as a replacement GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 and on that board cpu did 5.4 with ease. So, right now im getting that blue horrid mobo but am thinking on if I should but some moar money in and get a decent one? The cheap giga board im buying is for 85€ but overclocks a lot more then my current 260€ board i bought for 170€ So, any advice on what to get? I NEED, SLI!, SATA3, USB3. Gonna run SSD as Win and 3x F3-s in RAID0 + 2x2,5Tb in RAID0. Im doing lots of videoediting so encoding time is crucial for me.
November 18, 201114 yr Author fyi: cpu overclock is mostly determined by cpu, not by mobo. lol, I know that, but how do you explain that 2 cpu-s did not go over 5.2GHz on this board while on a cheap 80dollar mobo it did 5.4.
November 18, 201114 yr go to this thread... http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16541 we bin chips because some can go beyond 5.7ghz some max out @ 5.2ghz anyways for motherboards...p67 or z68 they're all very similar for the average user.
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