[FACE]

The main problem I see with most 780's is a weak-ass mem controller. Also, the chips can be real volt-pigs. Tbh I liked mine, and have had issues, but nothing major during its punishment. I was one of the lucky ones though.

The nb on mine has a bad heat issue now and gets unstable above stock... Hopefully going extreme on it will give me one last run before she dies completely and is off to rma land.

The 680's have stronger mem controllers. The 780's have tri-sli support. Other than that the boards are basically the same.

[kikicoco1334]

yeah my board got real bad sb overheating issues like my nb is running somewhere around 35ish and my sb will be at at least 53+and because i have a GTX260 there is really no way i can do anything to the cooler... =:(

i am thinking when i get my 7 system up running i monna take out the 260 and turn it in to like a tri sli and drop a 7950GT or something like a HD4350 in it and then mod the sb a little

[FACE]

I ended up porting chilled air into the case... that helps the board a lot... if no case, then port the air over the sb/gpu area... running raid through the sb adds more heat than gfx cards do...

[kikicoco1334]

i am not running raid, but i did have cfc sb cooling one time lol

[kikicoco1334]

i think i just found out what my bottle neck is on most of my overclocking is not....
i have always though it was the ram but my ocz Reaper can really oc to somewhere around 1066 5-5-5-15 (5-4-4 can be done but not VERY stable)
but my motherboard temp! mainly on the sb on my 780i and nb on my old ex58-ud4p they run very HOT! my sb on my 780 is always 50C+ and when everything is less than 40

nashville tennessee is snowing right now when i get out of class (1150hr) i should be home 1230hr i will leave my system out side for 30min or so and try overclock please stay tuned and i will post pictures tonight! ^_,^

[kikicoco1334]

so i am back...
i was never able to break the 4GHz mark with my 780i FTW + Q6600 no matter what i do.. even with LN2!

and then i looked at the temp on the baord W-T-F! the SB tem is 50+ @ all time! so today it's snowing outside and i took the computer out and give a little juice and it went really well! last time i did this i fed up something bad in the settingit didn't work =) now i am all happy!


thanks to
kal's search
411 and ReverendMaynard's ideas and suggestions

just got 6 more points for the team!

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...2_mhz?tab=info

[Neuromancer]

Glad you got it all worked out. 4GHz on a Q6600 is not easy.

[kikicoco1334]

thank you so much for answering all my stupid questions
i will be posting the steps soon

[kikicoco1334]

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/716/dsc02787b.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3300/dsc02786h.jpg
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http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6900/dsc02755h.jpg

here is my base setting in bios to achieve 4.0GHz on the Q6600 lol
but i just CAN NOT get over 4.07
any ideas guys?
btw i am using ClockGen

[kikicoco1334]

thank you~
my ram is really not holding me back from oc at least i dont think i tried to just overclock my ram to 1066 with 5-4-4-12(?) maybe 15 and it went and ran very stable....
so i don't THINK is the ram that's holding my back

why lower spp?
i will try it real quick thank you