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[Bumblebee]

Soo.. ive been here and there but my P55 Classified 200 motherboard... fried, that was about a month ago. Took me forever to get a replacement, so EVGA sent me a Z68 FTW board. First... what sucked was i had to buy a new cpu. Second it only supported the Sandy Bridge cpu's, not a bad thing but meh. I ended up with an i7-2600k. Let me say that going from a i7-860 to this 2600k is like ho le shit ballz to the walls faster and easier to overclock. I will never buy a cpu that is not unlocked again. Ill take some pics and post them up later but I dare say I could overclock to 5 ghz with no problem (at 4.5). Hope this board doesnt fry... uhggggg.

[eRoC]

awesome bro. my 2550k goes to 4.8 on water, let us know how it works out for ya.

[Bumblebee]

Ok this thing is amazing! It overclocks so much more and the temps are just stupid lower than the 860 i had...



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At 4.2 ghz on my 860 i would hit 67 C on water and i had to get the vcore up pretty high on it just to get it to crank out the ghz, but it was a locked cpu. I looooove unlocked cpu's, shit is so much easier! I gota do some futermark tests and other. Im fairly certain that i could do a 5ghz oc without any issues with the cooling setup i got.

[Stubs]

my 3930k goes to 5.0 on water easy. I run 4.6 24/7 because there is no need to go higher. The new high-end stuff from Intel is fucking sweet. This is on a Rampage IV formula board

[eRoC]

I had my heart set on 5.0, and invested millions in water cooling. Only to hit the wall at 4.8. I hate my life.