has anyone tried overclocking with it? and if so how did it go?
381664
overclocks VERY well; I can push my old core 2 duo from stock 1.6 all the way to 2.2
1398464
It does very well. The increased air flow over the cpu is significant. It should work well unless you are going to really, really overclock.
2186228
Will it work? Yes. Perfectly fine? No. Why will it work? Because of Asrock's page for that motherboard which says Supports FSB1333/1066/800/533 MHz CPUs Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1333(OC) . Now for the not so perfect. First lets cover OC. I don't know your level of experience so I I have to cover the basics too. OC stands for over-clock. The overclock of those memory modules is done in your BIOS(setup) when you first turn on the computer . You can navigate there with Delete(usually) or F2. They will otherwise run @ 1066MHz because the Amazon page says F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL. It's a simple variable change in your BIOS. Nothing challenging. Will you get the full 8GB? Absolutely not. A 32bit Win 7 can handle a maximum of about 3.5GB but when I used these babies in my beast of a computer, BEFORE I upgraded to a 64bit OS my computer could only utilize 2GB. Your experience will vary, 8GB for for almost $80??? I spent under $60. You can upgrade to a more modern 64bit OS and the computer will automatically use the rest of the ram but you may need to adjust your memory speeds again after you upgrade or install to a more appropriate version. There are only 2 DIMM slots so no worries with installation issues.
717206
Not really. It's just factory overclocked. It literally takes nothing to set a manual overclock yourself. These card perform very well at stock speeds as well
1666631
I just got mine, I'll try and remember to report back once we've tried it as loadbalance/failover is what we purchased it for. In the mean time I will note a lot of the reviews up are on the older side, I was looking for load balancers both here and on newegg and at newegg this model has 100 more reviews than it has here and its a solid 4/5 there so thats pretty encouraging.
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As said, it really depends, particularly on how long and hard you are running the chip. You could almost certainly get it to 4.3 GHz or greater with the stock cooler in a stable manner but beyond that it depends. If you were to run it in short bursts, you could overclock it higher, but running it under heavy load at a very high clock rate (such as with test/benchmark programs) would overwhelm the cooler within minutes.
785571
Works just fine for me. I'm in the US and have it over-clocked too. No problems.
406669
Well I havent seen their reviews so I don't know the conditions the had the failures from . but I can say this I own one of these cards and have been very happy with the performance and reliability of the card so far. My guess is that ppl who are having issues result from majority of 3 causes. 1 Low quality power supply or not enough wattage. 2 bad cooling air flow. Or 3 no understanding of how to properly overclock the card. The included software makes it very easy to make changes but this card already comes overclocked so if you push with out good power or cooling there will be problems like with any card. Well I havent seen their reviews so I don't know the conditions the had the failures from . but I can say this I own one of these cards and have been very happy with the performance and reliability of the card so far. My guess is that ppl who are having issues result from majority of 3 causes. 1 Low quality power supply or not enough wattage. 2 bad cooling air flow. Or 3 no understanding of how to properly overclock the card. The included software makes it very easy to make changes but this card already comes overclocked so if you push with out good power or cooling there will be problems... » Read More Well I havent seen their reviews so I don't know the conditions the had the failures from . but I can say this I own one of these cards and have been very happy with the performance and reliability of the card so far. My guess is that ppl who are having issues result from majority of 3 causes. 1 Low quality power supply or not enough wattage. 2 bad cooling air flow. Or 3 no understanding of how to properly overclock the card. The included software makes it very easy to make changes but this card already comes overclocked so if you push with out good power or cooling there will be problems like with any card. « Show Less
1398463
Not that great for overclocking. I'm using it with a 65w I5 CPU and it runs plenty cool. Overclocking would go beyond it's thermal rating pretty quick. I recommend one of their larger CPU coolers.
182962
It is better, unless you specifically need to overclock. I get the feeling that the added threads are more useful than a couple ghz, but it depends on what you want to do, and how much price matters to you.
1908832
It can be overclocked but like all overclocking you will want adequate cooling. Also note overclocking can and usually does result in some instability.
2088423
Yes, I would like to know if the core is unlocked for overclocking myself. The box says it's unlocked....Can anyone answer this.
306902
I just ran the specs from this with Asus online. Sounded good to them. I have ordered.
5278
when i installed it on my system (not a dell XPS 8300) i ran into a few issues because the driver from the cd-rom and from the ati website over clocked the video card without any notification, when i notice that (after a week trying in many systems) i have uncheck the overclock and after that it worked just fine. hope that help you.
717205
No that's a gimmick. You can overclock it yourself for free with free software. You will void the warranty however and likely fry the thing unless you know what you're doing. This is an amazing card out of the box, you'll enjoy it.
315666
I'm currently Using this Processor on a LGA 1150 socket, Z97 motherboard. I have not been able to Overclock using the wizard without the computer Crashing the GPU (GTX 660) I have not tried to overclock manually. I can say that the fan that comes with it does a decent job and can be used for running High Quality games without overclocking (WatchDogs looks great, it has it's own problems, Tomb Raider works great on Max, Skyrim looks great too, But I do have 32gigs of memory as well) So, Yes. And Overclocking isn't needed so far, I can't find a game I want to play that can challenge this processor even at it's out-of-box speed. I'm currently Using this Processor on a LGA 1150 socket, Z97 motherboard. I have not been able to Overclock using the wizard without the computer Crashing the GPU (GTX 660) I have not tried to overclock manually. I can say that the fan that comes with it does a decent job and can be used for running High Quality games without overclocking (WatchDogs looks great, it has it's own problems, Tomb Raider works great on Max, Skyrim looks great too, But I do have 32gigs of memory as well) So, Yes. And Overclocking isn't needed so far, I can't find a game I want to play that can... » Read More I'm currently Using this Processor on a LGA 1150 socket, Z97 motherboard. I have not been able to Overclock using the wizard without the computer Crashing the GPU (GTX 660) I have not tried to overclock manually. I can say that the fan that comes with it does a decent job and can be used for running High Quality games without overclocking (WatchDogs looks great, it has it's own problems, Tomb Raider works great on Max, Skyrim looks great too, But I do have 32gigs of memory as well) So, Yes. And Overclocking isn't needed so far, I can't find a game I want to play that can challenge this processor even at it's out-of-box speed. « Show Less
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Yes, I'm running it on an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard and haven't had any major issues. It's always a gamble ... once in a while you might get a bad card, but sometimes the small handful of people who have had problems are the ones that complain the most. (EDIT: I feel I should mention one thing. This card is known to sometimes "flicker" in 2-D mode when you're on your desktop. It doesn't happen often, and newer drivers can help, but you might see it. If you can live with that small glitch, this is a great card.)