I think that was the norm for Gigabyte X58 boards. Mine would easily get that toasty without decent airflow.
The mobo is on a piece of wood at the moment so it should be ok when I put it in my 750d then the h100 and some sp120s will be blowing over it What temps program are you using for the xeon
Hey folks, i am rather tempted by this (although i dont really need it) and i was wondering who you guys bought yours from?
rebuilt my second machine today now using a x5650 hexcore from a i5 3570k which will go in a itx board X5650 24gb corsair xms3 1 evga 660s 2 1tb wd red 2 2tb wd red Ocz 120gb ssd 1 750gb wd black Corsiar 750d case Corsair cx750 psu Corsiar h100 Pioneer bdxl bluray writer Connected to a samsung s24c450 monitor
Sorry for the late reply - I decided to spend the extra £5 and get mine from a seller with 100% feedback. CPU works a treat, been running it 4.3GHz daily now for weeks on end. Will probably take it back down to 4.2GHz when I reinstall Windows.
Much to the disappointment to everyone that had subscribed to my price check thread yes I did! Have it all running at the moment and appears to be working fine. Rig atm is: X5650 Gene Prodigy M H100i 7870TE 12GB Ram (3x 4GB) 2 x SSD Antec Semi modular PSU Hoping to move over to: X5650 Gene Prodigy M H100i GTX 750Ti (Considering a 970 or holding out till the 960 is out) 24 GB Ram (6x 4GB) 2 x SSD Silverstone fully modular SFX psu. Having the extra horse power when I am in and out of VMplayer is great! My gaming needs arnt huge atm (Wow and Eve) hence the down shift to the 750.
I have a supermicro board now thanks to mr bungle looking on ebay but need to wait for a pcie extender as the 16x and 8x inline so a normal card wont fit without the extender
I was until I started editing videos... now my RAM usage jumps to over 5GB when I start very simple editing in After Effects. I'm going to need to consider going to 12GB or 24GB which in turn will affect what OC I can run, but for tasks like video editing, quantity is definitely more important than speed.
I think 12GB in triple channel is plenty for gaming, and even most video/photo work (unless your a pro). Will having all six slots populated have an effect on a decent overclock?
I've had all 6 RAM slots populated on 3 different X58 boards with an i7 970 and 990X. I had to increase the VTT/QPI voltage a tiny amount with the 970 and 6 slots populated compared to just 3 slots but the 990X runs 24GB (6 x 4GB) at 2000MHz with a QPI voltage of just over 1.23v with an overclock of 4.7GHz.
