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kureshii:

--- Quote from: tyrionlannister on October 15, 2009, 09:13:05 AM ---What would be a good price/quality motherboard for an i5 for up to $200 ? I'm not interested in SLI or Crossfire , just decent build quality and light overclocking, up to 3GHz. Also, do you think a after-market cooler is needed for this kind of overclock, and if so, could you recommend one?

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Without actually having used the board in question (though I fully intend to acquire it for a personal Lynnfield build), I'd say the Gigabyte P55M-UD2 easily suffices, at a price point far below your budget. Not going to link any reviews here; I'm sure Google will be more than willing to help you :) I had my eyes on it ever since it was announced, and Anandtech's review of it just cemented the decision.

By the way, Turbo Mode will already push the clock speed to 3GHz or more on single/double-threaded tasks, or anything that doesn't use more than half the available cores. Pushing it to 3.8GHz should not be a problem (and from review articles, it seems everyone treats 3.8Ghz as the default easy overclock; not saying you have to go that far, of course). You definitely will want to get a third-party heat sink though, heat on the Lynnfield chips haven't gone down much except at idle.


--- Quote from: enginarc on October 15, 2009, 09:18:54 AM ---This is a serious design fault on Intel's part imo. The previous design allowed pins to be compressed from both sides (left-right) which allowed better (and may be more) contact surface and a good tolarance for grabbing cpu pins, just like in a conventional 220V power socket.
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By previous design, are you talking about socket 478 or socket 775? LGA-775 uses the same pin-and-contact design as LGA-1156, AFAIK (although no pin contact issues were reported).

Assuming you are talking about socket 478: IIRC (from an old, forgotten discussion), the new LGA pin design was intended to minimise pin breakage issues that were reported with the old socket (again, don’t ask me to quote sources; this was from many moons ago and I don’t collate long-term bibliographies).

[edit] Wiki to the rescue.

I wouldn’t squarely put the blame on Intel, without having read their spec sheet for the LGA-1156 socket. Could be just QC problems on Foxconn’s side, since they are the ones who made the sockets. The fact that no such contact-pin issues were reported with Tyco AMP / LOTES sockets seems to support this.

K7IA:
lmao, I am ancient alright  :D I am talking about socket 478, which is ancient!!

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