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Great guide, guys!

Over at anandtech they did a little work with overclocking the uncore (http://www.anandtech.com/...intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3453) but didn't see much impact in real-world testing.

Different memory speeds/timings also don't seem to make much difference to system performance in real-world testing.

I'm curious how much difference the QPI makes when overclocked.

Grats for the article. Great Job!

This is what tech sites should be all about.

Now, when is the SFF X58 going to go retail...hmm

Hey, first of all, great guide. There is one thing you left out that will kill your overclock. It is called the CPU clock scew. Google it and it will amaze you, I'm just to lazy to describe it. Right now I am running 4.0Ghz on a foxconn Bloodrage with a block of 190. I have ocz ram 6gig rated for 1600 at 1524 but with the 7,7,7,20,1T timmings, 1.65 volts. I am running it 24/7, water cooled at 50c idle 60c load. my block is 1.35v. my pll is 1.898v. my QPI is just over 3.4ghz. My NB frequency is just over 3.0ghz. And in all, in 3D Mark Vantage I'm getting a score of 55,000 for the cpu, in all settings.

on that previous comment, getting 55,000 in all setting was wrong. That was in the low setting. sorry. I also reajusted my timings again. blck is 180. 20x cpu, 20x QPI, 10x mem, and all the voltages were lowered somewhat. I did this to lower temps and raise mem speeds. All I had to do diff was to change my mem specs. my temps now are 40c to 55c. good luck to all.

You said a follow up article was on the way. Did I miss it? It has been over a year....

I still can't understand going with anything other than 1366, 3.8 solid with air.
and down the road OC your Core i9 on the same board.
I know saving money is good but your not saving if you go cheap now just to spend more later when you can't reuse the hardware you buy now.