Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5 (Sandy Bridge) living review

[Lsdmeasap]

Water setup is looking nice man!

[Dark Mantis]

Hi Lsdmeasap,

Thanks. Had to do a bit of shoehorning to get it all in there but once fitted it was fine. Trying to get the air bled from the filter was the most time consuming part.

[Lsdmeasap]

Ya, it looks like a tight fit, but looks good once you got it all in there!

Haha, ya getting rid of air takes forever sometimes!   I am always thumping on my rads for a day or two after a new setup to get air out 

[Dark Mantis]

Yes I actually had to change direction of the flow of the filter to get it to clear the air and that was with the 655 on full blast!

[Lsdmeasap]

I always have everything not mounted down, so I can shake rattle and roll with the rads, reservoir, and pump 

I do a lot of on/off and shake of stuff, then once I get it about all gone I squeeze the tube closed a few times every so often while it's running to push stuck bubbles out.    I also don't add any dye or anything until the air is completely gone, that stops foam from forming

[Dark Mantis]

Shake, rattle and roll. Sounds like you must have been watching me there Lsdmeasap! I tried squeezing the tubes as well! I was just using distilled water. Pure.

[Lsdmeasap]

Haha, great minds always think alike man! 

[oggmonster]

Interesting stuff, nice read

Something thats confused me (I might be reading it wrong) but at your highest overclock your watercooling setup was only a few degrees better than the air cooler?? My i7 @ 4ghz with 1.3v on a Noctua NH-D14 the highest core was 68degrees, i know you obviously were using an i5 setup, are i5's significantly cooler than i7s or something?

[oggmonster]

Just remembered those i5's are on a 32nm which would probably explain it.

I've been out of this game for too long lol

[Dark Mantis]

Yes the new generation of 32nm processors run a lot cooler than the previous ones. My i7 920 gets quite warm even with a reasonable overclock and needs the water but this new i5 runs a lot cooler. In fact were it not for the fact that I like watercooling anyway I don't really think there is any need for it on these CPUs.

[oggmonster]

Whats the furthest you reckon you could push it to? Say 10min prime stable?

[Dark Mantis]

Well I haven't tried too much yet so I am not sure but it went to 4.7 just on the multiplier so I reckon with a bit of voltage tweaking and some fine tuning of the Mhz it should get somewhere near 5 Ghz which isn't bad for a 3.3 chip.  Heat doesn't seem to be a problem really so it is just keeping everything stable.

[Lsdmeasap]

I'm 100% sure the chip will do 5Ghz, and 95% sure it will do at least 5.1Ghz or above!  You'll have to enable PLL Overvoltage in the Advanced CPU settings page, but after that once you tweak the voltages right you can easily do 5Ghz or above

You just have to play with it DM, and you will see!

[Dark Mantis]

Thanks for the tip Lsdmeasap, I'm hoping to get time to play with it later. I'll let you know how I get on.

[driver321]

Thank for this forum. i like it. wish you best of luck.