Are Intel Branded Boards any good?

[slag]

As you can tell, I like it so much I posted 2x about it.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Running intel's high end X-58 DX58SO board for over a year and a half now. OC's just fine and has all the options I want to play with. It's been rock solid. I got it because X-58 was really buggy in the beginning and the intel had the rep as being stable and consistent right from launch. I would buy another intel board in a minute.

 

[jacktesterson]

Well I've been testing all day...

And....

I'm at 4.3 stable at 1.25v with max core temps around 62 Celsius using a cm vortex plus. I'm not gonna go any higher as I dont need too.

Guess it works just fine. I will admit though the overclocking menu is the worst I've ever used, and next to no documentation came with the motherboard.

Overall I'm quite happy.

My goal was 4.4

Are my core temps fine? I am using newest version of hwmonitor and it doesn't tell me the CPU temp like it does with my amd's.

 

[dac7nco]

I have a new customer I'm building for withn an DX58SO2 who needs dual-Intel NICs for cheap... you don't go wrong with Intel

 

[jacktesterson]

4.5 GHz at 1.30v now

Gonna prime it overnight but passes 1 hr of OCCT, which I find usually catches most issues within an hour.

What is the max temp I should have for Core? Are 63 core temps ok?

 

[Majic 7]

63 is good. 80 is not good from what I've read. I personnally would back off if it got to 75 to 80. Just to be safe. You might try Real Temp or Core Temp to double check temps.

 

[wirednuts]

all the intel boards ive had were the "budget" models... so they never were overclocking monsters but they did have stability features that most others dont. basically, if you run them at specified settings, good luck on ever having problems.

 

[jacktesterson]

Reverted back to 4.2 as 4.5 caused an error at 1.30v after 13 hours of prime 95.

To be honest, I am not a big believer of stress testing past 4 hours. How often is a CPU 100% stressed for more than this unless your folding?

Regardless, I am super happy with 4.2 @ 1.25v and with what I do with this PC.

 

[Concillian]

Reverted back to 4.3 as 4.5 caused an error at 1.30v after 13 hours of prime 95.

To be honest, I am not a big believer of stress testing past 4 hours. How often is a CPU 100% stressed for more than this unless your folding?

Regardless, I am super happy with 4.3 and with what I do with this PC.

I've had cases where I've had no errors in Prime at 24 hours, but certain games still cause crashes.

If I get an error, I back down... period. In fact I've moved to backing down 5% from wherever my max "stable" is when stress testing. It's not worth the potential for errors. Maybe I forget to clean the dust filter for a month or two, or I get a super hot day in summer. It's good to have margin for that when you're talking about your primary system that you use everyday. There's just not a lot of need to live on the edge. 200 MHz isn't a big deal compared to the potential issues.

 

[jacktesterson]

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[jacktesterson]

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I, stable at 4.4 with 1.32v

 

[jacktesterson]

Sticking eith 4.2 and cslling it quits for a while, as funbut this is all i need 24/7

 

[paperwastage]

i agree that the DP67DE board sucks at OC and documentation

stock cooler, 2500k

got it to OC to 4.2-4.4ghz at 1.39 vcore(auto voltage), but temps went to 85C. could probably manually lower voltage, but temps will still be too high

went down to 3.5-3.6ghz at 1.16(in BIOS), 1.19v reported by CPU-Z/Intel's program. temps went to 70C

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

all the intel boards ive had were the "budget" models... So they never were overclocking monsters but they did have stability features that most others dont. Basically, if you run them at specified settings, good luck on ever having problems.

skulltrail

 

[coffeejunkee]

i agree that the DP67DE board sucks at OC and documentation

stock cooler, 2500k

got it to OC to 4.2-4.4ghz at 1.39 vcore(auto voltage), but temps went to 85C. could probably manually lower voltage, but temps will still be too high

went down to 3.5-3.6ghz at 1.16(in BIOS), 1.19v reported by CPU-Z/Intel's program. temps went to 70C

I'm slightly amazed it survived 1.39V considering the tiny 3 phase cpu power design and non-existing vrm heatsink. I'd say that's a sign of quality. You should try touching the vrm's to see how hot they get (keep cold water nearby). High temps are the stock coolers specialty.

But it's a 'media series' board after all, so it's really meant for watching some movies and playing a bit of sims/farmville. For serious oc-ing you want the extreme series boards, which sadly is only available in ATX format (keeping fingers crossed for a nice little Z68 mATX board).

 

[tcsenter]

Any other p67 and he believes the board is made by Asus from the research he's done, not foxconn.

Its almost certain to be Foxconn. But otherwise, it would be Pegatron, not ASUS.

 

[paperwastage]

I'm slightly amazed it survived 1.39V considering the tiny 3 phase cpu power design and non-existing vrm heatsink. I'd say that's a sign of quality. You should try touching the vrm's to see how hot they get (keep cold water nearby). High temps are the stock coolers specialty.

But it's a 'media series' board after all, so it's really meant for watching some movies and playing a bit of sims/farmville. For serious oc-ing you want the extreme series boards, which sadly is only available in ATX format (keeping fingers crossed for a nice little Z68 mATX board).

yeah, im waiting for someone other to asus to release matx p67 (or z68) boards like evga, MSI etc... they announced it, but probably will not release it until the new revision of chipset comes out

i'm planning to get a 212+. this board is stable, but sucks. in BIOS, the fans can be set for auto/manual control/min-max speeds. but the auto controls dont work. my fans are only running at 1000rpm at high stress.... sigh
EDIT:actually I take this back... i blame bad documentation
The bios had it set to something like 80C for fans to be pushed to 100%, 90C to have a warning etc. I lowered it down, have the fans running more, now im OC'd to 36x @ 1.128V Vcore... proc temp slowly reaches 65C, probably maxes out at 70C... much better, i like this board better

NEW: oc'd to 4.3@1.24v, temps hit 80C or more with fans @100% .... woot


Platform Controller HUb Temp(aka southbridge) get 49C at idle... lack of heatsinks kills it, though stress doesnt raise the temps too much

but I already sold my previous AMD machine, dont want to get a ATX case.... sighhhhh

EDIT: If you want to know what Intel thinks about the default max temps for the CPUS are
Processor temps overrides: extremely ballsy
87C for over-temp alert (changed this to 80)
79C for control(meaning fans will try to adjust to keep temp below this point), changed to 55
87C for ALl-on(meaning fans will run 100%), changed to 60
http://imgur.com/a/OTUPC#s4Zs4

PCH/southbridge temp
http://imgur.com/a/OTUPC#J6ZE5

Overclocking option
http://imgur.com/a/OTUPC#cRfvh

 

[IntelUser2000]

I think that Foxconn is making those boards...

There is a little difference, even though the assembly or whatever step is done by Foxconn. It's like looking at no-name branded batteries, the chemistry might be based on Duracell, but there's still a bit of difference when actually tested. Probably because the BIOS and drivers are different.

*BTW, this uATX board of mine has overclocking options. I don't know why since H67 doesn't even support them, that is other than graphics.

*40C for the PCH is a big improvement in temperature for Intel boards. My Core i5-661 board ran at 60C.

*Long time ago, I screwed up one of my boards because I was flashing the BIOS and shut the computer down during the process due to panic. Now I know better than to do that, but with this board, I can just get the recovery BIOS image and just you know... recover it. I've done it before, its useful when the image itself has a problem and you pull the recovery one out.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

DFI

 

[paperwastage]

*BTW, this uATX board of mine has overclocking options. I don't know why since H67 doesn't even support them, that is other than graphics.

*40C for the PCH is a big improvement in temperature for Intel boards. My Core i5-661 board ran at 60C.

overclocking really? does it even work? Might be a non-working toggle

My p67's previous BIOS had a setting for max non-turbo multiplier which can be raised above 33x(but doesn't do/affect anything). The current BIOS had the same setting at 33x(cannot be raised further than 33x)

 

[jacktesterson]

I sold mine and went atx.

My MSI out of box never o/c'd as well until a bios upgrade.

 

[Insomniator]

Wow since when do Intel boards OC? I remember a while back when they first allowed you to oc by like 2% or something and even that was big deal for them. That might have been on my S478 board with a P4 3.0...

 

[Majic 7]

At least since the BadAxe 1. (2006) Ran my E6600 at 3.0 for years, probably could have gone higher.

 

[IntelUser2000]

overclocking really? does it even work? Might be a non-working toggle

My p67's previous BIOS had a setting for max non-turbo multiplier which can be raised above 33x(but doesn't do/affect anything). The current BIOS had the same setting at 33x(cannot be raised further than 33x)

I thought you might have gotten the hint by me saying H67 doesn't support overclocking.

Yea I tried, it has lots of options. GPU/CPU/PCH voltage, I'm not sure how finely I could tune it but there were probably 20 or so voltage options so it must be enough. it looked like the BIOS itself could even allow the user to adjust per core Turbo, unfortunately that was greyed out. Tried non-Turbo multiplier settings, didn't work. I'm wondering if they are reserving it for Z68 or even unlock-by-website in the future?

Memory settings I could change, but for the multiplier I could only adjust 1333MHz/1066/800, so what's the point? There were quite a lot of voltage adjustments available and all the RAM timing options

If anyone remembers my previous sig, they would know that I had the DH55HC board. That board has far scarce options, but it actually worked. I could only up clocks by 10% since there was no multiplier adjustment, meaning 10% really meant 10%(CPU/Uncore/IMC/Graphics/PCI Express/DMI).

 

[IntelUser2000]

(I just restarted my computer and checked out the BIOS again)

DH67BL options:

Cores: All/2/1
Hyperthreading: On/off

CPU non-Turbo max multiplier adjustment: Enter the number via keyboard
Burst Mode max current limit(Burst Mode probably means >TDP)
Sustained Mode max current limit
Sustained Mode max power limit

Graphics max current limit
Graphics multiplier adjustment(this probably works, never tested it, cause finding graphics frequency would be comparatively a bitch)
Graphics voltage adjustment: Default/1.0V to 1.5V in 0.02V increments

Memory multiplier adjustment: 10/8(1333/1066MHz)
Memory voltage adjustment: Auto/1.2-1.8V in 0.05V increments
Total of 12 settings adjustable for memory timings.