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trying to add cooling chips to the mosfets on my mobo but cant figure out where the mosfets are below is a pic of my board
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where are the mosfets on my board?
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Where the arrows point to are the MOSFETs, they are standing up, where I have the big "?" at, I don't know what that is.
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I would advise against it personally.
Those 130W TDP LGA1366 chips draw a lot of power when you overclock them, which would result in much more heat being generated by the mosfets. Probably more than they could handle really. Unfortunately it doesn't look like mounting heatsinks to the mosfets will be realistically possible with them standing up on their ends like that.
Plus the board only has a 4-pin CPU power connector, probably wouldn't be able to sustain the wattage needed for the CPU for much of an overclock.
Plus this is a board out of a prebuilt PC I'm guessing by the HP logo on the board, they're never really built to handle much more than the parts that were with it from the factory.
I think you'd want to get a better board if you're looking at anything more than just a very minor overclock.
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Intel XTU only works on LGA1155 and newer socket types. It doesn't work with LGA1366.
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I know the benchmark doesn't work...not one soul posted a result with it at hwbot. 
http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/core_i7_920/
http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/core_i7_920/
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Okay, I just installed Intel XTU version 6.2.0.19 onto my LGA1366 system's drive.
Asus Rampage III Formula
Core i7 920
3x2GB G.SKILL Ripjaws F3-12800CL8-6GBRM
120GB Samsung 840 Evo
Corsair CX750 750W
Cooler Master Nepton 280L
Cooler Master HAF X
It is able to run (so far, though if I remember correctly from my previous testing of this it stops working at some point), but everything on the Advanced Tuning tab (where you would do software-based overclocking) is grayed-out and I am unable to affect any of the settings.
I can also run the benchmark, but I get an error message any time I attempt to actually upload the results of said benchmark. Probably because it's unhappy with the fact I'm running it on an unsupported system.
Asus Rampage III Formula
Core i7 920
3x2GB G.SKILL Ripjaws F3-12800CL8-6GBRM
120GB Samsung 840 Evo
Corsair CX750 750W
Cooler Master Nepton 280L
Cooler Master HAF X
It is able to run (so far, though if I remember correctly from my previous testing of this it stops working at some point), but everything on the Advanced Tuning tab (where you would do software-based overclocking) is grayed-out and I am unable to affect any of the settings.
I can also run the benchmark, but I get an error message any time I attempt to actually upload the results of said benchmark. Probably because it's unhappy with the fact I'm running it on an unsupported system.
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My LGA 2011 mATX mobo is an HP Pegatron IPIWB-PB X79 I picked up for $75 on ebay, on which I've run an E5-1620 4C/8T OC'd to 4.3+ GHz for several years with no problem at all. The OC was done using XTU.
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The program offers more than just multiplier adjustment normally, so your argument doesn't seem that valid. If it were actually supported, I should be able to adjust something. But no, nothing, I can't adjust a single setting from within this program.
I could overclock on an LGA1155 locked i5 2400 with this program, so locked or unlocked multipliers has little to do with it.
It has nothing to do with locked versus unlocked, LGA1366 is simply an unsupported platform.
Same reaction with my i7 930, Xeon E5520, Xeon E5640, Xeon W3530, Xeon L5630, Xeon E5506, and Xeon E5504.
Otherwise, I will believe it when I see it.
On an LGA1155 or newer socket type there's base clock/reference clock adjustment, voltage adjustment, voltage offset adjustment, Turbo Boost Power Max and Short Power Max adjustment, Adaptive or Static Voltage mode selection, Processor Current Limit, among others. But for me with an LGA1366 system I see none of those options, not a single one.
For further evidence, I refer you to the thread you previously posted on W3680's and XTU: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/...n-w3680-cpu-with-intel-extreme-tuning-utility
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If you do plan on (manage to) overclocking, I would slap a fan on those FETs and add in a couple of 560uF, 4-6 V, Nichion FP-CAP, Sanyo OSCON or Chemicon conductive polymer caps to those empty slots near the Fujitsu(?) VRM caps. I
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