I am upgrading my motherboard from the MSI P55M-GD45 to the Asus P7P55D-E Deluxe because I want to be able to SLI my GPU and I figured this was the best one for my socket as it also has USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/s.
I basically have 2 questions, but one might not belong in this forum.
1. Will I be able to upgrade without reinstalling Windows 7? If not, does a Windows Repair work to fix the drivers like it used to with Windows XP? Or is there another way?
2. Does anybody know any overclock settings for the i7-860 with this motherboard, I currently have it overclocked from 2,80 to 3,80 GHz but the MSI board BIOS is a bit different, and has a very weird way of setting Core voltage, it shows +0.272 atm instead of the actual voltage so I do not know what I currently have it set to. If I am to believe CPU-Z the Core is 1.4v right now along with 1.303 VTT, 1.651 DRAM and 21x180 multipliers. This has been running stable for months now but I want try and push it to 4.0 GHz if possible.
Thanks
I basically have 2 questions, but one might not belong in this forum.
1. Will I be able to upgrade without reinstalling Windows 7? If not, does a Windows Repair work to fix the drivers like it used to with Windows XP? Or is there another way?
2. Does anybody know any overclock settings for the i7-860 with this motherboard, I currently have it overclocked from 2,80 to 3,80 GHz but the MSI board BIOS is a bit different, and has a very weird way of setting Core voltage, it shows +0.272 atm instead of the actual voltage so I do not know what I currently have it set to. If I am to believe CPU-Z the Core is 1.4v right now along with 1.303 VTT, 1.651 DRAM and 21x180 multipliers. This has been running stable for months now but I want try and push it to 4.0 GHz if possible.
Thanks