MSI A6200-021US Notebook PC - Intel Core i5-430M 2.26 GHz / 15.6" LCD / 4GB DDR3 Memory / 320GB HD / 802.11b/g/draft n WLAN / DVD Super Multi Drive / HDMI Port / Built-in Webcam / Windows 7 Home Premium

I have found a couple kinds of ram I was looking at and am stuck at ether getting a lower CL 6 using 1066 or getting a higher speed one at 1330 having a CL of 9

A: The CL9 produces a litle more Latency but is well compensated by the extra 270 mhz I have 1333 and works great. Actually I have pushed to 1600 mhz and still stable, but I was just testing I lowered to the native 1333 I prefer logevity over performan

BIOSTAR Launches TZ77XE3 Motherboard - Intel Z77 Chipset

BIOSTAR Launches TZ77XE3 Motherboard - Intel Z77 Chipset

BIOSTAR has launched the new TZ77XE3 motherboard based on the new Intel Z77 chipset. This motherboard supports Intel's 3rd (Ivy Bridge) and 2nd generation (Sandy Bridge) Core i7 and Core i5 processors based on the socket 1155. The board looks pretty robust thanks to its 13 power phase design and the use of Virtual Universal MVP powered by Lucid Virtu GPU virtualization for up to four card NVIDIA SLI or AMD CrossFireX. It also supports up to 32 GB of DDR3 memory in its four slots with speeds of up to DDR3 2000MHz before overclocking! This isn't the flagship board though as that is the Biostar TZ77XE4 and that board looks to be a great overclocker. A Korean site has already benchmarked the Biostar TZ77XE4 and was able to take the memory up to 2664.2MHz with an Intel 'Ivy Bridge' Core i7 3770K processor. That is higher than that site could take same memory on the ASRock Z77 Extreme6, ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE, ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 and

Source: Legit Reviews

overclocking the i5-2500k on MSI H61M-P23? - Notebook Review Forum

I could give you a brief walk-though of the process but what you really need to do is go to a number of different websites, go to forums with posts about overclocking from other owners of the same motherboard, and do some research on the i5-2500k. You should not attempt to overclock it without knowing the max temps, the max voltages, what software to use to monitor everything, and...

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