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Overclocking (Questions)
HiddenJumper:
I can understand that. I'm not trying to go overboard with overclocking, I just needed some help with my questions. Its like when you first arrive at your first day of your new job, gonna need someone to kinda show you around and show you the tools you have available.
Anyhow I did some testing with the settings and found it works at 155 x 21 (3.25) with 1.2v for vcore. However I can't raise the blck up any higher than that without the mobo throwing a fit. Funny enough on boot of the system, even before entering bios, the mobo says im running at 3.4 ghz at 155x22, even though when I enter the bios it specifically states 155x21.
My ram's mem multi is set to 10 with timings at 7-7-7-21 set for both 2 gig sticks. Dram volt is still at default.
I currently have my computer set back to near stock settings while I reference some more material and read through more input.
Max I was able to go with vcore set to 1.4v was approx 165x21 (about 3.5 ghz) while still being stable and not getting the boot failure message.
kitamesume:
hoh, i think i found out your problem, try disabling turbo boost if its enabled, its known to mess up your overclock because it ramps up the multiplier. plus try bumping northbridge voltage by a little bit.
and do try balancing the cpu multiplier with the blck, like 175x20 to get 3.5ghz, just adjust it bit by bit, sometimes playing with the multiplier makes your system pretty much more stable.
oh and whats your max cpu multiplier? i assume its 25 because turbo boost can climb up to 3.33ghz with 133blck. if so then try setting it to 140x25(3.5ghz). but if not, i`m seeing reviews saying they could push up to x22(x26 with turbo boost) then try setting it to 140x22 and leave turbo boost enabled, stress the PC to 100% and check the final overclocks. should be 3.64Ghz. leave the CPU voltage to 1.350v.
edit: oh and try this on for size, set blck and multi to 200x10, and set ram multi to 8. if it boots and stable then we`d know the mobo isn't the problem.
HiddenJumper:
My max multiplier for the cpu is 22.
I put the settings to 200x10 with multi of 8 for the ram, with turbo boost off and ram profile set to standard: boots fine.
Boots fine with 175x20 with my ram timings back to default 9-9-9-24, with the extreme profile off. Bumped the timings to 7-7-7-21, where i want them, but keeping the profile at standard still, boots fine as well.
Bumped the NB volt up from 1.1v to 1.170v. Tried to stay as low as possible to reduce the stress.
Currently at 175x20 (3.5 ghz) with mem multi of 8 (7-7-7-21 timings). Turbo boost is off. BIOS reads the CPU temp at about 40 average. Will actually stress test this when I get settled on majority of settings I want. Not sure if I want to keep it at 3.5 or just lower it a bit to reduce unneeded stress. Depends on how much of a performance change (if any).
vCore is set at auto currently. Main MIT status page shows my vCore at 1.312v atm.
NaRu:
The highest I will go with your CPU is 3.8Ghz.
HiddenJumper:
No surprise there. Thanks for the info Naru. Changed the blck to 166x20 to get 3.33 ghz. Stress testing now with Prime95.
So far looks like the cores temps get up to about 70 to 73 under max load thus far. If it changes much from there ill be sure to post new numbers. Gonna run memtest86+ after this.
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