nooby needs Maximus V Gene overclocking help

[edwardqian]

Hi all:

I just bought this new rig a couple of days, and it works great I have to say, big applause to Asus. Auto Tuning works like a magic pushing frquency to 4.6Ghz with just one click although i am not very happy with the voltage which is set at 1.33v. I've tried to push the CPU to 4.8Ghz through UEFI bios but can never end up booting into windows with source from other forum. I am not sure whether my CPU is really weak or not. I would appreciate some idea from you gurus.

Here is my rig:

Ivy Bridge 3770k, maximus v gene, corsair 8gb 1866Mhz, corsair h100 cooler. ATI HD 5970, 120GB Vertex 3 SSD, Corsair 800D case.

Some Pics taken from Turbo V settings:

[Lilkka]

Hi,

First start by picking out the topic that fits you best inside of here: http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?6827-Maximus-Series-USEFUL-THREADS-Read-this-first!&country...

This is a nice guide on how to get a good overclock out of your system and how to understand BIOS settings. Just to take note i would start with trying to overclock to something like 4.2ghz/4.4ghz to start with so you can get the understanding of things and watch your temps as this is going to be the major factor of the end result overclocking value. If you find it abit too confusing, AI Suite program (TurboV) could help you on a overclock with the "Extreme" Setting when it gets to 4.6ghz you can click "Stop" an it'll save those settings. (4.8ghz does require some extra juice and 1.33voltages are in the safe zone it's 1.5voltage you want to look out for =P)

Hope this helps, if its all abit too much then feel free to drop another post and we'll see about getting you sorted.

Also could you post your full rig too please.

[edwardqian]

Thanks for the quick reply, I've just uploaded the full rig including some photos taken from Ai Suite II. Mind taking a look at them?

[f1schu]

Not sure if this will help but with my 2600k and Gene-Z my system will not boot at anything higher then 46 without this set to enabled.
If your system hangs just after the Windows Logo animation when @ a multi of x46 or higher then set 'CPU Internal PLL Overvoltage' to 'Enabled' my system will not boot at anything higher then 46 without this setting.

[Lilkka]

f1schu wrote:
Not sure if this will help but with my 2600k and Gene-Z my system will not boot at anything higher then 46 without this set to enabled.
If your system hangs just after the Windows Logo animation when @ a multi of x46 or higher then set 'CPU Internal PLL Overvoltage' to 'Enabled' my system will not boot at anything higher then 46 without this setting.

Thanks for that little input that was the option i was looking for =P,

@ OP - Try these settings out.

Bios - F5

Ai Tuner - Manual or XMP if you have memory with that ability
CPU Mulit 42/42/42/42 (We want to start with a mild overclock to get some understanding of temps/load and various things like this before you try to just jump to 4.8ghz).
Memory Freq - set to your RAMS
CPU Voltages: 1.310 (In Bios)
Memory Volts: set to the required ammount by your RAMS

Go to Digi VRM Control tab and you should see : http://rog.asus.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1270&d=1328618858

Set the Vcore LLC to 75%

Then try to boot your PC and see what temps you gain when you are idle and stressing the PC, once you have a stable configuration for around 12hours you want to save those settings to a profile in the BIOS, to then go past 4.4ghz you'll need to turn on "Internal PLL Voltage - Enabled" and that should allow you to go above x44 multiplier - you will have to tweak the voltages by 1 notch each until you boot into windows and then keep tweaking it to get it stable. No two CPUS are the same, and also think that if you can get a 4.6ghz stable then .2 might not do too much for you but the final choice is yours.

Once you have a stable OC with the CPU you want to then setup the rams and put the settings into the "DRAM-Timings" Tab in the BIOS this will setup your rams for you.

Or if this is all abit too much for you, use AI Tuner and let it overclock for you. If it crash's on the settings of 4.8ghz then there must be a configuration setting in the BIOS thats not able to let it boot but past 4.6ghz i cannot help you much as each settings are very much different from each other, I'd say stick with 4.6ghz that is a pretty decent OC as it is and at 1.33v that is amazing.

But if you want a higher OC then try by tweaking settings slowly and change only one setting at a time so you can fully understand what made a mistake and if you definatly want 4.8ghz this is how i would do it:

Bios: F5
Multi: 48
Internal PPL: Enabled
CPU Voltage: 1.4
Digi VRM+ Control
Vdroop/LLC - 100% (you need to compensate for the drop in voltages when the CPU is loaded - this also adds temps just like your vcore voltage will too.)

Try boot to windows, if it works then stress it until it fails and then just tweak the voltage by 1 " + " sign on the key board (that should take it to 1.405 i think? and see if it stays stable, But please do not push it very far i would definatly say max you should push it is 1.43 - You could do more i think but i have ZERO experience in more than that voltage so i will not risk your PC for a wild guess. If your able to keep it on for a long duration then i would start to decrease the voltages by .5 (thats 1 x " - " on the keyboard so for example: 1.400, would go to 1.395 and try to get it stable without having needless voltages.

I had 4.8ghz at 1.43 voltage - it wouldn't stay stable no matter the tweaks (my cooling wasn't good either no where near as good as yours!!), soon as i dropped to 4.2ghz - 1.3 voltage i had a stable system np. But im still tweaking to find out why it wouldn't work.

if someone else can advice him better than me feel free to do so.

[edwardqian]

Thanks for info, i am going to try now and will come back with some more updates. Thanks again

[Sgt_Velo]

Please be careful with any voltage adjustment, this is a 3770K ivy bridge which are very sensitive to voltage adjustments, please start very low at 4.0GHz at stock voltage to see if stable and go slowly and get something to monitor your CPU temps, realtemp is a good program.