Some Overclocking Assurance

[adreamofironice]

Well to begin, I've been overclocking for quite some time now. So I'm not totally new the the OC scene. My RIG before my current one consisted of a EVGA X58 SLI board with a 920. Now as you all know that didn't have an unlocked processor, so overclocking my current 3820 was a breeze since I knew fairly well how to BCLK OC.

Now the point of this thread is to just confirm with the community to see if my voltages are within a good limit so I don't see any rapid degredation.

My setup contains:
Asus Rampage IV Formula
Intel i7 3820 @ 4.625GHz
Corsair Vengeance @ 2000MHz
2 x EVGA GTX 580's 3GB @ 850MHz
Corsair AX1200
Corsair Force GT 120GB
Complete custom watercooling system

Here is a quick Voltage summary:

CPU @ 4.625

BCLK : 125MHz
VCORE : 1.36
DRAM(BOTH AB/CD) : 1.555
VCCSA : 1.185
VTT : 1.1625
2nd VTT : 1.05099
PCH(1.1) : 1.1
PCH(1.5) : 1.5
VTTDDR(BOTH AB/CD) : .8

My temps don't ever go over 67C at load and idle around 30C, but that is only because my ambient temps are around 30C.

Thanks for taking a look,
Ryan

[lenehan]

why your VTT @1.625 and your temp look high in my opion with custom WC.

[adreamofironice]

My fault that is a typo, it's meant to read 1.16250

[lenehan]

Your CPU temp is rather high at load after oc to me.

[HiVizMan]

If load is with Prime or similar then fine.

[adreamofironice]

Load is being produced by Linx, then I do a 24hr stability test with Prime.

[HiVizMan]

Then that is about right the delta is normally about 35 - 40 degrees from idle.

[adreamofironice]

I do have a question about the offset modes for Vcore and VCCSA. I have a good understanding of what exactly this setting is used for. It is in fact quite similar to EVGA's VDROOP control.

But I am having some trouble using it. I want to be able to use that setting instead so my voltages go down at idle, but everytime I go to change the offset of either of the voltages, I either can't get back into windows(too low of a voltage) or when I do get into windows my Vcore is all the way up to 1.5... Is there any advice on where to start? I currently have the offset at ".1" for both of them, but that isn't working at all.

Thanks,
Ryan

[adreamofironice]

Any advice guys?

[HiVizMan]

May I suggest you re-read RAJA's guide on using offset. It is in the maximus forum, and the prinicples do not change, nor do the settings if I recall. Once you have done that I am pretty certain you will have worked out what you are currently doing that is not giving you the outcome you want.

All I do is set my core voltage quite low for 24/7 use and then add a healthy dollop of added voltage for when I have all my threads maxing out on a 3D render say.