kz9's Overclocking Adventures.....

[kz9]

Ok so now with a little more knowledge on this OC stuff, I have decided to post up some of my successes, but mostly failures....lol


Ok first off the rigs, so people know about them.


Gaming

Asus Sabertooth X79
i7 3930k @4.7GHz
Corsair H100
32GB Patriot Viper DDR3-1866
Asus GTX 580
OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 (os)
OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 (Games/Programs)
OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 Cached with a 2TB WD Cavier Green HHD
300GB WD HHD
Seasonic X760


24/7 Rig

Asus Maximus lV Extreme
i7 2600k @ 4.1GHz
Antec Kuhler 920
16GB GSkill RipJaw DDR3-1333
EVGA GTX 550 (2GB)
OCZ 240GB Vertex 3 (os/programs)
2TB WD Cavier Green HHD
1050w PSU - Enermax?


So I was told not to use the AI suite crap and use CPUID. I have that installed on both rigs now and I also got the 64-bit Prime95.

I was worried about the 24/7 rig as I bought it off a guy used. He said it wont boot and come to find out it was a bad stick of RAM. Replaced and OC'c it to 4.6GHz at first, then backed it off to 4.1GHz and it has been solid, and running Prime95 right now and core temps are around 65'C and Socket at 47'C.

I was at first confident in the Gaming Rig at 4.7GHz because of the fact I never got BSOD of frezze ups, except from a bad SSD. It would run games no problems, but I should have known this doesn't make it stable.

I installed Prime95 and tried to run that.

No go......lol

BSOD before it even started any test....lol

Sombitch, now I have to figure this out.....

Hmmmm,

[HiVizMan]

Please re-flash your BIOS. I think you have a partially corrupted bios.

Try the CLEAR Cmos first and if that fails then please do a re-flash.

[kz9]

Ok will do.

I actually got the setting to take and not double boot when I maually inputed my voltages. This is how I had it before, but not stable durning testing. With the voltages below I should be able to run 4.6 no problems, but yet I can't.

[kz9]

Won't take a clock. Its double boots and resest to the first set of screen shots.

Going to run memtest again, but I think I might have to RMA something.

[kz9]

Re-flashed, now I can't set it to what I had before. Also when I F10'd it beep 3 times at me, then shutdown.

I might have an issue.....

Going to clear CMOS and try again.....

[HiVizMan]

Do a full CMOS clear and leave the battery out for at least 2hours

Then F5 enter

F10 enter

Flash to BIOS of your choice and see how it goes.

[kz9]

I hope this works. I just find it very wierd that I can't clock to 4.6 stable. My other rig does that just fine, and it costed me a 1/4 of the price, 2 less cores, slower memory......

[kz9]

Update....

Still not right, but at least I can boot into windows.

I am running @ 4.5GHz @ a Vcore/VTTCPU of 1.35 and stock DDR3 timings/voltage amd LLC set HIGH.

Failed Intelburn after 60secs. Max Temp was 70'c

WTF....lol

I guess I'll tweak the voltages a bit to get this stable. At least it tweakable....

[kz9]

Ok so I got 4.5GHz stable now. Max temp 71'c for 10min.

My question is when it comes to DRAM voltage, how high is too high? To get this stable all it took was a increase of 0.005.

So in theory I have to raise my DRAM voltage as I increase my clock aswell? This might be a newb question I know, I tried to look it up first before I asked....

[HiVizMan]

Yes and no is the only answer. There are no universal rules besides the laws of thermodynamics. Let me explain.

Each CPU is different. No two CPU's will require the same settings for optimal system performance at any given frequency.
IMC (memory controller) is on die, part of the CPU.
Since no two CPU are the same, no two IMC are the same.
IMC controls how the ram works there for settings will be unique for each CPU.
DDR Ram is never the same even within the same product range and model.
Therefore universal settings are merely starting points.
Each configuration will require personalized settings for that system configuration.

Hope that makes sense. 🙂

[kz9]

No, that makes sense.

I was able to run Intelburn lastnight on maximum for 8hrs no problems. MAX temp was 81'C, So I got it stable now.


Only thing now that is wierd is CPUID is only showing sticks in slots 1-5 and at a 1066mhx freq, but has 32GB....? Going to re-DL this program and see if that works.


UPDATE: Did not change a thing. Should I worry about this? I tried SIW too and it only shows 1-5 slot having memory at a lower freq, and has error saying BIOS is reporting wrong values?