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New to overclocking R4E

Baalberith
Level 7
Dear members,

As said above i'm new to the R4E/Core i7 systems.

building my new system:

Intel 3960X
Asus R4E BIOS 1101
32GB Corsair 1866
Corsair AX1200
Corsair H80

After over a week of letting everything run at stock speeds i started to overclock te system. Currently it runs at
4GHz at a VCore of 1.200v, under Prime95 it drops a liitle towards 1.16v, but systems keeps running fine. This i stresstest
for 30mins.

Is this voltage too low to ensure overal stability in gaming ect? The tempsare avg 51C all the time.

One weird thing i "discovered" was that at AUTO setting, the voltage bumped towards 1.37v at idle??

Are the setting i currently use "good" ones, or do i need to look into stuff a little better?

Many thx for any response and help for a newbie at Intel Core i7's

Remco
Intel Core i7 3960X 4.4Ghz @ 1.28v
Asus Rampage 4 Extreme
32GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 Reds
Corsair H80
Corsair AX1200
2 x M4 Crucial 128GB
3 x 2TB WD Black
2 x XFX GTX285 BE
Dell U3011
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UltraNEO_
Level 11
Welcome to the club house.. 🙂

Nice sounding system there, how about some supporting photos of your build 🙂
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UltraNEO* wrote:
Welcome to the club house.. 🙂

Nice sounding system there, how about some supporting photos of your build 🙂


Your just a Hardware porn freak admit it!

Sorry Baalberith, i can't help as im a n00b to Intel as well.

-ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
-Intel i7-3930k @4.42GHz
-16GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 2133MHz
-Corsair Force Series GT SSD 240GB
- 2x 3TB WD Caviar Black (RAID 1)
- XFX ProSeries 1250W PSU
-3x ASUS VE248Q 24" Monitor
- 2x XFX 7970R
- Xigmatek Elysium Black Case
- CORSAIR H100 CPU Cooler
- Logitech G500 Mouse

houndazs wrote:
Your just a Hardware porn freak admit it!

Sorry Baalberith, i can't help as im a n00b to Intel as well.


That I am. However I do like Motorcycles too..
ASUS ROG RVIE Encore| i9-10940x | Dominator Platinum 128GB 3333 MHz | EVGA RTX 2080 Ti SLI | Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVMe (x3)
WD Black 4TB | WD Black 6TB x2 | EVGA 1600 P2 | CaseLabs SMA8 | Custom Water Cooling | HWLabs Black Ice Nemesis GTX 560
XSPC RX 480 v3 | XSPC D5 Vario x2 | EK Blocks | EK-RES X3 400 | BitsPower Fittings | GentleTypoon 1850 x12 | Corsair SP140 x8 | Lamptron CM615

Twitch.tv/MsNikita | Twitter.com/MsNikitaTV | Instagram.com/MsNikitaTV | Reddit.com/r/MsNikitaTV

Im not quite sure what i need to think of the 2 above comments....
Intel Core i7 3960X 4.4Ghz @ 1.28v
Asus Rampage 4 Extreme
32GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 Reds
Corsair H80
Corsair AX1200
2 x M4 Crucial 128GB
3 x 2TB WD Black
2 x XFX GTX285 BE
Dell U3011

Baalberith wrote:
Im not quite sure what i need to think of the 2 above comments....


Think what I did, SPAM and BAN = GONE
To help us help you - please provide as much information about your system and the problem as possible.

HiVizMan wrote:
Think what I did, SPAM and BAN = GONE


Yes, thats a quick way to handle things 🙂
Intel Core i7 3960X 4.4Ghz @ 1.28v
Asus Rampage 4 Extreme
32GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 Reds
Corsair H80
Corsair AX1200
2 x M4 Crucial 128GB
3 x 2TB WD Black
2 x XFX GTX285 BE
Dell U3011

HiVizMan
Level 40
Welcome to Club ROG

A very good place to start your journey to over clocking bliss is to read the guide http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?5835-ASUS-Rampage-IV-Extreme-UEFI-Guide-for-Overclocking all the cool stuff is in that article.

Take your time and work through it and if you get stuck or need some help with any of the bits, just ask and one of these fine ROG fellows will be more than willing to help out.
To help us help you - please provide as much information about your system and the problem as possible.

Tested new system, all runs rock solid.
Using an overclock of 4.0ghz for 24/7 use at idle temps of 34C, and load of 55C
This all at 1.2v (somehow on auto it wanted to go up towards 1.4v ??)
I Stopped at 4.4ghz for the fun of it, but im sure ill get it much higher 🙂

Used some tips from the UEFI overclock guide, and this is the best build for me ever 🙂
Intel Core i7 3960X 4.4Ghz @ 1.28v
Asus Rampage 4 Extreme
32GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 Reds
Corsair H80
Corsair AX1200
2 x M4 Crucial 128GB
3 x 2TB WD Black
2 x XFX GTX285 BE
Dell U3011