Post Your Overclock!

I've finally hit the point where a 24/7 4.0ghz+ with no power saving is pointless for me. I thought I'd give overclocking with all power saving features enabled for a change.




3.8ghz 12hrs prime95 blend stable. 6hrs Large FFT stable too.



And then the bloody PC froze the moment I closed tests and temp monitors


Oh yeah, temps aren't stellar because I've got the fans on resistors. I'm happy to sacrifice temps for quiet now.

I've culled over 50% of the rest of the fans when I replaced the Haf with the Lian Li. Bugger all difference in temps overall.

(It sucks though because I bought some Noctua NFP-12's and Nexus Real Silents to replace the noisy LED Zalmans in the Haf a week before I got the Lian Li. The V1020 has 4 case fans - 3 are bloody 140mm without 120mm mounts. I can't use most of them. I have to buy some more. The stock Lian Li front 140mm's in particular are indeed cheap and cheerful.)

Goood smartyeyeball, I can't run Prime95 on any test without getting a restart after 5-30 minutes.
RAM is fairly good although it has seen over 23,000 MBs

Nice one sub styler.
smartyeyeball, that's great ! What's the max temperature that your cpu can be safe? :)

Britton30 said:

Goood smartyeyeball, I can't run Prime95 on any test without getting a restart after 5-30 minutes.

Thanks mate. Ocing and keeping power saving features enabled is indeed a bit of a *******

If you're crashing 5-30 mins in, my immediate thought is insufficient vcore. If BSOD with 101 or 124 error, that's also indicating vcore.

Rule of thumb - Start with CPU, then work on the Ram. Makes it easier to troubleshoot.

StalkeR said:

Nice one sub styler.
smartyeyeball, that's great ! What's the max temperature that your cpu can be safe? :)

67.9 Tcase - 100c core before throttling/shutdown. Anything over 90c during stress testing is when you can panic :)

Aside from my mega attempts, I'm comfortable with anything under 85c during stress testing. Real world, max your likely to see is 60-65c.

I've had the temps lower with much more vcore, but I'm digging the quiet and am happy with the trade off :)



I'm basically trying to find a stable performance/cost operation setup for when I go to 2011 socket and give my sister the old bits. She doesn't need a 24/7 OC apparently

Thanks Patrick, indeed I bumped the Vcore to 1.575 and its using 1.522 and I have it running at 4.2 GHZ, if now I can make it stable. At these setting RAM is back up to 1600MHz which is stock, at 7-8-7-24T. This snip is with Photoshop X64 running.

That's great Britton, excellent job.

essenbe said:

That's great Britton, excellent job.

Thanks, I didn't believe them when I read about it. Darn good CPU, if I don't fry it. I think I'm stopping with this.

Britton30 said:

Thanks Patrick, indeed I bumped the Vcore to 1.575 and its using 1.522 and I have it running at 4.2 GHZ, if now I can make it stable. At these setting RAM is back up to 1600MHz which is stock, at 7-8-7-24T. This snip is with Photoshop X64 running.

If it's not stable, try lowering the RAM frequency to 1333MHz. If that doesn't do it then loosen the timings a little.

Some people have stability issues with AMD CPU IMC (integrated memory controller)at RAM frequencies above 1333MHz.

Hopefully AMD has fixed that issue by now.

Nice one britton, Getting the ram back up to spec speed may even help in keeping you stable

smarteyeball said:

67.9 Tcase - 100c core before throttling/shutdown. Anything over 90c during stress testing is when you can panic :)

Aside from my mega attempts, I'm comfortable with anything under 85c during stress testing. Real world, max your likely to see is 60-65c.

I've had the temps lower with much more vcore, but I'm digging the quiet and am happy with the trade off :)



I'm basically trying to find a stable performance/cost operation setup for when I go to 2011 socket and give my sister the old bits. She doesn't need a 24/7 OC apparently

Aham,thanks for the answer smartey ! :)