Post Your Overclock!

I think so too Steve, run the games you normally play or video transcoding or? If it holds up it should be okie dokie. That is a bit warm for a 250MHz CPU.

Britton30 said:

I think so too Steve, run the games you normally play or video transcoding or? If it holds up it should be okie dokie. That is a bit warm for a 250MHz CPU.

Well, what the heck do you expect me to do? I increased the multiplier to 2.5. Jeezzzz! But it is rather warm.

And James, I did that last night. Worked great.

Terronium 12 said:

Stopped it at 12 hours, 7 minutes. Think it's safe to slap a "Stable!" sticker on this overclock with a lower PLL.

Next up, 4.7 and trying to stabilize LLC to be lower; it's already being monitored at 1.368 with LLC set to Extreme with an actual voltage of 1.325.

Different board, different bios, different results - but I'm using 50% LLC and it's all good.

essenbe said:

Well, I'm not as hardcore and patient as some of you guys. 8 hours is enough for me. Prime has to be the most boring test there is, with the possible exception of memtest86. I have to work on temps before I go much higher.

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Memtest is the clear boredom winner, but prime is a close second.

As for hardcore, I used to do 20-50 IBT passes and 24hr Prime runs, but my patience is decreasing too. 5-10 For IBT, 12hr for Prime.

Lately I'll prime at a given offset - call it stable - then lower it a bit and just 'real world test it'. Any freezes/BSODs, I bump the setting up.

Ie I primed at +.105, but I lowered it to +.070, had one freeze in Arma 2 - bumped it up to +.085 and so far so good. After the initial Prime test, I simply could not be arsed re-running it.

If I keep encountering freezes - back to the Prime passing Offset. Eventually I do the same to RAM. Lower DRAM volts and vccio, and see how it 'real worlds'.

At least if it plays silly buggers, I have a good idea why.

I've found Aida64 gets my 3770K hotter than Prime does. I generally use Aida64 for stress testing and temp monitoring anyway but found it interesting. Others on another forum have since found the same thing.

yeah, Aidax64 stress test seems to be pretty decent.

Hm. Maybe I'll use that when I try for 4.7 either today or tomorrow.

I doubt I'll hit 5 on my current setup; Ivy runs too damn hot for that. I need my extra 140 rad already!

Terronium 12 said:

Hm. Maybe I'll use that when I try for 4.7 either today or tomorrow.

I doubt I'll hit 5 on my current setup; Ivy runs too damn hot for that. I need my extra 140 rad already!

Yeah, I'm certainly not going for 5 with Ivy...

4.8 maybe... but not 5.

4.7 daily is my current sweet spot.