Post Your Overclock!

I think you are right Gene, I set the values but it would change them back. In fact it changed almost everything I set. I disabled firewire as I don't use it. It was enabled next time I went in. I think it is Gremlins and the board is possessed.

@Gary, the biggest problem I have is your luck has rubbed off on me. I never have problems like this.

essenbe said:

@Gary, the biggest problem I have is your luck has rubbed off on me. I never have problems like this.

But you've taught me all I know.

Well Gary, you don't know much then. And, yes Gene I saved the settings. Man would I feel stupid if I hadn't. Honestly, I wish I could blame it on something that simple. As tired as I am, I would be taking it back out of the box. I can honestly say, I have never had a board that was bad right out of the box. That is, until I met Gary. Darn him!

essenbe said:

Well Gary, you don't know much then. And, yes Gene I saved the settings. Man would I feel stupid if I hadn't. Honestly, I wish I could blame it on something that simple. As tired as I am, I would be taking it back out of the box. I can honestly say, I have never had a board that was bad right out of the box. That is, until I met Gary. Darn him!

Gene musta caught it too.

I'm beginning to feel very lucky.

I'm glad one of us is. But, I'm happy for you.

The fact that both of you got burned at the same times makes me wonder if they had a bad batch. What revision of the board did you guys get?

profdlp said:

I'll take your word for it smarty. I have to admit that I was glad for a windowless case.

lol, that does help too.

The three I have in my current case (2 CPU, 1 exhaust) are hidden. In a perverse way, I actually miss seeing them like I could in the HAF :)

Britton30 said:

Patrick, my case will have blue LEDs inside so the "puke" effect will be somewhat lessened.

That will help. They tend to 'blend in' okay with most colours from what I've found. Blue will be nice.

Although if the love transition is just not coming, you could always use coloured masking tape on the outer rim as an a cheaper/less destructive alternative to painting.

Actually they look better in hand than in pictures...a little bit.

Congrats, you've passed your transition step - no immediate revulsion!

GeneO said:

with standard LLC. I think I somewhat killed my previous processor with LLC, so I want to keep it at Intel standard.

I'm not sure what setting your P55 LLC default was, but the default on your new board should be Auto/Regular=0% which follows the intel spec.

I had to set a negative .06V Vcore offset to get the load voltage down to near 1.2V. This resulted in very low processor voltages when idle and C1E kicked in. Since these freezes usually happened under light load, I suspect that maybe Vcore dropped too low. [/quote]

Yep. I had drama and Bsod's using -.06, but none around the -.05v mark iirc. I Primed at .03v, but haven't encountered any problems using -.045v offset for a while after using that. It does sound like your idle vcore was just a bit to low.

On M4 + driver front, I know the default Windows iaStor.sys 10.8.0.1013 version is stable. (only because I just noticed I haven't updated that driver yet ) Presuming the drive itself is fault free, that can be ruled out.

So far my take on the BIOS on this MB is it really isn't that accurate. The offset voltages are very strange and for manual setting of Vcore the Vdrop is pretty high.

The reported fluctuations are a tad suspect.

If not, then it might actually be the new architecture in effect. Part of Sandy+this mobo preservation and stability tricks we're not as used to seeing.

GeneO said:

the maximum for the Intel spec for this CPU is 1.56 or thereabouts.

As long as the VCCIO (QPT) stays within the .5 variance of the DRAM voltage, it's good up to around 1.7v. Same variance rule as the older socket.