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[QUOTE=ganjiry;1893283]okey dokey chap cheers ive noticed that when i type in a certain value in voltage say with the vcore i typed in 1.350 i hit enter and it changes to 1.344v.
as u say 4.4 is close enough. most reports ive seen are saying around 4.5/ 4.6. i havent seen many over that.
core temp isnt reading newer cpu's right. i stopped using it as it was telling me my cpu was 14c lower than it was so i had to set an offset which made me disstrust it. it also said my fx cpu was an engineering sample. after trawling loads of forums it turns out that the apps to trust with the bulldozer is aida x64, cpuid hw monitor(not open hardware monitor) amd overdrive. if u have an asus board the suprisingly asus ia suite II is bang on with volts and temps but i got rid of that too. more to have runnin in the background. which reminds me, if i had asus ai suite running n then opened hw monitor. ai suite would start chuckin out silly warnings to say my cpu/nb was @ -115c or a case fan was @ 0rpm
i just use aida x64 n hav it display all the important stuff on the onscreen display which i didnt know it could do untill the other day lol. been using it over a year too lol which reminds me i have a couple of engineer keys for it if anyone wants to use
Reason why i say it is my sweet spot because even though i disable C6 it will not give me extra v-core in order to get over 4.5 Ghz stable you need atleast 1.45 vlts
Im limited and trying to get a extra 200mhz isn't worth it me Oc'ing the ram will make it perform just as fast as it was 4.5 4.6 Ghz Besides if you read about the 8120 most of them Oc to 4.4 Ghz with no Headaches it is after that the headaches begin Besides i chose this chip because the specs were besicly the same as the 8150 which is $ 50.00 More
Which most people with the that chip getting at best 4.5 Ghz
Some of these post your reading of people getting sick overclocks is not what it looks like most of the time it is one or two cores while the others are shut down
These chips have a core control feature you can shut cores down for higher clockings and that is why you see such high clocks there not use-ing all cores
I got a legitimate Oc on all cores I hope i've gotten you curious lol
I still testing the best method to Oc besides use-ing just the Multiplyer I seem very solid with these settings Multi-20 Fsb-220mhz Ram Oc-from 1600mhz to 1760mhz via Fsb no voltage change on the Dimms they run fine at that speed any higher then i would need to bump the volts so far 24/7 running great WEI and stable prime all 8 cores
By the way when you enter a value and it goes lower then set it is called V-droop or V-drop you have to increase more to give it the stable number you are looking to hit that is when the LLC and C1 C6 states come into play if your not familliar with them then dont bother them cause you will be asking for trouble
But if you up the voltage like 1.36 it will show 1.35- 1.34 or 1.33 depending on the droop