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If you lower the HT Link and NB Freq, then raise the RAM freq multiplier does that work and maintain your CPU overclock?
As Essenbe told me, overclockong is more art than science.
Last edited by tw33k; 26 Nov 2011 at 16:34.
Know how you feel. Oddly those setting are a bit better than your other snip with 7-8-7-21 timings.
Aside from a 'quick' vcore/temp test, I don't really trust IBT and variants (ie LinX) all that much when it comes to stability. With previous chips I've had them @ 20-50 pass runs that breezed through the tests only to BSOD in certain games/apps etc.
5 runs is equivalent to a single pass of memtest for proper testing, comparatively speaking. (Not definitive )
But it's been 'Skyrim' stable so far, so that's a bonus. It's also a more interesting 'stress test' than P95 :)
Well I managed 4.8Ghz with it.
I also managed x50 5.0 Ghz. It booted and loaded everything in Windows without issue..
But, it wasn't completely stable though.
Under Intel Burn Test, it would freeze and BSOD on the very first test.
It was probably stable enough to get a CPUz Validation but ... thats cheating IMO if not truly stable.
I was sitting at x50 Multi and 1.4volts, (1.39 in bios) so maybe a vCore of 1.44-1.45 would stabilize it enough to get a few IBT runs in at that speed.
But, Im not sure Im comfortable with that kind of Vcore especially for a 24/7 OC.
That and at 4.8, it was already around 77C, and that was at a 1.36 vCore.
So once it started crapping out at 1.4 vCore I just stopped right there, since that was my personal limit for a bench run.
At least I know its possibly capable of it. From reports Ive seen, most need something around 1.5v for any stability at x50.
Im thinking maybe this CPU would run 5.0 at around 1.44-1.46ish.
~~~ Oh, and these benches were run with all 4 cores/8threads enabled.
I am think without Hyperthrteading it would probably be a bit easier.