Post Your Overclock! [2]

Damn Steve that's a low Vcore you managed. Do you think it's due to the board or you got a "Golden Chip"?

Paul my bus speed often varies a few tenths like that too, usually 99.x, is I set it to 100.1 in BIOS, then it will go a bit higher than 100.1.

Running the mini-ITX at 4.4.....snappy

That seems rather a lot of voltage to me Alan for that speed. I know every chip is different but I would imagine you should be able to drop that to at least 1.3V and be fully stable, maybe lower.
I don't know how your temps are at 1.48V but they should be considerably lower at 1.3V too.

Paul.

Good call I'll drop it down.

I think there are lots of folks on here with the same CPU as you, hopefully they will chip in with what they run at. I expect you can go lower than 1.3V @ 4.4GHz maybe even down to 1.2V but you will need to have a good play with it to see how low yours will go.

Maybe some deep fiddling with LLC, Offset, or something. Steve got 5.0 at 1.28, I think it was.

Down to 1.288v @ 4400

Alan, my previous chip a 3770K not a 3570K could run 4.3 on stock voltage. If you haven't already, look at this guide
Ivy Bridge Overclocking Guide ? Asus Motherboards#. It works. it is done on a different board, but almost all Asus Z77 boards have the same overclocking options that work the same way. That is the way Kelly has his bios set up and I do too. So the settings work well for either chip. I would suspect you should be able to run at 1.2-1.25V. My 3570K I used to own could do 4.6 at that voltage using those settings. Just some suggestions. But, at the end of the day it comes down to the piece of silicon Intel sent you.

@Paul. the 100.3 is simply I hate to overclock to 5.0 and see CPUz at 4999. It really torques me off. So, 100.3 fixes that. That's the only reason.

linnemeyerhere said:

Down to 1.288v @ 4400

That is certainly a lot better Alan, I bet your temps have dropped a fair bit under load too right?

essenbe said:

@Paul. the 100.3 is simply I hate to overclock to 5.0 and see CPUz at 4999. It really torques me off. So, 100.3 fixes that. That's the only reason.

I figured it would be something like that Steve. Nothing worse than seeing a reading just below what you want lol.

essenbe said:

Alan, my previous chip a 3770K not a 3570K could run 4.3 on stock voltage. If you haven't already, look at this guide
Ivy Bridge Overclocking Guide ? Asus Motherboards#. It works. it is done on a different board, but almost all Asus Z77 boards have the same overclocking options that work the same way. That is the way Kelly has his bios set up and I do too. So the settings work well for either chip. I would suspect you should be able to run at 1.2-1.25V. My 3570K I used to own could do 4.6 at that voltage using those settings. Just some suggestions. But, at the end of the day it comes down to the piece of silicon Intel sent you.

@Paul. the 100.3 is simply I hate to overclock to 5.0 and see CPUz at 4999. It really torques me off. So, 100.3 fixes that. That's the only reason.

I have the same thing with mine. If I set it to 100.00 it will run at 99.xx so I set mine to 10013. Alan, you may be able to go lower, like mentioned each chip is different. My 3570k runs 4.7 @1.21 and 4.5 as shown here