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Yep as Steve says, just needs to be stable long enough to validate
Modest beginnings:
The Z77 OC Formula has something called Nick Shih's Profiles built in that you can just select to OC.
This is Step 0.
One thing I will say is though pillian, at the voltage it's already running for your 3.9GHz, you could quite easily run 4.2-4.4GHz, maybe 4.5GHz.
You could certainly drop it down a fair bit for 3.9GHz maybe to 1.15v or 1.2v
Well I got the voltage as high as I could to stay under 60 degrees in this hot British weather, which happened to be 1.4250 V. I have no idea about RAM timings, ratios and latencies so I just put core clock at 212 and multiplier at 20. Got me this reasonably stable clock:
It runs games and apps perfectly stable, never goes above 50 degrees in everyday tasks (its not like CPU is at 100% load all the time) so I'm happy keeping it at this clock :)
Dom that is pretty impressive That is the highest OC I think you can get with that Chip that's something to shake a stick at
Hi guys,
I seem to have run into a problem with my Z77 OC Formula motherboard.
As you know, I am now running my CPU OC'ed to 3900 MHz and my RAM OC'ed to 1866 MHz.
Now the problem I am having is that no matter what changes I make in the BIOS, they are limited to the BIOS itself.
The BIOS saves any changes I make to CPU speed, voltage, etc, and acts as though those are the active values.
However, when I boot into Windows, I see only the old settings for CPU & RAM speed and voltage.
For eg:
I have the BIOS set to Nick Shih's OC Stage 1 (4000MHz, 40 multiplier - these changes are automatically made when the profile is selected), and CPU voltage offset -0.020V from the stock 1.224.
- BIOS displays these changes
- Windows (CPU-Z and any other tool I use) see CPU speed at the old 3900MHz and voltage at 1.224
The same thing goes with the RAM. I can set a speed, timing and voltage in BIOS, but that change stays in BIOS - it does not reflect in Windows.
What is happening here?