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If you are testing for stability NoN, then you will soon reach a limit especially if you are using IBT. But I think I can safely say most of the top 10 runs on the leaderboard were not 100% stable OC's. I can run 5GHz stable, but temps were very close to the Tj max.
Precisely! Adding a lot of vcore and booting long enough for a few screen shots is not a stable overclock. 8 hours of P95 blend on all cores is a stable clock. My chip can do 4.62 at 1.404 vcore 24/7. I can boot up to 5.2+ but it needs more vcore, and more vcore is adding a lot of heat. I'm happy with 4.6 and a 30C temp.
Ohhh you are SO right Gary, I went for a small overclock, disabled all the power saving, cool and quiet etc default voltages and set it for 4Ghz from 3.5Ghz (4Ghz being the turbo speed) and it was absolutely fine. Booted to windows and everything was OK temps were no different about 18C to 20C on idle. I think I have my CPU fans set for silent operation on the push pull Coolermaster Hyper 212, did not think to look. So I threw Prime 95 64 bit at the system on all cores and after about 20 mins or so the temp reached 59C and the Asus Temp monitor tool turned red on the CPU temp and flashing so I stopped Prime and the temps came down rapidly. I'll have to look and see how the fans are configured in the bios, both of them are 4 pin types and shift plenty of air I wonder if water cooling is the way to go? I don't think I'll bother with that, just means I'll have to get a 4Ghz part and upgrade another machine. No matter what I do with this Sabretooth board it defaults to clock the CPU at 3.7Ghz in any case.
OK how are these temps. The one I am concerned about is read by CPUID Hardware monitor 64C . Got the fans running better. The temp read by Core temp is 49 - 50 C, which temp is which?
The 64c reading is your socket temp and the lower is the core temp. Only use one software to monitor temp's as more than one program polling the same sensor will cause conflict's/miss-reading's. 65c is the max core temp and 70c is the max socket temp for your cpu so you're not going to hurt anything at the temp's you have but as you know the cooler the better.
Last edited by ganjiry; 20 Nov 2013 at 04:13.