Post Your Overclock! [2]

[essenbe]

I'll leave the LN2 to the 'big boys'. I'm happy with 4.6 where I run it all the time. I just wanted to see if I could hit 5. I did it, so I'm happy now. Vcore is easy to set, but there are a lot of other settings that affect it.

 

[Layback Bear]

That motherboard is more like work than fun.

 

[Britton30]

Plus motherboard manuals are little to no help. Example, say there is a Qflux setting, all it tell you is click this to enable it or that to disable, no explanation of what the Qflux is.
I just made up Qflux.

 

[A Guy]

Qflux

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

Really, I made it up, lol!

 

[tom982]

If you've got a spare flash drive (FAT32) lying around, you could take some pics of your BIOS settings and post them here if you'd like. I/we could have a look and see if we can help lower some volts and settings here and there. Up to you mate

Either way, good luck with it.

Sorry for the (really) late reply mate! My PSU developed a fault with the fan (it made a really irritating noise when idling or at load) and I had to RMA it, the replacement came yesterday and I fitted it today. So far so good

Thanks for the kind offer! I need to update my BIOS to 1504 first, but I'll take some photos when that's done. Thanks again, really appreciate it

 

[smarteyeball]

No worries mate

 

[ganjiry]

This bios confuses the crap out of me. This is my 3rd UEFI bios board so, I felt like I had some understanding of how it works until I saw this one. It has more optioins than the other 2 combined. It even has options for using LN2. The options for setting ram timings is about 6 pages long. When they named this board 'Extreme' they meant it.

lmao! welcome to R.O.G bios's. i was totally lost when i'd first seen mine lol. most of the settings are just gobble dee gook to me

 

[smarteyeball]

When did you go the Maximus V route Steve :huh:


Sorry, RL got in the way of noticing. Kudos mate

(I've been looking at grabbing a Z77 board. This was on my list)

 

[essenbe]

When did you go the Maximus V route Steve :huh:


Sorry, RL got in the way of noticing. Kudos mate

(I've been looking at grabbing a Z77 board. This was on my list)

It's been a fantastic board for me. 1st one worked right out of the box, booted first try. That is saying something with my luck. I can only promise you one thing. If you want to adjust something, anything, there is an option to do it. You'll just have to forget everything you know and start learning over again. This bios is crazy.

 

[Hopalong X]

Steve and other interested parties. This may be helpful.

xtremeforums> ASUS Maximus V Forumla/Extreme Official Support Thread

 

[Britton30]

Steve and other interested parties. This may be helpful.

xtremeforums> ASUS Maximus V Forumla/Extreme Official Support Thread

:shock:Woo-eee that thing does have a load of settings!

 

[essenbe]

I think that is a re post from the ROG forums. It does have a lot of settings. If you can think of it, there is a setting for it. And several more for things you never thought of. It has VCCSA, and VCCIO, and then VCCIO #2, then it also has 2 offset voltages for the IMC. What does all that mean?

 

[Britton30]

That guide should explain it, I didn't read it that well though. IMC is Internal Memory Controller.

 

[tom982]

No worries mate

I've finally got round to putting the pictures up Any suggestions on what to change?

 

[Terronium 12]

I see Steve is still bragging about his 5GHz clock.

I didn't even get a chance to mess around with the offset this past weekend. I am going to try for 4.6 tonight though using 1.34v. If it fails again I'm going to cry.

 

[essenbe]

I see Steve is still bragging about his 5GHz clock.

I didn't even get a chance to mess around with the offset this past weekend. I am going to try for 4.6 tonight though using 1.34v. If it fails again I'm going to cry.

That post was a week ago when I did it.

Here's a good link on Overclocking an Ivy Bridge. It was done on an ROG board, a Genie I think, but all Asus boards have about the same options, I believe. You and Tom may find it interesting. It gives exact settings.

 

[smarteyeball]

No worries mate

I've finally got round to putting the pictures up Any suggestions on what to change?

Thanks for those

► Change AI Tuner to manual.

► Use a + offset for vcore. With a little adjusting you will finda setting that mimics your manual. The plus side is the with c1E, Speedstep enabled, your chips clocks and volts will drop at idle. less power used, less temps. The 1155 moboo and chip range works phenomenally well with Overclocking and power saving enabled.

Start with around +0.0400. Don't be afraid to get up to the 0.0800 range. Monitor temps and stability.


*Optional*

Use less CPU PLL. ie 1.7v
Disable CPU Pll overvoltage. (currently set to auto in BIOS).

 

[essenbe]

Tom, one more tip. If, while you are at a stable voltage in manual mode. Run Prime and open cpuz and Core Temp. After everything stabalizes, note the vcore in Prime and the VID in core temp. Subtract the vid from your Vcore and that should be your offset, or at least +/- .005 of what will be a stable offset.

 

[Terronium 12]

Still working on this (and I'll actually remember to tonight) and my first go wasn't successful whatsoever but I believe that had more to do with my choice of LLC than anything else; my board refuses to like ultra high under any circumstance.

Reminds me of my old P35 UT T2RS not liking any more than .67x GTL. Fussy, fussy, fussy.