Post Your Overclock! [2]

[essenbe]

Intel speedstep is supposed to drop the frequency to 1.6GHz at idle and light usage. When you stress the CPU it jumps up to where you overclocked it. Ivy Bridge is designed to be overclocked by the turbo speed, similar to Sandy Bridge.Try running Prime95 for a while with CPUz and your temp monitoring program open and see what it does, but it should not go down to 800Mhz. I would also suggest leaving the bclk at 100. Raising it will help overclock the CPU, but it also overclocks the PCIE and ram too. I have raised mine too but just for benchmarking and such, but it runs at 100 for every day use. The CPU is a lot tougher than many people realize. As a last resort, I would try to reflash bios, to see if that would help. I had to do that to mine once, but for different reasons.

 

[essenbe]

Use Core Temp. But, that's better than an RMA of the board. Real Temp caused my Sandy Bridge CPU and P67 board to do some funky things. Event viewer kept showing cores shutting down due to heat. It was not happening. It took a while, but I realized that the errors were showing up when I opened Real Temp.

 

[rodpgfx]

I got such a fright, I dropped back to Auto voltage and I'm installing a new windows lol.
I have core temp and I love it, but it don't seem to keep the right voltage, according to
Asus's monitoring software in AI Suite.

 

[essenbe]

It does not show voltage, it shows VID which is something different.

 

[rodpgfx]

Sorry, i meant temps, not voltage. I find the temps are all over the place with core temp

 

[essenbe]

I have always found Core Temp to be pretty accurate. It does differ from the Asus suite, but I don't know if it is true, but I've read that Asus is giving Tcase temps and Core Temp is giving TJ max temps, which are always going to be different.

 

[kbrady1979]

The AI Suite that comes with the Z77 Sabertooth does not show temps correctly.......unless they have fixed it in an update. Also, I find my core temps vary much more when idling, sometimes as much as 8-9*C, but when stressed, all cores level out and are usually within 2*C of each other. I use RealTemp 3.70 and AIDA64, both show temps and both are usually dead on.

Also, if you are fiddling around in the BIOS and saving on exit and the change isn't showing up on a restart try this: Enter BIOS> Load Optimize Defaults(F5 I believe)> Save and Exit(F10)> SHUT DOWN. After you shut down, POWER DOWN your system completely....unplug the power cable from your PSU, and hold the Power On button until the green LED on the mobo goes out. Clear CMOS (If you need help on this step for this motherboard, let me know)> Start back up and go back into BIOS> Load Optimized Defaults again. After performing these steps, you can go into Windows and make sure your system is running correctly and displaying the right values. Then, try out some BIOS changes and see if they are displayed correctly in Windows.

Kelly

 

[Dave76]

Good advice, above.

If that doesn't fix the problem, un-install all the AI Suite programs.
Have seen all motherboard programs, not just Asus, cause a lot of problems. In the BSoD forum, we recommend to un-install them if we see them and it does help in a fairly large percentage of cases.
If there is no difference you can always re-install them, though I wouldn't recommend it, there are a lot of programs that will work better.
Having said that, nearly all monitoring programs have issues on new released boards/chipsets, they usually get fixed at some point.

 

[rodpgfx]

Seem to be having a new problem now. FFS it shouldn't be this difficult to have new stuff.
Now i can't get my volt down. stuck at 1.45 V
Even when set on auto clock!
think i'm gonna flash back the bios

Thanks guys, I'm gonna try resetting the bios and see what happens.

 

[essenbe]

There's always problems with new technology. It takes a while for the developers to catch up. The price you pay for having the newest gadgets. It seems like sometimes, when you set something for a while, it sticks there. That's why I had to flash my bios again. I flashed it to the same bios version and be sure to set optimized defaults after flashing. Also, to me, setting Vcore to auto is like saying take all you want. It will almost always overvolt more than needed. Just my opinion.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I have always found Core Temp to be pretty accurate. It does differ from the Asus suite, but I don't know if it is true, but I've read that Asus is giving Tcase temps and Core Temp is giving TJ max temps, which are always going to be different.

Not always true my HWMonitor and Core Temp are the same as the ASUS monitor I have running if any difference it is 1c-2c if any but to me they are dead on

if you look at my cpu /mb temps and my v-core they are dead on

Actualy you are right Essenbe that it does do funky things on certain boards can't denie it but i don't see much of a diffence

 

[rodpgfx]

That's how I see it too. lol
I have flashed my bios to the newest one (one I already had).
Everything seems ok now, going to try oc'ing now, leaving my voltage around 1.25 V
I should get 4.2 at least

 

[Solarstarshines]

That's how I see it too. lol
I have flashed my bios to the newest one (one I already had).
Everything seems ok now, going to try oc'ing now, leaving my voltage around 1.25 V
I should get 4.2 at least

That's the ticket

Like me and Essenbe stated it is dead on and should be pretty accuarate
if it comes out funky could just be conflicting programs

Also keep in mind slim down on the Monitoring Apps you use

Some of them produce debunked results

Just keep with the basics we use around here ,I used speed step one time and it told me my system was temps that should be mars like ,everyone knows it would have been on fire some of these programs were made a long time ago as well

 

[essenbe]

Solar, AMD has only 1 temp sensor. So, any program that reads it should be the same, or very close. That's why core temp only gives you 1 temp. Intel is different.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Solar, AMD has only 1 temp sensor. So, any program that reads it should be the same, or very close. That's why core temp only gives you 1 temp. Intel is different.

Yeah I understand that but he should know the cores will show different from each one but they shouldn't be that far off from each other either

if he is reading the MB /CPU sensors then it should be dead on like my example if he is refering to core temp then I appologize

 

[essenbe]

Well, the truth is, I don't know. But, The software in the Asus suite reads 1 temp, which at least implies, that it is showing Tcase (the temp in the center of the CPU). Core temp and real temp and other programs are reading TJ Max, the temp of each core. They can differ to a large degree. I have 2 Sandy Bridge CPUs and have/have had 3 Ivy Bridge CPUs. All of them have had 1 core that was 10C lower than the other 3. The cores are close at idle, but under stress, 1 core is 10C lower than the other 3. I've heard some explanations, but how true they are, I have no idea. Just like I read that the AI SUITE reads Tcase. I don't know if that is true, but it does just give 1 CPU temp. Just my 2 cents.

 

[rodpgfx]

Yeah, and I have heard AI Suite cases a lot of problems with AMD setups while running. I hope it runs good with intel. I love the program

 

[rodpgfx]

Actually, the part of AI Suite I love is thermal Radar.
It's part of AI but installs independently.
So far, so good.
It came with my board, and is on the ASUS site

 

[Solarstarshines]

Actually, the part of AI Suite I love is thermal Radar.
It's part of AI but installs independently.
So far, so good.
It came with my board, and is on the ASUS site

what chip are you really using

 

[rodpgfx]

Do you mean processor?
I have i7 3770k
right now i'm running it at 4.6 ghz at 1.25V and thats far enough for me
Not that up on overvolting everything.
Would like to learn though