Post Your Overclock! [2]

[Solarstarshines]

That is a good looking card. I'm thinking about cheaping out and sli'ing with another 660, always wanted to try it

Once you start doing that any new GPU your going to want two of

it's not the same going from one to two when I first crossfired 2x 6870s man I fell in love

the performance was sick and that was a mid range card too

 

[Dude]

Okay guys, here is what I'm doing, looking for advice here. Here are my current bios settings. From here I change to enable adjust cpu ratio in OS save and reboot and use MSI control center. I have changed the multiplier to 52, and the cpu vcore to between 1.36 and 1.39. Im using sa @.970, PLL @1.84, I/O @ 1.07 CPU core expander to enhanced. Any reccomendations on changes?

 

[kbrady1979]

No clue Doug.........never dealt with MSI boards before. Well, not for overclocking anyway.

 

[Dude]

Yeah, I should get an ASUS, or make a ASUS to MSI translator. I like being the lonewolf MSI guy here though

 

[AddRAM]

That`s why I no longer use my MSI board

I never understood why the OC Genie didn`t make the necessary adjustments for you when I tried to go over 4.4 GHz. I thought that was the whole purpose of the software.

But you`re the one who got me to 4.8 on my MSI board, so if there`s anyone here who can figure it out, it`s you

 

[Dude]

Yeah, if you could have hung you could have got 5.0 .. OC genie was only made to get 4.2 on Z77, the newer generation goes to 4.6. I never used it, prefer to do it myself

 

[kbrady1979]

I may not know much, but I know the Sabertooth BIOS pretty well lol.....some of the settings/skills are transferable but some aren't.

 

[Britton30]

It's a different language in MSI. We in ASUS don't have "vdroop offset", unless it's just "offset mode. I've not seen "OCP expansion" before.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I know for one when I had my GD-80 Board PLL does nothing for over clocking leave it alone

you should have APS active phase management

You will need to use the MSI Control Center software to go further

If you can't get anymore out of the board in the bios

 

[AddRAM]

Ya, there are way too many settings you can change on the MSI boards.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Ya, there are way too many settings you can change on the MSI boards.

Honestly it isn't that bad but when it comes to real Overclocking through Bios it's very limited

They have super nice looking boards but for people who really want to get the full use out of one will be scratching their heads at the end of the day or do what I did and have a Mofset catch on fire

 

[Dude]

Well I tried some more, still cant get more than 5.3 lol, the chip is good, guess my 5.4 bar is to high. I was really close, did get 5.391 but BSOD came quick. I am really loving the new MB though. It's better overall as I can go straight through the bios and boot at up to 5.1 so far. I am gonna let the goal of 5.4 go for now. I have been benching and realized I can now oc my ram to 2200, with the old board it wouldn't boot past 2133. Ran winsat, didn't score higher so wont bother trying for more, but I thought it was cool I managed another OC higher than before so I'm still happy with MSI

 

[paulpicks21]

That's still not bad Doug, it varies from board to board, I bet even between boards of the same model.

Nice numbers anyway mate

 

[Dude]

Thanks Paul. I'm completely happy with it. I have a solid 4.8 daily running now completely stable.

 

[A Guy]

Good numbers Doug

A Guy

 

[ganjiry]

Nice 1 Doug! Tidy

 

[essenbe]

Nice job, Doug. You can't complain much about that overclock. You're numbers are excellent too.

 

[crankypenguin]

Shouldn't C1E be disabled, I see it's enabled?

 

[essenbe]

C1E should be enabled, C3 and C6 as well as the Package C states should be disabled, at least on Asus Z77 Intel boards. I assume the others of the same chipset too.

 

[Britton30]

Shouldn't C1E be disabled, I see it's enabled?

I think C1E is what allows the Speedstep and Turboi to work.