TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by mrsemi

Yeah I don't doubt that, just wondering if the ram would ease the pain of higher overclocks/benches. Ya know, I wanna blue screen and reboot 20 times instead of 100 times before I say "Look what my hardware did!"

Well, the hyper x's are rated at 2000MHz unlike the Corsairs which are 1600Mhz. The hyper x's should make it a lot easier when push them, they are rated to run at speeds not many people run their ram at anyways. However, note that the higher you run the RAM, the harder it is to get the system stable and most likely the higher vcore you'll need as the IMC is on the CPU itself. Just a though to keep in mind

[mrsemi]

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

Well, the hyper x's are rated at 2000MHz unlike the Corsairs which are 1600Mhz. The hyper x's should make it a lot easier when pushes as they are rated to run at speeds not many people run their ram at anyways. However, note that the higher you run the RAM, the harder it is to get the system stable and most likely the higher vcore you'll need as the IMC is on the CPU itself. Just a though to keep in mind

Thanks again, could you clarify pushes?

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by mrsemi

Thanks again, could you clarify pushes?

I edited that, mis spelled. I mean when you push them as far as overclock them high.

[mrsemi]

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

I edited that, mis spelled. I mean when you push them as far as overclock them high.

That answers that question, I'll stick with what I've got and avoid the blue pretties till I get more experience. They'd look damn good on my motherboard though.

Any truth to 3x2 working better than 6x1g on oc?

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by mrsemi

That answers that question, I'll stick with what I've got and avoid the blue pretties till I get more experience. They'd look damn good on my motherboard though.

Any truth to 3x2 working better than 6x1g on oc?

I think the more sticks you have the worse it is for overclocking. Not sure on that though, i'll let somebody else answer that for you.

[t_ski]

^ That's always been a general rule. Less sticks + lower density = easier time OCing. For example:

3 x 2GB > 6 x 1GB
3 x 1GB > 3 x 2GB

[mastrdrver]

Anyone let me know if these are good, bad, whatever times given the speed for super pi.

[Asylum]

Got a 4.5Ghz run stable on 3DMark today.
Nothing but my GTX285 but a pretty nice score.

[Binge]

Originally Posted by Asylum

Got a 4.5Ghz run stable on 3DMark today.
Nothing but my GTX285 but a pretty nice score.
http://img.techpowerup.org/091114/3d06.png

agreed, for a 285 that score is stellar. Use vantage tho, NV cards of the GT200 series suck in 06.

[Chicken Patty]

good run asylum

[shevanel]

The gigabyte ud3r i bought from paulieg came in today. happy to say my kingston hyperx is running 1600mhz triple channel(theyre 2000mhz rated but i'll work on that later).. last board only allowed dual and i had to uninstall a stick.



so far everything looks ok but I might have to re-seat my block.. my temps are unusually higher.

[Binge]

You may not want to run them at 2GHz... it's taxing on your system beyond the performance gain.

[shevanel]

yeah i will probably leave them at 1600. I'm happy with where it's at. I just tightened the timings to 6-6-6-18 like it was, i'll see how she acts.

I'm going to have to get that triple rad really soon but I think a re-seat might do good.. my max temp on last board was 65c unless the room was really hot

Funny thing is, this is the third board I've installed onto this same Win 7 (780i, msi x58, gig ex58-ud3r) without a reinstall.. Win7 is tough

[mastrdrver]

Those are some nice volts for a C0.

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by mastrdrver

Those are some nice volts for a C0.

I agree

[Jakethesnake011]

Just ordered a 5970 yesterday, I am not wait to see what it can do in benchmarks, I am hoping for 25k, with my 4.4ghz i7... If not, maybe some more points. I am still having major trouble getting anything on my EVGA classified stable (3d Mark stable) past 4.4ghz.

Now a question about my RAM and Uncore. I want to run RAM at 1000mhz and Uncore at 4000Mhz, what is a good Vtt to be looking at for those values? 1.500V Vtt? Currently I am using 1.375V Vtt for 1600mhz/3600 Mem/Uncore. What is intel's "max" setting for Vtt, 1.55V?

[shevanel]

Originally Posted by mastrdrver

Those are some nice volts for a C0.

i think the llc makes a big difference on this board compared to the msi plat which didn't have the option..

or im lucky.

either way. im using damn near the same settings on the old board as this one except turbo off, and 200 bclk opposed to 190x21 on the other board and slightly less voltage. oh and triple channel

other board would disable turbo therefore dropping the freq. to 3800mhz at load.. not on this board. 4ghz steady @ 100% load

next up.. GPU

for me it's not a matter of an increase in performance going form the other board to this one, its more of piece of mind knowing it's doing what i am expecting/hoping it would do and that's what it's now doing.

[mastrdrver]

How are you all testing game stability?

I was working on a 21x181 and had it lock up on me twice before I reset to stock just to make sure everything was fine. It was.

It would hard lock gaming. Wouldn't take long either. It would reset with reset button on case. Just won't respond to keyboard or reset itself.

[SK-1]

^ Intel Burn Test. It'll play games if it can pass IBT.

[shevanel]

the only time i ever had hard lock on gaming was when either vcore too low, or ram too fast for the timings i had set.

if vcore was perfect and ram was balanced i have 0 issues.

all ive really been playing was l4d2 demo, mw2 and other valve stuff. today when the mailman comes ill be able to run 3dmark and stuff.

the only lock up ive had on this board i was running itb and i had turbo on, gave me 4.2ghz. i suppose i needed more vcore for it to maintain stability and i didnt think it would be worth it so i disabled turbo and been solid ever since

[mastrdrver]

Very possible shevanel, now that I think about it.

Looking back through past stress passes and such, I've ran the vcore higher than when I was having problems. Will have to give that a go and see.

I know the timings are good on the memory cause I've ran at least 12hrs memtest on them at the speeds I'm running so I can run out that.