show your sandy bridge 24/7 clocks and volts

Just started overclocking my i7-2600k.

Thought I'd start at 4GHz and see how it goes.

This is with Prime95 running:

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N.B. Still on stock cooler as my H60 didn't arrive today. :(

I've set the VCore manually to 1.180. It's flipping between 1.168 and 1.176 under load. This seems quite low compared to what people have been posting on here. Should I increase it a bit?

Pretty much everything is set to Auto in the BIOS, except for DRAM timings, BCLK, Turbo multiplier and VCore. Is there anything else I should set manually?

Cheers. :cool:
 
I started at 1.120 and I've been stepping it up in increments of 0.005. At 1.120 it wouldn't even POST and it's been getting a bit further with each increment.

I've had it at 1.180, running Prime95, browsing the web and moving files around for about an hour so there's plenty of time for it to BSOD yet. :D

Does the PLL voltage matter? I read a guide that said it should be Disabled but I've left it on Auto.
 
koooowweeee said:
does anyone else clock with bclk? mine is @104 to get my ram closer to its stock speeds of 2000mhz its at 1940 now
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no, no, no never touch bclk at all ! 104 ? you will going to kill the chip as soon as possible (time will tell) go back to 100 to be on your safe side ! Can you afford to buy another i7 2600K ?
 
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bulldog147 said:
no, no, no never touch bclk at all ! 104 ? you will going to kill the chip as soon as possible (time will tell) go back to 100 to be on your safe side ! Can you afford to buy another i7 2600K ?
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chips will come with a 1-3 year warrenty. no one will no if it has died due to overclocking, so its not whether you can afford to buy another one, its whether you want the hassel of RMA and waiting for a new chip.
but so far everything about these chips is not officially known. some people have had success going against the 'norm' but time will tell whether or not it does any damage. for all we know the chips that oc using BCLK might outlive all the high multiplier overclocks.
 
bulldog147 said:
no, no, no never touch bclk at all ! 104 ? you will going to kill the chip as soon as possible (time will tell) go back to 100 to be on your safe side ! Can you afford to buy another i7 2600K ?
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Have not heard of any major problems with a slight Bclk overclock and know many people who are running 104-105 with no apparent issue.
 
Justintime said:
Have not heard of any major problems with a slight Bclk overclock and know many people who are running 104-105 with no apparent issue.
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yeah I did saw that on other forum. I just think that both ocuk and intel only metion of safer 24/7 in use and this is the probably reason why they kept below 1.350v and kept bclk at 100!
 
I think for the most part most chips will survive their usable lifetime at around 1.4v, there maybe a few odd failures on weak chips but i'm betting 5yrs down the line the failure rate will be miniscule on overclocked chips. Anyhow enough of this silicon talk, going to play with some silicone within the hour if i play my cards right.. ;)
 
Justintime said:
I think for the most part most chips will survive their usable lifetime at around 1.4v, there maybe a few odd failures on weak chips but i'm betting 5yrs down the line the failure rate will be miniscule on overclocked chips. Anyhow enough of this silicon talk, going to play with some silicone within the hour if i play my cards right.. ;)
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i hope you ask her permission first :p
 
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