2700k stress test

I use a fixed voltage and LLC.

Yeah well central heating in the winter doesn't exactly help either. Push-pull is definately good to try, just don't spend silly money on fans. Otherwise you might as well sell what you have an upgrade to a Silver Arrow or similar.
 
I've got a spare fan to try, but I am quite tempted to get a silver arrow/noctua.

So your CPU will clock down on idle, but the volts will stay high? How does it affect power usage comparing to clock down and volts down? I might get a power meter and give it a test.

I would like to try LLC because i find the normal + dynamic voltage a bit random.
Its says normal is 1.34, and then I have dynamic on 0.06, so that should make 1.4V, and i actually get 1.336/1.344 under load.
 
Speed said:
Best to just leave them enabled, it lowers idle temps and power consumption which is never a bad thing.



75c is perfectly fine, this is an i7 afterall and not to mention on a rather low end cooler.

I generally use short runs (1 hour) of LinX All Memory and then Prime95 Blend. If it passes an hour of both it is more than likely stable, this is useful when tuning in the overclock and longer runs of both, usually overnight once I'm happy with the speed/voltage.
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Nah! Will leave as is. Idles at 25/30 with my noctua nh-d14 under full load LinX all memory used tops out at 69 C. The only thing I dont like about this mobo is the amount of vdroop it gives under load, which isn't a problem running at 4.6 allthough going for higher overclocks its more crucial. Had the P67A-UD7-B3 before this which was a little over kill for how much I used it and the P67A-UD4-B3 before that which didnt suffer as much vdroop as this board.
 
geeman1979 said:
Nah! Will leave as is. Idles at 25/30 with my noctua nh-d14 under full load LinX all memory used tops out at 69 C. The only thing I dont like about this mobo is the amount of vdroop it gives under load, which isn't a problem running at 4.6 allthough going for higher overclocks its more crucial. Had the P67A-UD7-B3 before this which was a little over kill for how much I used it and the P67A-UD4-B3 before that which didnt suffer as much vdroop as this board.
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Why consume more power when you don't have to, just seems pointless beyond reason.

All this disable Speedstep rubbish that many guide still have are just out dated and irrelevant advice left over from two-three generations back when it made a difference to stability. These days it doesn't and you can leave it all enabled with no issues unless you are aiming for like 5.5GHz or something silly.
 
Speed said:
Why consume more power when you don't have to, just seems pointless beyond reason.

All this disable Speedstep rubbish that many guide still have are just out dated and irrelevant advice left over from two-three generations back when it made a difference to stability. These days it doesn't and you can leave it all enabled with no issues unless you are aiming for like 5.5GHz or something silly.
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+1 Good advice
 
Finally got around to doing IBT Maximum today, and it passed, took about an hour and a half to run. So a 9 hour prime, and an IBT maximum, nice stable overclock at 4.5, hopefully.

Max core is 74 during IBT, average 71. Prime is all under 70. So I will add a fan for push/pull to try to bring it down by a couple of degrees. Keeping the speedstep etc, coz my PC always spends lots of time idle.

Thanks to everyone for their advice :)
 
Moonkey said:
Finally got around to doing IBT Maximum today, and it passed, took about an hour and a half to run. So a 9 hour prime, and an IBT maximum, nice stable overclock at 4.5, hopefully.

Max core is 74 during IBT, average 71. Prime is all under 70. So I will add a fan for push/pull to try to bring it down by a couple of degrees. Keeping the speedstep etc, coz my PC always spends lots of time idle.

Thanks to everyone for their advice :)
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Welldone glad you're making progress. ;)
 
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