Results of my 1st attempt at overclocking

Woden · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:48

I am so chuffed this deserves its own thread

4.8GHz stable, settled at 65c on 1.38v (in bios, cpu-z show 1.4 for some reason)

rustynuts · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:49

Very nice. How long you prime95 it for??

Woden · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:50

rustynuts said:
Very nice. How long you prime95 it for??

2 and a half hours. The guide said an hour. Do I need longer?

Neil79 · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:50

Not impressed until intel burn test - HIGH / 20 runs

Mine can do 1.385 @ 4.7GHZ ( 75/77C )

Duderooni · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:51

very impressed, thats some decent numbers.

rustynuts · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:54

The longer the better they say. I usually run for just over an hour while tweeking, then run for about 6 hours for the final stress test.

pgi947 · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:04

Neil79 said:
Not impressed until intel burn test - HIGH / 20 runs

Mine can do 1.385 @ 4.7GHZ ( 75/77C )

This.

Though 10 runs and a few hours on BF3 should suffice

Had a few OC's in the past that were 'prime stable' and then died a horrible death after 2 IBT runs.

Currently at 4.8ghz @ 1.32v (48/52c).

Did have 5.3ghz @ 1.44v for some benches, was a little un-easy heading over 1.42v even under water.

Woden · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:10

IBT so far with 20 runs, all threads and HIGH and it seems to run cooler?

Woden · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:20

IBT 20 runs finished:

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:57

Nice one, now are you brave enough to go for the magic 5Ghz mark?

Woden · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:01

stulid said:
Nice one, now are you brave enough to go for the magic 5Ghz mark?

Nope!

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:02

Run Prime95 for 24hrs, passes that then it stable.

Neil79 · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:16

Woden said:
IBT so far with 20 runs, all threads and HIGH and it seems to run cooler?

Nice

Just to make sure was the overclock staying at it's turbo rated speed of 4.8ghz?, when mine went cooler it was because the CORE LIMIT wattage was too low so it dropped back to default..

GG though

Woden · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:03

Neil79 said:
Nice

Just to make sure was the overclock staying at it's turbo rated speed of 4.8ghz?, when mine went cooler it was because the CORE LIMIT wattage was too low so it dropped back to default..

GG though

I didnt sit and watch it constantly lol, I played GoW3

Kept looking over and never noticed it dropping from 4.8GHz.

wazza300 · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:17

what cooler are you using woden? why not post your bios screens for us

Woden · 28 Mar 2012 at 00:02

wazza300 said:
what cooler are you using woden? why not post your bios screens for us

The overclockers V12 water kit.

Woden · 29 Mar 2012 at 17:06

OK I am having 2 problems that may, or may not be related to my overclock.

I haven't changed anything since yesterday but now MSN keeps crashing and restarting, and my USB speakers keep cutting off. No errors reported, they just stop playing sound until I mute and unmute them.

Prime doesn't crash anything, and 20 runs of IBT on high ran fine. And I can run folding@home with no issues, so I am hoping I didnt do something wrong!

Woden · 29 Mar 2012 at 20:59

OK scratch one, the sound issue is Eve's fault lol.

stulid · 29 Mar 2012 at 21:03

"cough" 5Ghz

"/cough"

Woden · 29 Mar 2012 at 21:11

stulid said:
"cough" 5Ghz "/cough"

I honestly don't think I could get it that fast without topping 75c, which I really don't want to do.