5960X Overclocking

Snodge · 28 Dec 2015 at 19:43

Good afternoon, I've recently purchased a 5960k, gigabyte x99 Ud4, 16gb of team dark 3000mhz ram it's currently in a watercooled loop just for the CPU.

After hours on prime my hottest core was 55 degrees so I'm deciding to overclock it nothing major but I was wondering if you had the rough settings for me just to get to say 4.2 if something higher is easily achievable that'd be great.

Any sort of input would be fantastic.

I've tried multiple times however just can't get it stable it's not as simple as increasing the vcore with x99 unfortunately for me

mattup · 28 Dec 2015 at 19:48

You might find that running your ram ay 3Ghz is affecting the overclock on your cpu?

There are loads of guides on the web have a look and post your settings so we can see what you are running.

Matt

Snodge · 28 Dec 2015 at 20:21

My ram is currently running at 2133mhz.

So it could've been that at the time however I'm not too worried about the ram speed just want higher clocks on my 5960x

StudentDavid · 29 Dec 2015 at 18:14

Took me ages getting mine stable mate, but now 4.6ghz 5960x on an AIO! 24 hours aida stable. My ram is 2666 32gb avexir and running at 2666.

Snodge · 29 Dec 2015 at 21:23

What voltage mate?

Can you screenshot your settings?

Wanna see if I'm missing anything obvious mate.

Snodge · 29 Dec 2015 at 21:23

I'm definitely doing something wrong

mattup · 29 Dec 2015 at 21:37

Snodge said:
I'm definitely doing something wrong

Bro I asked you to show us your settings, don't be lazy.

Matt

StudentDavid · 30 Dec 2015 at 11:40

Snodge said:
What voltage mate?

Can you screenshot your settings?

Wanna see if I'm missing anything obvious mate.

When I get home tonight I will screenshot all of my settings mate and send them across to you. Hope they help.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 30 Dec 2015 at 11:56

I will be on shortly David so will put my settings up if I get a chance before you mate, they are the same anyways.

StudentDavid · 30 Dec 2015 at 12:33

Hi mate didn't know you were back

5960xNvidiaGamer · 30 Dec 2015 at 17:13

Hi David mate, hope you have done your essay!

Snodge · 31 Dec 2015 at 17:35

Yes please guys?

lamboman · 31 Dec 2015 at 22:16

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18645325

Quite old and some of the stuff regarding higher RAM speeds don't apply now (you shouldn't need to move away from the 100MHz BCLK/strap), but that's the best that I've seen for people new to overclocking Haswell-E in general (not just a 5960X).

As per the guide, I'd suggest you set your input voltage and LLC before doing anything else. On my X99-Deluxe massive vDroop made all overclocks unstable and a hell to test. LLC level 7 and it's been stable as a rock, no droop or spikes. On your Gigabyte board I have no idea how this would work however.