Thanks Big.Wayne for starting this very interesting thread, there are some great overclocks here. I'm excited to submit my preliminary results.
I've left Intel completely this week and this is my first ever attempt at clocking an AMD chip, so bear with me please if I've missed anything out/require further clarification!
First, a bit of necessary spec info not included in the screenshot:
Crosshair III Formula (1503)
2x2GB G.Skill Ripjaw PC3-12800 (7-8-7-24 @1.6V) DDR3
Corsair H50 in an Antec P182SE (quiet but airflow isn't exactly optimal yet)
I bought this CPU from HeX on these very forums, who has had good results with it. I, however, had to use 1.4375V to get 3.8GHz stable (as above). Stable is so far defined as just the IBT test above, not prime yet, though I realise this will be very necessary for a 24/7 clock for me, and as such I will perform it when I'm happy with the clock for further tweaking.
3.8 with these settings is not stable at 1.4250V, but the system was stable on stock volts (1.4000 VID) at 3.7GHz (18.5x). Is there anything I can do to optmise this result?
LLC is set to Auto
A bit more info on voltages:
CPU-NB is running 1.15V
DRAM 1.60V
All others are on lowest settings/defaults when manual control (using TurboV/BIOS), except one which seems to scale automatically with CPU voltage (I can't recall what I was called right now).
Any guidance appreciated, I can't seem to replicate the results of HeX yet, I was rather hoping I could.
Thanks for reading!