Come watch me overclock my new system

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Man this thing laggs xD
 
I don't take screens until its actually ran some tests. Change the times to run to somewhere between 20-50 and leave it for an hour or so until it completes.
 
You need SP1 installed to get better scores, something to do with AVX (I think its called). Either way its a component only added in SP1.
 
Sp1 will presumably stress further, and I wouldn't call 2 IBT runs stable, try 20. I know its a long drawn out process but its better to get it out the way now, then later down the line if/when your machine starts to crash.

what motherboard are you using?
 
pgi947 said:
Sp1 will presumably stress further, and I wouldn't call 2 IBT runs stable, try 20. I know its a long drawn out process but its better to get it out the way now, then later down the line if/when your machine starts to crash.

what motherboard are you using?
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Asus Crosshair IV extreme-Z

A pain in the ass to OC with as it automatically overvolts for you, but pretty cool features elsewhere xD
 
Yeah its the same with all asus boards, that board Should have the same UEFI bios layout as my p8z68, go into the bios, have a usb thumb drive plugged in and take screens of all your OC settings (F12 I think) and post them up.
 
I will as soon as I finish downloading sp 1 (97% complete)
I need to clock my ram up, it's running at 1600 according to bios (900 according to CPU-z) but it's built to run at 2133
 
If cpu-z says its running at 900mhz, then its running at 1800mhz (Double Data Rate). Set your memory profile to manual and then 2133mhz.
 
Everything looks fine, with the exeption of your voltage, its set to manual - auto, it needs to be either manual - manual or offset - manual to gain control of the voltage settings.

Are there no settings for LLC/Phase/Duty/CPU Compat.?

That setup is slightly difference to the p8z68 bios, not by allot though.
 
pgi947 said:
Everything looks fine, with the exeption of your voltage, its set to manual - auto, it needs to be either manual - manual or offset - manual to gain control of the voltage settings.

Are there no settings for LLC/Phase/Duty/CPU Compat.?

That setup is slightly difference to the p8z68 bios, not by allot though.
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There might be, I probably just can't find it, yeah I have control over all the voltages now, and I went back to stock settings to try and OC high with lower voltages.

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Why are my gflops still so low now that I'm running sp1?
 
Could be a bug with IBT 2.4? try IBT 2.5.2 and see if its still the same, alternatively see what LinX gives.
 
I actually only run 1 hour of prime then I use it for a week gaming/encoding. If it stays stable on what I do every day for a week without a bsod I class that as stable for my use. I saw something earlier in this thread about hang ups may happen later. Does this mean that even though it is stable for my use now it may very well start to bsod at a later date doing the same stuff? I find hours of BC2 a pretty good game for testing if its stable as it uses all 4 cores.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but curious as I am a noob at overclocking but I like to learn and listen to advice. I understand people say you must run hours of tests, but also you will never use your machine pushed like the stress tests do for that amount of time, hence why I do a full week making sure I game and encode like normal. Touch wood 2 weeks from new, overclocked and no bsod's, I must be able to class that as stable for my needs?
 
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