First OC - Is it safe.

Stanman67 · 22 Sep 2009 at 12:06

I've tried my first over clock and temps are 47 idle, have not tried load yet. left everything on auto apart from

CPU Ratio 20
BCLK 200
CPU volt 1.30V
and dram 2000MHz (OCZ 1600MHz thought I would OC and see
what happens

)
Seems OK but temps look bit high
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o169/Stanman_Photoman/mbd.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o169/Stanman_Photoman/CPU.png

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o169/Stanman_Photoman/ram.png

Admiral Huddy · 22 Sep 2009 at 12:11

Well you won't know until you stress it because speedstep has dropped the multiplier down to 12x.

Run Orthos on all cores for a decent stability check. The worse that will happen is that it will force a reboot or the test will stop with a fail. The Gromacs test is a good place to start followed by a CPU/RAM combination test (blend).

reygjabla · 22 Sep 2009 at 18:57

Stanman67 said:
I've tried my first over clock and temps are 47 idle, have not tried load yet. left everything on auto apart from

CPU Ratio 20
BCLK 200
CPU volt 1.30V
and dram 2000MHz (OCZ 1600MHz thought I would OC and see
what happens)
Seems OK but temps look bit high
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o169/Stanman_Photoman/mbd.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o169/Stanman_Photoman/CPU.png

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o169/Stanman_Photoman/ram.png

What mobo is it?

DavyBoy · 22 Sep 2009 at 19:27

You will be very lucky if this is stable mate, I don't think it will be stable when you are running 1600MHz RAM at 2000MHz with 9-9-9-24-2T timings..

Like Admiral Huddy said, you will need to stress test your system to find out if you are stable or not.

I recommend using Prime95 Blend Test, and a minimum of 20 passes of LinX using all available memory.

Let us know how you get on.

Though I would suggest you lower your mem multi to 8x so that it runs at its rated speed.

Get your CPU overclock stable first before trying to o/c your RAM.

Stanman67 · 23 Sep 2009 at 13:48

reygjabla said:
What mobo is it?

Its a P6t SE

Cheers Dave, will do that as it was Ok in windows but didn't always boot.
more adjustment needed.

Stanman67 · 30 Sep 2009 at 13:35

Is any one willing to share there OC settings with the above set up?
I7 920 DO
Asus P6T SE and OCZ 1600MHZ ram

DavyBoy · 30 Sep 2009 at 13:47

There are some videos on youtube that tell you how to o/c using the P6T mobos, I think all the P6T range of boards have similar BIOS'es, I can't say for sure as I don't have experience with them personally, but I am assuming they would be the same.

There are other videos on there to, if you goto youtube and search you will find them.

That vid above was done using a C0 i920, so you shouldn't need as much voltage as they have used in the video, but if you watch it, you will get a better idea of all the settings that you need to tweak in order to get a stable o/c.

Good luck mate, let us know how you get on.