First overclock help

[Kerplunk]

Super thermal grease zalman am-stg1

It's all I got lol

 

[Martini1991]

I like that Zalman stuff lol, is it the one that gets applied with that little brush?

 

[Kerplunk]

Yeah haha

 

[Kerplunk]

Ok, reseated cooler and applied more thermal grease... ran the same test, i assume that is better?

 

[Martini1991]

Well, you've dropped like 20c, yes that's better

 

[Kerplunk]

Ok, so is it now just a case of increasing the the CPU ratio until it errors or do I need to alter some voltages?

 

[Martini1991]

Bit of both.

 

[Kerplunk]

Cool, cheers

Is it the CPU voltage I would put higher? and what about DRAM voltage? is that ok to leave as it is?

 

[Martini1991]

I'd try lowing DRAM voltage to 1.5v if your RAM can run at 1.5v.
CPU Voltage is the one to put higher yeah.

 

[Kerplunk]

Up to 4Ghz and 63 degrees so far so good

 

[Kerplunk]

Hmm ok now up to 4.5ghz and still going strong...am I doing this right??

I don't want to get to 5GHZ then have the thing blow up in my face Lol :|

 

[Martini1991]

Well, you're not doing proper stress testing that's for sure lol, as it would be a lot longer.

 

[Kerplunk]

Im doing a 20 min test for each...what would you recommend I do?

 

[Martini1991]

Well, IBT using the AVX instruction set running maximum RAM, 20 runs each.

When I get an unstable overclock, it generally happens under idle with SB, as the voltage isn't always the same, due to LLC under load it'll increase, so I might get 4.8GHZ to pass 50 runs of IBT max using the AVX instruction set, but it'll BSOD idle.

 

[Kerplunk]

Ok, first error, OCing to 4.6 and it doesnt boot ! 4.5 is fine

So now I alter the voltage ?

 

[Martini1991]

Yes.
But you still need to do longer stress testing lol.