First Overclocking Results

MrSteven

MrSteven

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Hello

I just finished building my first computer yesterday and Im very pleased with how it went, today I thought id have a look at the overclocking options that came with my Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3 board. I just did a 1 hour test with prime95 and these are the results I got.

System spec:

i7 2600k @ 4.6Ghz
Asrock Extreme4 Gen3
8Gb corsair XMS3 9-9-9-25 1600Mhz
Crucial 128GB m4
ax1200 psu
evga 480's
ft02
venomous x black cou cooler with 2x akasa apache fans


Vcore Minimum - 1.040
Vcore Maximum - 1.360

Temperatures
Core 0 Min 25 / Max 62
Core 1 Min 30 / Max 70
Core 2 Min 28 / Max 69
Core 3 Min 28 / Max 69

Just wondering if these voltages and temps are within the safe range, and if theres anything else I could change to improve on these results (Not looking to go any higher on the overclock just maybe get temps down). I just used the 'automatic' overclock feature thatthe asrock board came with and have not touched any other settings yet.

Also on a side note during the tests core 0 was usually 8/10 degrees cooler than core 1 and core's 2 and 3 somewhere in between, any reason for such a big difference?

Thanks
 
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I do have the fans in push pull configuration yes, pulling cold air in from bottom on the ft02 case and exhasting out the top.

I used core temp, hardware monitor and real temp and the temps I gave you where an average of all 3.

I was wondering as it was my first time building I may have not seated the heatsink correctly or the paste may not have spread properly as I did the pea size method with the heatsink pressing down on it to spread it out.
 
I might try doing it manually tomorrow when i have abit more time. What method of applying thermal paste would you recommend if I am to reseat it?
 
Should I spread the thermal paste over the cpu or just let the pressure of the heatsink spread it out? I used the IC diamond thermal paste but i do have a tube of artic silver 5 aswell.
 
Ok so I reseated the heatsink yesterday and managed to get some testing done today. Instead of using the automatic overclock, I decided to read up on how to do a manual overclock as the automatic ones tend to use to much voltage.

Im now running at 4.4Ghz and these are my results after a few hours of tests.

Vcore minimum - 0.960
Vcore Maximum - 1.270

Temperatures
Core 0 - Min 24 / Max 50
Core 1 - Min 30 / Max 59
Core 2 - Min 27 / Max 57
Core 3 - Min 27 / Max 57

Would you say these results are more reasonable to what I was getting before?

Also on a side not I tried to put the multiplier up to 4.5 but I would get a BSOD in the first few minuted of Prime and if not that one of the works would stop itself. Should I try push for more clock speed and if so what would you recommend doing or should I just leave it at 4.4Ghz as everything seems stable?

Thanks
 
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Yeh I just read that post back and It was ment to say 'I am now running at 4.4Ghz'

I think I will it at 4.4Ghz as all is well!

Thanks for the help Cinder and Pgi :)
 
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