Gettin my hands dirty with an hexcore

Dandaman · 23 Aug 2011 at 21:32

Finally got myself a Ncotua NH-D14 cpu cooler so im ready to get down and dirty with my 1100T

I've never overclocked before and after doing some reading on my chip I found various info on increasing the multiplier and the voltage to get a succesful overclock

My aim is to get 4ghz out of this little bugger so today I finally gave it a bash, went into the bios and tried the multiplier method but failed ... changed to 20x and set voltage to 1.425.... syetem booted then bsod after a few mins so I tried gently upping the voltage a few times but nadda and tbh I didn't want to overdo it when i reached the 1.47 area and it still wouldn't work

My rig consists of an Asus M4A79XTD Evo , 8gb G skill Ripjaws 1600 7-8-7-24-40 T2 1.6V (had to put these settings in manually as ram was ony running at 1333 by default)

I know theres more to it than just multipliers but I was under the impression tweaking that a little bit whilst incrasing voltage would be enough for this cpu but proved not to be lol

Everywehre I look i find that everyone with this chip manages it just fine with minimal tweaking but i somehow doubt thats guna be how it works in my case but maybe I did something wrong ? I left the rest of the stuff in the bios at 'atuo' if that makes any difference?

Anyone any tips on how I could get this to run @ 4ghz ?

koooowweeee · 23 Aug 2011 at 21:34

start off low.

is your ram set at 7-8-2-24 or is that a typo?

Dandaman · 23 Aug 2011 at 21:40

deffo not a typo.... its basically what I was informed it SHOULD be set at after I asked a few questions as to why it was only getting recognised as 1333... im assuming its wrong now lol

EDIT : oh wait sorry man lol I didnt mean to type 2 lmao it should be 7... i'll fix that

Dandaman · 23 Aug 2011 at 21:43

I did forget to add that I got x 18 at 3.6ghz with 1.425 V but whe I checked in cpu-z it showed voltage as like 1.47-1.49 ... dunno why :S

jennidc · 23 Aug 2011 at 22:44

voltage

It sounds like your voltages are on an auto setting - check your BIOS and see if you can set them manually.

I would start by going back to stock voltage and see how high you can go with that.

Once you hit a wall up the voltage a little and test - keep upping until stable and then up the multi or bus a bit more until you hit a wall..
repeat until you reach a voltage you don't wish to go above.

And also remember to underclock your RAM whilst doing this - try and tighten it back up once you have a stable OC.

Dandaman · 23 Aug 2011 at 23:13

ok now got everything checked over before I try again... got stock voltage of 1.425-1.428 showing in CPU-Z now with everything disabled including turbocore

I suppose I should increase the multiplier bit by bit until it fails and then I increase voltage that little bit and so on?

Also when you say underclock my ram would it be sufficient to decrease the voltage to 1.5 and change timings to like 9-9-9-24 and then once I get an overclock that works try to tighten them back up and work around it ?