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***Haswell -E Owners Thread***

uksoldierboy said:
I noticed when overclocking my 5820K, using anything other that 100mhz strap really screwed up my gpu overclocking.

@4.6 now just using the multiplier and my card is happily running at 1540-1550 24/7.
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Same here, just using multi gets me up to 4.6Ghz. Tbh these days I game PS4 / X1, this setup is wasted on me tbh :p

Been looking at the small form factor builds, low power but able to game if I ever wanted. These are looking more and more appealing to me over these massive desktop builds, on PC I spend most of time reading, online s media, web browsing and watching movies. Would likely stop me pumping loads of money into upgrades as well ! It's def more out of habit than need these days :p
 
Boomstick777 said:
Same here, just using multi gets me up to 4.6Ghz. Tbh these days I game PS4 / X1, this setup is wasted on me tbh :p

Been looking at the small form factor builds, low power but able to game if I ever wanted. These are looking more and more appealing to me over these massive desktop builds, on PC I spend most of time reading, online s media, web browsing and watching movies. Would likely stop me pumping loads of money into upgrades as well ! It's def more out of habit than need these days :p
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Most of my systems are ITX, I really enjoy cramming performance into a matchbox! This month for the first time in years i've gone into the larger mATX (EVGA X99) for a custom sit-in rig.

...but at the moment i'm using a Zotac Z68-ITX, 2600K 4.0Ghz, 780tiSC, Corsair 650w, Corsair H50 (or similar number!) crammed into a Sugo shoebox...which plays averything fine at 1200p

and for holiday rig I got an AMD 7850k using the iGPU (OC to 920Mhz), coupled with 2400Mhz RAM. SSD boot & 2.5'' 2Tb's inside the very nice compact Milo case. (about the size of a PS2) admittedly it struggles at 1080p, but tweaking the settings in most games the sweet spot is 1680x1050...not bad considering it's only got a 2'' high, chopped down cooler with the fan blowing AWAY and up from the APU

I do prefer ITX to the larger ATX rigs...just the challenge of cooling :D
 
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Silent_Scone said:
Not really. I was in the process of writing up something but I'm not sure if 8-Pack is going to do one shortly.

If you get stuck just ask
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I'm just looking to optimize both of those settings. I have the core rock solid at 4.8ghz with 1.35v but am unsure what's the max cache and memory controller voltages. 2666 memory runs fine but 3000 won't even boot.
 
What board? I wrote a quick starter guide in this sub section this morning, will add to it later in the week. Almost all CPUs should be able to manage 3000mhz without an issue.

What happens when you apply 3000? Could well just be DRAM voltage. 4.8 core at 1.35v is a very good chip, I would try one of the following not necessarily in this order. What timings are you trying to set for 3000?

Try more DRAMV, up to 1.45v

Adjust system agent voltage. Between 0.900 and 1.15v. Shouldn't need more than this although up to 1.2v is O.K as long as it's stable. 1.2v is A-lot of SA though. Really try to keep this below 1.175

Cache depends on how far you're looking to push it. Get the memory stable at 3000 before pushing this. I doubt you'll be able to match your core. Try for 4.5 between 1.35v-1.45v.

You may find at 4.8 you'll need to lay off cache a little, core comes first so wouldn't worry too much
 
Silent,

X99 SOC Force and I just read your writeup. Thank you for taking the time and writing it up. When I apply the xmp for 3000 it simply just won't boot and I have to reset the bios. 2666 Xmp works perfectly but I really want that 3000 speed.
 
pbrain said:
Most of my systems are ITX, I really enjoy cramming performance into a matchbox! This month for the first time in years i've gone into the larger mATX (EVGA X99) for a custom sit-in rig.

...but at the moment i'm using a Zotac Z68-ITX, 2600K 4.0Ghz, 780tiSC, Corsair 650w, Corsair H50 (or similar number!) crammed into a Sugo shoebox...which plays averything fine at 1200p

and for holiday rig I got an AMD 7850k using the iGPU (OC to 920Mhz), coupled with 2400Mhz RAM. SSD boot & 2.5'' 2Tb's inside the very nice compact Milo case. (about the size of a PS2) admittedly it struggles at 1080p, but tweaking the settings in most games the sweet spot is 1680x1050...not bad considering it's only got a 2'' high, chopped down cooler with the fan blowing AWAY and up from the APU

I do prefer ITX to the larger ATX rigs...just the challenge of cooling :D
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Nice, I'm gonna have a play with a Zotac EN760 Plus Mini PC soon (GTX 860M ~ i5 # 2core/4thread. (System, IDLE 14W ~ LOAD 65W). I love the fact that the tech is shrinking down and still able to run games etc while using a much smaller footprint.

I don't think it's quite good enough yet to really consider replacing my main PC yet, but I think by 2016 onwards I will move to just building small form factors. AMD's HBM, Nvidia's Pascal with on die memory, die shrinks # Intel's CPU's # AMD's APU's etc and low power consumption DDR4L, should make a real high end game experience possible in a really tiny PC, using a fraction of today's power consumption. Will no doubt save a ton of the electricity bill as well :p

Until then it's big old high end desktop..
 
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JustCallMeVlad said:
Silent,

X99 SOC Force and I just read your writeup. Thank you for taking the time and writing it up. When I apply the xmp for 3000 it simply just won't boot and I have to reset the bios. 2666 Xmp works perfectly but I really want that 3000 speed.
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On the Soc Force I would be surprised if you managed to get the cache above 37 and Gigabyte really need to pull out all the stops to get the Bios sorted on all of the X99 motherboards they make.
 
Use around 6. That's probably why you need so much VCINN Matt if youre using 3. LLC directly affects this voltage on this platform, not vcore. I hope you tried more than that before sending the chip back...lol
 
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