i7 980X Overclock

[The Asgard]

Anybody know the general overclock with safe voltages on the 980X?

 

[NathWraith]

4GHz is fairly easy to acheive, you can do this with less than 1.30 volts, about 1.25 should do it. Depends on your cooling set up however.

 

[The Asgard]

4GHz is fairly easy to acheive, you can do this with less than 1.30 volts, about 1.25 should do it. Depends on your cooling set up however.

Cheers for that, it will be running a PA120.3 setup.

From the reviews they do look a nice cool running chip considering there are 6 cores.

 

[NathWraith]

200BCLK X 20 Ratio will get you 4GHz and a nice rounded 1600MHz on your RAM. You can multi clock 980X's higher as there unlocked however, raising the multiplier requires more voltage than raise the BCLK (although is easier to achieve).

 

[The Asgard]

200BCLK X 20 Ratio will get you 4GHz and a nice rounded 1600MHz on your RAM. You can multi clock 980X's higher as there unlocked however, raising the multiplier requires more voltage than raise the BCLK (although is easier to achieve).

Strange raising the Multiplier uses more voltage, you would have thought there would be less strain with a lower BCLK.

Thanks for the info.

 

[rjk]

dont run more than 1.37v through it

thats how i killed mine

and yes, it is generally accepted that a multi change requires more of a voltage boost.
all the 1366 chips seem to follow that rule of thumb from what myself and Nath have tested

 

[The Asgard]

dont run more than 1.37v through it

thats how i killed mine

and yes, it is generally accepted that a multi change requires more of a voltage boost.
all the 1366 chips seem to follow that rule of thumb from what myself and Nath have tested

Only 1.37 and it died, wow, sorry to here that. I would be gutted. I thought they were safe upto 1.4 based on Intel specs?

 

[rjk]

its not dead, just wont clock any more
it goes to 3.4 and thats it

the ones we have had in bundles/systems etc generally need about 1.325v to get 4.2GHz

mostly less than that, but of course due to the price we dont get many in, we have had about 30 or so come through, all the same batch. means we cant get a good cross reference of chips like we would be able to do with the 920/930s

 

[bulldog147]

dont run more than 1.37v through it

thats how i killed mine

I thought Intel had quoted that cpu voltage can go up to 1.40v and how come your 1.37v had killed off ?

 

[Marine-RX179]

I thought Intel had quoted that cpu voltage can go up to 1.40v and how come your 1.37v had killed off ?

He already answered the question...

its not dead, just wont clock any more
it goes to 3.4 and thats it

He killed the overclockbility, not the CPU...

 

[tipes]

dont run more than 1.37v through it

thats how i killed mine

and yes, it is generally accepted that a multi change requires more of a voltage boost.
all the 1366 chips seem to follow that rule of thumb from what myself and Nath have tested

I believe this was an engineering sample though wasn't it - so hopefully the retail ones should be a bit more robust, but even so tread very carefully on voltages and take heed of the 1.4 v core absolute max quoted by Intel. You have been warned !!!!

 

[NathWraith]

I thought Intel had quoted that cpu voltage can go up to 1.40v and how come your 1.37v had killed off ?

I think it was probably more to do with the 5GHz overclocks he was running

 

[The Asgard]

I think it was probably more to do with the 5GHz overclocks he was running