Ok thanks for your help anyway, I'll have a look a older posts to see if I can find similar problems I'm having getting past 4.3, it may be the cpu's limit or motherboard. I raised the dynamic vcore last night, vcore was reading 1.416 in bios but still wouldn't boot in to windows.
Manual OC 2500k on z68AP-D3 ?
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Ok thanks for your help anyway, I'll have a look a older posts to see if I can find similar problems I'm having getting past 4.3, it may be the cpu's limit or motherboard. I raised the dynamic vcore last night, vcore was reading 1.416 in bios but still wouldn't boot in to windows.
You must disable Turbo! Before I did that, I also could not boot. Disable turbo and try lower Vcore again.
That was with turbo disabled, was going to take the dynamic vcore up to 0.150 like you suggested, but I thought I’d see what the vcore reading would be at dynamic setting of 0.100 first, gave a reading of 1.416 so now I’m a bit dubious in taking it higher.
Ok, this is very confusing now:
Sometimes my overclock works perfectly and shows the x43 multipplyer and corresponding 4.30/4.20 Ghz in all monitoring progs, but on other occasions it does not show in CPU-Z or CoreTmemp, but does show in My computer properties! (all while running torture test in Prime, so no excuse of throttling down to save power):
Sometimes my overclock works perfectly and shows the x43 multipplyer and corresponding 4.30/4.20 Ghz in all monitoring progs, but on other occasions it does not show in CPU-Z or CoreTmemp, but does show in My computer properties! (all while running torture test in Prime, so no excuse of throttling down to save power):
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Dos it do that after sleeping ? Mine does. It throttles down to a x34 clock even though the bios is set to 4.4ghz. This is only after is goes to sleep. I have the same MB with F3 bios. Could be a bug?
Hm, you could well be right! I didnt pay attention to whether it recovered from sleep, but I have noticed that rebooting always gets the OC back.
My bios is the F6 BIOS, and I have now noticed that Gygabyte has released beta BIOS F7e that apparently
Many thanks for your answer, looks like we will have to wait for the final build of F7.
My bios is the F6 BIOS, and I have now noticed that Gygabyte has released beta BIOS F7e that apparently
http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3897&dl=1#bios
Many thanks for your answer, looks like we will have to wait for the final build of F7.
Hmm... After recovering from sleep with the new F7 BIOS CPU is stuck at full OC (4.3Ghz in my case), not throttling down to 1.6 when idle, like it does after reboot.
Also I now have a black screen for about 2 seconds during windows welcome sounds, everything else is ok it seems.
Do people reinstall Windows after updating Mobo BIOS?
Also I now have a black screen for about 2 seconds during windows welcome sounds, everything else is ok it seems.
Do people reinstall Windows after updating Mobo BIOS?
Soldato
Shouldn't need to.
I know this is bumping an old thread but just wanted to say thanks for this thread..I have hunted all over for something on this board and what the Dynamic Vcore was compared to Vcore and how I could get it to set ok as I was getting blue screens all over the place just trying to get over 4GHZ.
Adjusted the settings (having read a million links to see what was going on) using the advice here and the problem is resolved and temps are a lot lower as well. Stablility runs of Prime indicate I don't have an issue any more. Plus it doesn't crash, freeze and blare white noise out of my speakers when I play a video (this was obviously a clue I was doing it wrong!).
No BSOD and I can get back to Skyrim. So much better than on the 360.
After much dithering about on a replacement system (and lots of advice from here too) I now have a 2500k based system with a 6850 running stably on a pleasant moderate 4.2 overclock and it's absolutely great. I realise its not the big overclocking monster that many people here run but after an old Core Duo its a revolution.
Thanks again.
Adjusted the settings (having read a million links to see what was going on) using the advice here and the problem is resolved and temps are a lot lower as well. Stablility runs of Prime indicate I don't have an issue any more. Plus it doesn't crash, freeze and blare white noise out of my speakers when I play a video (this was obviously a clue I was doing it wrong!).
No BSOD and I can get back to Skyrim. So much better than on the 360.
After much dithering about on a replacement system (and lots of advice from here too) I now have a 2500k based system with a 6850 running stably on a pleasant moderate 4.2 overclock and it's absolutely great. I realise its not the big overclocking monster that many people here run but after an old Core Duo its a revolution.
Thanks again.
Now its my turn to bump this thread 
Looking to overclock my 2500k on this board and reading this it seems manual is the way to do it for lower voltages. I've never done this before so if anyone could help I'd be very greatful! So far all I've done is up the multiplier to 40 and left everything else as it was.
Whats the best thing to do next?
Looking to overclock my 2500k on this board and reading this it seems manual is the way to do it for lower voltages. I've never done this before so if anyone could help I'd be very greatful! So far all I've done is up the multiplier to 40 and left everything else as it was.
Whats the best thing to do next?
Caporegime
Increase the multiplier a bit more untill it becomes unstable.
Then add Vcore till it becomes stable.
Or try setting the LLC to 3-4
Then add Vcore till it becomes stable.
Or try setting the LLC to 3-4
Ok got myself up to 45 leaving everything on auto:
I ran prime for half an hour first just forgot to get screenshots.
Just want to check voltages are still ok?
Am I right in saying that CPU-Z core voltage is the one i want to watch carefully and keep low? Rather than core temps VID?
I ran prime for half an hour first just forgot to get screenshots.
Just want to check voltages are still ok?
Am I right in saying that CPU-Z core voltage is the one i want to watch carefully and keep low? Rather than core temps VID?