My first overclock.

Iain Emms · 19 Oct 2010 at 20:17

Well then chaps this is my first [email protected] its been running now for around two months with no problems what so ever my friend Stephen helped and give me a lot of advice on this.My Spec is Thermaltake Armor LCS VE2000 Case,Intel Core i7, 930 Asus Rampage Extreme 111 Motherboard ,Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3 PC3- 12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel Memory,Corsair Hydro H70 High Performance CPU Cooler 2x Apachie Black fans push n pull,Gamers Extreme 1KW Power Supply,Gainward GeForce GTX 480 Graphics Card,1xVelociraptor 150Gb10,000rpm ,1x Velociraptor 300Gb 10,000 rpm,1x500GB SATA II Hard Drive,Windows7 Ultimate 64 Bit,

I think the Temps are pretty good, BCLK Frequency200, PCIE Frequency 100,CPU Volt 1.30000, QPI Volt 1.30000. What do you think.
cheers
Iain

geoirv23 · 19 Oct 2010 at 21:53

Looks good, have you gamed with it?

pioneer2000 · 19 Oct 2010 at 22:54

Sigs too big and please tell me you've actually tested for stability more than those screenshots suggest!

1Day · 20 Oct 2010 at 10:40

Mate if it has been running for two months it is solid. The need by some to run stability tests for like 48 hours is total rubbish. I have seen enough times when folks run successful stability tests only for the over clock to fail when playing the owners fav game.

The best stability test you can do is run your system doing the most stressful real world thing you would normally do. For most of us it is gaming.

The proof of your success is in the fact you have had it working well for you and working well for two months all ready.

Nice one mate.

reiyushin · 20 Oct 2010 at 10:51

Looks good!

Stability is in the eye of the beholder

For me that's an initial prime95 run ~30mins to check temps aren't crazy followed by lots of gaming

1Day · 20 Oct 2010 at 12:00

reiyushin said:
Looks good!

Stability is in the eye of the beholder

For me that's an initial prime95 run ~30mins to check temps aren't crazy followed by lots of gaming

Yeah that is what I should have said. Very true mate.

pioneer2000 · 20 Oct 2010 at 16:36

Clearly you've never suffered from data corruption then!

rjk · 20 Oct 2010 at 16:38

500 runs of IBT
or
8 hours prime 95 blend + memtest
or
20k of LinX
or
8 hours of OCCT PSU test

minimum before you can even think of calling it stable

Addicted · 20 Oct 2010 at 16:51

looks good, but your voltage surely doesn't need to be that high for 4.2 unless it's a lot different to my 950? i'm on 4.2ghz with completely stock clocks, so i imagine i wouldn't need to go much over 1.2 to get 4.2?

game4it · 20 Oct 2010 at 16:59

Addicted said:
looks good, but your voltage surely doesn't need to be that high for 4.2 unless it's a lot different to my 950? i'm on 4.2ghz with completely stock clocks, so i imagine i wouldn't need to go much over 1.2 to get 4.2?

I think you will find that your just very lucky with your volts for your oc and thats not the norm for most peeps.
I would kill to only be using the op's volts for 4.2ghz.

Iain Emms · 20 Oct 2010 at 18:14

Thanks chaps for the comments i have run this everyday for at least four hours a night i only do flightsiming with FSX and as i say there has been no problems at all with crashes or hot temps with this overclock as for the volts i tried lowing them to 1.29 but the machine kept crashing so i put them back to 1.30 and it has run for the past eight weeks with no probs so i will keep them there.
cheers
Iain

pioneer2000 · 20 Oct 2010 at 19:48

People who overclock should follow rjkoneill's suggested tests to guarantee a proper stable computer. I promise you that if you ran the OP's pc through Prime or IBT it would fail out pretty quickly. Seems quite a few just don't bother testing thoroughly enough, which isn't the right way to be doing these things.