push pull means fitting 2 fans on your radiator... of course they both need to point in the same direction, one of them PUSHES through the radiator and the other one PULLS through the radiator
you are then kicking off and having a go at people and reporting them for trying to help
way to make friends
for best CPU temps you want cool air across the radiator, the way to do that is to pull cool air in from outside the case, if you can't even get 4.2ghz stable then it suggests that either you need to go back to basics and read some ivybridge overclocking guides, or the poxy little all in one piece of crap is running too hot
actually stating what CPU temp you are getting even after a few minutes of prime would help us to help you but whatever if you can't be arsed then neither can we
looking at your video you are only using +0.005 voltage... have you looked in CPU-Z to see what it is actually giving you? and have you tried increasing it?
what actual temps are you getting?
CPU, inside case, mobo, gpu... anything would be helpful rather than nothing
you also clearly have something screwed up on your PC, set everything to default and re-install windows
you've even looked on the asus forum and they tell you to re-install windows and you say "I'm not quite sure what to do"...
It's funny what you read on the internet.
Found the cause of the problem - again as I had thought right - it is due to ASUS's programs.
AI Suite II and its fan control service
Diskunlocker service, whilst the thing is uninstalled.
Friend came in, and we looked at the bios together.
Went through the reg and also went through the start-up programs.
Disabled, and got rid of the asus crap - hey presto, windows boots as it should have done.
If it wasn't for me installing the asus stuff that came with the CD - the irony behind that statement is ridiculous, sorry I'm just ****ed off at asus here.
Now for stable - people have different definitions of stable.
My definition was 24hr stable.
I can however run 4.6ghz for 2hrs on prime, no problems. But then after that start getting problems.
Some would call that stable (including OC guides) but in my eyes, 4.6ghz for 2hrs is NOT stable. Again depends on what you do, but doing video rendering for 1hr is as intensive as p95, if not more as it would be using GPU too.
As for temps - again I've provided a lot of screenshots on my temps on my mobo on the OC'ing thread i created.
Unfortunately the help I got, didn't really work out for me, and for the last 2 pages in that thread, it's me reporting my progress.
Why might you ask:
Because next time someone google's it, they can see my working.
As for CPU voltage, yes I have, I even went to a 0.9 offset and got a BSOD, just for the heck of it.
Long story short:
I found the best way to OC is to do it myself.
Seems like there isn't anyone out there with the same configuration as me (highly improbable there isn't, but highly probable no one wants to chip in)
I'm just going to do the OC'ing myself - and by that I mean, even with some people's help which I highly respect (like that OC guide) it doesn't fully apply to me.
Then there's always some people that will flame me for asking simple questions and tell me: "you have no idea what your doing, why do it?"
Anyway - I'm actually getting annoyed at people not actually trying to work on what I've got.
It's almost like you got yourself a new sound system, and you are wondering where to place the speakers.
Instead of someone saying, 45 degrees left and right, the person starts talking about the mounts used to put the speakers on the wall.
I can't believe 2 simple (or so I thought) questions led people to flame me.
Makes me not want to post anything more over here.
yes that is a push pull config the first pushes are in(through the radiator) the second fan pulls the air out(of the radiator) = push/pull config
i think u need to calm down reporting people for trying to help then pointing out your not giving any info to help is just plain dumb people will stop helping you and from what i grasp that u know that will not be a good thing for you but no problem and less hassle for everyone else this is a very helpful forum with many knowledgeable people, totally dubbed a lot of people have come into this thread and given u sound advice which u yourself have decided to either a. argue with or b. ignore and not do. one of your arguments being antec say not to pull air in from outside so u wont do it thats fine its your choice but im pretty sure chip manufacturers dont want u upping voltages and stressing the cpu more by upping clock speeds so not sure what your getting at as your willing to do one but not the other,personally i would try it it makes sense to me and would probably drop temps a little.
is it seated properly?,what paste did u use? what method of paste spreading did u use?
you need to give people your idle temps,temps under load for all we know u could be running at below average temps and you dont realise it.
personally i would get your temp situation under control before messing around oc'ing as you will generate even more heat.
35c idle
70c max load (current oc profile)