OC help/advice

[Soullkilla]

OCing my 920 D0 2.66 atm and increasing the baseclock to 170 with turbo mode on to get 3.57 Ghz, i have the cpu voltage at 1.3, running at 1.288V and QPI at 1.3 also.

Running Prime 95 atm and hitting 65-68oC, i have read that i should run it for 30mins, then if ok, bump the baseclock up by 5 till it fails, what happens when it fails? i have had the temps go up to 85oC and nothing failed so i pressed stop, is this right to do or should i have left it?

many thanks

 

[BigBruiserAl]

What cpu cooler you using? After 2 hours my temps went to 71c so will depend on your case cooling as well, I belive the ocuk bundles are tested to 85-90c so im sure there fine for testing only. would suggest lower vocre of 1.28 just until your temps are sorted 3.6 should be fine at those volts.

EDIT: 85c+ was with the old cooler i belive the new fenrir does sub 80c

 

[Soullkilla]

megahalems cooler with a 2000rpm antec fan.

atm im using the same settings as above but now with a cpu voltage of 1.175 and a qpi at 1.2, temps are down to 59oC under full load on prime. gonna up the cpu a little more and see what my results are.

my ram frequency has changed, from the OC as i believe, so i have gone into it and changed it back the the default timmings of 8-8-8-24 and the voltage of 1.65v the frequency is 680, am i right in thinking i times this by 3 (tri ram) and i get a total of 2040, so my 1600 ram is now running at 2040 with the OC if this is correct, is it safe and if i OC more, will it go up even more?

im using a asus rampage extreme 2 mobo.

 

[Soullkilla]

old 35mark06 scores on 2.66 with stock cooler
15865 3D Marks
6184 SM 2.0 Score
7265 SM 3.0 Score
4811 CPU Score

OC 4009.1 with Megahalems
21138 3D Marks
8646 SM 2.0 Score
8986 SM 3.0 Score
6862 CPU Score

 

[PaulyD]

Nope you still just double the RAM speed so your running at 1360Mhz.

Keep upping until you fail and when you do nudge the vcore