October Upgrade - Spec me - ~£1500

[Fanaticjam]

Probably do that after the GPU, never oc'd ram before!

5.1ghz 5 mins of prime hit 95c. Didn't want to keep it running that hot so capped it at 5mins

 

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The annoying is not the must do delidding the action itself, you must do it in all cases!\
The annoying part is that no one can force Intel to reconsider their super stupid bad practice of using chewing gum, instead of proper soldering robots

I'm guessing 9700K will just be a 8700K with proper soldering, good ol intel

 

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hit max 77c from 15 mins of realbench stresstest. ill do proper benchmarking once all the OC is done/stable

 

[Fanaticjam]

intel only hit 69c on cpu test, mem test hit 75c(?) and vrm only 68c

 

[Fanaticjam]

In theory, you'll stay under those temps when gaming - with games very heavy on CPU side

Yeah, been keeping an eye on it and temps are generally fine, also gpu rarely goes over 50

I'm wondering if I should even bother with prime, seems like since no real world application, or any other stress test can get near prime temps then it's somewhat pointless making sure the PC can be stable while running prime?

I think I can get 5.1ghz stable if I exclude prime from stresstesting.

Also wondering if I can use the CPU boost to boost 1 or 2 cores higher for games not using more than 1 or 2 cores?

 

[Fanaticjam]

blast 10 mins - if it survives and heat is ok - then done !

then work that ram!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thing is, with other apps not getting past 85c, prime is straight to 100c which is where I instantly stop the test, really dont want the first chip I fry to be from my most expensive build haha.

 

[Fanaticjam]

Fair enough I don't bother with it anymore

Don't suppose you could read through my post in overclocking subforum? I'm a bit lost as to what is going on with my vcore when LLC isnt on max

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/rookie-ocing-everything-8700k-1080ti.18797618/

 

[Fanaticjam]

No worries, did post up a Gigabyte OC guide not long ago, will find it and try to recall my own z270 .
Just come from friends ROG Hero Ryzen and Jesus LLC level 5 would just dump volts in ! Were as my Strix z270 was less greedy

ooh that would be so handy!

I gave up with low LLC. now working with HT on, 5.1ghz was too warm with enough volts to keep it stable, so dropped to 5 and this is where I'm at. will continue dropping voltage and benching tomorrow

 

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I'm hoping to get this 5ghz clock down to 80 max on aida by lowering the voltage, would be good enough as a baseline, then perhaps using turbo boost for a small boost when less cotes are being stressed, the issue with that seems to be what intel defines as an active core

 

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did you run Unigine valley with Intel Xtreme Stress test ? another one I normally do- leave on for a few hours tests OC , cooling and reduced any coil whine from GPU/PSU where they havent been stressed long enough at factory testing .
or if your lucky enough to have it Firestrike stress test - again leave running for a few hours


https://view.joomag.com/gigabyte-z2...series-overclocking-guide/0767815001483933769

cheers for the link, will look through that now

Nah haven't done that, I was thinking GPU might be faulty and just wanted to do 1 bit of the rig at a time and test it all at the end.

Is it normal that mouse and system start freezing when GPU is stressed in stress test? (never stress tested a gpu before) When I'm running realbench or aida with gpu it starts freezing up a ton.


Side by side of my samsung 830/raid 830's/new m2 drive

Plus some realworld performance (writing to raid from m2)

 

[Fanaticjam]

mine goes a bit slow =/

m2?

Edit, went to test writing to m2

got this weirdness when trying to move over a large .mkv

My phones stopwatch makes it around 800mb/s write

 

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Thing is, you need m.2 NVMe a bit more populated to get benchmarks to get near the speed.
If I run it on my 512GB 960 , had 300gb of data and gets faster then a 512 with fresh windows and that's it .
Saw it in a few reviews here and there

Yeah, not too fussed myself really, will be a long time before those speeds are needed

Don't suppose I could get your 2 cents on this

"Is it normal that mouse and system start freezing when GPU is stressed in stress test? (never stress tested a gpu before) When I'm running realbench or aida with gpu it starts freezing up a ton. "
During gaming I get results like this where the GPU is constantly hitting power and voltage limit, and it's caused stuttering in WH:TW2, is this normal behaivour? Wondering If I have a faulty card

 

[Fanaticjam]

Yeah, happens on RealBench, specially when you want to stop it early haha, your system is being stressed 100% , more then a game or realworks applications would

Well that gives me some comfort!

 

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Put the sides back on now I have all the drives sorted and hooked up, and put the extra cpu fan in, I wasnt sure if it would fit before.

27mins on aida, will test fan on the other side tomorrow and see if that makes a difference, and try dropping vcore

 

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Wasn't too fussed about the backside after I got all the fan/controller cables wired to the sides, just needed it done enough to make it easy to work with. Front side had a bit more effort into it

 

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You'll have to see how much Volts LLC puts through . Before you drop volts , as you know it's stable, try the different options and have a check .
Might find running slightly higher Vcore with lower LLC actually gives you less peak voltage

Started freezing when I tried that, dropped LLC by one setting and it was freezing up, ended up raising voltage enough to get it stable, however the thermals are about the same hah. I guess its less stress on the mobo, so I'll leave it at that.

Is there a way I can get it to put less voltage through when idle? It's at the set voltage the entire time when idle atm

 

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Voltage offset option - need a bit of maths to work extra the extra voltage added over default

Ah okay, so thats DVID option, any idea how to see default vcore? Don't know if I'm being a real dumbo here but I can't work it out where to find that info lol