October Upgrade - Spec me - ~£1500

orbitalwalsh · 26 Oct 2017 at 18:02

Fanaticjam said:
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/

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

Fanaticjam · 26 Oct 2017 at 20:05

orbitalwalsh said:
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

orbitalwalsh · 26 Oct 2017 at 20:19

No worries, to be honest if your going for 5ghz or more, Delid , not just for lower temps but often can apply a little lower voltage , if be happy enough to get 4.9ghz of a 6 core chip

Fanaticjam · 26 Oct 2017 at 23:06

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

orbitalwalsh · 27 Oct 2017 at 08:28

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

Fanaticjam · 27 Oct 2017 at 15:58

orbitalwalsh said:
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)

orbitalwalsh · 27 Oct 2017 at 16:01

mine goes a bit slow =/

Fanaticjam · 27 Oct 2017 at 16:07

orbitalwalsh said:
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

orbitalwalsh · 27 Oct 2017 at 17:07

Fanaticjam said:
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

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

Fanaticjam · 27 Oct 2017 at 17:14

orbitalwalsh said:
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

orbitalwalsh · 27 Oct 2017 at 17:37

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

Fanaticjam · 27 Oct 2017 at 17:39

orbitalwalsh said:
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!

Fanaticjam · 27 Oct 2017 at 19:59

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

Fanaticjam · 27 Oct 2017 at 20:04

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

orbitalwalsh · 27 Oct 2017 at 20:14

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

Fanaticjam · 28 Oct 2017 at 16:44

orbitalwalsh said:
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

orbitalwalsh · 28 Oct 2017 at 17:42

Fanaticjam said:
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

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

Fanaticjam · 28 Oct 2017 at 18:37

orbitalwalsh said:
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

orbitalwalsh · 28 Oct 2017 at 20:18

I tend to use monitoring software

I think it's like 1.26v at stock settings