Hi,
I managed to overclock via AMD Overdrive from 3.3 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo Core on 4 out 6) to 3.7 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo Core on all 6 cores) Temperatures are a steady 50c - 55c under load, and set to under-clock down to 800 MHz when idle resulting in Temperatures of 30c idle. (Voltages: 1.37v - 1.47v)
So far seems stable, I attempted 4.2 GHz and well temperatures were not the problem, it was the fact it was very unstable and applications started showing random text and google chrome was loading pages in random orders, bits here and bits over there style.
Anyway my memory is holding back my performance by a huge scale, I bought 8 GB's of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 MHz RAM and its only running at 667 MHz?
What should I do? OverDrive Benchmark gives me: 7000 points (was 6050 on old clock) but my memory only scores: 3000 points, and the CPU gets (20,000 - 30,000). - I expect I'd get better CPU readings if the memory worked at the correct clocks.
Any Advice to a first time overclocker would be nice
EDIT: Just found out that 667 MHz means it's running at 1333 MHz due to being dual channel, but still that isn't the full speed of the RAM module so going to check BIOS and report back.
EDIT 2: Now back to stock settings as my system started to BSOD with 0x00000101 "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval"
EDIT 3: Managed to get the following -
HT Multiplier = 10 (Was 10)
HT Ref. Clock = 210 MHz (Was 200)
HyperTransport Link Speed = 2100 MHz (Was 2000)
CPU Core Multiplier = 18x (Was 16.5)
VCore Target = 1.375V (Was 1.375)
Overclocked to 3.78 GHz on air, idle 37c (was 30) and under-load 56c (was 55)
Prime95 makes my temperatures reach higher than any other application as it just doesn't give the CPU a slight few second break resulting in temperatures only going up and not coming back down...
Is it safe to say stable after an hour of Prime95?
FINAL EDIT (I THINK): Also enabled the Turbo Core at 4.1 GHz for all 6 cores.
Another edit, my system is completely ruined after restoring to stock clocks despite not BSOD after disabling power saver... I keep getting compute errors and random flashy text like 3f*'¬`G%hxZ and random colours / google chrome crashes.
I managed to overclock via AMD Overdrive from 3.3 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo Core on 4 out 6) to 3.7 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo Core on all 6 cores) Temperatures are a steady 50c - 55c under load, and set to under-clock down to 800 MHz when idle resulting in Temperatures of 30c idle. (Voltages: 1.37v - 1.47v)
So far seems stable, I attempted 4.2 GHz and well temperatures were not the problem, it was the fact it was very unstable and applications started showing random text and google chrome was loading pages in random orders, bits here and bits over there style.
Anyway my memory is holding back my performance by a huge scale, I bought 8 GB's of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 MHz RAM and its only running at 667 MHz?
What should I do? OverDrive Benchmark gives me: 7000 points (was 6050 on old clock) but my memory only scores: 3000 points, and the CPU gets (20,000 - 30,000). - I expect I'd get better CPU readings if the memory worked at the correct clocks.
Any Advice to a first time overclocker would be nice
EDIT: Just found out that 667 MHz means it's running at 1333 MHz due to being dual channel, but still that isn't the full speed of the RAM module so going to check BIOS and report back.
EDIT 2: Now back to stock settings as my system started to BSOD with 0x00000101 "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval"
EDIT 3: Managed to get the following -
HT Multiplier = 10 (Was 10)
HT Ref. Clock = 210 MHz (Was 200)
HyperTransport Link Speed = 2100 MHz (Was 2000)
CPU Core Multiplier = 18x (Was 16.5)
VCore Target = 1.375V (Was 1.375)
Overclocked to 3.78 GHz on air, idle 37c (was 30) and under-load 56c (was 55)
Prime95 makes my temperatures reach higher than any other application as it just doesn't give the CPU a slight few second break resulting in temperatures only going up and not coming back down...
Is it safe to say stable after an hour of Prime95?
FINAL EDIT (I THINK): Also enabled the Turbo Core at 4.1 GHz for all 6 cores.
Another edit, my system is completely ruined after restoring to stock clocks despite not BSOD after disabling power saver... I keep getting compute errors and random flashy text like 3f*'¬`G%hxZ and random colours / google chrome crashes.
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