Please check my overclocking method

wazza300 said:
overall load voltage(while stressed,look in cpu-z)

default cpu voltage plus llc plus offset = total load voltage so be carefull howmuch llc and offset you use

its labelled as vccio or its linked to vccsa on some boards so you look for whatever one out of the two is at 1.05v and set to 1.08v for 16gb of memory
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OK, so I've had a crack at overclocking my CPU, but I ran into some issues. I started using the offset mode, but even with an offset of +0.5 the IBT failed after 2-3 iterations, running at only 4.0Gzh. (LLC on high)

Then, using manual voltage, I had to use 1.35v to pass a 5-iteration IBT at 4.1 Ghz, and never passed the IBT at 4.3. Temperatures stayed around 80C under load (max recorded was 85C, an only briefly). The voltages changed under load but no amount of fiddling with the LLC seemed to fix that.

So, what am I doing wrong? Or could I just have a really bad chip? Others seem to get 4.3 with around 1.2V, and I couldn't even get it with 1.4V.... the only good thing seems to be that my temperatures are never exceeding 85C, even with 1.4V.

Thank you for your help :)
 
On the topic of stability testing.

There are two reasons why people might choose a rather short duration test. Either they don't think it will pass stability testing if stressed for a long time, or they can't be bothered to leave the computer running for a long time. To the second group - there's no excuse for less than eight hours. Set it running then go to sleep. No hassle. For the first...

If your computer cannot calculate prime numbers for a few hours without getting some wrong, it gets maths wrong. As the only thing your processor is created to do is maths, that's not great. Getting maths wrong might mean a few pixels on the screen are the wrong colour. Or it might mean that the word file you're saving corrupts in transit, and when you try to open it in the future, you won't be able to. Or your game crashes, not because it's badly written, but because it's running on a dodgy system, and you lose whatever it is you've been doing since the last save.

Skipping stability testing makes sense if and only if you don't care about the data on the computer, or about the work the computer is doing. Or at least, you don't care enough to feel irritation when it gets stuff wrong, like crashing.
 
sgtstaine said:
OK, so I've had a crack at overclocking my CPU, but I ran into some issues. I started using the offset mode, but even with an offset of +0.5 the IBT failed after 2-3 iterations, running at only 4.0Gzh. (LLC on high)

Then, using manual voltage, I had to use 1.35v to pass a 5-iteration IBT at 4.1 Ghz, and never passed the IBT at 4.3. Temperatures stayed around 80C under load (max recorded was 85C, an only briefly). The voltages changed under load but no amount of fiddling with the LLC seemed to fix that.

So, what am I doing wrong? Or could I just have a really bad chip? Others seem to get 4.3 with around 1.2V, and I couldn't even get it with 1.4V.... the only good thing seems to be that my temperatures are never exceeding 85C, even with 1.4V.

Thank you for your help :)
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its probably failing on the memory not cpu voltage

with 16gb I would use atleast 1.08v cpu/vtt for the integrated memory controller and try with just +0.020v dvid and high llc
 
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