Rampage II I7 Overclock

Drunzer

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Hi Guys,

I have two questions really:

1: Looking at programs such as CPU-Z, CoreTemp and RealTemp I notice at times beside my CPU it will say '1603.64 mhz or whatever then a few moments later it will say '2605mhz' it's usually when I open some kind of program. Is this some kind of normal feature Intel have on their CPUs to run at a low speed until needed? Should I keep this as it is or can somebody tell me a way to keep it fixed at 2.67ghz which is the default speed.

2: I was thinking about doing an overclock on it, nothing major I'd be pretty pleased with 3.0ghz or 3.2ghz to be honest. Does anybody have the Asus Rampage II and know of some settings that might let me achieve this without raising the voltage too high or maybe not at all? It's just I'm running the I7 stock cooler don't have an aftermarket yet.

My RAM is Corsair 6GB DDR3 XMS3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz (3x2GB) if that matters, any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks lads.
 
Dunno about your board but 3.2 should be a doddle.

Put you CPU vcore to 1.3 (it will probably do it on less).

Set the Base clock to 160
Set the CPU Multi to 20
Set your memory divider to 10x (1600)

Put your Vdimm to 1.65 (probs 1.66v with Asus)
 
There is a setting in the bios to auto clock the cpu as im running mine @3.2ghz only thing i did was lower the cpu core volt to 1.27 as the auto setting had it a bit higher.
 
Hi,

I disabled C1E in the BIOS but it's still fluctuating here, same issue as before. I also tried overclocking the CPU using the 'cpu level up' feature to 3.2ghz and it reads on the BIOS the speed has 3.21ghz but when you look at the system spec in Vista it says I7 920 @ 2.67ghz 2.67ghz. It's like the changes are taking effect but Vista is ignoring them.
 
Okay so I clocked it to 2.93ghz first on stock voltage, ran it on Prime for an hour. 0 errors and all that good stuff but the cores did seem to get very hot during it, the highest point was:

73
75
73
73

Is this acceptable temperatures? If not think I'll have to invest in an Noctua or Akasa.
 
AndyOcUK said:
:eek:

I should hope so, otherwise why the hell did you buy a R2E????

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Always interested me: why people might buy the bleeding edge overclockers' board then do a "sensible" overclock. If that's all you planned, then why not stick with the P6T? This is not a criticism of the OP BTW, just an observation.


M

(currently only on 3.6GHz)
 
Meridian said:
Always interested me: why people might buy the bleeding edge overclockers' board then do a "sensible" overclock. If that's all you planned, then why not stick with the P6T? This is not a criticism of the OP BTW, just an observation.


M

(currently only on 3.6GHz)
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Hi, it's in the original post :) I don't have an aftermarket cooler yet so I'm reluctant to push it too far as I'm sure you understand, I just ran out of money lol. Fortunately I'll have one in about 2 or 3 weeks.
 
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