Seeking advice of the almighty 8 pack!

MatsyLR · 16 Jan 2013 at 12:28

First of all, grats on the job :cool:

Atm I have my CPU OC'd to 4.2 using the auto overclocking on my board (in sig) which changes the v-core depending on the load (forgot what its called), voltage goes up to 1.302v while under load and goes down to like 1.100v while idling.

Anyway, I'll be changing to a ASRock Z77E-ITX MB soon(ish) and wondering on the best thing to do for OC'ing. Ive looked at the load optimized CPU OC setting in the bios http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/automatic-overclock-motherboard-cpu,3048-2.html, would this be OK to use (assuming one of them would be stable) and it doesn't push too many volts?

8 Pack · 16 Jan 2013 at 12:49

I have not tried that type of auto overclocking feature on many boards at all. Never on ASRock. I use a manual approach to overclocking always.

In general auto settings are worse case scenario settings that will work in almost all cases so they do overvolt ensuring that less good CPU's in terms of overclocking do reach the given frequency. What you could do is enable the auto. Test this. Then dial down Vcore from this initial starting point.

MatsyLR · 16 Jan 2013 at 13:00

Mmmm ok.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of volts are typical for a 2500k?
Just want a volt target to not go past.
Also should I use prime to test? and how long? what settings? keep hearing different things...

8 Pack · 16 Jan 2013 at 13:46

For 4.2, 1.25v should be enough. Your max volts should be 1.4v

Use Prime for say 20 mins, then simply use your PC as you would normally. This is the real test.

JamesM · 16 Jan 2013 at 14:17

I have this motherboard and there isn't much in the way of tweaking once you hit the limit of your chip but other than that it's fine with me.

Normally I run at 4.7GHz on a 3770k and it's rock stable so it can certainly be classed as a solid board.