Intel Core i5 & i7 Sandy Bridge Overclocking and Feedback

[Darkleoco]

I think I have smooth sailing now, after a while my cooler seems to get into its rhythm and quit making such an abysmal amount of noise and my core temps are hovering around 70 instead of 75

 

[Chicken Patty]

I've. Prices that too, after a while my temps drop. Guess it takes some time for it to dissipate all the heat.

 

[Darkleoco]

I've. Prices that too, after a while my temps drop. Guess it takes some time for it to dissipate all the heat.

Its nice that it doesn't sound like its gonna fly out of my case anymore lol and I think next up is Overclocking my GPU's

 

[Chicken Patty]

That's what I plan on doing to my 6850 today. Great minds think alike.

 

[N-Gen]

Wish I could up the volts on my GPUs...probably can't...damned non-reference cards! On the other hand I ditched (but saved in bios) my 4.8GHz overclock, running 4.5GHz atm. I can't seem to keep the 4.8 at lower than 1.44v (Offset +0.150v).

 

[Darkleoco]

That's what I plan on doing to my 6850 today. Great minds think alike.

Hopefully I get something like 20 extra FPS in BF3 between the CPU and GPU's depending on what I do to my 6950's I might go for full 6970 clocks

 

[Darkleoco]

Turns out I have been frozen on my Desktop for like 45 minutes >.> is that normal/ a bad sign?

 

[PaulieG]

Turns out I have been frozen on my Desktop for like 45 minutes >.> is that normal/ a bad sign?

Yup. possibly a bad overclock. You really want to stability test for at least a couple of hours. Could be your ram too. Make sure you work on getting either the cpu or the ram overclock stable first, then the other. Makes it so much easier to rule out issues that way.

 

[Darkleoco]

Yup. possibly a bad overclock. You really want to stability test for at least a couple of hours. Could be your ram too. Make sure you work on getting either the cpu or the ram overclock stable first, then the other. Makes it so much easier to rule out issues that way.

Yeah it was stability testing when it did it, what should I change since I don't know why it froze?

 

[cadaveca]

Depends on what you were testing, and where it froze and how. You have two options:

1. clock everything up, and use specific programs to test specific laods ,adn troubleshoot the crashes

2. Clock each thing one by one, adn then group it all together at the end, testing all along the way.


Personally, I like number one method, but that's beucase I am very fmailiar with my ram, having run it in nearly every platform on the market today. I've aldready eliminated the ram as a probable cause of instability, but that doesn't mean I completely ignore it, either.

 

[Darkleoco]

Depends on what you were testing, and where it froze and how. You have two options:

1. clock everything up, and use specific programs to test specific laods ,adn troubleshoot the crashes

2. Clock each thing one by one, adn then group it all together at the end, testing all along the way.


Personally, I like number one method, but that's beucase I am very fmailiar with my ram, having run it in nearly every platform on the market today. I've aldready eliminated the ram as a probable cause of instability, but that doesn't mean I completely ignore it, either.

I think I am just going to give it a rest for today, I don't have the time anymore to run it through full overclock testing since I thought it had been going strong for 2 hours and didn't notice it was frozen until I checked the time on it :/ I will just give it another go this weekend and play BF3 in the meantime.

 

[N-Gen]

I found the Intel Burn Test to be much less forgiving than Prime for me, so I'm sticking with it to check the first signs of it not being unstable, then move to Prime.

It was a hot day today, and my bedroom heats up really fast having the sun on the balcony all day. It's at the point where I'm idling at around 40 Celsius with 4.4GHz @ stock volts...and it's water cooled.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I found the Intel Burn Test to be much less forgiving than Prime for me, so I'm sticking with it to check the first signs of it not being unstable, then move to Prime.

It was a hot day today, and my bedroom heats up really fast having the sun on the balcony all day. It's at the point where I'm idling at around 40 Celsius with 4.4GHz @ stock volts...and it's water cooled.

Damn, and stock volts? Is it stable under load at all? That's good!

 

[N-Gen]

Damn, and stock volts? Is it stable under load at all? That's good!

Well, me and another 2 mates of mine got almost the same system at the same time. The one that went for the H80 like I did (thank god I went custom after the 1st one failed on me) tried to see how high we can go while using the stock cooler. We were able to hit 4.4GHz no problem without touching a single other option except the multiplier, yes it eventually got too hot, but now I just went to those settings on water.

Multi 44
PLL Overvoltage Disabled
Turbo On
Speedstep On
Turbo Wattage thingy is on Auto
PCH 1.059V
VTT 1.051V
CPU PLL 1.750V
VCCSA Auto

All C-States and similar stuff on their default settings.

No problems so far, however I received my second ram kit today and it isn't really happy with having the voltages the other kit accepts to go 1866, so I went back to 1600 for now. I was on 1866MHz 10-10-9-27 1T 1.59v.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Well, me and another 2 mates of mine got almost the same system at the same time. The one that went for the H80 like I did (thank god I went custom after the 1st one failed on me) tried to see how high we can go while using the stock cooler. We were able to hit 4.4GHz no problem without touching a single other option except the multiplier, yes it eventually got too hot, but now I just went to those settings on water.

Multi 44
PLL Overvoltage Disabled
Turbo On
Speedstep On
Turbo Wattage thingy is on Auto
PCH 1.059V
VTT 1.051V
CPU PLL 1.750V
VCCSA Auto

All C-States and similar stuff on their default settings.

No problems so far, however I received my second ram kit today and it isn't really happy with having the voltages the other kit accepts to go 1866, so I went back to 1600 for now. I was on 1866MHz 10-10-9-27 1T 1.59v.

Those are some really good results.

Speaking of RAM, got my new RAM installed.

 

[N-Gen]

I am jelly of your timings.

Here's a screenshot (Max temp values are still the same at the time of posting ~4-5 minutes after the shot was taken)

 

[Chicken Patty]

I am jelly of your timings.

Here's a screenshot (Max temp values are still the same at the time of posting ~4-5 minutes after the shot was taken)

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9365/screenshot0082011112401.jpg

I see now that you have the 2500K, that's why I thought how can it be stable at that clock/voltage. Well without HTT it should need slightly less voltage than the 2600K clock for clock with HTT enabled. Regardless, super nice clocks.

 

[N-Gen]

I'll probably stick with 4.4 with these voltages, give the poor thing a longer life span. It's more than enough anyway...now, to take care of that ram, this is gonna be tricky, I got so many BSODs since I put the new sticks in with the same settings.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I'll probably stick with 4.4 with these voltages, give the poor thing a longer life span. It's more than enough anyway...now, to take care of that ram, this is gonna be tricky, I got so many BSODs since I put the new sticks in with the same settings.

Why do you think you are getting those BSOD's?

 

[cadaveca]

Why do you think you are getting those BSOD's?

Secondary timings?

When changing ram, it's always best to "Load Optimized Defaults" in BIOS, so that settings that you may not have access to are reset according to what the module needs.

 

[N-Gen]

Thing is they're both the same kits, the only difference is one kit has red heat spreaders and the other kit has black ones. At their default values (as they are in the screen shot above) all seems well. They were causing the system to crash while I was doing some sessions on F1 2011, set default settings for the modules and they didn't fail again.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Love my temps. Been at 100% stress for just over eight hours now.

 

[DOM]

Now its time to check what's the highest multi your CPU can boot at cp lol

 

[PaulieG]

Love my temps. Been at 100% stress for just over eight hours now.

http://img.techpowerup.org/111124/Capture019.jpg

That's under water, right? Looks really good. However, at 4.5ghz, you should be able to lower vcore some.

 

[sneekypeet]

Love my temps. Been at 100% stress for just over eight hours now.

http://img.techpowerup.org/111124/Capture019.jpg

Coretemp? Sorry I had too.
Here is mine on air: