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Race Your PC Thread2 of Voiding Warranties
- Thread starter mkenyon
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Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
At the moment I'm rock-solid stable at 4.2Ghz at 1.25v on my 3570k on air. I'd like to stretch it to 4.4-4.5Ghz. What voltage range should I keep it in and how high should I allow my temp to achieve in Prime95?
So should I be using Heaven 4.0 or the latest 3D Mark?
Gonna bench my iMac and HTPC too, but I expect nothing short of a trainwreck with those two
Both =/? We never got a final ruling on what we were going to use. I personally prefer 3D mark cause the app is purdier.
Ivy Bridge is way more heat limited then voltage limited. You can run that sucker up 1.4v and beyond but once it heats the thermal limit if the interface material between the chip and the heat spreader temps sky rocket.
Simple version. Up the voltage as necessary until the heat starts to go wild. I like to try and keep it below 80C but it can technically go up to 105C before throttling.
I'm having a ton of trouble getting 3DMark to bench my GPUs properly. They're currently scoring ~3000 points lower than they should. 3DMark continuously identifies there to be an error but I can't figure it out. This has happened to me every single iteration of 3DMark.
Let's use Heaven as our main benchmark and 3DMark as our "posterity" benchmark since it's been used since this whole thread started.
Just want to get my results down somewhere, I realize this isn't really updated anymore.
I've had the CPU overclocked since system was built, but just played with GPU overclock today.
No overclock of GPU (past manufactures)
P7013 - MSI 660 TF 2G/OC - 1033/1502/stock - 3570k @ 4.5Ghz - 8GB @ 1600Mhz - ASRock Z77 Extreme4 - brentech - CM 212Evo/air - LINK
Overclock with MSI Afterburner
P7349 - MSI 660 TF 2G/OC - 1078/1690/stock - 3570k @ 4.5Ghz - 8GB @ 1600Mhz - ASRock Z77 Extreme4 - brentech - CM 212Evo/air - LINK
I've had the CPU overclocked since system was built, but just played with GPU overclock today.
No overclock of GPU (past manufactures)
P7013 - MSI 660 TF 2G/OC - 1033/1502/stock - 3570k @ 4.5Ghz - 8GB @ 1600Mhz - ASRock Z77 Extreme4 - brentech - CM 212Evo/air - LINK
Overclock with MSI Afterburner
P7349 - MSI 660 TF 2G/OC - 1078/1690/stock - 3570k @ 4.5Ghz - 8GB @ 1600Mhz - ASRock Z77 Extreme4 - brentech - CM 212Evo/air - LINK
mastershake
Member
Do you have any results without the CPU o/c'd?
Nah, I found a stable overclock after getting everything installed the day I built it and haven't gone back. Maybe I'll default the Bios and bench it to see how big the effect is there.
Seems my overclock on the GPU isn't stable during gaming. Crashes after about 15 minutes in BF3. I need to read up on the voltages of this card and probably increase that. Maybe tomorrow.
Defaulted my bios and took the CPU to it's base 3.4/3.8 (with turbo) settings. It scored @ P6896
So been so engrossed in my physical upgrades and wiring and stuff that I thought 5 hours prime 95 at 5Ghz was stable. But bf3 keeps crashing and crashing so I check the logs and see hundreds of internal parity errors reported from the CPU. Turns out my oc was NOT stable. What happened to the good old days when a bad oc would just crash the whole computer? Not silently log the error and I eep chugging along.
I was getting those same errors while playing BF3 after I defaulted my BIOS to default settings to run tests to see what the differences in my scores were. When I went back up to my overclock the errors starting popping in event viewer, even though it was a saved profile I'd been using for over a month.
Didn't make much since. After trying to change voltages on my offset overclock, I eventually just brought it down from 4.5Ghz to 4.4Ghz and I haven't had the error during OCCT or BF3 anymore.
Stupid.
First time contributing to this thread. So this is the 3DMark 11 demo?
I had just upgraded my computer and was putting its through its paces.
Here's what I got, though I intend to do more overclocking later, since I haven't touched voltages yet (probably won't for a while) or my cpu. Hopefully I'll get more out of it!
P8783 - HD7950 - 1050/1250/stock - 4670k @ stock - 8GB @ 1600MHz - Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H - Akuun - Noctua NH-U12P SE2 (air) - Link
I had just upgraded my computer and was putting its through its paces.
Here's what I got, though I intend to do more overclocking later, since I haven't touched voltages yet (probably won't for a while) or my cpu. Hopefully I'll get more out of it!
P8783 - HD7950 - 1050/1250/stock - 4670k @ stock - 8GB @ 1600MHz - Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H - Akuun - Noctua NH-U12P SE2 (air) - Link
Thought I would throw a new score up. Just updated my card today, no other changes.
P6585 - 1 x EVGA GTX 660 2GB
Really happy.
I decided to finally OC my 2500k, but want to keep the power saving features enabled since my PC is on all the time and there's no need to have it go full blast when I'm not using it or not doing anything intensive. I want to bump it to 4.3GHz, but I'm not sure which method to follow.
As a quick test I tried the intel turbo boost method where you just bump up the multiplier setting for the turbo boost to 43 and leave it at that. I read a few instances where people got good vcore readings from that, but mine jump up to 1.32v under load and that seems kinda high to me for a 4.3GHz OC.
Is there any way for me to do a manual OC and still have it drop down the vcore and multiplier to conserve power/heat during idle and light use?
Using an MSI P67A-G45 B3. It has no vcore offset settings, unfortunately.
As a quick test I tried the intel turbo boost method where you just bump up the multiplier setting for the turbo boost to 43 and leave it at that. I read a few instances where people got good vcore readings from that, but mine jump up to 1.32v under load and that seems kinda high to me for a 4.3GHz OC.
Is there any way for me to do a manual OC and still have it drop down the vcore and multiplier to conserve power/heat during idle and light use?
Using an MSI P67A-G45 B3. It has no vcore offset settings, unfortunately.
Max temps?
The 4930Ks generally get around 4.4-4.6 before you really need to dump volts in it.
When running prime95 and observing real temp it would hit 72C here and there but would linger in the upper 60C. Maybe I should get greedy and bump it up to 4.6, but at this point I don't know if it's worth it, the only clock I would settle for after this is 4.7. But I am leaving power savings off for system stability (running Adobe Premier) so I don't think I am willing to push the voltage that much more.
Tone that vcore down. You shouldn't need 1.25v for 4.3GHz. 10c is way too hot and 90c under games is not what a 4770k should be doing.
I'm surprised you can get it that high, it's supposed the throttle at 72C, what program are you using to measure temps?
aida64. I'm back at 1.128V and 3.9Ghz. Still peak at 90 in aida.
Remount your CPU cooler, those temps are way too high.
thanks i'll give it a shot
They should both be warm. Water temp in a loop is almost constant, varying by about 1-2C.
good to know. time to call corsair. it was a refurb to begin with
EDIT: put in a ticket with corsair, expect an RMA. back with the stock fan at stock voltage (1.128/3.9ghz) i'm idling at 30C, peaking at ~80C under load and BF4 runs at a constant ~60-70C @ 40% load. Does that sound about right?
Says 25 hours for me.
Dacon
Banned
So I recently put a new system together with an evga x79 ftw mobo, a I7-3820 3.60 ghz cpu, an nvidia Geforce GTX 660 and G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB ram.
I've never really fooled with overclocking and I was wondering if it was worth looking into with this system. If it helps I have a Xigmatek Gaia SD1238 heatsink on my cpu.
I know relatively nothing about overclocking, so please be patient.
I've never really fooled with overclocking and I was wondering if it was worth looking into with this system. If it helps I have a Xigmatek Gaia SD1238 heatsink on my cpu.
I know relatively nothing about overclocking, so please be patient.
KingpinZero
Member
KingpinZero
Member
What? No mate, why it should be. Im posting this just to be added to the list, thats all.
Yes look into overclocking. CPU will be beastly with an overclock. Your GPU will hurt your benchmark score though.
Dacon
Banned
So how do I go about it?
MickeyKnox
Member
New card
P17772 - (2x)GTX Titan - 1674/1502/stock - i7-3770K @ 4.5GHz - RAM @ 1334MHz - ASUS P8Z77-V PRO - MickeyKnox - Noctua 6 LINK
EDIT: I tweaked my OC a bit and squeezed another 100MHz out of it, new score is in the 1%
P18895 - (2x)GTX Titan - 1674/1502/stock - i7-3770K @ 4.6GHz - RAM @ 1334MHz - ASUS P8Z77-V PRO - MickeyKnox - Noctua 6 LINK
P17772 - (2x)GTX Titan - 1674/1502/stock - i7-3770K @ 4.5GHz - RAM @ 1334MHz - ASUS P8Z77-V PRO - MickeyKnox - Noctua 6 LINK
EDIT: I tweaked my OC a bit and squeezed another 100MHz out of it, new score is in the 1%
P18895 - (2x)GTX Titan - 1674/1502/stock - i7-3770K @ 4.6GHz - RAM @ 1334MHz - ASUS P8Z77-V PRO - MickeyKnox - Noctua 6 LINK
KingpinZero
Member
Amazing score! But is this thread updated anymore?
not really, mostly it's me asking dumb questions about cpu temps:
So i'm RMAing my h100i for a new one, I'm back with stock cooler and aftermarket thermal paste (cleaned and reapplied every time. Shit gets expensive).
I'm idling at 35C and prime95 kicks me up to ~92-95C. Refresher: this is a 4770k/Gigabyte UD4H at stock 3.9GHz and 1.065 Vcore. Battlefield (1080p on ultra) runs @ ~62C
Should I be worried about that Prime95 temp? I'm hoping to push this to 4.6 or so when i get the h100 back. is it feasible or did i lose the silicon lottery?
So i'm RMAing my h100i for a new one, I'm back with stock cooler and aftermarket thermal paste (cleaned and reapplied every time. Shit gets expensive).
I'm idling at 35C and prime95 kicks me up to ~92-95C. Refresher: this is a 4770k/Gigabyte UD4H at stock 3.9GHz and 1.065 Vcore. Battlefield (1080p on ultra) runs @ ~62C
Should I be worried about that Prime95 temp? I'm hoping to push this to 4.6 or so when i get the h100 back. is it feasible or did i lose the silicon lottery?
P20012 - R9 290x + R9 290 - 1150/1500/1.3v - i7 3770k @ 4.7ghz - Asus Maximus V Gene - EK watercooled
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7780539
- 1150/1500/1.3v - i7 3770k @ 4.7ghz - Asus Maximus V Gene - EK watercooledhttp://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7780539
-26? Positively balmy.