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
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?
Both =/? We never got a final ruling on what we were going to use. I personally prefer 3D mark cause the app is purdier.
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.Do you have any results without the CPU o/c'd?
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.
P3803 - 1 x MSI Hawk GTX 460 1GB - 780/1800 - i5 2500K @ 3.9 - 8GB G.Skill 9 @ 667 MHz - Gigabyte P67A-UD3 - Gloomfire - Air - Link
Max temps?Got my i7 4930k to a stable 4.5 at 1.3 volts. I will check out what I get on 3D mark but before I do, anyone with the same processor get it higher? I don't know how greedy I should be.
It's on air, btw.
Max temps?
The 4930Ks generally get around 4.4-4.6 before you really need to dump volts in it.
so i put my 4770k at 1.25V and 4.3 ghz (gigabyte's 'medium' OC setting) and while the chip reports high 90C's during tests the first and second cores get to 100C. BF4 also puts the first core past 90C. Should I worry about it? It seems to be throttling a lot when I play BF4.
EDIT: my 3dmark11 went down. I'm doing something wrong.
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.cross post from the build a pc thread:
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?
Remount your CPU cooler, those temps are way too high.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.
They should both be warm. Water temp in a loop is almost constant, varying by about 1-2C.now BF4 isa peaking around 85C and the aida test still gets me 90+. i know my pump is working since one of the h100 hoses is warm and the other isnt...
They should both be warm. Water temp in a loop is almost constant, varying by about 1-2C.
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Uhh is that directed at me?
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.
Yes look into overclocking. CPU will be beastly with an overclock. Your GPU will hurt your benchmark score though.
I'd go for a crazy overclock today but at -26 I'm afraid the water would freeze before I could get 3DMark running.