redenvy

BTW i re-read all the guides in the sticky that linderman posted and they make SO much more sense now that i have been able to play around with settings and terminology, so thanks to all of you i REALLY appreciate your advice and patience

redenvy

so after 9 hours of prime95 running with voltages of 1.36 on the CPU and a clock of 3.4ghz i had no errors, however my highest recorded temp was 62 :\

Phædrus2401

62C is fine, that's about what I hit after 5 hours of Prime95.

redenvy

just been testing and playing with the clock at 3.5ghz and 1.37 voltage on cpu... the only thing ive noticed is that when i do a cold boot up the motherboard beeps 4 times with 2 tones (high-low-high-low) .. but then everything works fine

linderman

I would stick at 3.4 ghz chasing another 200mhz is not worth it

redenvy

lol okay so it at its end?

linderman

try 1.38 on the cpu voltage and see if the motherboard squaks

redenvy

well i bumped it to 1.38 and the alarm wouldn't stop haha.. so i had to loaded optimized defaults, reboot, then redo the clock to 3.4 and ram to 1:1. I take it im at my end here?

redenvy

well im pretty stable at a clock of 3.4 ghz (prime95 2.5 for hours) with stock voltage and stock ram voltage with linked ram speed.

are these my options?:

try pushing the cpu higher again
or
accept 3.4 and try and push the ram a little

linderman

stock voltage setting is not really good; it can overvolt your cpu

try setting cpu volts at 1.35 and ram 1:1 with ddr2 voltage at 2.0volts (as long as your ram is rated fro 2.0 volts?


if you got to 3.4 with auto settings you can get to 3.6 with some tweaking!

redenvy

sorry by stock i meant the default setting. there doesn't seem to be any "auto voltage" setting. the default voltage is 1.35.... so since then i have reclocked it up to 3.5 ghz and it seems stable with 1.37v. the ram is 1:1 at 1.9v and it is rated for 1.8-1.9. it is stresss testing right now and i wil post results when i get home

linderman

looking good

redenvy

prime95 failed im gonna bump it up to 1.38 for 3.5ghz

Kovacevic

Can I ask something? CPU temp is the only thing you monitor during the OC process? In other words, while the CPU temp is below the "red line" we can keep pushing it? Thanks.

greenbrucelee

what red line?

as long as you don't go over 60 degrees c when the pc is on full load then you should be fine

redenvy

so it looks like im stable at 3.5ghz with a voltage of 1.38 im pretty happy with that. i ran prime95 all night with no errors and the highest temp it got to was 58. im running OCCT right now to double check. so im wondering if you guys think it would be worth it to get that final 3.6? or should i just go to work on my ram and GPU now?

Phædrus2401

Nah, you should be fine where you are. Just get your RAM to its rated speed and leave your GPU alone. You'll only see a mild gaming performance boost from an overclocked GPU, it usually isn't worth it.

linderman

bump the speed to 3.6 .......and leave the gpu alone

redenvy

welll after a second round of OCCT and prime95 i got errors. I'm still at 3.5ghz with voltage of 1.38 and ram at 1:1 with 1.9v

Should i keep upping the voltage? It seems like the jump from 3.4 to 3.5 is difficult for my processor. I promise i wont touch the GPU lol. When i work on the ram, do i keep it at 1:1, set it at default again, or try a higher ratio...... and then tighten the timings?

HD_Monkey

I would back it down to 3.4 and run stress test again. If you are stable there then leave it.

Also, I would leave the ram at 1:1. This would be underclocked speed wise, but will likely deliver better performance as fsb and ram clock speed are the same.

After stress test you can tighten up ram timings.