Originally Posted by
PJD
Ok, getting a bit more idea of how SB overclocks. I've been trying to get 4.7GHz stable at 1.35v vcore. The best I was able to do this was set vcore at 1.40v vcore and LLC at HIGH, because the vdroop was too low and would lead to BSOD 124 error codes. But one thing I could do is set LLC to Extreme and then drop the vcore to 1.35v. Now there are a few here that see huge voltage spikes but the highest I saw was 1.368v. Prime 95 ran for 2 hours.
I didn't like the temps hitting 74C, so I tried to drop to 4.6GHz using 1.35v vcore and LLC = HIGH. Nope, still BSOD 124 error codes. I noticed that vcore would drop sometimes below 1.3v, so I'm thinking maybe the way to keep vcore stable and lower is to use a higher LLC. Is there anything that can record the max VID like RealTemp does with temps? Unless I sit there and stare at the vid on CPUID, I'll never really know what the highest spike is and that was less than .02 of the vcore.