Hello, I am a new member and was referred here by a trusted online friend.
He has helped me immensely in the past and thought that I would receive the best help possible here.
A quick history is in order, I built the following system myself and have been very happy with it.
It consists of a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R mobo, an i7-920 CPU, 6 GB of OCZ DDR3 RAM, an OCZ 700W PSU, and a GTX 260 GPU.
I hope I added the photo's correctly.
I have been OC'd at 4.2 with multi-threading enabled for the past 6 months with zero issues.
I was getting some stuttering in Flight Simulator X and a friend advised that I change my graphics driver, do some specific tweaks to the FSX cfg file, and return to default clock settings in my BIOS and see if there was any difference.
I did all of the above and saw improvement.
But I did not think that my GTX 260 was a bottleneck so I thought I'd OC to my previous successful OC numbers.
The OC failed, it was getting too hot, so I disabled multi-threading and then the OC was successful with no temps above 75C in the successful OCCT test.
Here are those numbers from my BIOS, NOTE: These are the numbers from the succesfull OC with Multi-threading disabled and that passed the OCCT test.
My OC numbers:
Voltages:
CPU V Core=1.300
QPI/VTT Voltage=1.300
DRAM Voltage=1.640
IOH Core=1.100
CPU PLL=Normal
ICH I/O=Normal
DRAM Termination=Auto
OTHER SETTINGS:
Clock ratio=20x
QPI Link speed= x36
BLCK Freq=200
Performance Enhance= Standard
System Memory Multiplier=8.0
Memory Freq =1600
DRAM Timing Selectable=manual
Profile DDR Voltage=1.5
Profile QPI Voltage=1.2
CHANNEL'S A,B, and C:
CAS Latency Time=8
tRCD=8
tRP=8
tRAS=16 (24)
TURBO BOOST=enabled
CPU Cores enabled-all
CPU Multi-threading=DISABLED 1st test-passed, enabled 2nd test-failed.
C1E Enhanced Halt=disabled
C3/C6/C7 State Support=Disabled
CPU Thermal Monitor=enabled
EIST=disabled
Virtual Tech=disabled
Bi Directional Prochot=disabled
UNCORE Freq=x17 3400MHz
Isochroneous Support=enabled
The OC failed with Multi-threading enabled, the OCCT test resulted in an error in core 2 with a temp spike to 95C.
I am not the most tech savvy person, this was my first build.
I want to learn all I can.
Please do not be harsh with me, I will learn only from constructive criticism and straight-forward advice.
If anyone feels the need to be rude, or criticize solely for the sake of meanness this is not the thread for that, and I am not the type of person who tolerates it.
Any advice, constructive criticism, and help will be most gratefully accepted and appreciated.
Thank you, Aaron
Bookmarks