The Maximus Formula Thread - Help/OCing/Guide/Rampage conversion

[Grnfinger]

If you dont mind post your current stable clock to see where you at now in terms of volts.

[Scyphe]

I have to say, modern overclocking is very different from what is used to be. I have an E8200 running on my Maximus Formula 1.03 and the settings in BIOS to get a max stable O/C are just over-the-top. I have the chip running 3.6 (8x450) but it's probably not stable, and I'm not sure how to pinpoint which settings I should change. I'll keep browsing this thread for more ideas but so far it's a major undertaking to get good clocks if you're not used to overclocking ASUS/Intel-boards.

After I've run a memtest and then some OCCT/Orthos with this FSB (had the system rockstable at 8x440, decided to go for 450 with the new BIOS) I'll drop some numbers and images and ask for advice on my current voltages and settings.

EDIT:


Had to increase the voltage from 1.250 to 1.300 (1.280 effectively) to not instant-death-by-blue. Don't know if the temps are okay for a "normal" air setup (scythe mine b) but it's stable at 65C/core.

What I really have no clue about is RAM overclocking. I have the reapers in the sig and they're currently running @ 900Mhz. I had to relax the timings and tried fiddling with transaction booster (currently relax [0]) and the other options in that area but ideally someone with a good knowledge of OCZ RAM could give me some advice on how to get the best performance out of those sticks. I'll go into the BIOS later and copy the settings I use.

Grateful for any help or advice. Btw, how much voltage can the E8200 Wolfdale take?

[MurderCityDevil]

If you dont mind post your current stable clock to see where you at now in terms of volts.

well, I just loaded defaults so i could use my comp without crashes until I start oc'ing again, so I don't think that would help much. I know that for that 5 hour stable run, my cpu volt was 1.50625

[Grnfinger]

well, I just loaded defaults so i could use my comp without crashes until I start oc'ing again, so I don't think that would help much. I know that for that 5 hour stable run, my cpu volt was 1.50625

defaults dont mean much to me, in order to help you better I need to have something to start with, you cant just take someones settings and expect them to work, there will be tweaking and adjusting to get your hardware to play nicely.

[MurderCityDevil]

defaults dont mean much to me, in order to help you better I need to have something to start with, you cant just take someones settings and expect them to work, there will be tweaking and adjusting to get your hardware to play nicely.

ok, the most stable settings (5 hours) were the following -

fsb: 425
ram : 850
CpuPLL - 1.62
Nb - 1.53
FSBT - 1.52
Cpu - 1.50625
dram: 2.12

all ram settings were on auto except for the frequency. Clock twister was on "Lighter". everything else was auto except for loadline callibration being enabled.

By the way, about 95% of the time, i get a bsod. I almost never get actual prime rounding errors, my system just crashes and reboots.