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

[xxDayTrader]

Oh hi, mate! Didn't notice; weather is looking good today, don't know about the winds though. Anyway, generally speaking, it all depends on your hardware and cooling.

Best thing to do right now is to shoot for that 3.6ghz "standard" of the G0s. I suggest 8x450 for a nice speed boost.

There are many OC profiles on the first page you can use. I suggest you begin there and then ask for help if and when you ran into problems.

I tried every one of them and either hung at DET RAM or had stability issues. I was eventually able to get things stable at 8x450 for a 24hr Prime run by increasing my voltages one by one but they had to be much higher than any others I saw around here/the net and my temps got pretty high during the stress test. Here were my 8x450 settings from a previous post here...if you see where I might have messed something up please feel free to correct me:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=7647

For now, I'm using all my 9x450 settings but had to change CPL from 8 to 9 or I got BSOD when the OS tried to load (post was fine). I'm wondering if I had one of my CPU Config settings different than I do now or had something else changed because I didn't figure I'd get anything other than BSOD with these CPU, PLL, NB, and so on volt settings. Will start Prime and see what happens.

[Zucker2k]

I tried every one of them and either hung at DET RAM or had stability issues. I was eventually able to get things stable at 8x450 for a 24hr Prime run by increasing my voltages one by one but they had to be much higher than any others I saw around here/the net and my temps got pretty high during the stress test. Here's my 8x450 settings from a previous post here...if you see where I might have messed something up please feel free to correct me:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=7647

I think both your nb and cpupll volts are too high for that overclock. You'll be surprised, but I'm sure even all auto settings would give you lower volts and still stable.

First off, run on the 333 strap, set both gtls to 67, advance both DRAm clockskews to 300 each
Set PL to 8
Too high vcore can also become a problem but you should generally add .40v for that 400mhz difference between 3.2 and 3.6ghz.
I'll set pll to 1.60v (real), check hardware info section in bios
NB to 1.55v
Run ram 1:1 so 900mhz 5-5-5-15 (you can tighten things later) set full max recommended volts too; test later with memtest if you're still having problems

Hopefully, this is not a cpu wall. remember, not all chips can do 3.6ghz stable. Goodluck.

[xxDayTrader]

I think both your nb and cpupll volts are too high for that overclock. You'll be surprised, but I'm sure even all auto settings would give you lower volts and still stable.

First off, run on the 333 strap, set both gtls to 67, advance both DRAm clockskews to 300 each
Set PL to 8
Too high vcore can also become a problem but you should generally add .40v for that 400mhz difference between 3.2 and 3.6ghz.
I'll set pll to 1.60v (real), check hardware info section in bios
NB to 1.55v
Run ram 1:1 so 900mhz 5-5-5-15 (you can tighten things later) set full max recommended volts too; test later with memtest if you're still having problems

Hopefully, this is not a cpu wall. remember, not all chips can do 3.6ghz stable. Goodluck.

made all your recommended changes but I have 2 questions:
1. Re. vcore... you suggested adding .4v because I moved from 3.2 to 3.6ghz. Are you suggesting I increase the vcore from 1.54 to 1.58? --- just want to clarify

2. My PLL voltage... No matter WHAT I change it to, when I check the hardware section in the bios to see what it's 'really' at, I get the same reading: 1.68 or 1.69. I changed it down and checked, moved it down/rebooted/rechecked and still the same thing..... it always reads 1.68 or 1.68.

Other than that, all the other suggestions have been applied and I'll give Prime another shot.

Mike

[Zucker2k]

made all your recommended changes but I have 2 questions:
1. Re. vcore... you suggested adding .4v because I moved from 3.2 to 3.6ghz. Are you suggesting I increase the vcore from 1.54 to 1.58? --- just want to clarify

2. My PLL voltage... No matter WHAT I change it to, when I check the hardware section in the bios to see what it's 'really' at, I get the same reading: 1.68 or 1.69. I changed it down and checked, moved it down/rebooted/rechecked and still the same thing..... it always reads 1.68 or 1.68.

Other than that, all the other suggestions have been applied and I'll give Prime another shot.

Mike

You need 1.54v for 3.2Ghz?

[xxDayTrader]

Prime went for 5 minutes then got an error.... suggestions?




EDIT: just noticed the post above this one. Will try those recommendations.

......and thanks again, thanks a lot.

[elvislee58]

Any people have flash the new RF bios (701) on MF??