Core i7 Overclocking by Batch #

[JWMc]

You mean like the R2E

Those oscillations over time usually mean that you are pushing your board beyound its limits and the built up stress and heat are causing things to slowly fail.

The thing is my temps are great though because I backed off to 3.8ghz. I need a lot more voltage for 4ghz than 3.8ghz and the heat under LinX load at 4ghz goes to 83c on this TRUE 120 with two 2100 rpm fans.

I'm finally fully stable at 19x200 with HT: 11 hours of Prime blend at 1.185v load and 62c max temp. LinX max temps are of course higher at about 65-66c. Er, actually the voltage is still dropping to 1.168v under LinX so it does drop more there. For some reason it's still more stable with lower volts in LinX than Prime blend though.

New Edit: HEY! Guess what, now my machine wants to blue screen on LinX all of a sudden. I think it only started failing because I raised the RAM usage up a bit. I was using a problem size of 10000, not big enough for even just 4 gigs memory. I just raised my bios vCore setting to 1.22500v and now I'm finally getting a solid 1.20v idle and 1.184v load on LinX (which passed).