Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

[rge]

Nice Results rge.
Your memory sticks do not necessarily hold you down, it is probably Uncore if you haven't bumped Dram voltage a little higher than 1.64.

Why are you running Uncore at x22 ? you can run x20 which gives you more stability.

Try x10 Dram/x20 Uncore.
And as I said, you will probably need to bump the Dram voltage to the 1.80v range in order to keep the ram and Uncore stable.

Thanks, I appreciate the suggestion.

I have had my DRAM as high as 2v, and qpt/vtt at 1.68v trying 10/20, but no luck. My ram will do 2000 at 8,8,8, 21 with 1.96 dram v 1.62qpi/vtt running arena chess at 22x uncore, but spi 32m on that setting or 10x/20x makes rounding errors or bsod. I dont want to run higher v than that on 6 minute stress test. And for whatever reason my ram does not like 9,9,9, timings, does same at those, except worse times.

Once I have dram v up to 1.96 or so and qpi 1.62v, 22x (4530mhz) uncore is pretty stable. And uncore makes a huge impact on spi times. At 20x uncore, I would never make sub8, even with ram at 2000, judging by first few passes it does make it through at 10/20.