Quote Originally Posted by 286SX View Post
JW,

Can you clarify something for me as I dont' have much experience with the newest chipsets and CPUs WRT overclocking.

How should I be using LINX and Prime to confirm the best system settings. Honestly, I completely skip LINX and just try to run blend for 6+ hours.

As I'm working on getting a low(ish) voltage 4.1/4.2 working, is the "best" method to set CPUv first, run LINX to see if it sticks, then run prime blend to see if it's stable.

Questions: if LINX dies, I should up the CPUv first? Will changing PLL or QPIv help the LINX stress?

If LINX passes, but prime dies, does this mean PLL or QPI should be changed first? And what about those crazy skew settings? Will they really help...

Thanks!
I have no clue when to alter PLL voltages or by how much. LinX stability needs (sometimes a fair bit) less QPI/VTT than Prime blend for sure!

AFAIK, LinX is the best program out there to find your true multithreaded stable vCore (or manually running Linpack of course). If it crashes in LinX but not Prime blend (I'd be surprised), you definitely need to up the load vCore until it goes up to the next closest step above what you were using, at least. LinX is just great because if you're not even close on vCore it will crash quickly and consistently so. I've only once been able to find settings that could get LinX to report an error and not BSOD me when the system fails.

Once you get it to pass LinX, vCore should be verified. However even LinX can pass with extremely borderline low vCore and then Blend will fail because you needed that one more step up on the load voltage as reported by CPU-Z. BTW I'm up to almost 4 hours on Prime blend with all the same settings, hell yes!

I have a guess that the strange behavior I was seeing when I needed one voltage bump more for Prime blend vs LinX was at 20x200. The system is MUCH happier at 190x21!

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-td [BTW, nice ride. You should try the track instead of autocross!]
I love her. I have gone to SCCA Solo2 Nationals once and won some (pretty meaningless but still) divisionals. I've been taking a break from it for a while though. I did do a track day once but I wasn't willing to really push it in the corners that hard. It was at Roebling Road Raceway in Georgia. At the moment I'm riding on a hardcore autocross suspension setup: KW-V3 double adjustables with piggyback reservoirs in the front, 12k/10k F-R rates. PM me if you wanna geek out about it some more. I promise I won't clutter the thread up with car talk.