The i7 Overclocking Study Thread... post your OC settings.

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

2 slick post a shot of CPUz, and the memory tab also if you can please.

I returned everything to stock right now :P
it frustrated me that i cant get it stable...

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

2 slick post a shot of CPUz, and the memory tab also if you can please.

How did you get 4ghz stable? What cooling you using?

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by 2slick4u

How did you get 4ghz stable? What cooling you using?

heres my log over at TPU, it has updates throughout the thread, but the components remained the same as the first post.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=82607

I can do 4.3 GHz HT on, stable for about an hour and a half just for benching, I dont run the rig at that setting daily. voltage is not within safe specs. Only do it for short periods of benching.

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

heres my log over at TPU, it has updates throughout the thread, but the components remained the same as the first post.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=82607

I can do 4.3 GHz HT on, stable for about an hour and a half just for benching, I dont run the rig at that setting daily. voltage is not within safe specs. Only do it for short periods of benching.

here is a shot

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 10:43 AM

What do u keep ur speed at normal use?

oh liquid cooling :P maybe i go that route later but i dun even know if i can push my cpu anymore cant even get a good oc with good air cooling

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by 2slick4u

here is a shot

if you drop your ram didiver to six, and leave everything else the same, is is stable?

nice S2k BTW

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 10:48 AM

here are my daily settings, i have crunched over 86 hours with these settings, not one BSOD or restart or hang. I game, and bench on this too!

if you notice while browsing i am also crunching in the background. Rock solid stable dude:

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 10:49 AM

I have it at this setting right now

BCLK: 200
Mul: 19x
Dram: 1603 ( 8x )
UNCLK: 3206 ( 2x )
QPI LINK SPD: 7200MT/s

Vcore: 1.35v
PTT: Auto
QPI: 1.35v
DRAM: 1.66v

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

if you drop your ram didiver to six, and leave everything else the same, is is stable?

nice S2k BTW

which didiver?

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 10:54 AM

can u show me your setting
but your doing water cooling so it shouldnt be a problem..
I'm still on air so i doubt i can get it stable with 4ghz
I'll be happy to get it stable at 3.8ghz with ht on

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by 2slick4u

can u show me your setting
but your doing water cooling so it shouldnt be a problem..
I'm still on air so i doubt i can get it stable with 4ghz
I'll be happy to get it stable at 3.8ghz with ht on

look before your last posts, those are my settings.

the RAM divider, drop it from 8x to 6x

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

look before your last posts, those are my settings.

the RAM divider, drop it from 8x to 6x

should i drop the dram voltage if i drop it down to 6x?

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by 2slick4u

should i drop the dram voltage if i drop it down to 6x?

no it wont hurt to leave it like that, maybe the ram needs some juice and thats why you are not beeing stable. Try bringing it down to 6x first. Voltage the same. See if it works. Trial and Error my friend, trial and error.

Try that and report back.

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 11:12 AM

did as you say hope this work

my voltage is liek this
vcore: 1.35v
QPI: 1.35v
dram: 1.66v

should be okay>?

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 11:15 AM

i have qpi link speed at 18 x?

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by 2slick4u

i have qpi link speed at 18 x?

try those settings, we'll see if it was your ram/memory controller taking a

with the RAM at that speed. IF its still not stable then its going to take tweaking something else.

QPI link speed is correct at 18x.

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 11:17 AM

i try to prime it now

hope it works...

**ewitte** · 03-21-2009, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by foolycooly

Wow, that core voltage is incredibly low. Seems weird that your temps ended up so high after a long stress test. Also, what are C1E and CState and how do they keep idle temps low? Are they on by default?

Because it drops volts/speed. Gets the idle temps to the lower 30's.

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

try those settings, we'll see if it was your ram/memory controller taking a

with the RAM at that speed. IF its still not stable then its going to take tweaking something else.

QPI link speed is correct at 18x.

4hrs so far temps at 86 havent got a bsod yet lol

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by 2slick4u

4hrs so far temps at 86 havent got a bsod yet lol

good. Looks like it was either your ram or your memory controller having a hard time being stable at higher clocks. Keep the RAM like that and go from there. If it continues to be stable, try to lower your vcore little by little. If you can be stable at lower vcore thats good. Lower voltage, cooler temps

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 03:18 PM

yeah i hope it run stable right now at like this than i'll try lowering the vcore
do i have to touch the qpi/dram voltage?

**Chicken Patty** · 03-21-2009, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by 2slick4u

yeah i hope it run stable right now at like this than i'll try lowering the vcore
do i have to touch the qpi/dram voltage?

you can leave that how it is.

**2slick4u** · 03-21-2009, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

you can leave that how it is.

well so far 5hrs and no bsod yet so i guess good news for now :P
How much for a basic water cooling system?

**PC_User** · 03-21-2009, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Terlcartman

Looks like you were asking the other guy but my thoughts on the F5e BIOS: I like it alot as I got the temp drops from the F5 series, S3 resume works as long as I wait at least 30 sec before attempting to wake and my 4.095 with Turbo and HT is stable. FYI I tried F6a and it did not work well for me and most recently I tried F6e and my overclock would BSD very quickly with it on LinX and the killer was it will stop you from going back to older BIOS using Q-Flash, which was really annoying. I was able to get back by creating a USB Boot Disk and reflashing that way. Instructions on tweaktown by (lsdmeasap).

#1 - Where do you get F5E? Is it an official BIOS or beta?

#2 - I received my UD5 with F4 and flashed it to F5. Overclocked to 4.0GHz but now I can't get it to wake up from sleep (S3 suspend). I thought the issue was fixed with the F5 bios...

Computer powers on fine but the screen is black. I have to do a hard reset in order to get back into Windows. Any ideas?

**Infa** · 03-22-2009, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by Godmyster

Sorry i got the quot wrong, i was refering to you, you the one that has F6C lol

what do you think of ir m8?

Thanks

Yeah

just messing.

Well the Bios is all ok, Was working with the same settings as earlier F5 bios settings, no change in Voltages, atleast for me, and ET6 is working also.

Thought it was a good one, but then, it started, now and then when i were rebooting, it got to a blank screen and i had to reset and it got to OC failure screen. very annoying, So now i have switched to the great F5G that is working flawlessly so far as before, no bad reboots etc. only thing, S3 and ET6 wont work with this, but i never use Sleep so why bother, ET6 is not a must either, so im sticking with F5G so far.

Originally Posted by PC_User

#1 - Where do you get F5E? Is it an official BIOS or beta?

#2 - I received my UD5 with F4 and flashed it to F5. Overclocked to 4.0GHz but now I can't get it to wake up from sleep (S3 suspend). I thought the issue was fixed with the F5 bios...

Computer powers on fine but the screen is black. I have to do a hard reset in order to get back into Windows. Any ideas?

Yeah, F5E is a beta bios, all bios'es with letters are BETA.. those without are the Final one, and check out Tweaktown Gigabyte forum for latest and all previous beta bios. great place actually got all progs and stuff you need

Well NO F5 Bios is working with S3, dunno if it's even fixed until now, many complains over it, only working i think is with F3 bios?

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