UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[RoEy]

Never put a voltage straight to anything in some kind of attempt at preempting instability. Rule no#1 of overclocking - only increase a voltage when needed. You should be doing a suite of tests when overclocking, and when instability occurs, testing will reveal which voltage/setting is responsible.

For 200 BCLK you shouldn't need more than ~1.15 vIOH set in BIOS. That is not to say set it to 1.15v, I'm just giving you a ballpark. Do some testing and establish what your system needs.

I'm strugglying as to know how to overclock it properly then. I've noticed a lot of you guys clock the bclk first to get that stable, then the multi and finally ram.

I'd like to know how to do this and what things I should be enabling disabling in the BIOS, what voltages should be on auto/manually set.

I've just jumped straight in at 4ghz and I'm now thinking I'd learn a lot more if I did things one step at a time.

I really need to decide which overclock I want too, as I keep toying with 21x191, 21x196, 21x200 and 20x200. Most vcore I've needed so far is 1.335 in BIOS for 21x200 but goes upto 1.38 on load so don't think its safe. Need to go back to the drawing board I think.....

Hope someone can give me some sort of structure and guidance.

Whats best bios version too, as I'm currently running 1504? Plus, I always use IBT and Prime to stress but looks like you all prefer linx on here. Is it better than IBT?


RoEy