Quote Originally Posted by psyside View Post
Hey guys, its me again lol.

Here is the thing, with my latest stable oc, which is posted few links above, i get some instability issues (only during LINX) and i know why....the vcore drops ALOT, i set 1.387vcore in BIOS and during Linx load, it goes as low as freaking 1.34 :/ what i find even more frustrating is that, im fairly sure my chip is great, why? because even at (vdrop during load) - 1.34vcore/1.4BIOS (@4.150mhz) the Linx test aint drop fail like 12 mins! its quite a good chip. So in order to avoid this big Vdrop, i had to increase the vcore to (huge 1.41), after that @WIN the default vcore is 1.40 and load is 1.36, now i can get the system stable this way but hey, 1.39 is totaly unnececarry for my cpu at idle....it could be stable at 1.35/1.37 during load! not 1.40 idle, is there anyway to work around this??? please help! its really frustrating...after i notice this im sure my chip can go even further, 4.2ghz easy...if i just find way to fix this, even this is a C0, but i guess a good one.


Few more questions,

1. Is this motherboard issue, BIOS issues or what?
2. Does ram, or any other components affect this?
3.Temps maybe? ( i got fantastic cooling, NH D14 + HAF 932, 1.41 vcore @4.1ghz max temp - 20mins LINX - during summer - 74c..
4 Anything other then this? chip degradation lol?

Does the new Z68/P67 have this issues as well?

P.S. LLC is on and also CPU Thermal Monitor is on, not sure if i should turn off this, it kinda scare me...

P.P.S. Both Cpuz and Eeasytune, show same vcore (during load) so its not false reading.
Quote Originally Posted by Fatbird View Post
Use LLC2.
@psyside the only thing i can say is if your cpu needs that to be stable then thats what it needs and if the vdrop and vdroop are to much for you then you need a x58a-ud5 rev2. Also C0/c1 cpus need more vcore then d0's. If you dont want to buy a new motherboard or a cpu then you need to add more vcore to correct the problem. You could try Dvid. Set vcore to normal then dvid option can be changed. The left colum has your cpus Vid. lets say its 1.25. You need 1.4v for your overclock so you would set dvid to +0.1500 to equal 1.4v at load and vcore should drop at idle if c1e and intel speed step are enabled.

@fatbird orginal ud5 only has llc disabled or enabled no levels of llc. thats why he would need the newer ud5. It has standard=disabled level 1 and level 2.