**Official** Asrock Z68 Gen3 Extreme7 & Extreme4 thread

[zoomee]

I'm pretty disappointed with my i7-2600k temps on this board. I might revert the BIOS to an earlier version.

at 4.9Ghz I need 1.47v and it loads at close to 80c - custom water (240mm + 280mm)
4.8ghz is much more tolerant as it only needs 1.41v. Maybe I need to increase voltages elsewhere, but I kept getting 000000101 BSOD's until I increased the vcore to this point.

Maybe I just got a 2600k that doesn't overclock too well. I've reseated the waterblock a few times which didn't help either.

http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/P1020405.jpg

What settings apart from vcore are you guys adjusting to get to 4.9+? I've found that I havent needed to adjust PLL yet - maybe I could lower vcore and raise PLL to prevent the bsod's

I'm in exactly the same boat mate
Hitting stupidly high temps on water at anything above 4.6Ghz+. This board kicks out allot of heat into the system as my system temp (measured by a seperate probe from my Aquaaero 5) shows. IBT on standard ALWAYS goes upto 80Degrees C no matter the volvts I've used so far - 1.32 > 1.52 which is quite wierd.

PLL is always at 1.8v on this board. I'm pretty depressed my 2600k can't even do 4.6Ghz without sooo much heat especially under water!!!

what settings you using for 4.9?

I personally think its this board (Xtreme 4 Gen 3) - All other users just have to adjust vcore and multi to get average overclocks - This board requires load of bloomin tweaking