Sandy Bridge E Overclocking Guide (Walk-through Explanations, and Support)

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Extra OC Tips and Resources:

OC Profiles:
Most board have a way for you to save the profiles, on GIGABYTE board’s you go to the last menu and save and load profiles:

Profiles come in handy when you have a platform that can't allow for maximum CPU and Memory OC at the same time. So if you are a bencher you would need different profiles to load for different benchmarks.

VRM Cooling: Some users reported that when they had OCed to 4.5ghz with something like 1.45v and they were stressing, after an hour or so their CPU frequency would start to throttle. To fix this one can raise the PWM thermal limits and at the same time place a fan over the VRM area. With this new platform, since the DIMMs are on both sides of the CPU socket, board makers are left with much smaller room for the VRM for the CPU. At the same time Intel reduced VRM board real-estate, they released an extremely power hungry CPU. Power density has increased, and thus heat has also increased. It is recommended by many manufacturers for the majority of SBe boards that the user have some sort of active airflow around the CPU VRM area.


BIOS Flashing: The best way to flash any BIOS is through your BIOS’s built in flash utility. It is best not to do it in Windows. Also please note that if everything is going fine, then you don’t need to update your BIOS. BIOS updates can be a bit scary as your board can die. Most high-end boards and all GIGABYTE boards have Dual BIOS which can help users in cases of BIOS flash failures.

I will happily answer your questions and help anyone who asks for it, either by posting in this thread or by PMing me I will answer and help you. Sometimes I get busy, but if it is urgent you can PM me.

Other Overclocking and Support Resources:
GB X79 Video OC Guide
X79-UD7 Club
Intel LGA2011 Datasheet Part 1 Part2
R4E Owners Club
HWBot LGA2011 Forum
ASUS X79 Club