Quote Originally Posted by Random Murderer View Post
BCLK with -10 PCIE and -2 BCLK with -20 PCIE, but neither helped much. -1/-10 was able to run longer before BSOD, but still very unstable.
I think you only need to experiment with those settings for fine tuning or bleeding edge. Get a stable basic OC before anything else.

It's hard to give advice cause every system responds a little different. However, I think it's easiest when you start out using a fixed voltage with CPU LLC set to high. This allows the CPU to maintain an almost constant voltage. It won't drop or rise much between idle and load.

(I started out using medium CPU LLC with a 3960X, but stability was unpredictable over 4.6 GHz. I could perform a 20+ Linx run, then a minute later the system would randomly BSOD or error out 3-4 minutes into another Linx test. Also, try the latest Prime95 with AVX. With these CPUs it seems to cause a BSOD or show errors more consistently and faster when something isn't quite right. Stabilizing the CPU voltage with High LLC solved that problem for me.)