Noob to overclocking. need a hand!

[Waffles00]

Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
G Skill F3-10666CL7-2GBRH DDR3-1333 DDR3
Intel I5 760

Im trying to get to 3.8Ghz and push the ram a little.
im pretty new to overclocking but i have run the bclk at 200 and ram at 1600.
but it was a little buggy...
so currently i have everything as follows...

blck 181
x21
cpu 3.8ghz - 1.2V
ram 1448 - 1.58v - 9-9-9-24
vvt - i forget where i set this. i think its at 1.25v
it seems stable. after some prime95, intel burn, and memtest.


under load i hit 70C cpu temp. but 28C at idle.
and thats with the cpu fan on low, so i still have room to play...
i cant seem to get the cpu to slow down at idle. but i turned the turbo thing off. and set the multiplier to x21

how does it look?
any thoughts?

[Waffles00]

Seems to be stable so far even with linx

[Waffles00]

bclk 181 vvt 1.25v
cpu 3.8ghz (x21) 1.12v (normal) dvid +0.050 (says 1.68v under load and down to .8ish at idle)
pch core (normal)
cpu pll (normal)
ram 1448 1.55v 8-8-8-22 1t

turbo disabled
c1e and c3/c6 enabled
eist enabled

Seems to be doing well so far with prime 95...
cpu is x9 at 1.8ghz at idle and x21 at 3.8ghz under load.

any thoughts?

[Waffles00]

gonna change ram to 8-8-8-21 and see if it helps, maybe keep voltage at 1.6v
maybe drop dvid a little. im happy with the temps so far, 66c under full load.
maybe even bump blck up to 200 and do x19 for 3.8 see if i can keep the voltages.
that will push ram up to 1600 but i might be able to bump the volts up a little and keep the timings.

[Waffles00]

so i got my vvt at 1.25,
ram at 1.56v - timings at 8-8-8-22 - 1600mhz
200 fsb x19 = 3.8ghz
vcore normal, dvid .075
all eist and c states enabled as well as llc

I replaced thermal compound and rotated my cooler 90*
and i am staying stable with prime95 for 22hrs
as well as intel burn test, memtest, and linx
max temp has been between 63-77 on all 4 cores.
my vcore during load is 1.74-1.8
going to try and bump up to 4.0ghz, and keep voltage, or more likely lower dvid and see if i can remain stable.

[Rast]

all good. no comments needed.

[torrado]

Lot new to learn .. Thanx all of yew

[Idontcare]

Originally Posted by Waffles00

I replaced thermal compound and rotated my cooler 90*

That is always a good test to perform. Did you notice an improvement in temperature or did it get worse with the rotated mounting orientation?

It sounds like you have a stable OC on your hands, good job

[Waffles00]

Originally Posted by Idontcare

That is always a good test to perform. Did you notice an improvement in temperature or did it get worse with the rotated mounting orientation?

It sounds like you have a stable OC on your hands, good job

well the thermal compout was all shitty. so i saw a big difference there, and rotating the cooler helped with the airflow quite a bit. i had the fans working against eachother. but i did build this pc like 5 years ago... gotta overclock it now to keep up. ha.
my temps went from 70* max to 61*max...
thanks guys. its working great now. got my vcore down to 1.8 on the heavy load. and at 3.8 stable. even clocked my ram at 1600 8-8-8-22 at 1.56v runs great. now if i could only replace my old 9800gtx+ and logitech g15 for the new versions... ha