Recent content by AXELfrieman

A short archival update: the failure to post seems to be related to the Gigabyte z68 boot loop issue. If experiencing similar problems I suggest replacing your board with that of another manufacturer.

Thanks for the help duck, it is already a much more reliable OC than anything I had cobbled together myself. My definition of VID was incorrect leading to the vcore vs VID confusion, I now see that it's all good :cool:. I bumped up my offset by 0.015v due to another POST failure, figured this...

Here is a pic of some monitoring while I was running Prime95 this morning. The list of changes: Cleared CMOS Updated BIOS ver. Activated XMP to resolve memory speed (very embarassing) EIST, C1E, C3/C6 left on Auto Vcore set to Normal DVID enabled at +0.000v Since making these changes the...

Bonzai- I'll try setting the RAM to 1600 again. I had received a memory crash at one point and assumed it was RAM related, but it also could have been a generic instability crash. I'll also enable C1E and EIST again, I had disabled all three as usual. I see now that Gigabyte was pretty stoked...

Hello everyone, I'm new in town on my whirlwind journey to fix my OC. Hopefully this will be my last stop! A few weeks ago I decided to finally overclock my aging 2500k due to it finally becoming the bottleneck in my system at stock speeds. I've not overclocked a system since I juiced up my...