I7 960 + Asus Rampage III Extreme

[DjTony90]

Hello! as my thread says, i have one 960 with Rampage III Extreme...

My O.C is 4.3GHZ with Hyper Threading Enabled... Voltage in 1.38V

My temperatures is 80°C in MAX LOAD with Prime.... after 10 hours....

is that OK ? does anyone go with HIGHER with same CPU ? maybe there's some EXPERT choices for lower volt and that means lower temperatures ?

or expert choices for more O.C ?

I Use HANDBRAKE for video encoding & i need the MAX FPS that my CPU can give me...!

if someone want to help me for some better settings, would be great! im here to listen ALL your opinions!

 

[Ajay]

You are not going to be able to get much more out of a Nehalem quad. Maybe get a better HSF for now and save your pennies for a new Haswell system. That said, some folks will probably be able to chime in on getting your vCore down a bit.

 

[DjTony90]

HSF means ? if i drop the volt may be unstable

 

[Ajay]

HSF means ? if i drop the volt may be unstable

Heat Sink and Fan. The only way to find the lowest vCore you can run at is to fiddle with some other settings and voltages, but I'm no expert on that. You can try the search drop down and probably find that this has already been discussed.