New i7 System. How am I doin?

[Amused]

Just put together a new box tonight while drinking a bottle of vodka with Redbull 🙂.

I haven't built or OCed a system in 7 years.

No idea if this will burn the house down or not. What do you guys think? Are these settings okay?

i7 920 at 4ghz (4011MHz
Asus p6x58D-Premium
EVGA GTX 480 Superclocked
Zalman 9700 Cooler
Antec Three Hundred Case with all fans (5) high

2 hours stable prime95 blend so far

Idle CPU temp: 32c
Load CPU temp under Prime 95 Bend: 74c

3DMark Vantage score 23533
CPU- 19433
GPU-19433

3DMark06 Score: 25977
CPU:6856

BIOS Settings:

Ai Overclock Tuner...Manual
CPU Ratio Setting....21.0
Intel SpeedStep Tech.. Disabled
Xtreme Phase Full Power Mode...Enabled
BCLK Freq..............191
PCIE Freq...............100
DRAM Freq.............1531MHz
UCLK Freq..............3063MHz
QPI Link Data Rate....Auto

CPU Voltage Control..Manual
CPU Voltage...........1.275
CPU PLL Voltage......1.80
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage.1.25000
IOH Voltage.............1.14
IOH PCIE Voltage.......1.50
ICH Voltage..............1.20
ICH PCIE Voltage.........1.50
DRAM Bus Voltage.......1.64
CPU Differential Amplitude...800mV
CPU Clock Skew..............Delay 300ps
CPU Spread Spectrum......Disabled
IOH Clock Skew.............Auto
PCIE Spread Spectrum....Disabled

C1E Support................Disabled
Hardware Prefetcher.......Enabled
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch..Enabled
Intel Virtualization Tech..... Disabled
Execute Disable Bit..............Enabled
Intel HT Tech.....................Enabled
A20M................................Disabled
Intel SpeedStep Yech..........Disabled
Intel C-State Tech............. Disabled

 

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Well, now I'm hungover and see that 60 people looked, but know one can tell me if my drunk OCing party last night resulted in safe settings? 🙁

 

[Bartman39]

Looks good to me... CPU core voltage looks real good as does everything else...

What memory and timings...? To increase your memory speed if possible and tigher timings you have to increase the CPU VTT voltage...

 

[Amused]

Looks good to me... CPU core voltage looks real good as does everything else...

What memory and timings...? To increase your memory speed if possible and tigher timings you have to increase the CPU VTT voltage...

My Memory is Corsair XMS3 TR3XG16008 G. 2GBx3

It's running at 8-8-8-24 1534MHz I believe.

How are my benchmarks? Good, bad, average?

Vodka, Redbull and OCing are a dangerous mix.

IRRC, I just jumped everything up to 4GHz, tested it, crashed once, bumped the CPU voltage by .25 and got it stable. Kinda wreckless now that I think about it.

BTW, my DRAM Voltage will only do 1.64 or 1.66. It wont stay at 1.65. I left it at 1.64. Think I should bump it to 1.66 just to be sure?

 

[Bartman39]

Dram voltage should be fine at 1.64

Benchmarks look inline but might possibly check your dram:fsb ratio...? Use CPUID or Everest to make sure your memory is running where you think it is... I had been setting mine to 2/10 and other various ratios in the bios and every time I booted into Window everything was telling me I was at the 2/8 divider (basicly stuck there)... I did a bios update to the newest and bingo now I have my memory running on the 2/10 ratio or 1906mhz for sure... I ended up with a cpu score of 24965 in Vantage and am running the same settings otherwise as you...


Also that dangerous mix looks like it did pretty good... 😀

 

[Amused]

Dram voltage should be fine at 1.64

Benchmarks look inline but might possibly check your dram:fsb ratio...? Use CPUID or Everest to make sure your memory is running where you think it is... I had been setting mine to 2/10 and other various ratios in the bios and every time I booted into Window everything was telling me I was at the 2/8 divider (basicly stuck there)... I did a bios update to the newest and bingo now I have my memory running on the 2/10 ratio or 1906mhz for sure... I ended up with a cpu score of 24965 in Vantage and am running the same settings otherwise as you...


Also that dangerous mix looks like it did pretty good... 😀

Uh oh. CPUID is telling me that my memory is running at 763.7 MHz FSB: DRAM 2:8.

How do I change that?

 

[Bartman39]

Not sure on your board but on my EVGA X58 SLI its under the memory features section... But your basicly at what your memory is spec`d for and yes it appears your right inline at that memory speed...

You would for sure have to lower your timings to get it beyond the 2/8 ratio and it most likely wont run on the 2/10 which does put it at 1906mhz or 953mhz as shown in CPUID...

 

[Amused]

Not sure on your board but on my EVGA X58 SLI its under the memory features section... But your basicly at what your memory is spec`d for and yes it appears your right inline at that memory speed...

You would for sure have to lower your timings to get it beyond the 2/8 ratio and it most likely wont run on the 2/10 which does put it at 1906mhz or 953mhz as shown in CPUID...

Ah, okay. Kinda confused about all this.

So all is good, right? Then why is my score so much lower than yours?

 

[billyb0b]

lets see some photos of the new setup

 

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lets see some photos of the new setup

 

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She's not as pretty as a lot of yours, but I don't have the patience for complex cable routing. 😛

The cord running across the CPU heatsink is the fan control. I have it sticking out the back of the case along with the fan control switch for the rear fan. That way I can turn them down and they don't have to always be on jetliner mode.

 

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The most amazing thing is I can run Prime95 default blend and still do other simple things on the system just as fast as were it not running.

It shows all processors maxed at 100% when Prime95 blend is running.

 

[ShawnD1]

Why would you disable C1E and Speed Step? Those two settings lower power consumption dramatically. With them turned off, the CPU is basically running at full blast all the time. Lots of heat, global warming, fan runs super fast all the time to cool it, etc.

 

[Amused]

Why would you disable C1E and Speed Step? Those two settings lower power consumption dramatically. With them turned off, the CPU is basically running at full blast all the time. Lots of heat, global warming, fan runs super fast all the time to cool it, etc.

I was told Speed Step and C1E should be disabled for OCing.

It idles at 30-32C. 74-76c at full load under Prime95 Blend.

MB temp stays around 29-30c no matter what.

My CPU fan is on high at all times. My case fans I have noticed can be set to medium and full load temps on the CPU and MB don't change much if at all from them all set on high.

I'm not worried about 5 or 10 extra bucks a month.

 

[Face2Face]

Looks very nice man. It's hard to route and hide the cables in a Antec 300. Still think you did a good job, and it's still smoking fast!!!

 

[Amused]

Okay, new 3DMark Vantage scores:

P23566
GPU 19476
CPU 63989

How are these?

 

[Bartman39]

CPU 63989

Something is not quite right there...? Still your scores are fine... The system looks "tight" 😉


Sorry had to leave and show a house we have for sale about 30 miles from where we live...

 

[Amused]

Something is not quite right there...? Still your scores are fine... The system looks "tight" 😉


Sorry had to leave and show a house we have for sale about 30 miles from where we live...

Ran it again.

P23476
GPU: 19383
CPU: 64059

What's wrong with that?

 

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Funny thing, my System says I'm at 3.818GHz but CPUID and my BIOS says 4.011GHz.

Looked it up and apparently this is a common flaw with Windows?

 

[Bartman39]

Yes your running in Turbo mode...

As for the cpu score...? Alot different from what you had before...?

 

[Amused]

Yes your running in Turbo mode...

As for the cpu score...? Alot different from what you had before...?

Ah. I thought it was a mulitplier issue that Windows doesn't recognize?

Where is Turbo Mode in the BIOS? Didn't see it.

I was drunk and typed in the same score for GPU and CPU in my first post. Duh, huh?

 

[Amused]

Just ran the Half Life 2 Lost Coast Video Stress Test at 1920x1200 all options set to max quality. Got 262.92 average FPS.

Damn. My old system choked a bit on that.

 

[Elganja]

BIOS Settings:

Ai Overclock Tuner...Manual
CPU Ratio Setting....21.0
Intel SpeedStep Tech.. Disabled
Xtreme Phase Full Power Mode...Enabled
BCLK Freq..............191
PCIE Freq...............100
DRAM Freq.............1531MHz
UCLK Freq..............3063MHz
QPI Link Data Rate....Auto

CPU Voltage Control..Manual
CPU Voltage...........1.275
CPU PLL Voltage......1.80
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage.1.25000
IOH Voltage.............1.14
IOH PCIE Voltage.......1.50
ICH Voltage..............1.20
ICH PCIE Voltage.........1.50
DRAM Bus Voltage.......1.64
CPU Differential Amplitude...800mV
CPU Clock Skew..............Delay 300ps
CPU Spread Spectrum......Disabled
IOH Clock Skew.............Auto
PCIE Spread Spectrum....Disabled

C1E Support................Disabled
Hardware Prefetcher.......Enabled
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch..Enabled
Intel Virtualization Tech..... Disabled
Execute Disable Bit..............Enabled
Intel HT Tech.....................Enabled
A20M................................Disabled
Intel SpeedStep Yech..........Disabled
Intel C-State Tech............. Disabled

There should be no reason to change any of those, you should be able to get away with leaving them all as "auto". imho, the more you can leave as "auto" the better

as far as C1E goes... you shouldn't have to disable that or intelspeed step (they are directly related). same goes with HT and Vdroop/Vdrop/etc... On the other hand, I would disable Turbo (and just increase your multiplier in the BIOS)

great voltage btw... mine usually hits around 1.28-1.29 and on occasion 1.31 (I have Vdroop on and my cpu voltage is set to 1.325)

For testing methodology's ... you should try out Linx/OCCT on full memory (imho it's a better test and much much faster at finding errors) or Prime Large FFT's (solely for finding CPU errors). I can't stress how many times Prime95 Blend would pass (24 hours), yet Large FFT's would fail (after 8 or so hours) and Linx would fail after 3-5passes (20 is my benchmark for "pass")

 

[ShawnD1]

On the other hand, I would disable Turbo (and just increase your multiplier in the BIOS)

I disabled turbo on my system just because it makes stability testing a hell of a lot harder. With no turbo, you can just run something like OCCT on all cores and wait for it to crash. With turbo, you need to individually test each core just to make sure the turbo works on each, then run a stress on all cores to see if they fail when they all run, then maybe just 2 of the cores on turbo, etc. This crap is needlessly complicated. Either keep the CPU stock and leave turbo on, or overclock the CPU and turn turbo off.

For testing methodology's ... you should try out Linx/OCCT on full memory (imho it's a better test and much much faster at finding errors) or Prime Large FFT's (solely for finding CPU errors). I can't stress how many times Prime95 Blend would pass (24 hours), yet Large FFT's would fail (after 8 or so hours) and Linx would fail after 3-5passes (20 is my benchmark for "pass")

Just to add to this, my AMD motherboard with the bus speed pushed to the limits can still pass Small FFT very easily, but it fails Large FFT almost immediately. Try to run a wide variety of tests. Don't just run one test for 3 days and declare victory.