Temp questions at 4.4ghz with Prime95... updated with pict of copper tip of HSF

[Lyfer]

Pretty dirt cheap price. Now its time to play, its paired with a corsair 650w psu, XMS DDR1600, HD 6950, and a Coolermaster 212+ HSF.

How much vcore would it take to hit 4.4ghz?

I'll be using this guide:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1012874/the-official-asus-p8p67-p8z68-p8z68-gen3-series-owners-club

Any help would be appreciated!

update:

Currently at an hour of Prime95 in at 4.4ghz and hardware monitor is reporting anywhere from 71c-87c degrees. Idles 32-35c, is this too high?

 

[RavenSEAL]

Keep bumping it til it gets stable, 1.35v~ seems to be standard for that speed

 

[jcniest5]

For a mild 4.4Ghz OC, I'd say 1.375v-1.400v should be plenty enough. Anything past that, the CPU is probably not a good OCer.

 

[Lyfer]

Stupid question, but vcore is the CPU offset voltage right?

And HD7870 $350? I bought two Msi cards today from frys, guess I'll be returning them in favor of the 7870.

 

[Grooveriding]

Stupid question, but vcore is the CPU offset voltage right?

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?2162-Overclocking-Using-Offset-Mode-for-CPU-Core-Voltage

Use that guide to go through overclocking using offset settings. It is, imo, the best way to do it as it gives you very low idle voltage/speed/temps when the CPU is not needed to be running at full speed.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

instead of overclocking it why didnt you just wait for ivy bridge?

 

[Lyfer]

instead of overclocking it why didnt you just wait for ivy bridge?

2500k was only $180 and mobo was $70, $100 savings was too good to keep waiting.

 

[jcniest5]

2500k was only $180 and mobo was $70, $100 savings was too good to keep waiting.

Did you buy the "Replacement Plan" service? If you did, when IB and Z77 come out, you can just go back and exchange your SB CPU and Z68 board back to MC and they will give you a full price store credit to get anything new you want.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Did you buy the "Replacement Plan" service? If you did, when IB and Z77 come out, you can just go back and exchange your SB CPU and Z68 board back to MC and they will give you a full price store credit to get anything new you want.

yeah if theyre selling something like that, then teach 'em a lesson and do it

 

[jcniest5]

yeah if theyre selling something like that, then teach 'em a lesson and do it

There's nothing to teach. That's the selling pitch, actually. The policy is, for up to two years, if anything ever goes wrong with the components, they will take it back with no questions asked. So, if you just want to exchange yours for something better, just say "This thing stopped working." They never test the returned components, so whatever you say, they will just accept it. This, I actually heard it from a salesperson, not something I made up.

 

[Don Karnage]

Pretty dirt cheap price. Now its time to play, its paired with a corsair 650w psu, XMS DDR1600, HD 6950, and a Coolermaster 212+ HSF.

How much vcore would it take to hit 4.4ghz?

I'll be using this guide:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1012874/the-official-asus-p8p67-p8z68-p8z68-gen3-series-owners-club

Any help would be appreciated!

Old 2500K only needed 1.175v to reach 4.4Ghz. Put it at 1.2v and work backwards

 

[shelaby]

yup, mines running 4.6 @ 1.21 right now

 

[FalseChristian]

Mine's running at 4.5GHz using 'AUTO' at 1.28v.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

My 2600k runs fine at 4.3 at 1.31 v but not at 1.28 v

 

[Lyfer]

So the only thing I changed was the multiplyer "by all cores" thing to 43, it primed for an hour fine at 4.3ghz, now trying 4.4ghz, 30 min into it so far, no errors, but the temps are going crazy, idle im 33-35c, cores are all over the place from 71c to 87c. Should I be concerend? lol

Thanks!

 

[guskline]

Are you using the Intel heatsink or an aftermarket one?

 

[Lyfer]

Coolermaster 212+. I checked the heatsink to make sure it was mounted correctly and it does, it feels slighly warm to touch. Is hardware monitor just reporting higher than normal temps?

 

[mkmitch]

Use real temp to monitor the temps and yes those sound very high to me as I was only in the 60's running prime 95 at that speed and cooling with 212 evo.

 

[Jman13]

The temp is the CPU die temp...the HSF will be much cooler than that. I'd use RealTemp though for temperature monitoring. A 212+ shouldn't hit that high on P95.

I am at about 67C on P95 after several hours at 4.2 GHz on my TX3, though that's at 1.23V. I did run Intel Burn Test at 4.5 and 1.34V, but stopped it after I started hitting 87C. P95 would likely be around 82C or so at that clock and voltage for my machine, so I'd expect you to max out in Prime 95 at that speed at around 75C on the 212, with average temps in the upper 60s to low 70s.

 

[Lyfer]

So I after almost three hours I assumed 4.4ghz was stable, but I couldn't live with the temps. I set it to offset at .005v and its at 4.2ghz@1.23-.24v right now for the past 30 minutes with no errors. However I noticed that when I was at 4.4ghz the copper tips of the coolermaster HSF had melted in a bit. Still cool to touch, everything near the cpu fan seemed fine.

WTF is this normal? lol I'll try to post a picture.

But at 4.2ghz@1.23v im getting low 60's to 71c tops atm. So that is normal right?

 

[Lyfer]

So I went to coolermaster's website and noticed that there display picture had the same issue as the tip of my copper bars.

http://www.coolermaster.com/upload/product/6603/featured/top1.jpg?922105556

Its normal for the tip of the bars to melt in like that?

 

[SpeedTester]

So I went to coolermaster's website and noticed that there display picture had the same issue as the tip of my copper bars.

http://www.coolermaster.com/upload/product/6603/featured/top1.jpg?922105556

Its normal for the tip of the bars to melt in like that?

Your heat pipes aren't melted. Its just the way they look after the manufacturing process. Copper melts like at 1100c

 

[Lyfer]

Your heat pipes aren't melted. Its just the way they look after the manufacturing process.

Thanks for the assurance. I was a few clicks away from wasting another $30 for a replacement 212+.

 

[fixbsod]

You should try some max runs using Intel Burn Test (IBT). IBT taxes most systems more than P95 and also takes the temps up a few notches. 1 hour is probably sufficient to determine likely max temps but not for stability. If you're checking for stability I'd run 12+ hour runs or even a solid 24 hours on BOTH P95 blend and IBT max.

 

[mkmitch]

Intel burn test was designed to do just that, burn up your processor. I do not run it for that reason. Anyway running OCCT Linpack my max temps are 58-63-62-61 with a 4.2 overclock and 1.24 v. Running prime95 my max temps are 53-54-55-55. Hope this helps. Edited to add hyper 212 evo.