What works?

[mrcougar53]

Looking forward to it HiVis....you the MAN!!!!

[mrcougar53]

Hows the walk through coming HiVis?

[HiVizMan]

Sorry guys - walkthrough is happening as I type, spent all of the weekend on Ivybridge stuff

So please forgive me. Did a video live cast for 5 hours last night. Over at OCN

And as soon as I swap the boards out I will post up here.

[Jawbone]

Sounds good, brother. We appreciate your time and effort, greatly!

[mrcougar53]

Oh and HiVis I'm about to sound retarded......Which memtest do I download?? there are 7(?) options

[HiVizMan]

Nah you are not Ver 4.2 USB model

Or the 5.1 Alpha but go for the Ver 4.2 for now.

Nearly done lads just bare with me, juggling heaps of things are the same time.

[HiVizMan]

Most chips should be able to achieve 4.6ghz properly stable within temp range if you have the proper cooling tho there are no guarantees in this game and every chip is different so no guarantees. The easiest way to get to the top is to work your way up there. And since someone (no names mind) want to get to 5GHz and maybe even more....

First of all you should turn off cool and quiet and speedfan etc. Lock your ram voltage to its rated spec and set the correct strap and primary memory timmings if it isn't done so already.

You should do a quick stability test now witht he memory at it's desired speed just to be sure you don't run into issues later.

For stability testing you should use Prime95 blend test as this really pushes the right buttons on AMD, produces a lot of heat and stresses that IMC, use it for however long you see fit, I recomend 3-5 hours to be sure. But if you want to cut corners that is your call.

Next you should put the cpu voltage to something reasonable like 1.4 and the cpu ration to 22 for 4.4ghz, see how your temps are doing and how stable it is. If all is well, try 22.5, and for the final push 23. You may need to raise vcore for one of the steps up in core speed but as long as temps are in range then you should be ok.

Again running Prime for 3 - 5 hours is the way to go. But for quick and nasty you can do 20 mins just to get an idea of where you are stability wise.

If you are feeling a bit more confident you can tune in the NB clock in the same way, raising it click by click until it fails a stability test then back off again.

You can also fine tune using the base clock, say you pass on the 22.5 multi but are too hot on 23, go to 22 and up the base clock until your temps are in the desired acceptable range or you become unstable.

Remember the fsb raises all clocks linked to it so can be harder to trouble shoot.

Again sorry for the delay guys I know you wanted to play yesterday but like I said life intrudes some of the time. And in this case it was a 7 year old with a fever.

[Jawbone]

Hey brother, life intrudes ALL the time. Haha.

I appreciate the numbers! Do you happen to have numbers for what I should do about my memory? I have 4x4gb G.Skill Ripjaws 1866mhz. If I set everything to auto it runs around 1600. If I try and up the frequency to run at 1866, it is all of a sudden running down at 800mhz! Not sure why. I'm sure it's a timing/voltage issue.

These CPU numbers are great though. Once I get my memory stable I will try these out. Now, you mention running Prime to check for stability. So, set the numbers in the BIOS, restart and boot into PRIME, run the test, etc? Is that correct? May sound like a dumb question, but I'm just making sure you boot into Prime to run it rather than something you run through windows.

How likely is it to be able to boot into Windows and run it stable while running 4.6ghz or higher?

Again, thanks for the numbers man, I'm going to have fun trying these out.

[mrcougar53]

Jawbone -

I know what to set it too!!!! hahahaha

go into the dramm section of the tweaker and set the cas to 9, the next one down to 10, the next one down to 9 and then finally the next one below to 28, and then set your volts to 1.5


HiVis-

I do not have my water cooling installed yet but tried your 4.6 anyway....... yea about that!!! hahaha. it booted fine and then I started prime and next thing I know poof it shuts off. yea I had a good laugh reset the bios to stock and will be waiting for everything else to get here, hopefully today, and install the water cooling before I go try again.

But Thank you!!!!! YOU ARE THE MAN!!, jawbone not so much hahahahahahahaha

[Jawbone]

Oh yeah? Well, I bet MINE wouldn't shut off from being too hot h100 ftw

Also, you sure the timing is 9-10-9-28? I'll give it a shot tonight when I get home. Is that the timing and voltage you have set for 2133? I don't know if it is the same for my 1866. We'll see. I'll let you know how it plays out. lol