Broadwell-E expirienced overclocking help needed

[Raja@ASUS]

What about the bclk size? Is it a good idea to decrease it from 125 at all? My rig feels just fine with 125 bclk strap, but everyone insists on trying to decrease it telling me that 3000 mhz ram doesn't require bclk that high.

And btw that windows 10 update issue has never giving me any problems, my system was overclocked via XMP with no problems.

You can try 100 and see if it works fine for you. If it does, feel free to use it.

[Arne Saknussemm]

It was always a good idea to use 100 BCLK and avoid 1.25 strap so that speedstep worked....that, among others might be why lots of people recommend trying 100BCLK

If you ask people for advice you are going to get a whole range of it...all suggestions are possibilities for experimentation. You asked for advice for pushing further than your current setup.

I would say things to try if you want to get to grips with your system would be to stop using XMP fro example and try setting your own OC.

Try to reign in voltage where you can...auto profiles often set more than needed.

Try 100 BCLK...try 3200MHz for RAM frequency...many 3000 kits OC'd to 3200 with no extra voltage requirement...

Cache OC gives very little benefit but for the sake of experimenting and benchmarking you might try setting cache voltage to 1.2 for example and slowly increasing cache multi from 30 to 40+

Just suggestions for pushing further. If you are happy where you are...stay there

[wonderin]

It was always a good idea to use 100 BCLK and avoid 1.25 strap so that speedstep worked....that, among others might be why lots of people recommend trying 100BCLK

If you ask people for advice you are going to get a whole range of it...all suggestions are possibilities for experimentation. You asked for advice for pushing further than your current setup.

I would say things to try if you want to get to grips with your system would be to stop using XMP fro example and try setting your own OC.

Try to reign in voltage where you can...auto profiles often set more than needed.

Try 100 BCLK...try 3200MHz for RAM frequency...many 3000 kits OC'd to 3200 with no extra voltage requirement...

Cache OC gives very little benefit but for the sake of experimenting and benchmarking you might try setting cache voltage to 1.2 for example and slowly increasing cache multi from 30 to 40+

Just suggestions for pushing further. If you are happy where you are...stay there

hey Arne,
thanks for trying to push me in the right direction. The goaI is to make my pc work as fast and smooth as possible (nothing new here hehe.
I WAS happy where I WERE, but now I'm in search of a better place, trying to become happy again *
I will give it all a try and report my results here.*

[Arne Saknussemm]

I will give it all a try and report my results here.

OK nice one!

The problem is, as always, that each CPU and system in general is unique...so our recommendations are necessarily based on what worked for us...might work for you...but might not

But between all of it you can get some general pointers.

Voltage, more than anything will be unique to your setup...I guess the minimum stable is what we're always trying for...

Just one thing, when you are testing stability...if you get a few BSODs the OS can easily start getting corrupted...so it's quite good to backup and then kind of regard the OS as expendable...and then do a fresh install on your newly found stable settings...

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Never a good idea to oc everything at once
Memory should be last and yeah xmp can be hit and miss x299 is a little better at it than any x99 is/ was.

[wonderin]

Hi,
Never a good idea to oc everything at once
Memory should be last and yeah xmp can be hit and miss x299 is a little better at it than any x99 is/ was.

so decreasing strap to 100 makes my OC not working according to that windows update stuff (i have 1809 build already so i can't just delete the update).

however, lowering those voltages with 125 strap works just fine i guess

[wonderin]

OK nice one!

so now i've made it safe and sound @4375 mhz with 1.295 voltage on core (reaches 1.3 max).
avx offset off for stress test purposes and while realbenching temperatures are right below 60C.
i guess i've found my sweet spot i don't know if I should go for 4.5, but i'm pretty happy for my old boy now

[Arne Saknussemm]

so now i've made it safe and sound @4375 mhz with 1.295 voltage on core

Looks good to me! Good job!

Hope ASUS get on with it and patch your BIOS, so you can experiment further if the fancy takes you...

[wonderin]

Looks good to me! Good job!

Hope ASUS get on with it and patch your BIOS, so you can experiment further if the fancy takes you...

Just have noticed that screenshot is bugged out. But all there is fine

I've sent tech support request to ASUS asking them to send me some kind of fix. I've already seen they've been giving those to people with the same issue and mobo on the forum, so we'll see.
Hell yeah I'm now excited about OCing-related stuff.

[wonderin]

Hope ASUS get on with it and patch your BIOS, so you can experiment further if the fancy takes you...

They've finally done it!
Now I have 100 Strap and all looks fine.

However, I've noticed that the frequencies are not flat. IE: cpu frequency is not 4400, but 4398.7, cache frequency is not 3200 but 3199.1, ram is not 3000 but 2998.
Is that normal or should I fix something?