ROG RealBench Chat and Comments

[Menthol]

Viz,
It may be because I have had no experience with the little Ivy's so I thinking it will react the same as my SB-E, but it's not. So I got a set of Corsair Dominator Plats 2666 CL10 to give a try, and to answer your question I have tried ram profiles, water-cooled profile, everything is smooth as silk up to 4.6 - 4.8 low voltage low temps, but not 5.0

[HiVizMan]

It does not behave in the same way. Similar in that it is an Intel CPU but ....

What voltage for 4.8?

Now take that voltage and accept that the step up from 4.8 to higher is your voltage threshold. No longer will a small amount (incremental amount) of voltage be needed. But a fairly substantial increase will be needed.

Now your temps are going to go up hugely at this point so keep an eye on them.

[Menthol]

It does not behave in the same way. Similar in that it is an Intel CPU but ....

What voltage for 4.8?

Now take that voltage and accept that the step up from 4.8 to higher is your voltage threshold. No longer will a small amount (incremental amount) of voltage be needed. But a fairly substantial increase will be needed.

Now your temps are going to go up hugely at this point so keep an eye on them.

It does not behave like my SB-E = Understatement
Set XMP for 2666mhz memory- CPU at 4750 - Auto voltage in bios = 1.568 volts - LLC = Ultra High
above this temps are high enough to cook bacon but Vantage scores are quit a bit higher for same CPU speed as SB-E so I can see that there is potential

I see I have a lot of work finding best settings

What kind of volts are you talking about at 5.1 GHZ?

[Crimsonomega]

How come that I run 5,1Ghz @1.38v but as soon as I go higher then 5,1Ghz im completely out of control. I wont manage to reach Windows properly. I changed my voltages to a specific 1.40, 1,44 and a 1.50v. Is there something I should change differently ones I go above 5,1Ghz? Or is that I need to get drasticly higher voltages such as 1.70? Can this difference this much?

[HiVizMan]

Menthol - you have a volt hungry CPU if you need 1.56. Temps are a bit toasty there I would think. And yeah you are right you are going to have to find the happy medium.

Crimson - easy answer you have a darn fine chip in that case mate. Now your tipping point for voltages is 5.1 and you will have to look at quite a few other settings to get over the hump. Do you have CPU PLL enabled? And 1.56 might become your friend for 5.1 or higher. But temps will be the decider.

[Crimsonomega]

PLL is enabled yes, and I think my cpu cooler is at its limit for now. I might try and push harder ones it gets winter here, then I go outside! Thnx for the tip I will point out 1.56v

[nikosa43]

High guys, my job currently keeps me overloaded, more than usual, so I didn't have time for anything else. But I 've seen nice progress, especially with mem frequency. Flexy, congrats mate, you past 2800 and crimson almost reached 2900. That's huge numbers. For Menthol and Crimson trying to reach higher CPU ftequencys, (different chips though), guys have you tried first, not to overclock memory at all, (not even XMP profile, just set it to Auto, 1333 or 1600) and then try to reach and find your highest CPU Clock? This will give a much more clear picture of what your CPU can do with the memory factor outside of the equation as much as possible. When you find stable high CPU clocks, voltages and temps, you can start gradually OC memory (frequency first with loose timmings) and check how memory contributes to the picture. So, IMO first you have to do the opposite we do, when we try to OC memory. Just an idea, (maybe you have already tried that)

[Menthol]

nikosa,
Yes I have tried with mem at default auto 1333 8 & 16 GB kits, unless I am way off base I have to come to the conclusion like it or not my chip is not a very good over clocker, I have tried raising, vccsa, pll, etc. to no avail.

There is this one consolation, 16GB memory at 3000MHZ

[nikosa43]

I am sorry to hear that Menthol. It's like Intel playing with overclockers. Previous generations had good clocks and limited IMC and now you can reach 3000 with your memory with no high CPU clocks. Frustrating. But in the bottom line, I think overall scores will be higher.

[meankeys]

Any one using IC Diamond thermal compound? I am giving it a try. My temps @ 5000 MHz 1.488v no load 22c loaded 52c At first it didn't look that good but I guess it has a break in time of about 1 hour. I am still using Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra under the IHS and IC Diamond on top.