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Gene-Z OC'ing Assistance

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‎08-30-2011 10:16 AM - last edited on ‎03-05-2024 08:02 PM by Community Admin

I am attempting to get my 2500k to 4.5ghz to start with.

Settings:

CPU Level Up: Auto
AI Overclock Tuner: Manual
Maximum Turbo Ratio setting: 45
Internal PLL Overvoltage: Disabled
EPU: Power Saving Mode: Disabled
Extreme OV: Enabled
CPU Manual Voltage: 1.250
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.7
CPU Spread Specturm: Enabled

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Tech.: Enabled
Turbo Mode: Enabled

VCore LLC: 75%
VCore Fixed Freq. Mode: 350
VCore Phase Control: Extreme
VCore Over-Current Protection: 140%

What's my problem here? Why does it keep crashing while entering Windows?
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xeromist
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‎08-30-2011 10:40 AM

First disable speedstep and turbo. You don't want it changing the speed while you are trying to overclock and test.
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‎08-30-2011 11:16 AM

I disabled SpeedStep, however I left Turbo enabled. When I disabled it, it made my overclock drop down to 3.3. Am I supposed to change the ratio else where? Because where I changed it before, the option is gone with Turbo disabled.

Edit: Found it.

Also, I wanted to ask about VCore Over-Current Protection: 140%. Is it the same as CPU Current Compatibility?
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xeromist
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‎08-30-2011 12:10 PM

Turbo boost can increase the speed of a single core and keep the others slower. If your goal is to have 4 cores at 4.5 then you do not want turbo boost enabled.
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‎08-30-2011 12:43 PM

Okay. Anything else you see that I can do or change?
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xeromist
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‎08-30-2011 12:55 PM

I was mainly advising that because you said you couldn't boot into Windows. Having the options which could change the speed on the fly enabled causes very inconsistent results. Are you still not able to boot with those changes? If you can then I would go back to increasing the ratio to see how it does. Note that turbo ratio is different and only useful when the turbo option is active(as you discovered).

One thing that you did not mention is the bclk. That should be set to 100 and left there.
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‎08-30-2011 01:46 PM

It passed 20 IBT!!! Yay! I am starting my 24 hr Prime95 test now!
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‎08-30-2011 01:00 PM

I left the bclk option on default.

I am booting into Windows now and running IBT. 3 passes so far.
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‎08-31-2011 04:46 PM

Can you please look over my bios settings? It BSOD'd on me during testing again and I just completely started over. So scratch my original settings and watch the movie.

This did pass 24 hours of Prime95 and 20 passes of IBT.

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xeromist
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‎09-01-2011 03:07 PM

I would try manually setting the CPU voltage. Since you already have 75% LLC enabled you should be able to take the listed voltage and tweak with it. I would try decreasing it slightly first and see if you can post. Less voltage is better anyway so if you can get it to work at maybe 1.4 that would be nice. Also is your memory 1.65v memory? Make sure that voltage is set correctly.

Try setting that VCCSA/IO to 1.1

If you haven't already, make sure to read Raja's guide stickied in this forum
http://www.asusrog.com/forums/showthread.php?2787-Maximus-IV-GENE-Z-BIOS-Guide-Overclocking
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