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Overclocking a 4930k on a rampage 4 extreme Black up to 4.7 ghz

bwana
Level 10
Unbelievably too easy! Followed the 'listy. wordy' thread up on the stickies.
Memory Corsair vengeance pro 32 gb
H110 AIO cooler
Corsair 1200 ps

All i did was to set memory profile to xmp and turn the multi up to 44. I didnt touch the voltages or any thing else. Check the pix for truthiness.

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A few things I noticed:
the board sets the voltage 1.36 in cpuz and it rises up to 1.376 under load. And i didnt touch the load line calibration settings.
the cpu is ALWAYS at 4400 mhz regardless of whether it's idling or not. Unlike an EVGA dark that i worked on-it will idle down to 1.2 ghz in idle
there were NO PROBLEMS (touch wood) NONE.
I installed only the drivers-none of the other fluff that's on the second tab of the driver cd (ramdisk, AI overclock, etc)

So now I feel like I set sail to cross the Pacific in a canoe. Yea! I am floating! But now what do I do? The bios settings are burgeoning, bewildering, befuddling. Look at these three screen captures:
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The first one is what is seen under the extreme tweak tab. The next two are what you find when you open up the digi control option.
I just walked into the batcave and there are so many buttons and switches-I just want to make the batmobile go faster-where do i start?
The work of the bios engineers is invisible and only they know how precariously close to failure this board is tuned. I guess I should start by enabling offset voltage control. But where do i specify the offset? The bios says it wants 1.024v but i am seeing 1.36 in windows. clearly something is up somewhere that is allowing this. Perhaps it's the fact that my load line calibration is set to auto. And then there's these 'new settings' CPU current capability, CPU voltage frequency? I am from the days when you used a number two pencil to add voltage by tracing over resistors. (we old people knew that graphite conducted electricity LONG BEFORE graphene was 'discovered'. And by the way, if you make a carbon chain of just carbon atoms and double bonds like this ...=C=C=C=C=C=... it's the strongest material you'll ever see...tensile strength that could be used to weave a cable to pull the space station to the moon. But hat's another story...)

I am SO OVERWHELMED at how easy this overclock was-granted it's not much of an overclock at 4.4 ghz, but I am at 60deg only with room to go. Just looking for an experienced RIVE BE tuner to chime in with their experience.

My memory is running great too. with vtt and vccsa at stock!(1.075 and .956) There is even a second VTT voltage> What for?
Intel 3770K 4.4ghz, 1.24v. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Intel 4930k 4.7ghz 1.37v........AMD 7800x3D async 104
32 gGSkill DR3Trident 2400mhz 1.65v. . . .32 g 1866 Vengeance Pro.......64 g Hynix 6200
ASUS M5G. Noctua D14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H110. Noctua A14x4.............Arctic 420
prime95 stable 78degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . IBT 75 degrees
OCZ V4 OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVO 1TB...............................WDSN850x 2TB
Seasonic 700w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1200AX.................................HX1200i
All tucked into Lian Li A05. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fractal Midiv2......................BeQuiet802
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HiVizMan
Level 40
That is actually how it is meant to be. The belief that you have to change every setting (well quite a few of them) is not valid.

Offset is very easy.

Set offset mode
+
0.020

LLC set to 4 or medium depending what your bios shows you. Auto is often ultra or high.

Seriously it is that easy with the quality of bios work that the ASUS ROG team put into it.
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ok, i give up. where is offset mode in the bios?
Intel 3770K 4.4ghz, 1.24v. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Intel 4930k 4.7ghz 1.37v........AMD 7800x3D async 104
32 gGSkill DR3Trident 2400mhz 1.65v. . . .32 g 1866 Vengeance Pro.......64 g Hynix 6200
ASUS M5G. Noctua D14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H110. Noctua A14x4.............Arctic 420
prime95 stable 78degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . IBT 75 degrees
OCZ V4 OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVO 1TB...............................WDSN850x 2TB
Seasonic 700w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1200AX.................................HX1200i
All tucked into Lian Li A05. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fractal Midiv2......................BeQuiet802

Raja
Level 13
Check the R4E guide for more info - many of the crude settings are the same on both boards.

To get offset mode, you set CPU VCore Voltage from manual mode to Offset.

To get SpeedStep workig in the OS, make sure the Windows power profile is set to balanced (and default loading thresholds). That's if you want the CPU to run at a lower speed when idle.

The rest, yes it is easy - that's how we wanted it to be.

Well, I got to 4.5 ghz simply by increasing the multi-and it was stable to IBT. It automatically upped the voltage to 1.424 according to cpuid. However hwinfo reports much less.

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I then increased the multi to 46 and set to offset 0.02 as recommended. volts are read at 1.476. now I am getting nervous. My temps are getting up there too as you can see.

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I didnt see anywhere to set the voltage manually but its late and i'm tired so i probably overlloked it. Anyway 70degrees and 1.476 volts is up there. I know that cpuid overestimates voltages so i hooked up that amazing device that reads voltages in realtime. it says target is 1.455 and nominal is fluctuating from 1.45 to 1.475. On IBT, the target is 1.455 and nominal will occasionally touch 1.5. Not much change really so i think the base voltage is way too high and can be turned down. Didnt see the setting for that tho.

I need to figure out how to turn down these volts before I fry my chip. Amazing that it has not blue screened ONCE. Yet. But i'll keep trying.
Intel 3770K 4.4ghz, 1.24v. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Intel 4930k 4.7ghz 1.37v........AMD 7800x3D async 104
32 gGSkill DR3Trident 2400mhz 1.65v. . . .32 g 1866 Vengeance Pro.......64 g Hynix 6200
ASUS M5G. Noctua D14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H110. Noctua A14x4.............Arctic 420
prime95 stable 78degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . IBT 75 degrees
OCZ V4 OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVO 1TB...............................WDSN850x 2TB
Seasonic 700w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1200AX.................................HX1200i
All tucked into Lian Li A05. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fractal Midiv2......................BeQuiet802

abvolt
Level 11
That's an awesome board you got, can't wait to get my hands on one.
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bwana
Level 10
Well, I set LLC to ultrahigh from extreme. Those voltages dropped right down (and so did the temps!)
Offset .02
Stable at 4.6 ghz
Offset .06
Stable at 4.7 ghz

But on offset, I cannot set the base voltage manually? Is this correct?
Also, my boot voltage is left to AUTO. I tried 1.4 but it crashed-How does one go about optimizing boot voltage?


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Failed 4.8ghz even w offset .13
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At this point I have to cease and desist as my voltage is 1.424.
Any way this chip would not go above 4.5 ghz on an evga dark so it seems this board is able to push the chip a little further. still as expected, IVY-E has a hard wall and for this chip it is at 4.7 ghz.
Intel 3770K 4.4ghz, 1.24v. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Intel 4930k 4.7ghz 1.37v........AMD 7800x3D async 104
32 gGSkill DR3Trident 2400mhz 1.65v. . . .32 g 1866 Vengeance Pro.......64 g Hynix 6200
ASUS M5G. Noctua D14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H110. Noctua A14x4.............Arctic 420
prime95 stable 78degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . IBT 75 degrees
OCZ V4 OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVO 1TB...............................WDSN850x 2TB
Seasonic 700w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1200AX.................................HX1200i
All tucked into Lian Li A05. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fractal Midiv2......................BeQuiet802

bwana wrote:

Any way this chip would not go above 4.5 ghz on an evga dark so it seems this board is able to push the chip a little further. still as expected, IVY-E has a hard wall and for this chip it is at 4.7 ghz.


The wall depends on each particular CPU sample. All CPU samples are not the same. Some may hit it at 4.5. Other rare golden samples may go beyond 4.8. It all depends on your lack with getting a CPU sample. IB-E on 4.7 is an above average sample, so consider yourself lucky:).
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bwana
Level 10
okay, i am up to 4.7 ghz but really cant go higher. My temps when ibt bailed were 70. So I dont think better cooling will help.
Intel 3770K 4.4ghz, 1.24v. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Intel 4930k 4.7ghz 1.37v........AMD 7800x3D async 104
32 gGSkill DR3Trident 2400mhz 1.65v. . . .32 g 1866 Vengeance Pro.......64 g Hynix 6200
ASUS M5G. Noctua D14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H110. Noctua A14x4.............Arctic 420
prime95 stable 78degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . IBT 75 degrees
OCZ V4 OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVO 1TB...............................WDSN850x 2TB
Seasonic 700w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1200AX.................................HX1200i
All tucked into Lian Li A05. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fractal Midiv2......................BeQuiet802

HiVizMan
Level 40
There is a tipping point where a whole heap more voltage is needed for a very small gain. Looks like you have got to that point.
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