chrsplmr:
No offense taken! I do still consider myself a noob at all this, even though I've been tinkering for a month or two. Thanks much for those links!
"You will notice that none are running @ 2666mhz to achieve these peak performance scores and stability."
At first I thought you meant they were all downclocking memory to get the better processor overclocks and scores, but looking at them, aren't the first two running at 2850Mhz and 3000Mhz respectively? I thought you doubled whatever those readings are. (Confirmed in my Realbench score posted below - I'm running at 2666 and it's saying I'm at 1333).
My CPU-Z stats.
Note - I'm running adaptive which is why core speed is showing low. My turbo multiplier is 45, and the highest the vcore has gone to is 1.312v, which I believe is perfectly safe? Please let me know if that's edging into degradation territory... I'm assuming it's fairly safe since it only hits that on peak load, and usually it doesn't need to go over 1.296v even during stress testing. What I've gleaned from my reading is to not go over 1.35. During stress testing highest I ever saw package temp go was 73c in Intel XTU. In gaming (Witcher 3 in 3D Vision on mostly ultra settings as my benchmark) I rarely see it go over 60c. Technically max operating temperature of the 5930k is listed as 67-68c (I forget which), but I've also seen dozens of threads saying 80c is just fine, so I figure I'm doing ok there.
See this thread for my description of my recent efforts:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?79884-Very-odd-overclocking-resultsHere's my best Realbench so far:
http://rog.asus.com/realbench/show_comment.php?id=10075Would love your thoughts on what I've mentioned in that thread. Those links were excellent reading, btw, thanks kindly.
EDIT: Also thought I'd share a Firestrike I just ran on my current 24/7 super-stable settings:
I've actually gotten Firestrike up to about 25,300 previously, but it wasn't super-stable at those settings. I can only get about 1418 Mhz and 3800 memory clock on the two 980 Ti's totally stable, though I can get to 1455 Mhz and 4000 memory *mostly* stable, will crash in Witcher 3 after a few hours though. That's at stock voltage for the cards, but if I tweak voltage *at all*, it's very unstable almost regardless of whatever other settings I apply. Upping the voltage doesn't help whatsoever. Probably just as well though, on stock voltage the GPU's can get as high as 79c with the fans just shy of being annoyingly loud, so probably wouldn't want to increase temps on them anyway. I've also discovered that voltage goes way up on these cards when you run 3D Vision anyway, which I do constantly, so upping it even more is probably a bad idea regardless.