Maximus VIII Formula

[Arne Saknussemm]

Hmmm that's pretty cool...and nice guide Nate! Bit of bling is a good thing now and then!

[chrsplmr]

Nate ... idk how I forgot to comment .. excuuuuuuuse me, but now I need a cold shower !! Cudos myFriend. .c.

hey arne !!! good to see ur smiling ... eyes. lol

[Nate152]

LOL thank you chrsplmr and Arne

Yeah I'm loving the maximus viii formula, I'm game stable at 4.8GHz with 1.475v. I put it on hold for a bit to see how it's going to run and it's been great, I can play any game so far with no crashes. The voltage is yellow up to 1.50v and purple up to 1.60v so as long as my cooling can handle it I think it's safe to go there.

I installed HWinfo and with precision x 16 I can now see cpu temps while playing games and they're in the 30's and 40's and sometimes touch 50c when playing far cry 4 so this tells me I can push a little higher. As always though I'm a little scared of those high voltages.

I did try for 4.9GHz but couldn't get to windows with 1.52v so now that I'm at least game stable I might give it a shot again. As Akane@ASUS's signature says "KEEP PUSHING IT".

I was using three 680's in my maximus v extreme and had my 3770k at 5.0GHz. But it doesn't feel like I lost a gpu at all, even though both setups peg games at 60FPS, with two 680's and the 6700k at stock it feels faster.

Ok enough talk let's try for 4.9GHz again.

[Nate152]

4.9GHz is out of reach, at 4.85GHz I could not make it to windows with 1.54v and I got a cpu overvoltage error showing 1.552v in red. So it looks like my 6700k has hit the wall. On the bright side I was able to overclock the BCLK a little further so let's see how far we can get the BCLK.

Let's try the BCLK at 150.00, here goes.

[Nate152]

Is anyone else overclocking their BCLK and if so how far are you able get it? I'm not done testing yet but I did get it to 150.00 rather easily. Real temp is not reading the cpu frequency correctly but it does seem to be reading the temps correctly.

BCLK - 150.00
CPU - 4.8GHz
CPU Cache - 4.5GHz
RAM - 3150MHz

[grassy]

Jeez Nate your flying there mate.Good to see your getting the most out of your hardware. Enjoy

[Nate152]

Yeah I'm seeing what it can do, I just wish the 6700k was a little better overclocker, I haven't seen hardly any getting to 5.0GHz.

So I Played far cry 4 for about a half hour and just before I was getting ready to quit it froze. So I went into the bios and was adjusting some settings that said may help with BCLK overclocking but when I saved and exited it would not start, it would turn on for a second and then shut off. So after 4 or 5 attempts I cleared the cmos and am now back to square 1. I been trying to find what voltages help with BCLK overclocking and it could be the PCH core. I'm not 100% sure so I will have to test it, It seems it was right on the edge of stability for gaming so it shouldn't need much.

[seanbarkley]

Hey Nate, just a quick question man, what time does it take your PC to boot? Mine is almost 30 seconds with every stuff to make it faster (BIOS and OS) enabled. I find it weird because my Windows 7 (in a Sabertooth z77 + 3770 + worse SSD) booted in half the time.

[Nate152]

Yeah mine takes longer to boot than my maximus v extreme did , I believe it's due to memory training of DDR4 ram.

[Nate152]

All right so I thought I would give an update. The instability was due to the Ram being set to 1T, I've now set the ram to 16-15-15-30-2T and was able to play far cry 4 for over an hour with no crashes, this might let me go higher with the frequency.

Now to push the BCLK a little higher, I'll post my results after testing.

Anyone else overclocking the BCLK?