First overclocking attempt

HM4A1 · 24th June 2012, 8:36 PM

Hi everyone,
Just thought I'd post up the results of my first overclocking attempt on my gaming rig for criticism and advice

This morning I replaced my Sapphire Vapour-X 5870 with an EVGA SC HD GTX 570, allowing me to also utilize the already in place 9600gt as a PhysX gpu. I also replaced my Coolermaster Hyper with a Corsair H70 (only with 1 fan on it atm).

Here's the specs:
Intel i5 650 - Cooled by H70
P55A-UD3r
8Gb(4x2) Ripjaws-X F3-10600CL9S-2GBXL
EVGA SC HD GTX 570
Secondary GPU asus9600GT for PhysX
Stock standard HDD's
Antec p180 full-tower
Zalman ZM-850

Windows 7 64bit

SO after some guide hunting etc and about 5 hours of slowly figuring out the ropes and I finally got a stable build I'm happy with (I think)

So here's what I've managed:

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So, critical and constructive feedback would be great.

Also if providing more information would help for this^^ let me know.

Heres the improvement in 3Dmark11 scores btw:

Click to view full size!
Left to right: 570 + Overclocking, 570 non-overclocked system, pre 570 (radeon 5870 vapour-x)

So, am I running a decent score for my system? Am I missing anything? Am I killing my RAM?

Cheers,
HM

HM4A1 · 25th June 2012, 2:44 PM

no-one?

10char

Chaffe · 25th June 2012, 3:03 PM

What are you using to stress test the system?

What are you planning on doing with the system? You've said you're gaming but what kind of games? Solitaire, BF3, Dota 2 etc?

These are 2 key things that you haven't mentioned.

That and you haven't posted any of your bios voltage settings. So it's abit hard to give any real feedback.

Based on what you've shown I spose the temps and look good. If CPU-Z is giving the right voltage looks like a nice chip doing some very nice clocks.

White_Ice · 25th June 2012, 3:51 PM

Good voltage for that clock, should give you a decent boost in game performance. Best thing to do now is use it heaps and do your gaming.. You will know real quick if everything is good..

HM4A1 · 25th June 2012, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaffe

What are you using to stress test the system?

What are you planning on doing with the system? You've said you're gaming but what kind of games? Solitaire, BF3, Dota 2 etc?

These are 2 key things that you haven't mentioned.

That and you haven't posted any of your bios voltage settings. So it's abit hard to give any real feedback.

Based on what you've shown I spose the temps and look good. If CPU-Z is giving the right voltage looks like a nice chip doing some very nice clocks.

Thanks for the tips there. I'll post up some more info tomorrow. Gaming of the Ultimate fashion I hope! If time is my friend! Used to get 50 hours a week notsolongago *sigh* haha.

I used Prime95 and SuperPi for stress testing, have run many short and long tests + a few 3Dmark 11 runs obviously, hasn't crashed once. I'll play some games (hopefully soon enough) and record some fps (hopefully: shogun 2 total war, bf3, Company of Heroes etc.) performance.

The voltage listed at the top of cpu-Z is stock I believe, as is the rest of the stats up there. I cant recall what I set it to (as I said I'll post it up tomorrow) but I believe it was somwhere around 1.2-1.32v (Could be very wrong here)

A noob question to go with this^^ by upping the voltage of the cpu it increases stability however increases temps etc yes? Does it affect anything else? I heard not to go above maybe +0.2v increase on the i3-i5's with water/air cooling so the affect is only on temps then? or am I missing something?

EDIT: Hmmm OK so CPU-Z's displayed voltage up with the rest of the stock info IS in fact meant to be the current core-voltage not stock so I'm not too sure what its at now haha. Will check the beast out in the morn.

Chaffe · 25th June 2012, 11:19 PM

One of things CPU-Z is good for is checking load voltage during prime. I like to test with IBT at max memory as well but using prime will normally do the job.

Higher temps and higher volts lead to an increase in the rate that the chip degrades and eventually dies. 1.35V on 1156 processors is a rough guide to how much you can push the volts before that rate of degradation becomes significant enough to notice. As long as you keep the volts @ load below 1.35V you should be fine.

slyls1 · 26th June 2012, 8:19 AM

Run 20+ passes of IBT

HM4A1 · 26th June 2012, 9:22 AM

OK just did a quick check.

QPI-vtt: 1.35v | NORM= 1.1
PCH Core: 1.36v | NORM= 1.05
DRAM: 1.56v | NORM= 1.5
CPU Vcore: AUTO | NORM= 1.21875

Now that I take another look, the Core Voltage on CPU-Z jumps around between 1.1 and 1.4!? Is this bad? Should I try and set the Vcore voltage to a static 1.3 or something alike this and run some more tests?

Keep in mind I've followed guides for this overclock, if I havn't done something, its cause I haven't been told to. Like I said; this is my first attempt.

Cheers,
HM

slyls1 · 29th June 2012, 9:15 AM

Pch and vtt volts are way too high. Also I strongly recommend againts auto settings on volts. Set it to 1.32 and check for stability from there.

24th June 2012, 8:36 PM	#1
HM4A1 Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vic, Altona Posts: 68	First overclocking attempt Hi everyone, Just thought I'd post up the results of my first overclocking attempt on my gaming rig for criticism and advice This morning I replaced my Sapphire Vapour-X 5870 with an EVGA SC HD GTX 570, allowing me to also utilize the already in place 9600gt as a PhysX gpu. I also replaced my Coolermaster Hyper with a Corsair H70 (only with 1 fan on it atm). Here's the specs: Intel i5 650 - Cooled by H70 P55A-UD3r 8Gb(4x2) Ripjaws-X F3-10600CL9S-2GBXL EVGA SC HD GTX 570 Secondary GPU asus9600GT for PhysX Stock standard HDD's Antec p180 full-tower Zalman ZM-850 Windows 7 64bit SO after some guide hunting etc and about 5 hours of slowly figuring out the ropes and I finally got a stable build I'm happy with (I think) So here's what I've managed: at So, critical and constructive feedback would be great. Also if providing more information would help for this^^ let me know. Heres the improvement in 3Dmark11 scores btw: Click to view full size! Left to right: 570 + Overclocking, 570 non-overclocked system, pre 570 (radeon 5870 vapour-x) So, am I running a decent score for my system? Am I missing anything? Am I killing my RAM? Cheers, HM __________________ i5 650 @ 4.4Ghz w/ H70 \| P55A-UD3r \| EVGA SO GTX 570 \| 8B RipjawX 1333 OC \| Ded. PhysX Successful buys: scaryhole, ViperAMD, rockdoctor, miicah, akumi, converge, groove, Enjoi, Beaistheman, MaximusSmurf, xtigerx Successful sales: HaZZaD Over $1200 worth of purchases on OCAU. Last edited by HM4A1; 24th June 2012 at 8:38 PM.

25th June 2012, 2:44 PM	#2
HM4A1 Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vic, Altona Posts: 68	no-one? 10char __________________ i5 650 @ 4.4Ghz w/ H70 \| P55A-UD3r \| EVGA SO GTX 570 \| 8B RipjawX 1333 OC \| Ded. PhysX Successful buys: scaryhole, ViperAMD, rockdoctor, miicah, akumi, converge, groove, Enjoi, Beaistheman, MaximusSmurf, xtigerx Successful sales: HaZZaD Over $1200 worth of purchases on OCAU.

25th June 2012, 3:03 PM	#3
Chaffe Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Holeceston Posts: 942	What are you using to stress test the system? What are you planning on doing with the system? You've said you're gaming but what kind of games? Solitaire, BF3, Dota 2 etc? These are 2 key things that you haven't mentioned. That and you haven't posted any of your bios voltage settings. So it's abit hard to give any real feedback. Based on what you've shown I spose the temps and look good. If CPU-Z is giving the right voltage looks like a nice chip doing some very nice clocks. __________________ Join the OCAU HWbot team "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so"

25th June 2012, 3:51 PM	#4
White_Ice Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Gold Coast Posts: 364	Good voltage for that clock, should give you a decent boost in game performance. Best thing to do now is use it heaps and do your gaming.. You will know real quick if everything is good.. __________________ Horize P370EM Clevo Gaming Laptop. Intel Ivy Bridge i7-3920XM \| GTX680M SLI \| 16GB RAM \| 2x SDE 240gb SSD \| 3dmark11: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5121938 PB: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5124094

25th June 2012, 11:19 PM	#6
Chaffe Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Holeceston Posts: 942	One of things CPU-Z is good for is checking load voltage during prime. I like to test with IBT at max memory as well but using prime will normally do the job. Higher temps and higher volts lead to an increase in the rate that the chip degrades and eventually dies. 1.35V on 1156 processors is a rough guide to how much you can push the volts before that rate of degradation becomes significant enough to notice. As long as you keep the volts @ load below 1.35V you should be fine. __________________ Join the OCAU HWbot team "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so"

26th June 2012, 8:19 AM	#7
slyls1 Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Adelaide Posts: 1,372	Run 20+ passes of IBT __________________ Gaming: i5 2500K@4.5Ghz TRUE 120, Z68XP-UD4, 8GB 1600 DDR3, OS: Intel 520 60GB, 1TB WD Black+Intel 330 60GB Cache, MSI GTX680 TF3 OC +50/+100, CM690 Adv II LanBox: i5 750@4Ghz TT Frio, Evga P55-SLi, 8GB 1600 DDR3, Kingston 64GB SSD, GTX570@900/3900, CM690 HTPC: X4 965, MA785GM-US2H, 8GB 800 DDR2, X-Fi Sound, 4TB, Antec NSK2400 Trades: $7K+

26th June 2012, 9:22 AM	#8
HM4A1 Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vic, Altona Posts: 68	OK just did a quick check. QPI-vtt: 1.35v \| NORM= 1.1 PCH Core: 1.36v \| NORM= 1.05 DRAM: 1.56v \| NORM= 1.5 CPU Vcore: AUTO \| NORM= 1.21875 Now that I take another look, the Core Voltage on CPU-Z jumps around between 1.1 and 1.4!? Is this bad? Should I try and set the Vcore voltage to a static 1.3 or something alike this and run some more tests? Keep in mind I've followed guides for this overclock, if I havn't done something, its cause I haven't been told to. Like I said; this is my first attempt. Cheers, HM __________________ i5 650 @ 4.4Ghz w/ H70 \| P55A-UD3r \| EVGA SO GTX 570 \| 8B RipjawX 1333 OC \| Ded. PhysX Successful buys: scaryhole, ViperAMD, rockdoctor, miicah, akumi, converge, groove, Enjoi, Beaistheman, MaximusSmurf, xtigerx Successful sales: HaZZaD Over $1200 worth of purchases on OCAU.

29th June 2012, 9:15 AM	#9
slyls1 Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Adelaide Posts: 1,372	Pch and vtt volts are way too high. Also I strongly recommend againts auto settings on volts. Set it to 1.32 and check for stability from there. __________________ Gaming: i5 2500K@4.5Ghz TRUE 120, Z68XP-UD4, 8GB 1600 DDR3, OS: Intel 520 60GB, 1TB WD Black+Intel 330 60GB Cache, MSI GTX680 TF3 OC +50/+100, CM690 Adv II LanBox: i5 750@4Ghz TT Frio, Evga P55-SLi, 8GB 1600 DDR3, Kingston 64GB SSD, GTX570@900/3900, CM690 HTPC: X4 965, MA785GM-US2H, 8GB 800 DDR2, X-Fi Sound, 4TB, Antec NSK2400 Trades: $7K+ Last edited by slyls1; 29th June 2012 at 9:19 AM.