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  1. grasspuff
    Yeah that's what i thought, too. Fuck prime95. Just re-did another IBT run, 20 loops at max @ 1.230 V (added an extra 5mV there just because) and it was stable. Just gonna use it as is for a while and hope its good. Thanks for the feedback, man appreciate it.
  2. grasspuff
    Yeah that's what i thought, too. Fuck prime95. Just re-did another IBT run, 20 loops at max @ 1.230 V (added an extra 5mV there just because) and it was stable. Just gonna use it as is for a while and hope its good. Thanks for the feedback, man appreciate it.
  3. grasspuff
    Yeah that's what i thought, too. Fuck prime95. Just re-did another IBT run, 20 loops at max @ 1.230 V (added an extra 5mV there just because) and it was stable. Just gonna use it as is for a while and hope its good. Thanks for the feedback, man appreciate it.
  4. grasspuff
    LOL, typo. i meant to type out 1.25V for the IBT. so adaptive voltage offsets 25mv-ish more than what i keyed in in the UEFI. so 1.225 = 1.5V. So final thoughts:; stability in IBT ONLY or take prime95 into consideration?
  5. grasspuff
    I re-did the stress tessts on IBT an it passed fine at 1.225V (oh, and I know I wrote 1.225, but actual readings my Vcore shows 1.25V under load since I'm using adaptive voltage. So at my current voltage settings of 1.26V my Vcore jumps to 1.3V(!) under load. Seems a bit much just for a 4.5 GHz OC) Prime95 though, two,maybe three of the "workers" stops a few seconds into the test at 1.225 V. I'm using this as a guide though, http://overclocking.guide/stability-testing-with-prime-95/ so it's not "stopping" immediately during a blend test, but rather the 1344K, 30 min test. Quite concerned now with running it on higher voltage since I am on an air cooler, ideally I would like to go down to at least 1.23 V as that gives me temps I can stomach on IBT.
  6. grasspuff
    but at 1.225V prime95 runs only a few seconds before it stops. Is this safe to ignore? how do i factor this into my OC?
  7. grasspuff
    yes, unfortunately. Using a noctua nh-u12s. I'm running it on push-pull though, but with different fans.
  8. grasspuff
    So finally got a a stable 30 min run on prime95 with 1.26 V. That's a whole 35 mV increase just to stabilize it in prime. So i then ran it again in IBT and temps reached 87C, compared to just 78C at 1.225V. I feel like this is a non-issue(?) as I probably won't be using the CPU anywhere close to how IBT stresses it, but still i need to ask if this OC setting is safe? should i downclock further to shave off a couple of degrees? or ignore stability in prime and just run it 1.225 V? or just run my CPU as it is currently hoping it will never even reach high 80s in temps?
  9. grasspuff
    I came up with a compromise. Downclocked to 4.5 at 44x uncore and it passed XTU. Now I'm trying to pass prime95 and I've been inching the voltage upwards. WIll update with results
  10. grasspuff
    Clocked my 6700K to 4.6GHz@1.225V and it passed every single stress and benchmarking test that i throw at it EXCEPT for XTU. IBT, Very High@30 loops Realbench Cinebench AIDA64 Stress Test@30 minutes Memtest x264 Stability Test (from overclock.net) Is this a cause for concern? Do i need to tweak it more to pass XTU? I read somewhere that XTU Benchmark Test is based on the Prime95 platform, so I'm not sure just how crucial passing the benchmark is
  11. grasspuff
    Alright then, I'll just leave it be. Thanks again for putting my mind at ease, guys.
  12. grasspuff
    So I finally installed a better monitoring software, and I'm currently in the process of tinkering the clocks. What is up with my CPU clock? I mean, I'm trying to ignore it but that's proving reallyyy hard to do. Can you guys post graph pictures from your machines so I can at least get a comparison? This graph is is showing my CPU at idle. and it just jumps from 800MHz to 4.6GHz CONSTANTLY, like, there is no in between frequency, just 800MHz and the max clock.
  13. grasspuff
    rly tho? It's not something like bad power delivery?
  14. grasspuff
    Agreed. Still doesn't explain the wildly varying clock speeds I'm getting
  15. grasspuff
    No, this is a fresh OS install. nothing like Steam or the sort, just proprietary ASUS software
  16. grasspuff
    Alright then. But it still doesn't explain why my CPU clock speed constantly varies wildly. I mean if its not really doing anything, shouldn't the clock speed variations be subtle and only in the 1 to 1.5-ish range?
  17. grasspuff
    Yeah I get what you're saying. But I mean come on, 4GHz clock speed at 7% utilization??:- http://imgur.com/a/x197c Is there funk here, or can i just safely ignore it and proceed to overclocking? Or maybe I'm looking at this all wrong, and there's some hidden factor i did not consider
  18. grasspuff
    http://imgur.com/a/FL1xf This is what stands out to me. Part of the ASUS EZ Update software? Or the AI Suite? Is it posing a problem? CPU Utilization seems to spike to 6% and 0%, up and down at very regular intervals. The hills and valleys in the CPU Chart does not sit well with me at all. By saying that it looks fine are you saying that all Skylake CPUs perform like this?
  19. grasspuff
    Okay so this is stressing me out. Is what the CPU doing normal for Skylake? http://imgur.com/a/3QhFz I ran a 3770K previously and I dont remember the utilization chart to be so... jittery when idle. CPU speeds seem to vary wildly from 1.24 GHz to 4 GHz. Again, this is during idle. Something is up and it's driving me nuts
  20. grasspuff
    Okay.sticking it in one at a time then, got it Thanks!
  21. grasspuff
    Bump
  22. grasspuff
    Hello. Okay from my basic 2-minute understanding chipsets are what controls USB ports, right? aaaandd I remember reading a while back that motherboards come with like, additional USB ports with 3rd-party USB controllers soldered on to the PCB (like VIA, etc). So as per the title, how to do you identify Intel USB Ports?
  23. grasspuff
    Yeah normal case fans, I have. A couple of Noctuas actually. I'm trying to get slim ones and the only option i have is the XtraFlo 120 Slim. Shipping from Newegg or Amazon is too expensive to where I live. So again I ask, are the fan blades detachable? I won't be putting on a super thick coat on the blades, 2 at the most. Just wanna get rid of the translucency.
  24. grasspuff
    Another question here! I'm planning on getting two of these fans hooked up to my case but i loathe the way the fan blades look. Semi-translucent and all around yuck. So I've decided to spray-paint the fan blades in matte black. So the question here is; are the fan blades detachable? Edit: Link to product http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/case-fan/xtraflo-120-slim/
  25. grasspuff
    I'm using the ASUS Z170 Sabertooth board, which I read has a very comprehensive fan management system, so adjusting RPMs will be a breeze (I hope). But still, having the fans run at full speed all the time won't be such a terrible thing as far as the CPU is concerned, right? I am going to overclock it anyway, so even with PWM fans they would still be running close to full speed all the time. Also the fans seem to be targeted at water-cooled builds, as fans for rads. Now I don't have any experience with water cooling and radiators, but essentially the principal would be the same with air coolers, right? Are the fan curves for the rads manually set or is it just going to be running at full speed all the time? Because I know most fans on rads are just 3-pin.
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