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Hello. I currently use an Intel Core i7-2700K paired with a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 since 2015. Recently, I bought a new case, fans and cooler to exploit this processor for overclocking. You can check the rest on my profile. Daily, I use with at 4.50 GHz with everything on BIOS set to "Auto". I can play any games, run Prime95 (Small FFT) with no issues. The default vCore set by the motherboard on "Auto" is around 1.350v. I'm very satisfied with my motherboard: it has plenty of USB ports, PCI-E and PCI slots, SATA ports. It even supports SLI. Basically, it's great. However, I'm not satisfied with the processor. It's very old and it won't get any younger, so I'm trying to overclock it to 5.00 GHz. I read on a forum that if I manage to boot at 5.00 GHz with a vCore of 1.450v, I'm good. However, I can barely make it go past 4.60 GHz. If I set it to 4.60 GHz with everything on "Auto", the system hangs in a few seconds of Prime95 (Small FFT). I came across this video, which is very popular and uses the same processor and a similar motherboard. I tried mimicking the settings posted on his thread. With these settings, I'm able to boot at 4.60 GHz: It does not BSOD on Prime95, but the temperature goes up by 10ºC: If I try to boot at 4.70 GHz with these settings, the system hangs almost instantly on Prime95, and this is the result: I have read on many threads that my motherboard does not pack a lot of power phases or something in this sense. Is it the reason I'm experiencing BSOD? Any help on overclocking my i7-2700K to 5.00 GHz (or the closest possible) is appreciated. Going from 3.90 GHz to 4.50 GHz already made some difference, but I don't want to stop here. Thank you for the attention.
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i got a kit of hynix/corsair cmy16gx3m2a1866c9r ver5.29(8x2) 16gb runnin OC@2133 XMP-10-11-11-30-T2 1.6v and i want to tighten up the timings but no idea where to start -----------------------------------9-10-9-27-T2-TRC481.5v XMP//// not the pro version of vengeance i7-3770k @ 4.2 stock voltage delidded liquid metaled cryorig m9i liquid metaled,,, im trying to max the core clock without using fixed voltage. i think 4.5ghz is possible Asus P8Z68 Pro/GEN3 BIOS ver.3802 where can i improve. i also would like to input a manual setting for all of the ram timings so i can better understand them template: Primary Timings 2133MHZ Hynix/Corsair cas latency 10 - [ ] ras to cas 11 - [ ] ras pre time 11 - [ ] ras act time 30 - [ ] command rate 2 - [ ] secondary Timings__________________ ras to ras 7 - [ ] ref cycle 278 - [ ] refresh interval A-8320_B-8320 - [ ] write recovery 10 - [ ] read to pre 8 - [ ] four act win 32 - [ ] write read delay 8 - [ ] CKE min pulse width 6 - [ ] cas write latency 8 - [ ] RTL channel A D0-32_D1-42 - [ ] RTL channel B D0-32_D1-43 - [ ] Third Timings______________________ TWRDR(DD) 1 - [ ] TRWDR(DD) 4 - [ ] TRWSR 4 - [ ] TRR(DD) 3 - [ ] TRR(DR) 1 - [ ] TRRSR 4 - [ ] TWW(DD) 3 - [ ] TWW(DR) 3 - [ ] TWWSR 4 - [ ] IM DIVING DEEP Template.txt
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I had a strange issue happen with my boot SSD (Crucial M4) and I've tried everything I can think of with no solution. I had a perfectly working set up for the last 5 years with not a single issue. Recently, a friend of mine built his PC but had a DOA GPU which we discovered after we installed his GPU (RX480) into my PC for testing (for the testing, all I installed was AMD Radeon 17.6.2 and Unigine Valley). When I came to turn my PC on a couple hours later, I came to discover that my computer no longer recognises my SSD (even at a bios level). The strange issue is that when I plug my SSD into another computer (also in AHCI mode), I am able to read all the data and even boot the install of windows on that drive. In addition, CrystalDisk said it was at 92% health. I have tried every SATA port/cable combination I have as well as power in put for the drive, but this has not changed the result (the port/cable combinations were tried on other HDD's in my system and they worked without issue). I have tried both IDE and AHCI modes as well as flashed my motherboard to the manufacturer's latest BIOS drivers. I have also attempted to rebuild the boot partition in my SSD using command prompts, but this has not resulted in any progress. For note, I have flashed my Crucial M4 to v070H. I am all out of ideas as to what the issue is or how to fix it. Any suggestions? System: - Asrock Extreme3 Gen 3 - Intel i7-2600k - GTX 560 - Corsair 8gb DDR3 - Crucial M4 128GB - WD 2tb Red - WD 2tb Black - Corsair 600W
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So, i decided to finally build a game server for me and my friends. I started looking into old server cpus, eventually i found a great deal for a e3-1230 for around 60 bucks (not v2,v3 or anything like that, just e3-1230) and then i went and searched for motherboards that is compatible with that cpu, but i am still not sure which will work or not. I've found one that might work: Asrock Z68 Pro-3 M Intel Z68 mATX also heard that z87 works too. i am still not sure. can you guys give me some advice on what works or not?
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I want to overclock an i5 3570k, should I go with a z68 motherboard with more features for a lower price or a z77 motherboard with less features at the same price? Would there be any difference if I used an older chipset (z68) over a newer one (z77)?
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Just bought a Samsung T3 SSD, but only get 250MB/s read on standard USB 3.0. Thinking about buying this: Gigabyte USB3.1 Type A with USB3.0/2.0 Backward Compatibility but I'm not sure about compatibility with my system or performance. -
i got this board today got my 3470 installed and updated the bios to 3802 from 3012 but i dont have my turo ratio multiplier from what i have been reading it should be there even with a non-k cpu like with my p8p67 i was running @ 4ghz with 1866mhz on a kit of patriot 1600mhz 2x8 of ram but with this board i dont have a tubo ratio and i cant post past 1600mhz on a kit of vengeance 1866mhz 2x8 so im stuck at 3.6ghz turbo and 1600mhz right now im looking at using some rusian made flashing utility to fix this problem any help would be great
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Just wondering which of these two would have better gaming performance on a z68 mobo.
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Hi! What's the difference between the motherboards listed above? I know the power delivery and bios is the same, v pro and deluxe have more sata and usb ports. Is there something "hidden" which makes the higher end ones superior?
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Hi! Do you know any blue themed z68/77 motherboards? Blue THEMED, like the asus p8z68 deluxe, not blue pcb.
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Hello, I consider overclocking my i7 3770K and I was thinking cooling it down with a Kraken X62 and I was interested in knowing if the Kraken X62 will block the first ram slot on a Asus P8Z68-v pro Gen 3? If yes, what would be an good alternative? Thanks in advance!
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Hello LTT Community! Which is better for gaming with no to minimal OC: AsRock z68 Extreme4 or z75 Pro3? As far as I understand from another forum, z68 Extreme4 uses digital controller whereas z75 Pro3 utilizes analog. Assumingly, digital is better though from the time of the post there weren't any significant evidence. Note: No clue what it meant in relation to the controller types. Currently it has: i7-2600K @ 3.4Ghz 4x4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport @ 1600MHz 5x 120mm case fans 2x Cooler Master CPU fans with heatsink (Hyper 212) EVGA NVidia GeForce GTX 660 TI 2GB 1x 3.5" 2TB HDD 600W Thermaltake Smart Series Plus two LED strips from the Phanteks P400S case Just completed a few builds for me, my siblings, and a friend. Got into PC building about a month ago so still figuring things out. Let me know if I did anything wrong with this post! Thank you for any comments!
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I have a £120 budget for a short term CPU upgrade. I can buy a Z68 mobo to overclock for £30 if someone finds a unlocked CPU for £90. I was originally going to get a 3570k for £85 and a Z68 for £30 to overclock. What's the best CPU I can currently buy, used or new i dont care, that's 1155. I already have a 1155 H61M mobo. My rig is: i3 3220 GTX660 6GB RAM CX430
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So I've been trying to get Intel's RST software on my computer for a few weeks on and off, but to no avail. It claims there is no compatible hardware found, but I know I've been using it earlier, waay back when I didn't understand it. Looking through the logs, I can't seem to find any direct reason for it to fail, but I will ofcourse add the log here for those interested. Now, I believe this might be due to outdated hardware. I sadly bought a quite expensive motherboard from MSI which at the time was their hype, but it broke as soon as I raised the base clock from 100MHz to 110MHz, so my system is having some difficulties on its own. This however doesn't give me reason for the install failure, since then components would have to be broken for real, in which case I'd assume I'd see really noticable side effects, beside the CPU not getting stable power and needing +0.15V just to stay on the base clock. The motherboard is MSI z68a-g65 and the CPU is Intels 2550k, running windows 10 64-bit. -
I'm in a position where I can buy a 3570k and a z68 mobo for ~£110.Should I buy the 3570k and overclock (~4.5-4.8ghz) or save up for a 6600k. DDR4 isn't very appealing to me and I'm just looking for straight performance. I would probably eventually upgrade to the 1150 platform or the next chipset but that would be later rather than sooner if I bought the 3570k.I'll be running the CPU alongside a GTX 660, and I'd be upgrading from a i3 3220.How does a OC i5 3570k stack up to newer CPUs and is it still a relevant CPU? -
This is my current build. OS: Windows 7 Home 64 bit MB: Gigabyte Z68MX-UD3H-B3 Processor: Intel Core i7 - 2700k LGA 1155 CPU Cooler: Hyper 212+ SSD: Crucial M4 256GB SSD Memory: Corsair Vegence DDR3 1600 4x4GB GPU: EVGA 680 GTX Reference PSU: PC Power and Cooling Silencer 910W Case: Cooler Master 690 Advanced II Monitor: Dell Ultrasharp 2412M (24inch IPS 1080p) So I know my current rig is pretty old. I built this back in 2011ish and I have not had the time to really upgrade it and did not see it being worthwhile to spend lots of money to upgrade. This computer is used for some moderate gaming + a bit of moderate video editing. At some time I will probably add in another monitor or go 1440p dual monitor setup. I'm thinking of making the following upgrades right off the bat (they are bolded) OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit MB: Gigabyte Z68MX-UD2H-B3 Processor: Intel Core i7 - 2700k LGA 1155 CPU Cooler: Hyper 212X SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB Memory: Corsair Vegence DDR3 1600 4x4GB GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 FTW or SC PSU: EVGA SuperNova 650 G2 Case: Cooler Master Mastercase 5 Pro Monitor: Dell Ultrasharp U2515H (single monitor setup for now but dual in a few months time) . (25inch 1440p IPS) I have seen tons of back and forth and debates regarding status of 2500k but have not seen much about 2700k. Is it worth upgrading to the 6700k from my current setup? Or should I wait about half a year or so and see what is going with the next architecture? If I hit up 6700k, I would need to buy new MB, New CPU, new ram which could be a rather expensive 600-800 USD upgrade that I am not willing to spend right now. I only got the 2700k because I got a really good deal via Intel's program (iirc around $100 USD) So what do you think about current upgrades to extend the life of my desktop and what would you do?
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Hi there! I'm running a 4-year-old PC with an i7-2600 (non-K), on a Z68 chipset board, the graphics are provided by the MSI's gtx 780 Lightning. And lately I felt like my games are running a bunch slower then they should. I cleared up all the useless junk, so my casual CPU consumption (when not creating stuff) is about 7-10%, so that bg process shouldn't be an issue. UPD: To clarify, I'm running overclock, with average speed of 4231.1Mhz Core speed (41.0 x 103.2 MHz) (sometimes 4.35). But the fact is - I have a 1333mhz memory (16gb of that), and I've read that in the most recent games, memory, actually, makes a difference (which was barely noticable before), at least that what digital foundry found out lately. I've googled a bit and discovered, that my CPU can run memory up to 2000mhz+ pretty easily, even though the speeds in the spec. lists are set to 1600mhz max. So, after all that, I have two questions: will I benefit from semithing like this 32gb kit: 32Gb DDR-III 2133MHz Kingston HyperX Savage (HX321C11SRK4/32) (4x8Gb KIT), in games in particular? And will I be even able to run that thing on that old of a hardware? If you want to ask, why I need 32gigs of ram, the answer is simple, I work with video, like a lot, so I consume it pretty fast. Attached cpu-z and dxdiag reports for the full spec-lists Thanks a lot! cpu-z.txt DxDiag.txt
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Hey, I can't figure out how exactly my vcore works on my motherboard. I've got something like CPU dynamic Vcore(DVID) but cant find fixed Vcore setting. Basically im running at 4.4 GHz with 1.32Vcore after adjusting this DVID parametr on +0.040. The problem is that I am reading VCore from HWmonitor and I can't be sure if its the real voltage :<. Understand me or not but I am just not sure about my overclock. I would appreciate someone's experienced help because I dont know if its the only factor that adjusts my VCore. Or just guys hit me up with couple recommended settings for this processor and mobo i5 2500k / gigabyte z68a-b3-d3 (latest bios) / 600w ocz psu Attaching couple screens of my bios (without oc applied) Sorry for my bad language I am from Poland :>
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I bought the 2500k when It first came out and never oc'd it at all. I bought a 212 evo a year ago and just installed it yesterday. My mobo is the Gigabyte Z68-d2h, there's no auto overclocking utilities available for it to my knowledge. Here's some pictures of my bios sorry for the cancer quality: http://imgur.com/a/7fkjj. Currently, changing nothing but the cpu clock ratio the system appears to be stable at 4.4 ghz. Anything higher than that and the screen freezes and you have to restart. Being the idiot I am I cranked it up to 4.8 to see what would happen and upon immediately running intel burn test the screen froze and there was a faint smell of smoke. My Dad has the same cpu and was able to get it to 5 ghz just using his mobo's auto setup thing. What settings do I need to change to optimize this? -
I'm looking at a PC for sale in my area and although I don't really need another computer, I like having an extra one around. However I have no experience with the 2500k and z68 motherboard in this comp, as in, will it play games well if I upgrade the GPU, or is the 2500k old enough it might bottleneck something like an r9 290 or 970? I also don't know what the current value would be of the cpu/mobo although I have a pretty good idea of everything else. Thanks. Parts list: CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Unlocked Processor (Can overclock easily to 4.5GHz) CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 ATX LGA1155 Memory: Mushkin Blackline 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Storage: Kingston 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Case: Cooler Master HAF XB EVO ATX Power Supply: Corsair Professional Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Network: Wireless AC Dual-Band Nano USB Adapter Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro (not activated) Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB Video Card http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/ZbZzwP
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This experiment started two days ago when I got curious as to what the new Win10 BSOD screen looks like. After putting in an OC that I knew was unstable, I got the BSOD and was in the OC mindset at this point. As a background/history of my system specs/issues, I'm running a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P (rev. 1.3; UEFI U1G), 2600K, NH-D14, with 8GB G.Skill Sniper (1600MHz, XMP), and Win7-SP1-X64; Gigabyte boards have had a really bad boot loop issue in Z68 platform, and it was present throughout the legacy BIOS & UEFI beta releases as well. My previous max OC with this setup was 4.5 GHz because I couldn't enable Internal CPU PLL Overvoltage. Enabling this option resulted in cold boot loops where the PC would seem to fail POST 3-4 times before booting into Windows. I even tried my luck to get 4.6 GHz without it enabled but was faced with BSODs at idle and light loads yet stable under 100% load (another infamous, well-documented issue). Discussions of idle BSOD pinpointed the culprit to be C-states settings. I'm not sure if it's because of how the BIOS/motherboard handles it or the OS (or the combo of the two). Now back to OCing with Win10. I got curious to see if the OS somehow made any difference with boot issues that I've had in the past. I went ahead and input my previously tested 4.6 GHz but with Internal CPU PLL OV enabled this time around. Surely enough, I passed 10 rounds of IBT on Max; to my surprise, I even passed Prime Blend (90% RAM) for 12 hours. I even shut down the system multiple times and manually powered it on to see if it would loop. No cold boot loops yet. The final test was to shut down the system, wait overnight, and see if it'll gimme a cold boot loop in the morning. Well, good morning! NO COLD BOOT LOOPS. After a full day of various load scenarios (light web browsing, video streaming, gaming, and benchmarks), I've had no BSODs at idle or load—and no cold boot loops at all. Today I got brave, so I started squeezing out a 4.7 GHz OC and after a few rounds of crashes/adjustments it miraculously passed 10 rounds of IBT Max and Prime under high RAM usage as well! This is after being able to undervolt my CPU PLL voltage lower than I ever could. I used to crash one minute after booting into the OS on 4.7 GHz, so today I was literally asking myself, "How the hell is this happening right now?!" I know that this system has ancient hardware, but all of this is incredibly surprising to me, since the boot loop issue for high OCs was never fully resolved. Win10 may be handling C-states and/or CPU PLL voltages a lot better than Win7, but I'm just taking a wild guess. I'm hoping that anyone with a Sandy Bridge Z68 Gigabyte system will find this a bit helpful and possibly try out Win10 for OC purposes. -
Hey guys, this might seem a stupid question but in my promo for my motherboard, it says it supports Gen 3 PCIe. I was just wondering if this is the same as PCIe 3.0? As I want to put in a gtx960 or gtx970. Thanks in advance! -
Hi guys, my question is simply this: do you guys think, the 4gb ASUS strix version of the GTX960 will be compatible with my current Gigabyte Intel Z68 Express Chipset Motherboard(intel). I'm just contemplating what to upgrade first, (ram,cpu,mboard) or gpu. I just want to play GTAV! The 960 is replacing a 570, and nothing else is changing for now, ram is staying the same at 8gb 1600mhz hyper x and cpu 2600k i7. My psu is true power 600w which should be sufficient. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Also: on a side, note, Can I reuse my water cooler? I have a antec Kuhler 620. I should be able to just scrape off the thermal paste right? Thanks!
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-368-IN&groupid=595&catid=662 and something to cool it with http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-058-SV&groupid=595&catid=678
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So I'm currently using a Z68 sys. with 2600K & 8GB of RAM. GPU setup is Crossfire XFX HD6870s. I can still run games on low to medium settings, but I plan on upgrading soon. Should I only get new GPUs or an entirely new system? PCI-e 2.0 x8x8 would be a problem? 2600K bottleneck?
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