5960X OC Help. Is this any good for Haswell-E?

[DavidCambotech]

5 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

Because they are classified!  If you look really close on the screen shot of my desktop earlier in this thread, you can see all of my voltages.  Just sayin'

 

I'll grab you some screen shots of my BIOS settings in a few.

 

What motherboard are you running?  

 

 

 

MSI x99a Krait Edition.

[DavidCambotech]

Just now, z97 said:

CPU is at 45

Voltage 1.325

BLCK is 102.5

Did you change anything else beside those three? Cache speed or something else like what the other guy said?

[done12many2]

You're not going to find "CPU Cache" anywhere in your BIOS for an MSI board.  MSI calls it as Ring Ratio.  This in one small reason why you can't just copy someone else's settings.

 

If you need help setting up a cache and memory overclock, that's definitely possible, but you aren't going to gain much by the monkey see, monkey do approach when it comes to overclocking.  

 

 

[done12many2]

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[z97]

21 minutes ago, DavidCambotech said:

Did you change anything else beside those three? Cache speed or something else like what the other guy said?

I have to look when I'm home but I don't think I moved it too much if at all.

 

I mean you can try a baseline of what I have but it's not guaranteed with your setup.

[z97]

21 minutes ago, DavidCambotech said:

Did you change anything else beside those three? Cache speed or something else like what the other guy said?

I have to look when I'm home but I don't think I moved it too much if at all.

 

I mean you can try a baseline of what I have but it's not guaranteed with your setup.

[Vode]

20 hours ago, DavidCambotech said:

But at that voltage is it consider as losing the silicon lottery/medium or winning? I am really confused since googling does not provide much info about the 5960X OC at all.

4.7 Ghz is winning the silicon lottery (Paul's Hardware has one)

4.6 Ghz is pretty decent

[Vode]

sry double post

[done12many2]

7 minutes ago, z97 said:

I have to look when I'm home but I don't think I moved it too much if at all.

 

I mean you can try a baseline of what I have but it's not guaranteed with your setup.

 

"Other guy" here.    You should really look into the cache OC as well especially with an Asus board as they push cache nicely.  It has a nice impact on rendering and other CPU related tasks.

 

You also need to look into Asus TCT since you're running into thermal issues with higher voltage when trying to hit a higher OC.  It works great.

 

2 minutes ago, Vode said:

4.7 Ghz us winning the silicon lottery (Paul's Hardware has one)

4.6 Ghz is pretty decent

 

If I remember correctly, Paul got a 4.75 out of his chip with just a tad over 1.3v.  That's definitely a "Silicon Lottery" chip!

[done12many2]

4 minutes ago, Vode said:

sry double post

 

It's been happening to everyone for the last couple of days.  It's not you.

[z97]

21 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

"Other guy" here.    You should really look into the cache OC as well especially with an Asus board as they push cache nicely.  It has a nice impact on rendering and other CPU related tasks.

 

You also need to look into Asus TCT since you're running into thermal issues with higher voltage when trying to hit a higher OC.  It works great.

 

 

If I remember correctly, Paul got a 4.75 out of his chip with just a tad over 1.3v.  That's definitely a "Silicon Lottery" chip!

I just may. That was like a 5 minute bios mess around and go for broke LOL

 

I'm honestly trying to sell the whole computer but that's not going too well haha