First Time Overclocking (4.2Ghz)

[LiquidTech]

Hello guys!

 

First time overclocking my system. Did I do it right?

 

CASE: Thermaltake Armor Plus

MOBO: EVGA X79 FTW

CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 CPU

GPU: EVGA GTX 1080

RAM: Corsair Vengance DDR3 16GB

SSD: Samsung 850 PRO

HDD: VelociRaptor 300GB

Cooling: Kraken X60

 

I have it at 4.2GHz, it appears to run without an issue and at the same temps as when it was stock. What you guys think? Advice?

[Master Disaster]

Run something like Prime95, OCCT Linpak or AIDA64 for a few hours to make sure its stable.

[LiquidTech]

I downloaded Prime95 and tried to run it at the default settings. I got this on some of the notepads that opened.

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[May 24 01:56] Worker starting
[May 24 01:56] Setting affinity to run worker on logical CPU #2
[May 24 01:56] Beginning a continuous self-test on your computer.
[May 24 01:56] Please read stress.txt.  Choose Test/Stop to end this test.
[May 24 01:56] Test 1, 44000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M7471105 using AVX FFT length 384K, Pass1=384, Pass2=1K.
[May 24 01:56] FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
[May 24 01:56] Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
[May 24 01:56] Torture Test completed 0 tests in 0 minutes - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
[May 24 01:56] Worker stopped.

 

 

[Lord Nicoll]

21 minutes ago, XiuzSu said:

Hello guys!

 

First time overclocking my system. Did I do it right?

 

CASE: Thermaltake Armor Plus

MOBO: EVGA X79 FTW

CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 CPU

GPU: EVGA GTX 1080

RAM: Corsair Vengance DDR3 16GB

SSD: Samsung 850 PRO

HDD: VelociRaptor 300GB

Cooling: Kraken X60

 

I have it a 4.2 Mhz, it appears to run without an issue and at the same temps as when it was stock. What you guys think? Advice?

seems so, if prime95 isn't playing ball try AIDA64, but usually instability results in outright crashes although not always, do be careful though, anything past 4.3GHz is going to need BCLK adjustments, so maybe brush up on that if you wanna go higher/ 

[genexis_x]

Slightly off topic: You didn't mention about the PSU you're using?

And also it's 4.2GHz not 4.2MHz

 

Back to topic, as others mentioned above, try some stress tests for a few hours (if you have the time)

[LiquidTech]

My PSU: Kingwin MACH 1 800W Modular Power Supply  (old kind I know)

Here are my results. Ran it for 6 hours without issue. Does everything looks good?

Also is it normal my cores go to 1.2GHz when idle? I don't experience ANY issues or lag and the second I try to do anything it goes back to 4.2GHz (which to be honest I kinda like because my CPU is actually running cooler OC then stock).

 

[genexis_x]

Looks good.

CPU frequency will drop on idle. Perfectly normal.

[LiquidTech]

Thank you very much for checking!

I should of done this years ago! I can't believe it was that simple and safe.

[LiquidTech]

Hey guys! 

 

I'm reviving this old post because I just build a computer for a friend of mine, and I OC his i3 8350 to an stable 4.8GHz. So I decided I wanted more power myself. So I still have the same setup (but new SSD), and I now pushed my i7 3820 to 4.75GHz. I'm a little concerned with the almost 1.52v I HAVE to use to have this OC be stable. Any lower and it will crash during stress test, lowering it more will just make it not boot into Windows. Temps at full load are < 68c. Check it out below.