Need Help with Stabilising Overclock.

[BRiiTASH]

GI need help with stabalising my overclock.

These are some of the settings i am running with. I need advice on stabalising it, but i am unsure what are safe values to set in the voltages.

 

[Bananasplit_00]

nice settings, i dont see them anywhere lol

for Ryzen dont go above 1.42V

for Intel in general preferably stay bellow 1.35 but up to 1.4V is fine

videocards: slap it at whatever, but keep it as low as its stabile at to reduce heat and bring back lifetime, sometimes less is more here where less voltage means less heat so you can push higher clocks

DDR3: 1.65V max

DDR4 no clue, never used, never cared

[BRiiTASH]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

nice settings, i dont see them anywhere lol

for Ryzen dont go above 1.42V

for Intel in general preferably stay bellow 1.35 but up to 1.4V is fine

videocards: slap it at whatever, but keep it as low as its stabile at to reduce heat and bring back lifetime, sometimes less is more here where less voltage means less heat so you can push higher clocks

DDR3: 1.65V max

DDR4 no clue, never used, never cared

 

Was having trouble attaching pics for some reason. The CPU is an i7 5960x, X99 E-WS, Corsair Dominator Platinum Limited Ed. 32gb, AX 1500i PSU. Have some pics of the bios. Hope these help.

 

 I just tried the CPU Core Voltage at 1.4v but it failed to boot. Must be something else that is holding it back.

[BRiiTASH]

11 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Um, what are you overclocking?  What board?  Cooling?

I have a custom loop with a 480mm rad so that shouldnt be an issue.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, BRiiTASH said:

 

Was having trouble attaching pics for some reason. The CPU is an i7 5960x, X99 E-WS, Corsair Dominator Platinum Limited Ed. 32gb, AX 1500i PSU. Have some pics of the bios. Hope these help.

 

 

 

 

 I just tried the CPU Core Voltage at 1.4v but it failed to boot. Must be something else that is holding it back.

 

well i havent gotten a modern(second gen and up) Intel chip to boot 125MHz BCLK, and i doubt you will either. do the CPU with the multiplier instead and the RAM with the preset speeds you should have to chose from. the RAM im not sure how stabile that would be, i would recomend running just the RAM at that frequency and those timings through memtest 86 a loop or two to check it but im pretty sure they wont do 3500MHz on 1.35V, that seems really low. slap CPU input voltage at 1.9V seeing as that can help. but seriouslty, you aint going to be booting 125MHz unless you tweek the BCLK to all the other things ratio to 1.25:1 or something, but i have never managed to boot a BCLK beyond 110MHz personaly

[BRiiTASH]

2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

well i havent gotten a modern(second gen and up) Intel chip to boot 125MHz BCLK, and i doubt you will either. do the CPU with the multiplier instead and the RAM with the preset speeds you should have to chose from. the RAM im not sure how stabile that would be, i would recomend running just the RAM at that frequency and those timings through memtest 86 a loop or two to check it but im pretty sure they wont do 3500MHz on 1.35V, that seems really low. slap CPU input voltage at 1.9V seeing as that can help. but seriouslty, you aint going to be booting 125MHz unless you tweek the BCLK to all the other things ratio to 1.25:1 or something, but i have never managed to boot a BCLK beyond 110MHz personaly

I set it to 125 bclk as i hear it was easier to attain higher OC's with that. My goal is to achieve 4.4 ghz cpu clock and 3200mhz memory as that is the limit of my cpu and mobo, so im happy to follow whatever suggestions you might have so long as im not pushing crazy voltages through the cpu (1.4v+).

[BRiiTASH]

Ive gotten it to boot with these settings however im unsure how stable it might be.

Frequency 3999.27mhz (99.98 x 40.0)

VID 1.3016v.

3200mhz memory with XMP timings

Idles around 30'c.

 

[Brett_Bst]

2 hours ago, BRiiTASH said:

Ive gotten it to boot with these settings however im unsure how stable it might be.

Frequency 3999.27mhz (99.98 x 40.0)

VID 1.3016v.

3200mhz memory with XMP timings

Idles around 30'c.

 

stress test it and find out, took me ages to OC my 7700K but it was my first time, I can hit 5.0 stable and can run 5.2 but not 100% stable. good luck 

[Bananasplit_00]

12 hours ago, BRiiTASH said:

I set it to 125 bclk as i hear it was easier to attain higher OC's with that. My goal is to achieve 4.4 ghz cpu clock and 3200mhz memory as that is the limit of my cpu and mobo, so im happy to follow whatever suggestions you might have so long as im not pushing crazy voltages through the cpu (1.4v+).

BCLK is harder to reach high frequencies then the multiplier, you can probably get that 4.4GHz with just setting the multiplier to 44 running a BCLK off 100MHz at aroun 1.35V

[BRiiTASH]

Still cant get it to boot. These are the settings i have. Seriously getting pissed off with this cpu now.

[dexT]

You need a 125 bclk for XMP over 2800 on X99. 

[done12many2]

7 minutes ago, dexT said:

You need a 125 bclk for XMP over 2800 on X99. 

 

For some RAM, yes.  In the early days of x99, some XMP profiles required a 125 MHz strap to boot with sticks in the 2800 to 3000 MHz range.  Today everything is pretty much 100 MHz strap.  

[dexT]

11 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

For some RAM, yes.  In the early days of x99, some XMP profiles required a 125 MHz strap to boot with sticks in the 2800 to 3000 MHz range.  Today everything is pretty much 100 MHz strap.  

Ah cool. Yeah my first gen DDR4 did XMP 2800 100bclk but not 3000.

[done12many2]

58 minutes ago, BRiiTASH said:

Still cant get it to boot. These are the settings i have. Seriously getting pissed off with this cpu now.

 

I'm not sure why you are going about this the hard way.

 

Clear CMOS and start all over.  Overclock in this manner.  CPU, memory and finally cache.  That's to say don't move to the next until you've verified stability on the previous.  Keep in mind that when you overclock the CPU and then the memory, you may have to add a pinch more VCore as more data is flowing across the package, otherwise known as the CPU is doing more work.  Same thing applies when you OC the cache.

 

Clear your CMOS and work on your CPU overclock only to start with.  We'll help you get everything dialed in just right.

[BRiiTASH]

4 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

I'm not sure why you are going about this the hard way.

 

Clear CMOS and start all over.  Overclock in this manner.  CPU, memory and finally cache.  That's to say don't move to the next until you've verified stability on the previous.  Keep in mind that when you overclock the CPU and then the memory, you may have to add a pinch more VCore as more data is flowing across the package, otherwise known as the CPU is doing more work.  Same thing applies when you OC the cache.

 

Clear your CMOS and work on your CPU overclock only to start with.  We'll help you get everything dialed in just right.

Ive managed to achieve this so far, but if i put my DRAM Frequency to 2600mhz or higher my pc wont boot.

 

How do I go about increasing the Dram frequency to the max my mobo supports (3200mhz) and having it remain stable. Also if i push the cache frequency to 43 I get no boot so I think that might be topped out.

Can I maybe increase the Ram voltage levels to help stabalise a higher Dram frequency. Is there any value you would suggest i try?

[done12many2]

Just now, BRiiTASH said:

Ive managed to achieve this so far, but if i put my DRAM Frequency to 2600mhz or higher my pc wont boot.

 

How do I go about increasing the Dram frequency to the max my mobo supports (3200mhz) and having it remain stable. Also if i push the cache frequency to 43 I get no boot so I think that might be topped out.

 

Can I maybe increase the Ram voltage levels to help stabalise a higher Dram frequency. Is there any value you would suggest i try?

 

I gave you my recommendation. 

 

You should not require any additional DRAM voltage to simply run XMP.

 

If I'm going to be honest with you, you don't know what's what as far as what's causing instability issues.  It could be CPU, cache or memory as you've done too much at once.  

 

If you want to give it a clean start, give me a holler.  

 

Have fun.  That's what it's all about!  

[BRiiTASH]

6 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

I gave you my recommendation. 

 

You should not require any additional DRAM voltage to simply run XMP.

 

If I'm going to be honest with you, you don't know what's what as far as what's causing instability issues.  It could be CPU, cache or memory as you've done too much at once.  

 

If you want to give it a clean start, give me a holler.  

 

Have fun.  That's what it's all about!  

Cleared the CMOS. Saved my best attempt to a profile anyway so alls not lost. If you got any suggestions im all ears. 

These are the auto settings

 

 

These are the XMP enabled settings

[done12many2]

1 minute ago, BRiiTASH said:

Cleared the CMOS. Saved my best attempt to a profile anyway so alls not lost. If you got any suggestions im all ears. 

These are the auto settings

 

 

 

These are the XMP enabled settings

 

Cool.  With XMP selected and NOTHING else changed, will the board POST?

[BRiiTASH]

Just now, done12many2 said:

 

Cool.  With XMP selected and NOTHING else changed, will the board POST?

Yes

[done12many2]

Just now, BRiiTASH said:

Yes

 

Great.  We'll be able to get your memory perfected after we dial in your CPU overclock.

 

Go ahead and set the "AI Overclock Option" back to Auto and reboot.  Make sure that your memory has returned to 2133 or default.

[BRiiTASH]

A quick update. Done12many2 has spent most of the evening helping me. Many thanks for that.

I have come to 2 max OC's right now.

4.4ghz cpu at 1.36, 2400mhz mem at 1.2v, 3.0ghz cache at 1.0v

Or 

4.0ghz cpu at 1.36, 3200mhz mem at 1.2v, 4.0 cache at 1.1v

 

Anytime I exceed one of these ranges on either profile, i get no boot. Ita clear to me that the memory is holding back a higher CPU frequency, or vice versa.

 

My goal is to hit cpu 4.4ghz at <1.41v, memory 3200mhz <1.39v and cache 4.0ghz at <1.36v.

 

Any suggestions?