Ideal overclocking platform for a Phenom II X6 1090T

[Troika]

So, I have a Phenom II 1090T and its socketed into a Asus 990FX Sabertooth R2.0 and soon with have 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2400mhz CAS 11-13-13-31 G.Skill Sniper kit of ram. I have a 1000w Corsair RM1000X and a EVGA Geforce GTX 780 (soon to be water cooled) and the 1090T is cooled with a H110i GTX. Currently, its clocked at 4.0Ghz. I had it at 4.25Ghz but one of my ram dimms died so I had to dial back down to 4.0Ghz while using mixed OCZ and Samsung ram clocked at 1066mhz (the samsung dimm is slower than the OCZ kit).

I was wondering if I could break past 4.3ghz, which seems to be about as high as a good 1090T can go. My voltage is currently sitting at 1.4v to the core and everything else is set to auto. Temps underload (Prime95) are sitting between 36C and 40C (Using Arctic Silver 5, will be swapping to liquid metal soon). I'll be doing a mix of BLCK ocing and multiplier adjustment to get my results. I'm hoping the faster ram will help with system stability and I'll be able to get a bit more from Hyper Transport. I was only able to get ~2.2Ghz out of HT due to my OCZ kit only being 1333mhz and I didn't want to push past that.

Anyone have any tips about OCing 1090Ts that'd be helpful?

[Jurrunio]

why bother spending more on a 1090T?

[ProximaOfZeal]

Helpful... eh not really, I'm afraid. As stated above, you're wasting money right now. I have a Phenom II and those CPUs simply don't benefit from fast RAM because the memory controller on CPU is just too slow. OCing the CPU NB would improve that a little, but still not near enough to benefit from a 2400 DDR3 kit.

[Troika]

9 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

why bother spending more on a 1090T?

 

2 hours ago, ProximaOfZeal said:

Helpful... eh not really, I'm afraid. As stated above, you're wasting money right now. I have a Phenom II and those CPUs simply don't benefit from fast RAM because the memory controller on CPU is just too slow. OCing the CPU NB would improve that a little, but still not near enough to benefit from a 2400 DDR3 kit.

Because I'll be using the ram in another build later so there's no reason for me to not try and buy the fastest ram kit(s) available. I wanted to get 3000 or 3200mhz but those are incredibly difficult to come across. 2400mhz is more available and by extention, cheaper.

 

I have a standing offer of $85 shipped for a 16GB kit of G.Skill Sniper so I'd be getting it either way.