I'd just like to get some opinions of the more experienced OCers here if I could
My rig is quite happy about running the basic 200x21 = 4200MHz setup at very acceptable temps and volts (1.31v).
But I'm not; I always felt I could get more out of my particular 950, and I'm not one to leave potential performance on the table. That and I'm constantly reading the forums here at work, fantasizing about what I'm going to do to my computer when I get home...
Perverted euphemisms aside, overclocking itself is more fun for me than playing the games I do it for!
So anyway, no matter what I do, my rig is never completely stable at 22x multi. Never. No matter how many or how few volts I throw at it, it just won't play ball. I can toy with settings all day long. It'll last for up to 20 minutes but never more (a goal I've also personally tried to achieve but have yet to accomplish, any advice there as well?
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I want a high yet 24/7-stable overclock. So I thought I'd try for 23x and lower the bclk a bit to see what I could get. Sure enough, at 192x23 = 4400GHz it was fully stable. Unfortunately it was getting a bit too hot and power-hungry for my taste (85 C in prime95 and linX) so I decided to back it down to 187x23 = 4300GHz. A small blow to my pride but much more acceptable to me than 4200. And much cooler than 4400.
The downside is that my RAM of course went from 1600 to 1500. (But timings from 7-8-7-24 to 7-7-7-24, tee-hee!)
So my real question today is: in your experience, is it worth gaining 100MHz on the CPU if you lose 100MHz on your RAM?
I know in the little benchmarks I like to run (fun stuff like FFXIV bench, 3dMark 11, Lost Planet 2 bench) that my scores have improved, but I want to get others' perspectives. So a preemptive 'thank you' to you other benchers/folders.
Edit: My rig currently differs from my sig in that my blck/multi is different and I again have only 6G of RAM, 2GBx3. 6 sticks is too much!
I have also tried 205x21 or 210x21, and with those I am also unstable.
My rig is quite happy about running the basic 200x21 = 4200MHz setup at very acceptable temps and volts (1.31v).
But I'm not; I always felt I could get more out of my particular 950, and I'm not one to leave potential performance on the table. That and I'm constantly reading the forums here at work, fantasizing about what I'm going to do to my computer when I get home...
So anyway, no matter what I do, my rig is never completely stable at 22x multi. Never. No matter how many or how few volts I throw at it, it just won't play ball. I can toy with settings all day long. It'll last for up to 20 minutes but never more (a goal I've also personally tried to achieve but have yet to accomplish, any advice there as well?
I want a high yet 24/7-stable overclock. So I thought I'd try for 23x and lower the bclk a bit to see what I could get. Sure enough, at 192x23 = 4400GHz it was fully stable. Unfortunately it was getting a bit too hot and power-hungry for my taste (85 C in prime95 and linX) so I decided to back it down to 187x23 = 4300GHz. A small blow to my pride but much more acceptable to me than 4200. And much cooler than 4400.
The downside is that my RAM of course went from 1600 to 1500. (But timings from 7-8-7-24 to 7-7-7-24, tee-hee!)
So my real question today is: in your experience, is it worth gaining 100MHz on the CPU if you lose 100MHz on your RAM?
I know in the little benchmarks I like to run (fun stuff like FFXIV bench, 3dMark 11, Lost Planet 2 bench) that my scores have improved, but I want to get others' perspectives. So a preemptive 'thank you' to you other benchers/folders.
Edit: My rig currently differs from my sig in that my blck/multi is different and I again have only 6G of RAM, 2GBx3. 6 sticks is too much!
I have also tried 205x21 or 210x21, and with those I am also unstable.
