madness777
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Hey fellow overclockers!
I'll be introducing my achievements of my E8400 and the original Rampage Extreme X48. To cut it short, I didn't think this CPU was capable of SO much. Not only did it run perfectly stable with an under voltage at stock clocks, it also overclocked like a champ! I can't thank the board enough for running everything without a hitch. I can go as far as to say it's the best overclocking board I ever laid my hands on considering all the factors that have to be clocked in perfectly just to post, let alone boot. Only hiccup that occurred was the RAM frequency, it didn't post when it hit 1600MHz, no matter what! I ended up dealing with the fact the board is really picky with the RAM it has to run. It has to be 100% compatible with the board to be able to run at the desired frequencies. But we still have CL overclocking so I played with them instead.
First a screenshot of the under voltage. This was for daily use for a while. FSB is overclocked however.
Second screenshot is of the maximum Stable overclocked system. This is used for Crunching to get the maximum power out of the blasted chip. 4.8GHz stable? Not too shabby.
Ok, to walk you through this one.
Firstly the RAM clocks. Stock clocks are rated 1600MHz 7-7-7-20. Here the RAM is running just short of the frequency so I wanted to squeeze the living guts out of the timings. The memory does love over volts quite a bit, I ended up putting 1.9v through the memory to achieve a completely stable 6-6-6-18 CR1. I can't tell you how happy I am to run it this tight. I'm not sure how long the RAM will handle the volts though. It is however from the time where 1.9v on DDR3 was a normal thing. So they might run fine for quite a while.
Secondly, the CPU and FSB. I think this is the absolute maximum I can push it with my watercooling and still maintain a stable system. At these volts the CPU peaks out at 80°C running a stability stress test.
*Wild picture of the actual setup appears*
Last screenshot is from today, for all this time I've been looking at that thing sitting on the wall thinking: ''there is no way in hell this will ever boot at 5GHz'' even though I had the biggest urge to give it a shot. Finally, it's here boys.
It is not stable by any means. I wasn't even trying to make it stable because the CPU just needed that little bit too much voltage to run! I did manage to give the AIDA64 Cache Benchmark a run. I did have to knock down the memory frequency.
I just can't even keep a stable mind thinking ''it actually did run at 5GHz, a 3GHz chip, having to tick at +2GHz of its original clock, that's 2/3 higher of the original frequency.'' Guys... no...
Tom, I know you'll like this and I know you have your board sat somewhere just waiting for you to put that magic juice through it!
I'll be introducing my achievements of my E8400 and the original Rampage Extreme X48. To cut it short, I didn't think this CPU was capable of SO much. Not only did it run perfectly stable with an under voltage at stock clocks, it also overclocked like a champ! I can't thank the board enough for running everything without a hitch. I can go as far as to say it's the best overclocking board I ever laid my hands on considering all the factors that have to be clocked in perfectly just to post, let alone boot. Only hiccup that occurred was the RAM frequency, it didn't post when it hit 1600MHz, no matter what! I ended up dealing with the fact the board is really picky with the RAM it has to run. It has to be 100% compatible with the board to be able to run at the desired frequencies. But we still have CL overclocking so I played with them instead.
First a screenshot of the under voltage. This was for daily use for a while. FSB is overclocked however.
Second screenshot is of the maximum Stable overclocked system. This is used for Crunching to get the maximum power out of the blasted chip. 4.8GHz stable? Not too shabby.
Ok, to walk you through this one.
Firstly the RAM clocks. Stock clocks are rated 1600MHz 7-7-7-20. Here the RAM is running just short of the frequency so I wanted to squeeze the living guts out of the timings. The memory does love over volts quite a bit, I ended up putting 1.9v through the memory to achieve a completely stable 6-6-6-18 CR1. I can't tell you how happy I am to run it this tight. I'm not sure how long the RAM will handle the volts though. It is however from the time where 1.9v on DDR3 was a normal thing. So they might run fine for quite a while.
Secondly, the CPU and FSB. I think this is the absolute maximum I can push it with my watercooling and still maintain a stable system. At these volts the CPU peaks out at 80°C running a stability stress test.
*Wild picture of the actual setup appears*
Last screenshot is from today, for all this time I've been looking at that thing sitting on the wall thinking: ''there is no way in hell this will ever boot at 5GHz'' even though I had the biggest urge to give it a shot. Finally, it's here boys.
It is not stable by any means. I wasn't even trying to make it stable because the CPU just needed that little bit too much voltage to run! I did manage to give the AIDA64 Cache Benchmark a run. I did have to knock down the memory frequency.
I just can't even keep a stable mind thinking ''it actually did run at 5GHz, a 3GHz chip, having to tick at +2GHz of its original clock, that's 2/3 higher of the original frequency.'' Guys... no...
Tom, I know you'll like this and I know you have your board sat somewhere just waiting for you to put that magic juice through it!
