Well after a few days tinkering and about a hundred restarts I'm finally getting what is a reasonably satisfactory overclock on my I5 - 750.
There's still tweaking to be done as I would like to get the volts down. Learning the Biostars BIOS isn't going to be a 5 minute job, more a labour of love as I'm starting to get my teeth into the finer settings.
Began by doing the old fashioned method keeping the volts at stock until the chip became unstable, then a few volt tweaks until the temps became, lets not say a concern, more I was unhappy as I'm sure I can reduce the Vcore by playing around a little more.
This setup runs Prime stable for 12 hours plus and temps on load hit 65 degrees. ( Fans on the Noctua on the reduced volts )
Passes all the tests on the IBT. Will have to run some Vantage scores later once I'm fully happy.
Coming from an ASUS bios the Biostar BIOS is a completely different kettle of fish. Bear in mind also its my first foray into the realms if the I series processors too.
The Biostar has some automated overclocks available and whilst some settings are absolute pants they do manage the volts effectively, problem is they leave Speedstep on and it cant be disabled. Some of the BIOS settings are a complete arse to understand but I'm sure I can achieve a little more.
I'm currently aiming for 4.4Ghz as that was a challenge set by our Tom ... on a 760 I may add
Think that might be out of the league of this baby. Cant hurt trying though eh?
Next up will be the 5870 to receive a dose of overclocking. Need to do a little homework on that before I do though. Downloaded Afterburner to have a tinker later once I've maxxed this processor out.
There's still tweaking to be done as I would like to get the volts down. Learning the Biostars BIOS isn't going to be a 5 minute job, more a labour of love as I'm starting to get my teeth into the finer settings.
Began by doing the old fashioned method keeping the volts at stock until the chip became unstable, then a few volt tweaks until the temps became, lets not say a concern, more I was unhappy as I'm sure I can reduce the Vcore by playing around a little more.
This setup runs Prime stable for 12 hours plus and temps on load hit 65 degrees. ( Fans on the Noctua on the reduced volts )
Passes all the tests on the IBT. Will have to run some Vantage scores later once I'm fully happy.
Coming from an ASUS bios the Biostar BIOS is a completely different kettle of fish. Bear in mind also its my first foray into the realms if the I series processors too.
The Biostar has some automated overclocks available and whilst some settings are absolute pants they do manage the volts effectively, problem is they leave Speedstep on and it cant be disabled. Some of the BIOS settings are a complete arse to understand but I'm sure I can achieve a little more.
I'm currently aiming for 4.4Ghz as that was a challenge set by our Tom ... on a 760 I may add
Next up will be the 5870 to receive a dose of overclocking. Need to do a little homework on that before I do though. Downloaded Afterburner to have a tinker later once I've maxxed this processor out.
