Ninjahmahs
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Hi Guys got a conundrum here hoping someone may have some info or knowledge that could help me out.
Basically i have no issues with the actual overclocking procedure itself, what i am struggling with is finding comparable settings to that of the ASUS mobo i used before for my i5 2500k rig.
No mater what i do when running any stress tests on the cpu clock there is vdrop, i also know this is a common thing to experience when overclocking. The problem arises when i try to find any settings in the motherboard bios (Click Bios 5 for the msi m5 mobo's) that are similair to the asus version of my old board that allow for LLC changes.
Not only this but i cannot seem to find the corect way to set up the voltage so that when running at idle clock speeds the vcore drops to a reasonable level.
I seem to get it stuck to very close to the voltage it uses when running stress tests. so far im running x45 multiplier and getting around 1.328v in Prime95 26.6version running using small and large FFT values of 1344, whilst at idle the voltage pops back up to around 1.376v
Having come from an asus p8z77 v lx-2 mobo and an i5 2500k im finding a lot of the changed options in click bios to be extremely different.
on my old rig the vcore stays fairly low (around 1.150v) at idle then increases up to where its set to keep the OC stable under load
on this board the result seems to be the complete opposite with idle always showing higher volatage than load and its giving me a bloody headache.
rig was only just recently built and if i cant find a form of LLC equivalent on this mobo / bios combo i may well just exchange it before i cant.
That is unless someone can help me understand any settings i can change to make things work out how i expect them to.
Thanks a lot anyways
hope to speak to some of you soon
Ninjah
Basically i have no issues with the actual overclocking procedure itself, what i am struggling with is finding comparable settings to that of the ASUS mobo i used before for my i5 2500k rig.
No mater what i do when running any stress tests on the cpu clock there is vdrop, i also know this is a common thing to experience when overclocking. The problem arises when i try to find any settings in the motherboard bios (Click Bios 5 for the msi m5 mobo's) that are similair to the asus version of my old board that allow for LLC changes.
Not only this but i cannot seem to find the corect way to set up the voltage so that when running at idle clock speeds the vcore drops to a reasonable level.
I seem to get it stuck to very close to the voltage it uses when running stress tests. so far im running x45 multiplier and getting around 1.328v in Prime95 26.6version running using small and large FFT values of 1344, whilst at idle the voltage pops back up to around 1.376v
Having come from an asus p8z77 v lx-2 mobo and an i5 2500k im finding a lot of the changed options in click bios to be extremely different.
on my old rig the vcore stays fairly low (around 1.150v) at idle then increases up to where its set to keep the OC stable under load
on this board the result seems to be the complete opposite with idle always showing higher volatage than load and its giving me a bloody headache.
rig was only just recently built and if i cant find a form of LLC equivalent on this mobo / bios combo i may well just exchange it before i cant.
That is unless someone can help me understand any settings i can change to make things work out how i expect them to.
Thanks a lot anyways
hope to speak to some of you soon
Ninjah
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see the vdroop thing (whilst a bit shiddy) is not the main concern i have, granted it makes things a lot less efficient in the scheme of good overclocks naturally. My main issue is that i cannot for the life of me figure out why the vcore seems soooooo static once i begin to overclock and change a few bios settings.
