Volts and Temps

[MIKMANNER]

Hello all,

Today I have been over-clocking for the first time.

I'm working with i7 950 on an Asus P6X58D-E with a Noctua dh14. I aim to hit 4ghz but I do not understand volts too well.

With Prime95 my stock temps were 35-40 idle and 60-65 on load.

I managed to get the fella up to 3800 mhz on core voltage of 1.208 and it blue screened, was fine up until I hit the 3800 mark.

My question is thus - what volt levels should I push to make the 3800mhz stable? At 3800 my temps were hitting as high as 70 - is this okay? Because I guess I'll be hitting 80degrees if I raise the volts and push for 4ghz.

Thanks for any help people, love this site

-Mik

 

[tinytomlogan]

Need your full rig specs dude, and ALL the bios settings you used otherwise we dont know what the issue is.

There are plenty of i7 thread here if you go and have a read to what the others have done.

 

[MIKMANNER]

Need your full rig specs dude, and ALL the bios settings you used otherwise we dont know what the issue is.

There are plenty of i7 thread here if you go and have a read to what the others have done.

Thanks for reply!

Heheh yeah I've spent all day looking at threads, I'm just a bit of a dumbass really.

System (built from your various awesome recommendations)

ASUS P6X58D-E

i7 950

GTX 570

OCZ Titanium XTC DDR3 1600mhz 6GB

Noctua NH-D14

Kingston 64gb SSDNOW (boot drive)

Fractal r3 Case (Like that makes a difference)

BIOS Settings:

Ai Overclock Tuner: Manual

CPU Ratio: 20.0

SpeedStep: Disabled

Xtreme Phase Full Power Mode: Auto

BCLK Frequency: 190

PCIE: 100

DRAM: Auto

UCLK: Auto

QPI: Auto

CPU Voltage Control: Manual

CPU Voltage: 1.22500

Everything else on Auto.

Thanks a bunch for taking a look.

 

[tinytomlogan]

ram need to be set manualy both the speed, voltage and the timings

uclk needs to be 2x the ram speed

what speed did you have the ram at btw? It needs to be manually set. (change the devider)

 

[MIKMANNER]

ram need to be set manualy both the speed, voltage and the timings

uclk needs to be 2x the ram speed

what speed did you have the ram at btw? It needs to be manually set. (change the devider)

Man you must be annoyed at threads like this by now! haha thanks though, I will investigate, so am I right by saying I should set the RAM to what the box says with volts and timings then, I shouldn't go any higher than that?

RAM was running at 1523mhz