Rain get me to 4ghz...bob failed:(

Rain can you help me get there, I know you know more than him, Bobsama you little bitch
You know my setup
956EE w/Noctua Cooling
Rampage III EE
1200w Ultra 4
6gb Corsair Domination.
GTX 580


Bob only helped me get to 3.6 stable from stock 3.2. I know with this equipement I can run 4.0 at ease.

I dont know what I am doing with OC'ing at all, last time I tried I spent the whole day flashing bios and pulling the battery out of the motherboard.

yeah that's the way to encourage him to help you. good luck

TBH I should have stopped when I heard "Asus"--I hate Asus and would only ever buy one with a decent OC guide on my side.

Supra said:

pulling the battery out of the motherboard.

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And this is why i grafted a cmos reset switch into the back of my case lol.

Dude just because ive overclocked everything I own doesnt mean I know shit about your generation of I7. You have an OCN account I told you to use that shit. Your best bet is to talk to the people in the club for your particular motherboard. Once we get oast the kid shit things like the particular voltage regulator setup and capabilites of the board really play into this.

Erik seems to have gotten his to 4.2 and didnt even have his water block down properly. Someone like that who even has the exact cpu you have might be worth talking to. Its unlocked so you dont even have to touch bclk. I know enough about sandy bridge now to help someone there but all I can do is read a guide and guess for you.

Let me break down overclocking

Your processor is made up of switches called transistors. These switch at a particular rate or frequency. This is the processor speed usually rated in Ghz. For a given architecture, process and even the individual processor made the transistors will only switch so fast. At a given voltage the (worst) transistor will switch at so many ghz and at a higher voltage it might switch even faster.

With higher frequency comes more current which causes a little more heat. With higher voltage comes even more heat. The processors circuitry etched out in silicon is just like wiring in your car, house whatever. It will only take so much voltage period without extreme measures of cooling. Stay within a safe voltage and keep the cooling under control and you should be safe. That said not all things are free of major defect.

Your case

So your CPU frequency = your FSB or BCLK X the multiplier. So for you 133 x 24 = 3192 Mhz or 3.2 Ghz. If your CPU was locked the only choice would be to raise the BCLK but it isnt so we change the multiplier but you could do both.

Once you find a multiplier thats above stable (and we would be checking this with hours of Prime 95 runs or something similar) we have to start increasing vcore. Now the confusion sets in for me because on that generation alot of things were moved onto the processor. Alot of voltage adjustments became available. Sandy bridge response almost purely to vcore.

The main thing outside of that is keeping the power stable and clean. A good power supply. Load line calibration and a decent vrm all help with this. If the LLC and VRM are adjustable on the motherboard definitly something to talk to other owners of the same board about.

But realize not every 965 has made it to 4ghz on air. I just read 2 reviews of the cpu that failed to. Ive got 4.5 possible stable and i still cant boot 4.6 on this turd.

SFC RENNO said:

Youtube Supra, you don't need anyone's help. With youtube, I am confident that I can perform brain surgery. All you have to do is research shit. Somebody on the internet has already done what you want to do, just learn from their mistakes. Plus at the end you have the ability to say, I fucking built this shit without anyone's help. That feeling is amazing.

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Will do my friend! Thanks fo the vote of confidence. I will start tonight!!

SFC RENNO said:

youll know you went to far when you BSOD. Then back it off.

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Roger

Seriously, I have the same motherboard and I just turned off the turbo, upped the multiplier to 200 and turned the bitch on and away it went. I have since adjusted the cpu voltage to 1.28, but that's my cpu no yours. Yours could do it at a lower voltage or need higher. Just experiment and see. Also, ask balls if he remembers the kind of voltage that cpu takes for overclocking. Other than that, this MB is easy to overclock with.

sixer9682 said:

Seriously, I have the same motherboard and I just turned off the turbo, upped the multiplier to 200 and turned the bitch on and away it went. I have since adjusted the cpu voltage to 1.28, but that's my cpu no yours. Yours could do it at a lower voltage or need higher. Just experiment and see. Also, ask balls if he remembers the kind of voltage that cpu takes for overclocking. Other than that, this MB is easy to overclock with.

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SO let see Multiplier to 200 times the bclk of 133 thats oh 26.6Ghz? just effing with you. I believe I am confused yet still because bclk at 200 X 24 would be 4.8 Ghz?

I am 10h 20m into my prime 95 run at 4.5 Ghz on sandy biatch.

Oh shut up already. Bclk of 200 the multiplier is locked. My multiplier is 22; this, of course, will vary depending on the cpu but I have an old I7 920 and that bclk works great for me.

When the water block wasn't on securely I ran on 3.8 for 12 hours and it would overheat. For shits n giggles I decided to check and see how tight the block was. One was tight the other three weren't as tight the one. It can run at 4.2 but the time being till I have a job again which should be very soon(Like tomorrow).

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 965 52 °C
Deneb 45nm Technology
RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3-2000 (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. Crosshair IV Formula (AM3) 46 °C
Graphics
W2240 (1920x1080@60Hz)
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series (XFX Pine Group) 38 °C
Hard Drives
293GB Western Digital WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U1 ATA Device (SATA) 30 °C
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHES208 2 ATA Device
Audio
VIA High Definition Audio with X-Fi

sixer9682 said:

Seriously, I have the same motherboard and I just turned off the turbo, upped the multiplier to 200 and turned the bitch on and away it went. I have since adjusted the cpu voltage to 1.28, but that's my cpu no yours. Yours could do it at a lower voltage or need higher. Just experiment and see. Also, ask balls if he remembers the kind of voltage that cpu takes for overclocking. Other than that, this MB is easy to overclock with.

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Sixer I really do love you...really
Thanks a million man!!

sixer9682 said:

Oh shut up already. Bclk of 200 the multiplier is locked. My multiplier is 22; this, of course, will vary depending on the cpu but I have an old I7 920 and that bclk works great for me.

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My bad i thought you said you had the same CPU as well just motherboard. He has an unlocked cpu.

Rain was right though, I said I changed the multiplier when it was the bclk I changed. Just make sure you don't OC your RAM when you OC your CPU-too many variables at once. If you run the RAM under rated speeds, that's fine, but doing that over and the cpu over at the same time is a headache and a half. Also, if you get BSOD or it won't boot to windows, try upping the CPU voltage by pressing the + button at cpu voltage setting in the bios 3 times-it's a good rule of thumb that works for me.