AHowes

Welp.. i tried to raise the cpu vcore to 1.50 in the bios and it report in eleet at 1.52 under load. put the mem timings back to 6,7,6 and Ran Prime95 and it was the first time it ran over 10 minutes. 11 minutes exactly and she blue screened. :(

So i was like what the hell.. i'll give her a tad more juice and set it to 1.5060 i believe and it gave me the black screen at log in.. did that 3 times in a row and i thought.. great it finally screwed up windows. Tried lowering the voltage back down a little but the same. Then just loaded up the stable 4.5Ghz profile and thank god i was able to get back into windows.

Let me add tha tthe temps only went up a whole degree.. so the temps were basicly the same.. low 60s to low 70s on the last core.

AHowes

Agreed.. Well atleast i know what my max is and i'm runing it so i cant rest and finally start to enjoy the rig.

I'll try and hold off on the Sandy bridge untill something better comes along or a bigger mb that will support quad sli hehe.. doubt it.

AHowes

Heres my current settings @ 4.533Ghz:

Mother Board (EVGA X58 Classified 4 Way 762)
Drivers (Latest)
Bios ( 77 )
CPU ( I7-980X ) (dont know where to check)<---- The batch is printed on the retail box and on the top of the processor.
CPU Cooler ( Great water cooling )<---I have good air cooling
Memory ( 12MB 6x2GB Mushkin Redline 1600 )
PSU ( 2x Ultra X4 )
GPU ( EVGA GTX580 Quad SLI )
Drivers ( Latest )
Operating System ( Windows 7 Pro 64 ) < Evga recommends Ultimate


Frequency Control
CPU Clock Ratio ( 34X )
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ( 133 )
MCH Strap ( Auto )
CPU Uncore Frequency (Mhz) ( 2400Mhz {18X} )
CPU Clock Skew ( 0 ps )
IOH Clock Skew ( 0 ps )
Spread Spectrum ( Disabled )
PCIE Frequency (Mhz) ( 100 )
Turbo Performance - ( Disabled ) 


Memory Feature        
Memory Speed ( Standard )
Memory Control Setting ( Enabled )
Memory Frequency ( 1600Mhz / 2:12 )
Channel Interleave Setting ( 6 Way )
Rank Interleave Setting ( 4 Way )
Memory Low Gap ( 2.5G )
tCL Setting ( 6 )
tRCD Setting ( 8 )
tRP Setting ( 6 )
tRAS Setting (Auto ) "29"
tRFC Setting ( Auto ) "88"
Command Rate ( 1t )


Voltage Control
EVGA VDroop Control ( Without VDroop )
CPU VCore ( 1.44375 )
CPU VTT Voltage ( +200mv )
CPU PLL VCore ( 1.845v)
IOH PLL VCore ( 1.845v ) 
QPI PLL VCore ( 1.400 )
DIMM Voltage ( 1.65 )
IOH VCore ( 1.175)
IOH/ICH I/O Voltage ( 1.650v )
ICH VCore ( 1.175v )
NF200 Voltage (Auto) "1.200" 
VTT PWM Frequency ( 490 KHZ )
CPU PWM Frequency ( 1210 KHZ )
CPU Impedance (Auto)  

CPU Feature
Intel SpeedStep ( Disabled )
Turbo Mode Function ( greyed out )
CxE Function ( Disabled )
Execute Disable Bit ( Disabled )
Virtualization Technology ( Disabled )
Intel HT Technology ( Enabled )
Active Processor Cores ( All )
QPI Control Settings ( Enabled )
QPI Link Fast Mode ( Enabled )
QPI Frequency Selection ( 4.800 GT/s )
OC Recorvery ( Disabled )

PnP/PCI     PCI Express
Maximum Payload Size ( 256 )

Please give me some suggestions.. Would obviously love something over 4600.. 4700+ would be sweet.

I've tried going faster but Prime 95 will just lock right away if i go any higher.. I've tried upping the cpu vcore up to 4.7 and that didnt help.. upped the VTT +50 and that did nothing. I've also tried removing a set of ram and just runing it with 6GBs thinking that was forsure what was holding me back and nope! Same thing.  Plus tried lowering the timings to 8,8,8 2T and that didnt make a difference either.

I've run out of ideas but i still believe it should get atleast 4.6Ghz.

AHowes

Welp, i let Prime run for 41 mins and then stopped it and ran Vantage.. and that ran no probs.. Then i try out Heaven at max settings at 1024x768 and what happends at stock GPU speeds?  Yup.. black screen after test 17 of 26. :(

Played with the settings some more and it didnt seem to matter.. Black screen in Heaven.

Once again just points me in the direction that all this is cause i'm runing Quad 580s.  prob tonight i'll dissable one and see what happends to the stability and overclock with Tri-Sli.

AHowes

Yeah thats the one. Off the top of my head i think i set it to 1.225 or something like that.

EleSSaRBLS

It shouldn't matter as far as how many cards you have in, I run vantage and linx at 5.2 with all 4 cards installed. Looks like you have enough wattage to run everything. I was able to go from 5.220 to 5.385 when I dropped all but one card out so there is some gain in it. I would ensure your PCIE load is up to it try 4096 and bump the pcie up to say 102 should be pretty solid there, remember to loosen up those ram timing some also.