I had this thing up to 4.9 gig but stopped volts was nuts, Im on water
my reg oc is 4.63 and ram is mid 27's I forget the numbers im on my x58 rig LOL

jokke
Will you guys  Send the MB to EU soon,  Like  Norway dosent have them Neither sweden or denmark

Cause I will gladly order a MB from my contry  Norway

Hello from a Norske transplant to the USA.

corndogg18
Is the voltage offset not adding up on the BIOS side? Or is this in Windows? Perhaps you know this already, but since you are @4.5Ghz have you turned Vdroop off? I have the same chip with the Classified board, and 4.5Ghz is about all I can get out of it, and I need about 1.380V to do it. I am sure there are other settings you can play with and start dropping the voltage and testing stability. Perhaps the RING voltage others mention can help stabilize the OC. As far as the offset, I am also confused. I had played with that a bit, and realized it jumped around on me a bit. You would think BASE + Offset voltage would add up and be correct. Perhaps there is another variable in the mix?

I'm also using the RipJaws Series 4, how are they working out for you? Haven't been impressed with memory benchmarks thus far but I just built the system so working things out.

Scarlet-Tech
I am not sure. I have spent the past week fighting. The classified is getting returned to Amazon when it arrives, the micro dropped a DIMM slot and will go back to RMA, and I am moving on to a different brand that is publicly attempting to help the people who have invested. EVGA's lack of help and acknowledgement of what is going on is enough to stop me from wasting more time and money on these boards.

My ooohhh my,just saw this post.Scarlet I wondered if the Extreme was your 1st choice,now I know.

1sthurricane

Scarlet-Tech
I am not sure. I have spent the past week fighting. The classified is getting returned to Amazon when it arrives, the micro dropped a DIMM slot and will go back to RMA, and I am moving on to a different brand that is publicly attempting to help the people who have invested. EVGA's lack of help and acknowledgement of what is going on is enough to stop me from wasting more time and money on these boards.

My ooohhh my,just saw this post.Scarlet I wondered if the Extreme was your 1st choice,now I know.

No, I definitely didn't even consider the V Extreme. I love the look of the board, and may get one later in life.

I've tried just about every scenario I could find and have gotten nowhere. I can get to 3.9 with the multiplier, have seen 4.14 and 4.5, there is something I'm missing, or should I be cranking up the voltage, which doesn't make sense from what I've read so far.
 
5960x  FTW X99 Kingston Hyper X 2800 mhz, Win7 Ult 64 bit, EK gold block, D5 Vario pump, with 2 480 rads atm only cooling the chip. I find it hard to think that it doesn't cool well enough when in idle it sits at 27-28 C.
 
I'm certain it's user error, but at this point I'm tired of beating my head against the wall. Might chip the paint,...lol
 
I've tried your settings, as well. I believe it's user inexperience, when I get to 4.5 it crashes when trying to test it using 3D Mark. I haven't been able to get past 3.8 since.
 
I believe I'm on the right track, just need to find the missing/overlooked setting/adjustment.
 
Rest of the system: Kingston E 50 240gb raid 1   EVGA 980 SC ACX....   Raptor drive for benching 1tb Black for storage and backup. Corsair AX 1200 LG Blu Ray, and I've changed the case exhaust to much higher cfms, as well as another to bring in extra air.
 
The case is the Lian Li PC V2120. Awesome case, modular, removable mobo tray, all aluminum... It dwarfs the HAF X 1st gen.
 
I'm still pretty new to ocing but got the 3960 to 5 ghz and the 4960 to 4.8, so I'm not totally green, but eyes are going to fall out if I read much more...
 
From what I can c so far, my multiplier isn't functioning at all. I set it to 40, boot up and cpu z says it's 30. Same thing many times no matter where I set it, though it work a cpl of times. RMA???
 
If I can get 4.5, 4.1 when the multiplier works but then won't at all....something isn't right. I did update the Bios.
 
FF
 

fishingfanatic
I've tried just about every scenario I could find and have gotten nowhere. I can get to 3.9 with the multiplier, have seen 4.14 and 4.5, there is something I'm missing, or should I be cranking up the voltage, which doesn't make sense from what I've read so far.
 
5960x  FTW X99 Kingston Hyper X 2800 mhz, Win7 Ult 64 bit, EK gold block, D5 Vario pump, with 2 480 rads atm only cooling the chip. I find it hard to think that it doesn't cool well enough when in idle it sits at 27-28 C.
 
I'm certain it's user error, but at this point I'm tired of beating my head against the wall. Might chip the paint,...lol
 
I've tried your settings, as well. I believe it's user inexperience, when I get to 4.5 it crashes when trying to test it using 3D Mark. I haven't been able to get past 3.8 since.
 
I believe I'm on the right track, just need to find the missing/overlooked setting/adjustment.
 
Rest of the system: Kingston E 50 240gb raid 1   EVGA 980 SC ACX....   Raptor drive for benching 1tb Black for storage and backup. Corsair AX 1200 LG Blu Ray, and I've changed the case exhaust to much higher cfms, as well as another to bring in extra air.
 
The case is the Lian Li PC V2120. Awesome case, modular, removable mobo tray, all aluminum... It dwarfs the HAF X 1st gen.
 
I'm still pretty new to ocing but got the 3960 to 5 ghz and the 4960 to 4.8, so I'm not totally green, but eyes are going to fall out if I read much more...
 
From what I can c so far, my multiplier isn't functioning at all. I set it to 40, boot up and cpu z says it's 30. Same thing many times no matter where I set it, though it work a cpl of times. RMA???
 
If I can get 4.5, 4.1 when the multiplier works but then won't at all....something isn't right. I did update the Bios.
 
FF
 

You disabled boost didn't you lol.  X58 habit I also followed through with first time, turn it back on if off, it's needed.  Just disable cstates and set performance mode in OS if you want full speed all the time and more stability at high clocks.  If you didn't disable boost, it's just the cpu down clocking at idle with little load that you're seeing.  Most cpu's will see 4.4ghz+ near 1.300v.  I needed 1.350v for 4500 on my 5960x.  Your cpu vin needs about 0.600v higher than vcore, so set near 1.900v and try to tune it down.  Leave ring on stock frequency, and auto voltage to start.

Where the hell is the llc adjustment made????? An owner's manual would've been nice to have, I might have been able to find the llc with an owner's manual.
 
 
FF

fishingfanatic
Where the hell is the llc adjustment made????? An owner's manual would've been nice to have, I might have been able to find the llc with an owner's manual.
 
 
FF

Just go in middle 'advanced' tab and cpu options.  Make sure boost is on.  Set OS to performance mode to always see the full frequency in windows, otherwise you need to put it under load to see it clock up fully.  I believe the llc is just the cpu vdroop on overclock tab.  I just left on auto, which handles it by frequency, and hasn't been a problem past 4500mhz.  You can disable it if you keep getting instability past 4500.  I just left the fivr options enabled also, no issues.

Viking396

corndogg18
Is the voltage offset not adding up on the BIOS side? Or is this in Windows? Perhaps you know this already, but since you are @4.5Ghz have you turned Vdroop off? I have the same chip with the Classified board, and 4.5Ghz is about all I can get out of it, and I need about 1.380V to do it. I am sure there are other settings you can play with and start dropping the voltage and testing stability. Perhaps the RING voltage others mention can help stabilize the OC. As far as the offset, I am also confused. I had played with that a bit, and realized it jumped around on me a bit. You would think BASE + Offset voltage would add up and be correct. Perhaps there is another variable in the mix?

I'm also using the RipJaws Series 4, how are they working out for you? Haven't been impressed with memory benchmarks thus far but I just built the system so working things out.

Sorry, didn't see your post. I am still playing around  a lot with the settings. I haven't really tried to push the RAM much. Been focusing more on the CPU and trying to get the voltage down when running at 4.5Ghz. It would be nice to tweak settings so vcore is around 1.3V and no more. I think with the right CPU VIN and Ring Voltage this could maybe be done, along with a nice adaptive offset. However, I see you are going more High FSB and lower multi to achieve a nice OC. How is that going? What have you found to be better? Leave BCLK at stock and go high multi, or jack up BCLK and increase multi a little?