fakename

yes, it's a program created by Stanford University to use the worlds computing power (at least those running the program) to basically crunch numbers and map out diseases genetic sequences to try and better understand and hopefully one day combat them.

Got you!
That is why they call it a donation, using your PC life spam and electric for running calculation for them instead of them having PC dedicated on doing it, well that is pretty generous from people to do that, I would like to help too, but can afford to run my PC under load 24/7, the electric bill would kill me, this machine is pretty bad on electric, it use 160W IDLE and 450~600W on gaming, that is why I keep it on sleep at night and when I'm not home to save electric, but I would do it if I could.

fakename

linnear1

hope this isnt too noobish of a question but if i try to push my 2600k past 4.6 i get a machine check error and a restart before windows is supposed to load. my vcore and all other settings are on auto and my temps are fine at 4.6
is this the max for my chip or am i doing something wrong?

switch to manual Vcore. start at 1.25v and work your way up by .01 and you should be able to get a lil higher. most of the 2600k's can hit at least 4.8 before hitting a wall. but that is not a guarantee as every cpu is different. and it also depends much on what voltage you need and what your temps are at full load.

ok i tried manual again, and this is something i noticed before, if manual vcore isnt set at what auto wants it (1.39v = 1.39v) i lose performance in benchmarks even tho i seem stable with the lower v.
also when set to manual at 1.3 or whatever i dont see the v decrease when idle which boosted my idle temp 5c

i overclocked to 4.5ghz and ram at 1866 but bios still shows 1.5v timmings at 9-9-9-24. booted into windows, but i worried, do i need to increase the vvcio voltage to 1.1v?

fakename

Little Sister

i overclocked to 4.5ghz and ram at 1866 but bios still shows 1.5v timmings at 9-9-9-24. booted into windows, but i worried, do i need to increase the vvcio voltage to 1.1v?

increasing the vccio won't change how things are displayed if that is your issue, it does help to stabilize if you are getting no posts, bsods, or hardlocks related to memory.

i'm assuming you set the memory manually timings manually and manual DIMM voltage to 1650?

no i left the ram at 1.5 since auto did that, i assumed it would run, but on testing linx it stopped.
 
is it better to overclock the cpu first then deal with ram?

i did everything in this thread as far as what to enable and disable.i am trying to run 45 multi at 1.325v to see what happens then i will go up or down from there. target is 4.5ghz and at least 1866mhz ram and all stable of course.

Lvcoyote

Your overclocking will be limited some because you have all the memory slots occupied which puts more of a strain on the CPU.  I'm at 4.5Ghz for my daily clock and I haven't touched VCCIO from the stock setting, but I only have 2 sticks of memory installed.

hmm so 2 sticks would be better is that right?
i will remove 2 sticks and see how things go.
 
i tried upping the vvcio to 1.1v to see what would happen and nothing. fail
 
i tried 45multi at 1.35v
ram at 1.65v 1866 timmings 9-9-9-24 and fail.
 
linx fails after first pass.
 
???

its weird cause all 4 slots last night were good to go.
 
40multi 1.3v
1600mhz ram at 1.5v 8-8-8-24
 
stable

So?? tonight your trying a 45 multi......LOL  Last night was a different clock speed.

Lvcoyote

So?? tonight your trying a 45 multi......LOL  Last night was a different clock speed.

well i was stable at 4ghz now im trying for 4.5ghz? but ram was 1600mhz stable with all four sticks. trying for higher on both...lol
whats wrong with that?
 

Nothing is wrong with trying to get better speeds, but you said it didnt make any sense because you were stable at slower speeds....... it makes perfect sence, the more speed you want the harder it's going to get to get there.

No each bank is for each channel of dual channel memory operation.  If your going to try 2 sticks they need to be in slots 1 & 3, slot one is assigned to bank a and slot 3 is assigned to bank b.

I suggested w/o vdroop as well, thats what I always run.

Even though people say we'll burn our CPU's up????....LMAO! Every motherboard I have ever owned that had a vdroop option in BIOS was always set to w/o vdroop...... never cooked anything yet!

OK so i left my ram at stock/default which is 1066 at 7-7-7-20 1.5v
and started my cpu overclock to find stable and highest within temp range. what im finding is strange is the my gflops in linx last night on a non stable oc...lol were 57 now the 46 and dropping each test.
Im trying 45 multi at 1.3v first. is my low ram settings affecting this score at all? (gflops in linx)
 
also cpu-z is not reading my voltage right...lol i assume its a bug. i have the latest version i think.
 
and if the ram is not a factor in the gflops performance then i imagine my vcore is to low then? any help would be great thankyou. just want to be sure it may be to low of a vcore giving crappy gflop results and not the low ram speeds. or if it is the low ram speeds would it raise when i address my ram?
 
here a screen shot of what i saw.
 
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/littlesisterevga/OC1.png
 

Looks good to me, the gflop fluctuation is normal and not that wild.