EVGA_JacobF
Here is a quick overclocking guide for the EVGA X99 motherboards! Overclocking these boards are similar to Z97, so if you are familiar there, you should be familiar here  Regardless, here is a really quick/easy guide for basic overclocking on EVGA X99.
 
Hardware used:
EVGA X99 Classified
Intel 5820K CPU
DDR4 2133MHz

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?

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.

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
 

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