New system thanks to Thrax
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
Well I set out to update my system a few weeks ago to a new intel i7 & well I did. I sent Thrax a friendly Tweet & got a great response with links to some great hardware. It sucks not being on the forefront of what is going on these days, but it is always nice to know friends at Icrontic can always point you in the right direction.
Now just to OC the heck out of the system...
Now just to OC the heck out of the system...
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Glad it worked!
So... I booted that number to come and find it dropped the clock rate on the CPU to 2.0GHz & the ram jumped to 1330? but when I went to reload the system kept saying missing Hard Drive can't boot into Windows.
Yeah that makes no sense...
i think having the multiplier on Auto was not what I wanted. It looks like I need 166x20
I am quickly remembering why I stopped OC'ing...
Set the CPU multi to 20, memory to 10, bclock to 150MHz, set the memory timings to 8/8/8 and set the VDIMM to 1.65v.
So still not booting past the "Starting Windows"
Turbo mode
EIST
SpeedStep
C1E
VT/Virtualization
Some may not apply here.
Unfortunately for performance heatsinks everywhere, they all require you to mount a backplate and reinstall the motherboard. There are some good choices, though:
Thermolab BARAM
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme
Prolimatech Megahalem
Thermalright IFX-14
OCZ Gladiator MAX
It comes with a thermal paste you should try too, i was impress
It's not a over-the-top-extreme-overclock-heatsink (lol) but for a good OC (~3.8Ghz) at cool temps for silence-lover its a very good choice, i got one and im very please with it so far.
The only downside is its size (with 2 fans on it its LARGE) and the color of the fans that are not for everyone But if you have some light in the case the fans look much better
My cpu run at 36C idle / 59C maximum temp onload at 3.8Ghz with this cooler.
at 4.0Ghz it goes up to 79C maximum temp onload.
I am not sure what issue i am running into in OC'ing it currently... it is either voltage issues or memory... maybe i can pick Thrax's & Ryder's brains for more dialed in settings.
you should get to 3.8Ghz very easily at ~60-65C max temp