AWESOME WORK Sarge! :-bd And the honest truth is, you could go up quite a bit from there on the clocks even if you ever want to - 40C range is nothing for that CPU. AMD's recommended max temp for your CPU is 62C and max socket temp of 68C. ;)
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AWESOME WORK Sarge! :-bd And the honest truth is, you could go up quite a bit from there on the clocks even if you ever want to - 40C range is nothing for that CPU. AMD's recommended max temp for your CPU is 62C and max socket temp of 68C. ;)
Most excellent results Sarge! Congrats.
No sooner did I get where I wanted I'm back to square one....
I can do profiles on the BIOS to switch settings so I made a profile for the overclocked settings and made a profile for all the energy saving features turned on. Somewhere I must've made a goof because now windows will not boot at all. I make it all the way to the log in screen and it blue screens or sometimes doesn't even make it to the log in screeen. After reboot it suggests doing a Boot repair and says something along the effect that I've changed out hardware again. Considering I only changed BIOS settings I'm a little confused to say the least why this is happening.
Turned the computer off for the night and will try and boot it during lunch today and see what happens if I go back to the overclocked profile.
Most likely a RAM error with the blue screen - is there a quick way to set your RAM profile back to AUTO or something like that in the BIOS? Make sure that the RAM speed is not going up with your O/C on the CPU! ;) Only change the CPU multiplier to start.
I was thinking along the same track with the ram settings. I've been adjusting them since I got the cpu up to the speed I wanted. The funny thing is I changed the clock on the cpu but kept the timings the same on the ram when I turned on the power saving features. I did decrease the power to the ram though which it brings it down to 1.35v instead of the 1.5 I had it at for the overclock settings. If that is the cause of my problems it will be a quick fix.
Just would be really surprised since I did not over clock the ram at all other then forcing the ram's own timings on itself and giving it the full charge.
Oh yeah, it could easily be the voltage on the RAM, good thinking! :) I'd put it back at 1.5V, because that is the nominal voltage for DDR3. Some can run as low as 1.35V and some as high as 1.65V as their "normal" from the factory, but honestly I'd be surprised if it didn't need closer to 1.5V for 24/7 crunching. Depending on the project you're running (or things like Prime95) sometimes they really slam the data in and out of RAM to the CPU - this is very unlike normal people's computer usage which barely tasks your rig at all.
Guess that's just a long winded way of saying, even if it says 1.35V on the RAM itself, it probably needs at least 1.5V for crunching. I think I even run mine at 1.65V, but I have them O/Ced a bit. ;)
The tower is up and running :D.
Put the ram on auto and it clocked it way down below spec 3:10 9,9,9,24,33 at 668.9mhz :( and I need to check the power supplied and this evening do some tweeking to my profiles so I can have the energy efficiant profile run like it should...instead of blue screen :D
Sarge, try putting it manually on 9-9-9-24 and 1600 manually. That's what it should run at. Give at least 1.5V as well.
Unless you go the more expensive one - 8-8-8-24?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20148655-L020A
The memory that I purchased, and yes, it runs fine on the 8,8,8,24 settings at 1.5V. I just ran into the blue screen issue when I tried to drop the power for the power save profile. The ram specifies that it can run 1.35V but I don't think its stable enough at the 8,8,8, 24 settings to do so despite the packaging saying it does :(
Sarge, please don't worry about the 1.35V, that's crazy low at those timings! ;) It will run perfect at 1.5V and that is some SWEET RAM you have, the timings are awesome. It won't hardly save you even a few cents per month to run the RAM at 1.35V vs 1.5V either - it's not like lowering the V on a GPU, which would save something worth worrying about. :P hehe...well, enjoy the awesome stuff you've got, should be able to put up some great numbers! I'll bet you can easily hit 4.7 to 5GHz with that CPU too. Wink, wink, nudge nudge. ;)