Xeon 1230v3 overclocking to 4ghz

ACzech

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Dear Tom's Hardware,
I bought the Intel Xeon 1230v3. I wanted some powerful and reliable CPU which i would use in rendering videos or just playing the newer games which i own, for example BF3. Many people told me that I must be moron, when i want overclock this CPU. Because i knew about this site as long as well, i've come here to get some experiences and help.
Can i overclock this CPU to the 4Ghz? I'm using the Gelio Transquillo rev2 as a cooling and i've got the ASRock Pro3 Z87. (1150). My friend told me, that oveclocking without the “K“ is harder than with it, so i have to use the FSB method.
I totally don't know how could i use this metod. Suddenly, I've been warned that with raising freq. of bus, will raise freq. of Ram too. And due that, the voltage should be changed to prevent the BSoD. The RAMs which I'm currently using are Kingstone 8GB XPN Black Series, 1,5v , 1600mhz. As you can see, my English ain't one of the best around but i didn't found any tutorials at Youtube, not even with OCing the Xeon at all. Maybe I'm asking alot but, who asks alot, learns alot. To sum up this all: It's possible to get on 4Ghz, if yes, what voltage on RAMs should i use, to run with 100% stability? Thanks for every pointfull reply.
 
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want your data to go faster..............get the fastest ram your mb will support. think mine ( asrock ) was 2600. I haven't tried to overclock my 1230. but if I did I would lower the multiplier on the cpu and get the ram running as fast as possible. but before doing that I would lower my voltages ( on cpu and ram ( new ram ) to see how low they both would function normally at the lowest voltages possible. then I would work on the ram in this instance. raising the fsb and not raising the voltage until I had to. same with the cpu. you might be able to get a really fast data swap at lower than "stock" voltage.

CTurbo

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No. I very seriously doubt it. Intel LGA1150 motherboards don't like fsb overclocking. You'll be lucky to get more than 103mhz

You do know that the e3-1230v2 is Ivy Bridge right? Socket 1155
The e3-1230v3 is the Haswell socket 1150
 

ACzech

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But its possible to get there?

I just want to reach this point, because I'm curious. Don't be, um.... insulted by my foolish mind but, i would really appreciate if you could write down, at least some short points how to "overclock it by using FSB", step by step...
 

RobCrezz

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Non K ivy parts usually can set with multiplyer 4 bins higher than stock, but as yours is Haswell I believe they have removed this. You could try raising the BCLK number in the bios, will be 100 as stock, but you can try 101 102 103 etc, go up in small increments, but you wont see huge gains.
 
want your data to go faster..............get the fastest ram your mb will support. think mine ( asrock ) was 2600. I haven't tried to overclock my 1230. but if I did I would lower the multiplier on the cpu and get the ram running as fast as possible. but before doing that I would lower my voltages ( on cpu and ram ( new ram ) to see how low they both would function normally at the lowest voltages possible. then I would work on the ram in this instance. raising the fsb and not raising the voltage until I had to. same with the cpu. you might be able to get a really fast data swap at lower than "stock" voltage.
 
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