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Hello Everyone,
A while ago I decided to do a very mild overclock on my PC's CPU, from 3.9 GHz stock to 4.4 GHz. This increase didn't even warrant an increase of the CPU's voltage.
However, I wanted to do it better this time and to do a more dramatic overclock to gain more performance from my CPU so I can use it longer and better prepare my system for the upcoming more intense games, especially open world titles such as Grand Theft Auto V and Borderlands: The Pre Sequel (not a demanding game, I know, but for some reason BL2 gave me strange lag issues which I suspect was due to large draw distances taking a toll on my CPU. Even though I got consistent 60FPS in Skyrim with max render distance... who knows).
Anyways, I currently have the CM Hyper 212 Plus air cooler and a midrange motherboard, so I know that I cannot push the overclock too far. I aim to reach 4.6 GHz, which seems pretty reasonable to me since I know a few people who have reached the same clockspeed with the same cooling and on FX-8320 and 8350's, and in one case with an 8350 on an M5A97 LE R2.0, which is supposedly an even worse board for OC than mine, and he still got it stable at 4.6 GHz, so I think I should be fine. If you suspect otherwise however, please let me know so I don't blow something up.
The whole reason I am creating this thread is because I have a question about the Load Line Calibration (LLC) on my motherboard. On my 4.4 OC, I had both CPU LLC and CPU/NB LLC were enabled. In an interest of garnering lower temperatures and overall having lower voltage to get a cooler and longer lasting overclocked PC, I tested my stock overclock with both settings set to auto. However, almost immediately in my P95 test (remember, this OC was stable for over 7 months with the same exact settings minus LLC), one of my cores failed and I noticed in CPU-Z that my voltage was fluctuating all over the place, thankfully mostly way below the threshold I had set. I immediately reverted to enabling both LLCs and redid the test and it came back with no failed cores and stable, although the voltage had risen from my manually set 1.380 volts to 1.404 for most of the test.
I have used the guides http://www.overclock.net/t/1348623/amd-bulldozer-and-piledriver-overclocking-guide-asus-motherboard at this website, which seems to be pretty good (although I did have to do some research and went against a few things on here), and they have different settings for CPU LLC (they recommend high, I only have Disabled, Enabled, and Auto). They have a recommendation for my MoBo that if I have issues with LLC enabled, just leave the settings to auto, however I have no issues with enabled and the issues occur with Auto!
One thing I have not tried yet is leaving CPU LLC to Enabled and have just CPU/NB set to auto, should I try that? What should I do? Leave both enabled? Thanks for any help, I'm a bit nervous with all of this stuff.
Hello Everyone,
A while ago I decided to do a very mild overclock on my PC's CPU, from 3.9 GHz stock to 4.4 GHz. This increase didn't even warrant an increase of the CPU's voltage.
However, I wanted to do it better this time and to do a more dramatic overclock to gain more performance from my CPU so I can use it longer and better prepare my system for the upcoming more intense games, especially open world titles such as Grand Theft Auto V and Borderlands: The Pre Sequel (not a demanding game, I know, but for some reason BL2 gave me strange lag issues which I suspect was due to large draw distances taking a toll on my CPU. Even though I got consistent 60FPS in Skyrim with max render distance... who knows).
Anyways, I currently have the CM Hyper 212 Plus air cooler and a midrange motherboard, so I know that I cannot push the overclock too far. I aim to reach 4.6 GHz, which seems pretty reasonable to me since I know a few people who have reached the same clockspeed with the same cooling and on FX-8320 and 8350's, and in one case with an 8350 on an M5A97 LE R2.0, which is supposedly an even worse board for OC than mine, and he still got it stable at 4.6 GHz, so I think I should be fine. If you suspect otherwise however, please let me know so I don't blow something up.
The whole reason I am creating this thread is because I have a question about the Load Line Calibration (LLC) on my motherboard. On my 4.4 OC, I had both CPU LLC and CPU/NB LLC were enabled. In an interest of garnering lower temperatures and overall having lower voltage to get a cooler and longer lasting overclocked PC, I tested my stock overclock with both settings set to auto. However, almost immediately in my P95 test (remember, this OC was stable for over 7 months with the same exact settings minus LLC), one of my cores failed and I noticed in CPU-Z that my voltage was fluctuating all over the place, thankfully mostly way below the threshold I had set. I immediately reverted to enabling both LLCs and redid the test and it came back with no failed cores and stable, although the voltage had risen from my manually set 1.380 volts to 1.404 for most of the test.
I have used the guides http://www.overclock.net/t/1348623/amd-bulldozer-and-piledriver-overclocking-guide-asus-motherboard at this website, which seems to be pretty good (although I did have to do some research and went against a few things on here), and they have different settings for CPU LLC (they recommend high, I only have Disabled, Enabled, and Auto). They have a recommendation for my MoBo that if I have issues with LLC enabled, just leave the settings to auto, however I have no issues with enabled and the issues occur with Auto!
One thing I have not tried yet is leaving CPU LLC to Enabled and have just CPU/NB set to auto, should I try that? What should I do? Leave both enabled? Thanks for any help, I'm a bit nervous with all of this stuff.
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