[Solved] Overclocked my 920 but is it correct?

After messing around with a bad mobo and such I finally got the new system stable, so I decided to overclock. I know pretty much nothing and according to my wife, am a complete idiot sometimes. So there is a possiblity I did it all wrong. I only want to go to 3.6 and I have that. Runs prime 95 stable at 72c. Put is it correct? it works so must be right lol. Mainly I am wondering if the memory is not operating at the right times and such. here are my system parts

Intel 17 920
OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Asus P6t se motherboard
Visiontek 5870
corsair 750 watt psu
Coolermaster Sniper case

In the bios I have these settings.

I set the cpu voltage to 1.25 since I read auto would sometimes provide more than was needed creating more heat. So here is what CPU-Z shows. Without a load it looks like this.




with prime running it looks like this



I thought that I should be seeing 1600mhz under the memory but I am guessing that is not the case and it is based off the multiplier. But if that is the case, is my ram running slower when there is no load on the system? I tried to follow th eI7 overclock guide but some of it did not make sense or match up to the bios I had. So some suggestions would be cool. As I said I just want to hit 3.6 but I would like my ram to run at the correct speed.

Thanks

Your RAM is running at 2 x 574 or 1148. If you want it to run at 1600, you can take your RAM multiplier up to 8, you'll get a speed of 1520. It's not slowing down when your system is not loaded because it's only based on the ram multiplier and the base clock. Your system lowers the cpu multiplier when idle, so this doesn't affect ram speed. I'm not sure how you would achieve 3.6 and 1600 MHz, though. The CPU multiplier is locked, so the base clock has to be moved.

You may want to manually set your DRAM voltage, too. I'm sure the board has safeguards, but you want to have the DRAM voltage be no more than .5 V more than the Uncore voltage. Otherwise, you risk damaging the memory controller. That would be lines 11 and 6 on your first picture.

That's all I know, hope that helped.

I took the settings off the chart. blck 180, dram DR3-1440, the uclk 2880, qpi 6480 and it gives me a speed of 3.78. I guess the ram is then running at 1440 mhz. CPU-z shows


Seems stable for a few runs of prime. Temps in Real temp show max of 85. Idle is 46. This is with a V8 cooler. Are those too high? Speedfan told me 68c for cpu. Seems quite a bit off from real temp.


Thanks for the help guys,.

Try turning off load-line calibration, you should see about ~8C in temps drop.