Mickey Shen said:
Thanks for the quick reply mate (Y)
I'm getting very excited LOL but really should wait til 8hours have passed on prime95 torture test. What about my other settings, do they seem alright? from what i've read up, every chip is different, so different set ups work with different chips.
What do you think of my CPU LLC setting being on Medium(25%)? should I change it? I've read up on CPU LLC settings but I find it hard to understand.
BTW my Idle volts were somewhere around 0.800V-0.824V? i think, i forgot
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lol is this normal as well? I'll check after stress test.
Hopefully this set up passes 8hours, if it does am i good to go? should i decrease the volts to get the lowest i possibly can? or just stick with this setup if everything goes well?
&Also if i pass 8hours, should just play around with the computer on idle volts to check if my system is stable on idle volts?
Sorry about the bunch of noob questions lol I'm first time overclocker sooo yeah, please understand me
I'm jealous!
I've just been working on overclocking my i5-3570k recently (but ASRock Z77 Pro 4 board, so a bit of difference to my knowledge set) and your chip seems excellent.
I have trouble with the CPU LLC setting too because I can't really tell when/if it's needed. I think the simplest way I understand it is that as the chip pulls in more power to try to run faster the CPU LLC attempts to make sure the board doesn't let voltage drop too low or "droop".
What that means to me (and more informed people may correct me if I'm wrong) is that say, as the CPU starts ramping up, if it doesn't get enough power fast and steady enough it can fail, especially with an overclock because typically the higher clock demands more power to the chip.
I have the choice of Auto, 100%, 50%, or 0% on my board and as of yet haven't found any impact between 100% vs. 50%, but haven't tried Auto or 0%. I don't see any reason to change it if you're stable.
My chip will run 4.4 GHz at about 1.288 v with pretty reasonable temps, but still need to see if I can fine tune the voltage lower. Yours sounds like it doesn't really want power too bad and you may be able to get a pretty impressive overclock out of it.
Those idle volts are awesomely low, I found good info on the chip's Intel recommended voltage range, but can't find it anymore. I want to say your idle volts are below the low end, but if it is stable at that, I've never read anywhere that undervolting will harm a CPU.
Stress testing length opinions seem to vary pretty widely, but my belief is that 8 hours is pretty stable.
Finding the lowest stable voltage is worth it in my opinion, as I think it's nice to draw less power if you can, it usually means lower temps which equals longer CPU lifespan, it also helps keep lower temps in your machine overall which has benefits to your other components as well.
The idea of checking idle volts is tough in my opinion, because I haven't heard of any way to test it. I think if you boot and are stable in general, and you're not coming back after leaving your machine for long periods to find it crashed, then you're solid.
Sounds like you've got a pretty awesome set up though.