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X58 has me baffled.. please help.

I sit at work right now thinking over what I have tried and it is truly astonishing as to the level at which i have gone to achieve stability with little success.

I can run 20x 200 with HT without turbo.... if i enable turbo it will not pass testing or will bsod on boot.

i can run turbo at 191x19 and get a lil over 4.0 ghz...

to run 200x20 i need vcore at 1.36 vtt/qpi at 1.412 just to run stable

can only run ram at 1600 mhz, and uncore at 3200 any higher and she has a fit.

if i set the ram at the default 2000 mhz even at looser timings it wont boot.

as soon as i get home i will post bios template... just trying to get ideas here

same issue with 2 cpu's btw so that tells me that its probably me making the error.

BIOS settings will help for sure, you raising PCI-E as you rais Bclock?

I ran mine at 110MHz with my W3540, which was good up to 5.3GHz

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Originally Posted by Gunslinger (Post 15431)

BIOS settings will help for sure, you raising PCI-E as you rais Bclock?

I ran mine at 110MHz with my W3540, which was good up to 5.3GHz

ive ran mine up to 103... tahts another issue is if i go above 103.... to 104 or 105 it wont post

GAH

Going to have to keep my eye on this thread, will update with my success/fail on the x58 platinum I got. Chipset runs REAL hot. First time I have needed a fan on a chipset cooler in YEARS.

neuro the msi boards have horrible TIM applications.... it is like thermal epoxy for hardness. get that off of there and re tim, and you should be much better...

as for the issues, im hoping to test some tonight

Are you running on Air or the Phase ?

You most likely need a bit more vcore.

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Originally Posted by Buckeye (Post 15445)

Are you running on Air or the Phase ?

You most likely need a bit more vcore.

water.... i dont have an air cooler....

i will definitely push the voltages tonight... i know taht the QPI/VTT voltage is kinda strange at 1.45-1.475 will cause the computer to just restart...

but I will try more vcore... i was just expecting a D0 to not need a buncha volts for 200x20 and 1.36 seems high to me... am i wrong?

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Here is another sweet overclock, if your motherboard will be capable:

Bclock = 200

920 = x18-20 = 3600-4000 mhz (within safe vcore limits, air coolable)
940 = x18-22 = 3600-4400 mhz (vcore at limits for >4000, only water coolable)

200 Bclock x18 QPI = 3600 mhz > 7.2 G/s (motherboard better have balls for this)
200 Bclock x16 Uncore = 3200 mhz (good for DDR3-1600, raise VTT at own risk for more)

Guess it was the QPI/VTT voltage I saw about passing 220 Bclcok.

Interesting to note the comment made on the QPI speed.

Check the number of phases your mobo supplies for VTT, it uses 30W at STOCK. Some mobos are pushing 4 phases for this at least 2 would be necessary i think.

Dunno if I have a messed up bios or not, I set 21x multi on mine and hit 4.2 pretty easily, never saw it drop to 4GHz for wprime either...(tried 4 8 and 16 threads in wp also, 8 works best :) 2 seconds faster than 4 threads, 16 threads was .5 seconds slower than 8 threads)
4.2 WAS NOT STABLE THOUGH, found out I was running my mem at almost 2000 MHz LOL at 1.65 volts :p not bad for $50 tri channel ram :)

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Originally Posted by Neuromancer (Post 15447)

hmmm tahts quite interesting... i will be looking into this for sure... maybe im just being volt happy enough i guess?

With a D0 1.3-1.4V on the VTT should be plenty.

And stick with odd multi's when clocking, they seem to be much more stable than even numbers.