NEW TO THIS FORUM; GA-Z68XP-UD3P with 2600K questions

I spoke too soon. I just tried to run Prime95 on Blend for 6-7 hours last night, and it crashed with the BSOD code of 0x101. Now I'm back to square one.

Maybe this will help you to understand your board and help with your OC.! AJ.

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genghisquan said:

I spoke too soon. I just tried to run Prime95 on Blend for 6-7 hours last night, and it crashed with the BSOD code of 0x101. Now I'm back to square one.

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You are? Why not add a bit of voltage and try again? That is the name of the overclocking game and all...

EarthDog said:

You are? Why not add a bit of voltage and try again? That is the name of the overclocking game and all...

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I don't know if that'll be safe. I was already hitting 80-82°C when I was at 1.404V with only 10 passes of IBT on Very High mode!

Ahh missed that. Voltage is ok and temps you have a couple of degrees C wiggle room, but, not worth it really.

Yeah, I feel like I've reached the end of the road here. The difference in voltage when I went from 4.2 to 4.4 GHz was roughly 0.015-0.020. The jump in voltage that I would have to make for 4.5 GHz to be stable is far too high. I guess 4.4 GHz will be my stopping point with this 2600K & the NH-D14.

Actually...I got bored yesterday and decided to give this ****in' thing another shot. All I did was added 0.005V to the Dynamic VCore for a total of +0.085V with the VCore still set to "Normal". While under load, the VCore seems to be the same as last time, jumping between 1.380-1.392V, and hitting 1.404V several times.

I got through 10 passes of IBT on Very High Mode, 81ºC max.
Also got through 9 hours of Prime95 Blend, 76ºC max (hovering between 71-74 mostly).

I guess that +0.005V on the Dynamic VCore did the trick. This is most likely stable now, right?

Sonds good to me. How does your programs work?

What do you mean? I haven't played any games with 4.5GHz, but I assume it's fine if it can get past Prime & IBT.

Some times games can give you trouble even if you pass prime95 and IBT.

LOL, OMG...this is the worst. I did another run of Prime on Blend last night for 9-10 hours this time instead. Guess what? BSOD again with BCC Code 0x101. Stability tests should run & be able to pass for AT LEAST 12 hours, right?

Stability test will run 24/7 with stock settings, so it's up to you if you want it to pass 12 hours.

Well, I mean...to make sure that my machine is 100% stable, do I need to run Prime for 24 hours or more?

12 hours was good enough for me.

OK, so about a week ago, I tried to stabilize my 4.5 GHz OC by turning on PLL Overvoltage and setting the PLL voltage to 1.820V. I also changed the Dynamic VCore to +0.095V. It worked. I ran Prime on blend for more than 24 hours with no BSOD. No problems with IBT either.

I don't why the hell I need suuuuuuch high voltages to hold the overclock. I am still unsure whether it's the CPU or the board...or both.

Regardless, I have been plagued with the boot loop issue upon cold boots. I wouldn't get past POST screen, and it would just loop for 4-6 times before getting a successful POST & into Windows. I've tried to change so many settings around, and on several occasions thought I fixed it, but the loop returns in a few days. I've searched around, and sooooooo many people are having the cold boot loop issue on the GA-Z68 boards. No one has any clear solution either. Apparently Gigabyte won't provide any solid fix, so I feel reeeally screwed.

Time for a new board maybe?