- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
Trying to get to 4ghz here with just the multiplier....having troubles breaking 3.6
anyone able to help?
anyone able to help?
-
Welcome to Overclockers Forums! Join us to reply in threads, receive reduced ads, and to customize your site experience!
M5a97 + 960T Help
- Thread starter ripsaw
- Start date
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2012
- Location
- South East Ohio
A lot of questions come to mind. Did you unlock it to 6 cores or are you at 4 cores? Did you up the vcore any? Download and install CPU-z and HWmonitor and post screen shots with the CPU,memory and SPD tabs posted for CPU-z. Then someone will be able to help out more.
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #3
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2012
Other settings -
HTT is set to 2200
CPU-NB is set to 2600 with a very slight voltage bump.
If you decide to unlock, make sure you run prime95 blend for about an hour without anything unlocked and watch the CPU socket temp and core temps with HWmon. There should be a difference (for me, it was about 8 degrees Celsius). This is important, because you will lose your ability to read core temp if you unlock, so you need to calculate the core temps based off of the CPU socket temp.
EDIT: It has just occurred to me that I replied to you thinking you were the OP. Oops, fail on reading comprehension for the day. Oh well, leaving it as it is for the OP's sake.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
Ripsaw, in a PM you asked for my settings to get the 960T to 4.1. Apart from the info I have supplied in the attached pics, here are the rest of the pertinent bios settings:
CPU voltage: 1.49375
DRAM voltage: 1.525
CPUNB volttage:1.225 1.23125
CPU LLC:Normal Auto
CPUNB LLC: disabled
Cool N Quiet, Turbo, and C1E are all disabled. Power Options in Windows Control Panel is set to High Performance
Again, you may not get the same results. I would also advise you to take out 8 gb of ram unless you do stuff like a lot of Photo Shop, CAD, or Audio/video rendering and editing. Most stuff won't benefit from that much ram and it strains the IMC.
Edit: Note the corrections after I actually looked in my bios.
CPU voltage: 1.49375
DRAM voltage: 1.525
CPUNB volttage:
CPU LLC:
CPUNB LLC: disabled
Cool N Quiet, Turbo, and C1E are all disabled. Power Options in Windows Control Panel is set to High Performance
Again, you may not get the same results. I would also advise you to take out 8 gb of ram unless you do stuff like a lot of Photo Shop, CAD, or Audio/video rendering and editing. Most stuff won't benefit from that much ram and it strains the IMC.
Edit: Note the corrections after I actually looked in my bios.
Attachments
Last edited:
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #6
ty for the info will post back with results...i will also take out the gskill sticks
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #7
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #9
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
Well, I just discovered that my system is no longer stable with the 960T at 4.1. Core 3 started dropping out. Degradation over time? Anyway, I lowered it to 4.0 and upped the vcore to 1.5. I'll do some Prime95 longer testing tomorrow but it is at least stable for running Prime for a short test.
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #11
well i got 18 mins out of prime before crash...going to up vcore to 1.5 and try again..i dont think ive ever got this far before, my last board was a cheapo msi with an athlon x3 440- htpc now
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #12
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2004
- Location
- JAX, Mississauna
Morning "trents", it is early out there on the left bank. Have a happy holiday.
Have you gotten "ripsaw" to try a lower memory frequency? He is now failing P95 @4.0Ghz, with 1.5 Vcore.
Have you gotten "ripsaw" to try a lower memory frequency? He is now failing P95 @4.0Ghz, with 1.5 Vcore.
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
It crossed my mind but Thuban core CPUs will generally handle the ram at 1600 mhz. Of course, he's at the high end of overclock for that CPU which might have a bearing on that issue.
Ripsaw, I'd play with the CPUNB voltage a little. Try lowering it to 1.225 and then try raising it to 1.25 and see if that doesn't help. My 960T is very sensitive to CPUNB voltage.
The one thing I don't like about the motherboard he and I are using is that in bios the CPU LLC choices are limited to Enabled, Disabled and Auot (which seems to be the same as Enabled). I'm a little uncomfortable with running vcore at 1.5 24/7 but it needs that to be stable at 4.0 ghz or more.
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #16
cpu-nb is at 1.23125
cpu voltage 1.5
ram voltage 1.5
should i change ram timings?
you guys are saying adjust cpu/nb a lil first?
it ran all night with a torrent going, and it went thru 4 cycles of 3dmark 06 before i went to bed
when i changed the cpu core to 1.5, i also changed the dram back to 1.5 from 1.525....otherwise following your original settings....i dont know much...don't want to blow up my computer, just get it stable at 4.0ghz
if i can get it stable i was going to get a corsair h100 and put it in push/pull....mostly for looks cuz i dont like the big heatsink (a50) in my case
guess ill try lowering cpu/nb like u said first...brb hopefully
EDIT: cpu/nb at 1.225 goin for prime now
EDIT: Crash before 5mins cpu/nb now at 1.2375 going to try again.
EDIT: Crash after 15 mins cpu/nb at 1.2375 going to up one more notch and try again
EDIT: Programs crashing going to set it back to 1.23125 was most stable there....im lost...help! lol
cpu voltage 1.5
ram voltage 1.5
should i change ram timings?
you guys are saying adjust cpu/nb a lil first?
it ran all night with a torrent going, and it went thru 4 cycles of 3dmark 06 before i went to bed
when i changed the cpu core to 1.5, i also changed the dram back to 1.5 from 1.525....otherwise following your original settings....i dont know much...don't want to blow up my computer, just get it stable at 4.0ghz
if i can get it stable i was going to get a corsair h100 and put it in push/pull....mostly for looks cuz i dont like the big heatsink (a50) in my case
guess ill try lowering cpu/nb like u said first...brb hopefully
EDIT: cpu/nb at 1.225 goin for prime now
EDIT: Crash before 5mins cpu/nb now at 1.2375 going to try again.
EDIT: Crash after 15 mins cpu/nb at 1.2375 going to up one more notch and try again
EDIT: Programs crashing going to set it back to 1.23125 was most stable there....im lost...help! lol
Last edited:
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
Okay, I was wrong about one thing in the above post: "Auto" is not the same as "Enabled" for the CPU LLC. It is the same as "Disabled". I'm running some tests now and finding that "Enabled" adds .06 - .07 volts to the CPU core under load and so I expect I'll be able to get away with considerably less baseline voltage for 24/7. Like you, I want to get it stable at 4.0. Stay tuned.
I still wish there were more choices for the LLC.
I still wish there were more choices for the LLC.
OP
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Location
- South Vancouver Island B.C.
- Thread Starter
- #19
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
Okay, notice that I've taken a completely different approack, that is lowering my multiplier and raising the fsb so that I'm overclocking with some of both. I kept reading here and there that people found that they got by with less core voltage when they used the fsb in part to overclock. I never took it seriously but decided to try it. The pics show my results so far. This passes a 20+ minute Prime95 blend run. I'm still lowering the vcore so this isn't settled yet and I will need to do a long blend stress test to arrive at final vcore but it does seem to be making a difference. In bios I'm at 1.4125 and at idle the LLC brings it o about 1.43 in Windows and to about 1.49 under load.
