SOLVED Somewhat advanced knowledge in PCs, new to OC

[pzykotik]

His location is right under his avatar.

Oh I see. Still, I doubt weather would be reliable in any way, unless it's very effing cold all the time.

 

[pzykotik]

Better res (I think) pics of my rig. If it's still grainy, well that's that for now.

Note to self: must get a new camera. The phone takes ****ty pictures.

 

[tungureanu]

Better res (I think) pics of my rig. If it's still grainy, well that's that for now.

Note to self: must get a new camera. The phone takes ****ty pictures.

i only need 2 days of -10c and i can die happy

 

[pzykotik]

i only need 2 days of -10c and i can die happy

(getting off topic a bit, will OC soon enough, probably around this weekend, too busy to work on this on the week)

Huh? Explain

 

[BeepBeep2]

(getting off topic a bit, will OC soon enough, probably around this weekend, too busy to work on this on the week)

Huh? Explain

"Effing cold"...
(CPU can go faster, the colder it is)
"only 2 days of -10c, die happy"
(Benchmark everything in 2 days of -10c, a weekend, where you go outside with the computer like a true extremist and overclock it)

Unless he actually means that he doesn't like -10c weather...

 

[pzykotik]

Hm, I figured he meant going outside with the PC, I just didn't thought of it as an actual way of doing it. Like plugging your rig outside, with the heatsink and the fan, just everything on, like usual, and overclock there at -10c just to check how far you can go?

 

[pzykotik]

New pics at night.

First is the front intake /w air filter

Last is throught the back, the fan you see is on the GPU

 

[trents]

pzykotik, is there some point to all these pics? How can we help you?

 

[pzykotik]

The only point is that I'll be starting OC about tonight as I couldn't spare any time at all this week, and thought I'd post some more pics.

 

[pzykotik]

Okay, so I'm starting this.

First thing, find the FSB limit while keeping the CPU speed as close as stock speed as possible.

 

[trents]

But you will also have to keep the HT Link and the NB/CPUNB and the ram at or below stock as well since the other frequencies are tuned to the FSB and will grow as it grows. Why are you doing this when you have a black edition CPU?

 

[pzykotik]

Wha... Black Edition? I don't think so...

 

[trents]

In your Sig you say you have an FX-4100 CPU. All the FX's have unlocked multipliers. No need to fool with the FSB to overclock and make it more difficult than need be.

 

[pzykotik]

Oh... Okay then. So... I'll ask simply: what is the first step I should do. ONE thing at the time, unless needed.

 

[trents]

Go into bios and start advancing the CPU multiplier in .5x increments.

Leave everything else at stock for now.

In Windows, make sure you have HWMonitor open on the desktop before and during each 20 minute stress test using the Prime95 blend test.

Run the stress test and monitor for temps like that after each .5x multiplier increase until you fail the test.

Failure means either: 1. A Prime95 core worker drops out, 2. BSOD, 3. spontaneous system restart or 4. Windows locks up.

When that happens, restart the machine, go into bios and add .025 volts to the CPU to stabilize. Repeat the stress testing/temp monitoring cycle.

As you begin to add voltage to the CPU you will note that temps in HWMonitor begin to rise.

Watch 1. Core temps (you don't want them to exceed 60c) and 2. CPU temps (you don't want them to exceed 70c).

Only add more CPU voltage when you encounter instability in the stress testing.

Report back at some point with results of where you have gotten to.

 

[pzykotik]

-Got the multi up to 19.5x (3900mhz) until BSOD.

-Got the CPU voltage up to 1.5v

At those stats, once windows botted up, I had 5 short beeps, BSOD, then boot, one long beep, and I put everything back to stock so I could report this.

Wth?

 

[trents]

What were your core and CPU temps running?

 

[pzykotik]

Coulnd't get a print screen, IIRC 10c cores, 38c CPU (10c cores is more accurate, CPU most likely isn't)

 

[trents]

Coulnd't get a print screen, IIRC 10c cores, 38c CPU (10c cores is more accurate, CPU most likely isn't)

Is that under Prime95 stress testing at 3.9 ghz and 1.5v? 10c would be colder than ambient temp unless you have the computer in a frozen meat locker.

 

[pzykotik]

No, I couldn't run Prime 95 at these settings. I've had the 5 beeps at windows loading screen, then it rebooted itself, then I had one long beep, so I went in BIOS right away and set everything back to default.