I've just got a 4670k and Asus Z97-A. I've disabled ASUS MultiCore Enhancement and CPU Spread Spectrum (there's also a VRM Spread Spectrum under DIGI+ VRM, should I disable that as well?). My 2x2GB Crucial Ballistix which is rated [email protected] won't boot at that at the moment, so I've set it to [email protected] and will worry about that once I get the rest sorted.
Vcore and Cache voltage to 1.25v manual, CPU and Cache Multipliers to 46: booted to the BIOS but hung at the Windows 8 boot screen
Dropped both Multipliers to 45:
booted to Windows but I got an error loading Maxxmemm Preview '03780 Mbytes is not a valid integer value' (it also couldn't show the NB/Cache Freq. and I couldn't start the Benchmark) and then locked up when I started Aida64 Stability Test.
Dropped both Multipliers to 44:
same thing happened with Maxxmemm and Aida64.
Dropped Cache multi to 35:
stable with Aida64, albeit after 5 minutes core temps are 71 (core 3), 74 (core 2) and 80 (core 1 and 2). I currently have the stock fan on the Hyper 212 Evo, the two stock case fans on the NZXT Source 530, one rear and one top exhaust. I'm going to remove the top fan and seal the top off, replace the other two fans with quieter Scythe ones and put an intake on the front but I'm not sure whether that will reduce temps or just reduce noise and increase temps.
Raised Cache Multiplier to 38 (default) and dropped both Core and Cache voltage to 1.225v:
stable and temperatures about 5-10c lower.
So I'm just wondering where I could take it now. I'm not interested in an extra 100Mhz if it will come at the cost of much higher voltage and temperatures but if I can raise the CPU, Cache or both maybe 200Mhz whilst avoiding those , that would be great.
I'd also like to get my RAM working at least at the specced 1600Mhz, [email protected], once I've finished with the rest. I play a lot of ArmA3 and it's been shown that it's heavily affected by RAM speed, so the faster I can push it the better, although maybe I'll be better off keeping it at a lower Mhz but tighter timings?
Vcore and Cache voltage to 1.25v manual, CPU and Cache Multipliers to 46: booted to the BIOS but hung at the Windows 8 boot screen
Dropped both Multipliers to 45:
booted to Windows but I got an error loading Maxxmemm Preview '03780 Mbytes is not a valid integer value' (it also couldn't show the NB/Cache Freq. and I couldn't start the Benchmark) and then locked up when I started Aida64 Stability Test.
Dropped both Multipliers to 44:
same thing happened with Maxxmemm and Aida64.
Dropped Cache multi to 35:
stable with Aida64, albeit after 5 minutes core temps are 71 (core 3), 74 (core 2) and 80 (core 1 and 2). I currently have the stock fan on the Hyper 212 Evo, the two stock case fans on the NZXT Source 530, one rear and one top exhaust. I'm going to remove the top fan and seal the top off, replace the other two fans with quieter Scythe ones and put an intake on the front but I'm not sure whether that will reduce temps or just reduce noise and increase temps.
Raised Cache Multiplier to 38 (default) and dropped both Core and Cache voltage to 1.225v:
stable and temperatures about 5-10c lower.
So I'm just wondering where I could take it now. I'm not interested in an extra 100Mhz if it will come at the cost of much higher voltage and temperatures but if I can raise the CPU, Cache or both maybe 200Mhz whilst avoiding those , that would be great.
I'd also like to get my RAM working at least at the specced 1600Mhz, [email protected], once I've finished with the rest. I play a lot of ArmA3 and it's been shown that it's heavily affected by RAM speed, so the faster I can push it the better, although maybe I'll be better off keeping it at a lower Mhz but tighter timings?
