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I was when I typed it, but you are correct. Seems I confused the two when responding. Thanks for pointing it out, and apologies to OP for the misinformation. Amazing what a guide can do for ones OC success huh OP? *jocular nudge* Nice to see you got a solid 4GHz. I'd still be curious to see...

Ignore them, always go buy the BIOS. (It's not unusual for this to happen.) I use CPU-Z and have never had that issue however. Maybe see what it says. That to is normal. The only way to get the RAM to run at rated speeds is to use a BCLK that multiplies to 1600. For example my 200 BCLK (Ram...

QPI voltage is very important!! It's recommended you keep it within 0.5v of the DRAM voltage. (Thanks to Harry1969 for the correction.) Try lowering your vcore to 1.3v or 1.35v and raising QPI voltage to match. (If it works, you can try for lower after.) Did you manually set your RAM to...

Or, you know, just plop a small dab in the middle (of either) and let pressure sort it out. :p It's how I do it as any other way has never shown any difference for me, period! No fuss, no muss, no mess! (If you do it right.)

CCC will allow up to 900MHz on the core once you unlock it. (By simply clicking a little padlock.) Or you could use MSI Afterburner for over 900MHz. (Leaving BIOS flashing for another time.) You have to manually edit the MSIAfterburner.cfg (In the install directory.) file to allow for it to...

That video is of an old build, or using 'extreme'. It now has options to lessen the effect making it look more natural, though still awkward to walk on. Indeed, tis a tech demo, nothing else. That is why it's so over exaggerated.

Pretty much what's holding me back to. Anything much over 4.2 and it goes south fast. (4.3 = guaranteed BSOD.)

I've never been a fan of default fan profiles. I use MSI Afterburner to manually set my own profile. Try it and see if it has the same issue.

Run the Heaven Benchmark for yourself, and hit F3 to toggle tessellation in real time to really see it pop. P.S. Nice to see they have continued to work on this. Tessellation now has 4 options rather than just on/off. (Disabled/Normal/Moderate/Extreme)

As a gamer, hell ya! I gained 15+ FPS in Fallout NV going from 3.6GHz to 4.2GHz. I have yet to have an OC'd CPU or GPU go south. Seeing I build a new system every couple-few years, it really doesn't concern me. I want more (Free) power! (And I get it.) OCing is a tedious task for sure...

What I would do; Disable Turbo mode! Increase vcore to 1.25-135v. Increase CPU PLL to 1.85-1.9v (Might want to start with QPI below first. QPI is IMPORTANT!) Match the QPI voltage with the vcore, or within 0.5v. (I think this may be your issue, but I'm simply guessing.) Good luck. P.S...

Differing sleep states. Everything You Need to Know About the CPU C-States Power Saving Modes

Thank you for the link. Hope they kiss and make up at some point. They both would benefit I'm sure. *shrug*

Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't known about that issue. Filtering sounds like bad blood, for something. I'd hope simply not getting a reply back is not the sole factor here. Something else must be going on, I'll assume. Though I would like some clarification. If it is now a no-no to...

I'd like to know why it's filtered. It's not like it's a fly by night operation stealing peoples money or anything. I'll be sorely disappointed if I get penalized for trying to help a fellow Canadian find a good PC hardware site......on a hardware dedicated forum. P.S. I forgot about Dazmode...

You are welcome. I forgot to mention, though it's hard with WCing stuff as there are few who carry a lot of the same stuff, make sure you price match any purchase that would apply. (Most everything other than WCing.) It has to be another Canadian site, in Canadian funds. Exclude MIR's from the...

I use ++++ for the majority of my PC needs. They don't have the greatest WC supply, but sufficient enough. Water cooling @++++.com P.S. WTH? Why is N C I X filtered?? When Newegg and Tigerdirect are not. *blink* *blink* But yeah, it's N C I X .com

I switched from a 9550 to an I7 950. The 9550 was @ 3.8GHz. The 950 at stock clocks (3.06GHz) ran about the same as the OC'd 9550. When I OC'd it to 4.2GHz, CPU intensive games shot up 15+ FPS with my Crossfired system. As to bottleneck, no, not really with that hardware. The 9550 is still a...

Ambient is 20C (at time of tests) using an H50 in push/pull with 1850RPM Sythe GT's. P.S. I decided to run IBT again just now with the room thermometer pegged squarely at 15C. It's pretty much 69C with fluctuations +/-1C either way. It did bounce to 71C at times but I'd guess an average of 70C...

I can hit up to 75-78C with mine at 4.2GHz with a vcore and QPI of 1.35v each using Intel Burn Test. Though 67-70C seems to be the norm mostly. Real world, 55-60C is about the highest I've ever seen while gaming. It's usually hovering around 50C for the most part.

I disagree, note sig. It's fine, as long as it is working. Which it sounds like this one is not. (Their RMA support is really good!) Though I do not disagree with the suggestion of a custom loop, not everyone can afford it. I'd happily by the Corsair H series again, though an H70 probably. I...

How many times do people need to say it, your temps are fine! (OCD much? :p /facetiousness) My I7 950 is idling at 37C with a room temp of 18C. I hit 70C with IBT just now running the 'maximum' setting. I wouldn't let those temps frustrate you.

A 444MHz FSB would be 3996MHz. (9x444) You are most likely going to need to up the voltages to get it stable. I'd try for a lower OC first just to get a feel for it. Try something like 360x9 for 3240MHz for now. This should not need a voltage bump. You will need to set a RAM multiplier in the...

That would be raise, or "loosen" the timings actually. Lowering them will definitely lead to instability when OCing. For example, if I run my RAM at it's rated speed of 1600MHz, the timings are 7-8-7-20. If I OC (Lets say 1750MHz stable.) I have to raise/loosen them to 9-9-9-24 or they will not...

DDR stands for Double Data Rate, so you double the clock speed. My RAM for example is running 200 BCLK with a x4 multi for 800MHz. Then you "double pump" with DDR and you get the rated speed of 1600MHz. Double data rate

Hhhm, all my mobos had 3-9 or some such. (Including my last 2 Gigabyte boards, though s775.) I'm surprised the lowest RAM multi is 6. Seems rather limiting. Though admittedly my experience is rather light compared to many here. The 6x150=900 is actually running at 1800MHz with DDR and the...

You want a 5x multi on the RAM with a 150MHz BCLK. 150x5x2=1500MHz. (x2 as it's "double pumped".) It will be under-clocked, but that is fine until you can manage the aforementioned 200x21 with a 4x mulit for 200x4x2=1600MHz. (What I run my 950 rig listed below at.)

I just had a first time experience and thought I'd share. I was having stability issues with games since OCing my 950 to 4.2GHz. It was very sporadic with some games, and very prevalent in the Rift betas. Rift would lock my system right up. The odd thing was I could run Intel Burn Test and P95...

Mine has Low/High options rather than On/Off. I set CPU to low with 1.35vcore. If I left it on high it would drop to 1.288v and crash on full load. On low it bounces between 1.344v and 1.352v. I've been running small FFTs in P95 for over an hour now without issue. Room temp is 15C and the...

Just for testing, turn it back on when stable, but leave Turbo Boost of for good! I forgot after I did a clear CMOS and wondered why I couldn't get my 4.2 stable again. Til I noticed it was trying to do 4.4+GHz because of TB. *sheepish grin*

I'd try running the CPU at default and run something Furmark on the GPUs to see if one of the GPUs may be the issue. Driver or hardware.

Ok, I'll just throw this out there. I am still learning myself and take risks others may not! (Risk is yours to take should you try the following.) Having said that, I have yet to break anything I have ever tried OCing from CPU to GPU. I'd start with a 4.2GHz OC based of my success with a 950...

Lower is always better but here's how I justify my 1.5v QPI. My mob has OC Genie, an auto OC button I can push pre-boot and it will OC itself. It settled on 3.6GHz and set QPI to 1.587v. I figure 1.500v is good for 4.2GHz in comparison. Now you have me thinking I should go try 1.45v and see how...

Agreed. OP: Someone linked this the other day and I think it's worth a read. 3 Step Guide To Overclock Your Core i3, i5, or i7 – Updated! I found with OCing, getting help here and there is ok, but you really need to just read up, and apply what you read. That's how I learned. Nobody...

Mine needed more juice than that once I hit 3.6GHz and above. I settled on 4.2GHz using 1.4vcore. 1.35v was enough for 3.6GHz. (May have been less but I was fine with 1.35v and had lost the patience to dial it right in.) Also, did you go from a single GPU to those duals? You may wish to bump...

My 950 (Same poop, different pile.) is at 200x21 with a 1.4v vcore. QPI is 1.5v. QPI was the major factor for me to get 4.2GHz stable at 1.4. My ram is at it's rated 1600MHz. If your RAM is OC'd I'd recommend a multi that under-clocks until you find a stable BCLK/vcore/QPI.

To add what I forgot to mention in the quoted part...make sure you manually set the DRAM timing to a 4x multiplyer.

The cooler. It's of low quality for OCing. You need to set the RAM manually in the BIOS. (Or use the XMP option. I prefer manual.) Yes, 15+ FPS, as I have it v-synced so it's locked at 60 max. (Avoids tearing.) It's up to you, I disagree though. A 15+ FPS increase is nothing to sneeze...

I've used the stock TIM, MX-2, and Noctua's TIM with my H50 and there was 1C difference, at best. If I am not mistaken, it's Shin etsu based TIM from Noctua, but I am not 100% on that.

You can, but it's not optimal. It has limits to it's ability to cool higher OCs. You'll have to decide that when you see what temps it produces. Start with the BCLK (Base CLocK). What speed is your RAM rated for? I'd start with 150(BCLK)x19(Multi)=2850MHz That will run your RAM at 1200MHz...