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Cherry picking a 5960X

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sk3tch said:
Haha. Fair enough.

Can you give me this then?

What is your OC methodology? I've been modifying vCore and VCCIN...starting with 4.5GHz, 1.3v, 1.95v and working back (using 1 hour of ROG RealBench as a success criteria). I worked all the way back to 3.7GHz and still could not pass. I'm thinking I am not giving enough juice to something or else I have an EXTREME dog. Temps are great - Corsair H110 AIO; Gelid GC Extreme. Board is MSI X99S XPOWER AC and PSU is Seasonic X-1250 (memory: 16GB Corsair 3000MHz).
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My methodology is to go straight to high voltages first, set a clock, and then dial voltages back down until that clock speed isn't stable or temperatures are out of control. For my testing I was running P95 small FFTs since thats as brutal as it can get for these things. I also set all the VRM settings to as extreme / aggressive as the BIOS allows (switching frequency, current limit, etc)

You should be able to crack 4 Ghz with a 5960X. Especially if your temperatures are good. http://www.tweaktown.com/guides/675...-spec-qfra-cpu-overclocking-guide/index3.html

Set VCCIN to 2.0V, Core voltage to 1.35V, CPU Cache to 1.25V, make sure the CPU cache multiplier is 30 (to eliminate that as a potential trouble spot), and increase the tjmax to 100C at least for now.
 
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