earwicker7
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I'm having a weird situation with my (as of now, mild) overclocking. I've upped the BCLK to 145 (so far, I haven't had to change any other non-overvolt settings in the BIOS, as everything has stayed within specs, since my memory is capable of hitting 2000, and is only at 1450 now) and, while running LinX as a stress test, have needed to overvolt for the first time to increase stability. I'm shooting for being able to run LinX for 20 minutes, and I've come close, but issues have crept up. Here is the chronological history of the 145 BCLK; I'm trying to do things according to Slaymate's i7 guide:
1. LinX stops with errors in 5 seconds. Bumped up VCore.
2. LinX stops with errors in approximately 4 minutes. Bumped up QPI PLL.
3. LinX stops with errors in approximately 6 minutes. Bumped up QPI PLL.
4. LinX stops with errors in 19 minutes 29 seconds. Bumped up QPI/VTT.
5. LinX stops with errors in 3 minutes 37 seconds???
When I say I "bumped up" a setting, I basically mean that I moved it one "notch" in the BIOS; in other words, I'm not typing in exact values, but choosing the next highest value that the BIOS will accept. All of the temperatures on these tests are in the safe zone (i.e., not even close to 70 degrees), so it's not overheating that's causing this. No lock-ups, no BSOD, LinX just won't reach the 20 minute mark without stopping due to errors.
I would have expected that step #4 would have resulted in either LinX passing the 20 minute test, or at least lasting a few seconds longer. I definitely didn't expect it to jump down so far. Does this mean that I should again bump up QPI PLL and see if that works, or is there some kind of weird interaction that means there is another route that I should take?
Cool, thanks! For some reason my computer made it seem like the PM didn't go through. There's now another thread on this issue... you can delete it if you think it's extraneous.
I'll fill this out when I get home.
1. LinX stops with errors in 5 seconds. Bumped up VCore.
2. LinX stops with errors in approximately 4 minutes. Bumped up QPI PLL.
3. LinX stops with errors in approximately 6 minutes. Bumped up QPI PLL.
4. LinX stops with errors in 19 minutes 29 seconds. Bumped up QPI/VTT.
5. LinX stops with errors in 3 minutes 37 seconds???
When I say I "bumped up" a setting, I basically mean that I moved it one "notch" in the BIOS; in other words, I'm not typing in exact values, but choosing the next highest value that the BIOS will accept. All of the temperatures on these tests are in the safe zone (i.e., not even close to 70 degrees), so it's not overheating that's causing this. No lock-ups, no BSOD, LinX just won't reach the 20 minute mark without stopping due to errors.
I would have expected that step #4 would have resulted in either LinX passing the 20 minute test, or at least lasting a few seconds longer. I definitely didn't expect it to jump down so far. Does this mean that I should again bump up QPI PLL and see if that works, or is there some kind of weird interaction that means there is another route that I should take?
Cool, thanks! For some reason my computer made it seem like the PM didn't go through. There's now another thread on this issue... you can delete it if you think it's extraneous.
I'll fill this out when I get home.
