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Ideas/suggestions for the front page are appreciated. Anyone that wants to officially join, just post up your processor model (530, 540, or 550), your highest stable OC and, since these are supposed to be the low volt chips, your vcore - and I'll add you to this post.
Note: club now open to any Clarkdale owner. They're all the same chip, so why support Intel's intentionally confusing marketing?All new members/posters, please include your chip model (530 or 540), batch number, and VID in your first post. Even if you don't care about "joining" the club, it would be much appreciated if all i3 owners could post this information. The information is helpful to those guests and future users browsing the thread, as well as members and guests that are doing research while shopping.Members:
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Relevant threads:i7 vs. i3 gaming performance:Hyperthreading on vs. off:Voltage/Temperature Information:PLEASE, observe Intel voltage specifications and do your research. These are not 45nm chips and they WILL NOT tolerate the same voltages.Keep in mind, these are MAXIMUM ABSOLUTE voltages before physical damage occures. These are NOT 24/7 save maximums - those will be substantially lower. If using LLC, your 24/7 voltage will have to be even lower still.Tcase for these chips is 72.6C. They should not be run above this in 24/7 usage - OC and cool appropriately.
Core voltage tolerance in relation to current draw:
Clarkdale/H55 platform overview:
Original, pre-club first post that started this thread:
Well, now that I've got the GPU squared away (get the easy stuff out of the way first) I'm going to give the CPU a rip.
What I'm looking for though is only a stock voltage OC. From what I've read on this site, step one is to get my base voltage by running Prime95 and checking CPU-Z, which I've done, then manually set this as the vcore. Next would be to lock the PCI bus at 100mhz, then turn off all the power saving and such stuff. Once all that is done. Should I only be upping the base clock? Do I have to worry about QPI and such?
There's so many different voltage settings on this board I'm afraid I'm going to screw something up and fry my new chip. I've read up everything I could find on my own, but, this being my first real OC, I'd feel more comfortable if someone walked me through step by step.
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Anandtech got his to 3.3ghz on stock voltage, and 4.0 with 1.3v. Give this page a read, it could help:
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Good link, but what I need help with is the specific BIOS settings. For example, in the BIOS, I set the CPU voltage from "offset" to "manual", which then brings up the option for "CPU fixed voltage". I'm assuming this is the vcore setting. This setting is moveable in steps of 0.00625v. This makes me overshoot my CPU-Z voltage of 1.176v to around 1.18, is this ok?
Also, there's an option for CPU PLL voltage, what is this for?
Then there's Load-line Calibration, which defaults to Auto. The ASUS manual describes the settings as:
Auto - automatic configuration
Disabled - follow Intel specs
Enabled - Improve CPU vdroop directly
Why wouldn't this default to disabled in the first place, and should I disable it while OC'ing?
Forgive the newbishness, but this MB manual is clearly written for people that already understand all the settings and I just don't want to fry my brand new chip.
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Ok, so I have the vcore set at 1.1875 in the BIOS. That yields 1.176v at idle in CPU-Z and 1.160v under Prime95 load. Is this ok? Previous load voltage was 1.176v.
Should I go one step higher to try to bring up the load voltage or should I try enabling load line calibration?
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The cpu pll is the cpu's internal clock generator. You can leave that at stock, but some people have found that more or less can help stability in different situations.
Load-line calibration overides intel's vdroop technology. vdroop is the motherboard artificially raising cpu volts during load, in order to protect the cpu from voltage spikes/dips when transitioning between high and low loads. Most people turn LLC on for higher overclocks, as it "lowers" the vcore required.
If you haven't already, try googleing "p7h44-m pro overclocking guide" or something like that.
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Yea, there's not a whole lot on this board, it's pretty new.
I think I've got the hang of the voltage settings now, but one more question: is it safe to leave all the other voltages (like CPU PLL for example) on "auto" or is that unsafe in the same way that leaving vcore on "auto" is unsafe? This BIOS doesn't show what the actual stock settings are, it just shows things on auto.
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Yea, there's not a whole lot on this board, it's pretty new.
lol i was afraid of that.
If it were me, i'd set manual values for everything that is currently on auto... but im kinda anal retentive that way. For mild to moderate overclocks, auto shouldn't produce any weird settings/values... but when you start getting more serious OCs, manual settings are a must.
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How would I even find the stock values for those things? Like I said, the BIOS stock setting is auto, and it makes no indication of what value auto has it set at.
Also what are you considering mild to moderate?
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For me, mild = stock vcore, moderate = 50% or less of maximum vcore (example: stock is 1.0v, max is 1.5v, moderate = 1.25v or less). Thats by no means an official rateing or anything, but just kinda makes sense to me
If they are values for the cpu (like vcore, vtt, pll, etc), then they are determined by your cpu. If its stuff for the motherboard (IOH, ICH, pci-e, etc), then you can probably assume that similar lga1156 motherboard share the same limits/defaults.
You could download a program like Everest, which can read just about every voltage and frequency you can imagine, and write down what everything is running at.
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I just bought a i3 530 and a Gigabyte P55M-UD4 motherboard, and I am in the process of trying to figure it out as well.
My last overclocking was an Athlon X2 probably 3 years ago, so things have changed a bit.
Once I get my Windows 7 issue solve (reinstalling now), I will see about overclocking.
One issue I noticed was that the board is downclocking the RAM. I have 1600MHz Corsair XMS3 RAM, and if I set the RAM multiplier to 10x, BCLK to 160, the board seems like it will run the ram at 1600, but upon rebooting it changes the RAM to 8x to run at &1300. It seems to not want to run it above 1333, which was the default.
I will report anything I find, and I look forward to hearing your experience.
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