@amd1507 I'm using 12gigs of A Data brand 1333Mhz ram. I keep the ram "underclocked" below the 1333Mhz speed by changing the multiplier to the lowest speed. This seems to help with stability. I have run it at 1600, but experience crashes rather often.
Hey, I've recently been having some problems with my computer. I just bought it, I'm running the same board/cpu with an H60, HAF X case w/ 2 200mm fans on the top and an additional cooler master sandwiching the H60 RAD. The problem I have is that since I've put the H60 on my temperatures spike up to 100 under load, yet the H60 is very cool. I had to replace the H60 because the last one didnt work, and under load it was warm. This one was not. With the stock cpu fan under load temps were at ~65.
the ram multiplier is the one that has to be twice as high. Pretty sure the QPI does not have to be. Because that always stays the same and you can make your uncore as fast as you want or as slow as you want according to ram. So I used to say the same thing, but I was wrong.
@Kaeden728 Your a brave soul to update a bios. I honestly haven't done that in more than decade... or two. It's a tricky to do and more times than not results in what you had, dead motherboard. With boards costing just a few hundreds bucks anymore flashing the bios, imo, is not worth the hassle. I upgrade pretty frequently, and as matter of fact have sold this particular computer and a few others I've built in the meantime. Currently only running a laptop until I sell another custom rig.
its because the i7 950 has a multiplier of x23, x24 is considered turbo boost, so it is 4.03ghz with 4.2ghz turbo. Normally it would be 3.07 at x23 with 3.33ghz with turbo boost(x24)
@MrTwrdi007TV Is it stable at lower speeds? Try to step it up a little at a time. If you went directly to 4.2 it could have reset to stock as the CPU won't OC that high. Each CPU is slightly different in terms of how high it may overclock to. I'd suggest trying to move the base clock by 5 each time. 160, 165, 170 etc... making sure each time it boots, and runs fine for a while. Run some sort of tests before moving it up further.
@Jecoholic03 I've actually only OC'd to 4.2 stable, and when I say stable that is for benchmarks and some programs. It still crashes or causes some hang ups even at that. I have not adjusted any voltages or tweaked the bios further. As far as the lights on your motherboard, they are suppose to be on, and are basically troubleshooting/status lights. If you open the Gigabyte book it will tell you what colors mean what. Red is typicall a bad sign, but depending on which lights come on and stay on.
@asus3571 Those light are suppose to light up, they are basically like trouble codes/error codes (if it has an issue with the CPU). I don't have the book with me right now but if it flashes certain lights the book tells you what the issue is. If it's say overheating, or say the CPU was unseated in the socket, or ram issues etc.. I think one set is for the CPU only, the other is for the mobo.
@Adywerty88 I'm not familiar with how 2000mhz memory is going to scale up based on the OC methods for the X58. Running slower than factory spec is not going to create any major issues, which is why I set the clock/timer value to 6, or the lowest to keep the ram within factory spec's. You can always slowly increase that setting, but I would read up all you can about your specific ram/brand before overclocking it. GL
@terryn89 I didn't know the settings were in the "Easytune 6" to go above 3.68ghz. I goofed around with it the other day and found the settings under the advanced mode. Anyway, to make a long story short I was able to get a stable 4.2 ghz running "prime 95" for about an hour and never got above 55c with my Corsair H80 water cooler. I read all the time that you shouldn't overclock with an on-the-fly program but easy tune literally does it in the bios. I haven't messed with any voltages yet.
@terryn89 Part 2 HA. What I did was set the overclock in easytune to the maximum under the easy mode which is 3.68 ghz. then it asks to reboot, when it boots up i go into my bios and see it's actually running at 3.84ghz. @ 160mhz. The reason, I think the program was written when the i7 920 was hot. I may be wrong though. Anyway dialing it up to 170mhz in the advanced mode pumped it to 4.08 and 175 shot it to 4.2. She had problems at 180 mhz so I dialed back. Running great @4.2...more testing.
@higherDEFINITION What speed of memory are you using? If you have 1066 memory, be sure to make sure it's not overclocking the memory. That can cause reboot/stability issues. Another thing to check is heat, at the first "Turbo" setting what are your temps? I usually check in the Bios under "PC Health" as well as free monitors such as Fan Speed and RealTemp GT. A CPU can heat to 100c+ nearly isntantly, if it is overheating while going thru the self test it will shut down the system.
@Tony2438 Stock (auto) @ 1.25v, I didn't mess with anything except what I show in the video. As far as temps once past the 4.0 Ghz mark if you run Prime 95 or something like Handbrake that maxes out the cores, the temps will rise into the 70's and even over 80C over time. The H70 is ok to a point, but by no means the ultimate cooler. If your looking to go beyond 4.0Ghz full time I'd suggest going full water vs the H70 which is more of a hybrid air/water.
I have def won the silicone lottery as my 950 overclock without tweaking anything except ram to 6.0 to not overclock and stepping her up to 24x at 185 or something, it is high into the 4.8.33 range if I remember on AIR. Stable, days... Minus the RAM issue that reboots three times to get windows to start with my triple channel Muskins 24gb however windows does see the 24gb just 16gb usable so thinking that is my GTX 1060 but the reboot three times to get into windows is def the chip or board, I think the board and as in board I mean setting as in can be fixed with settings, ram timings, I will figure it out someday!...
@Awsomedude2142 It's probably a frequency light. Mine has many of those the higher things are set the more lights show up. Mine has frequency lights, and also volt lights. Maybe temp lights too. I have the G1 Guerrilla, but I wouldn't mind a spare mobo such as the UD3R. Best money/performance board IMO.
Exactly what i was looking for, I am new to overclocking and your tutorial looks pretty easy to understand. problem is my spec is slightly different to yours ill post at bottom would you be able to say if it safe to do the same as yours in the vid or reduce some parts cheers. CoolerMaster HAF X Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R Intel Core™ i7 930 @ 2.8GHz OCZ Reaper 6GB 2000MHz DDR3 3x2gb HD Radeon 3870 (Temporary) 1x 500gb 1x 1tb OCZ SilentPro 700watt modular Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50
nice vid brother ? 4 ya i have that board you have any probs with those lights left of the cpu clicking and blinking at boot mine always boots just seems those lights shouldnt be doing what their doing thanks
@11burke11 Each CPU is unique so it's impossible to say if it will OC to 4.0 or whatever speed your looking for. The best way to start, at least with the mobo you have is to start using the "Smart 6" software, step it up to each setting, run some tests like Prime 95, or this benchmarking software, watch your temps and see how it performs. Then go back to the Smart 6 program, goto to the next higher speed and so on. You should be fine, but it's always best to take it slow and test each speed.
@Adywerty88 Everything will be the same. The only difference is with the 2000 mhz memory you can run the memory at higher speeds than the x6 mutiplier under the "System Memory Multiplier (SPD)" settings. I basically would start out at 6, boot up, run a few benchmarks, make sure everything is stable. Then up it to 8. Key to Overclocking imo is taking things slow and methodical.
I also want to Overclock my system. I have : i7 950 with a noctua nh-d14 Asus Sabertooth x58 motherboard GTX 570 8GB 1600 MHZ Ram 850W Power supply Will those settings work on this systen? And what is the difference between voltages, i mean i dont know how i should do it. Most of the people say that upon 3.8 GHZ you should change the voltages. I hope that you can answer this question. Greetings
@higherDEFINITION Are you adjusting the Bios manually or thru the software? (Smart 6) Every CPU and setup is different as to how much overclocking the chip will do. I have booted mine up to 4.32Ghz and been able to run some benchmarks but it is not stable enough to run very long. Make sure you don't leave your ram on "Auto" this can cause the crash cycle your talking about happen alot, I also set my ram to the slowest multiplier and/or keep it under the stock speed *(1066/1333mhz etc...)*
back when i had the first Prescott p4 cpu it idled at 60 with stock fan with no overclocking now i have a i7 920 clocked at 3254.97 at 100% use it has reached 100 after about 3 minutes with prime95 for my cpu fan i am useing Noctua NH-C12P SE14
Hi,I have the same motherboard and CPU,I'm just wondering how do I get into the BIOS on Windows 10? What button do I press, when I enter advanced startup,there isn't an option for UEFI
Hi there, I followed the video step by step yesterday as I have the same motherboard and an i7 950 bloomfield CPU. On reboot it always shuts down the first time and on 2nd reboot I get a message saying that some voltages or settings have been changed that don't work well with the system and goes back to original settings. I even tried it after un-installing "Easy Tune 6" but the overclock just wont hold. I've tried under 4ghz also. Easy tune allows up to 3.68 and that works great. Any Ideas ?
@Jecoholic03 It could be the ram, or it could simply be the CPU you have. As I mention in the video some CPU's won't run much higher than the speed they are sold/rated at while others can be OC"d very high. This all comes down to basically a roll of the dice and how "perfect" the pc of silicon it was cut from. I have a friend from night school that has the same chip on an Asus mobo running at 4.6 under water with zero issues. I can get to 4.2 and that's it for the most part.
@bossxii if i were looking for a less risky overclocking setting say 3.5-3.8 what would my settings be? i dont' want to damage or upgrade to water cooling
I would have liked to see your voltage settings. I have this same board and a 930 and I can push the BCLK right up to 200 and then core up to 3.2 and its stable on auto voltage but when I go to set the voltage to take it further it crashes, even right up to 1.25v
I m really need your help!!! I have the same board and all i want to know can i use Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler On this board? My Case is Cooler Master K282
That cooler will work with everything. Some people still use it on the newest platform. Although its not a strong cooler so you won't be able to get maximum overclocks with it.
Hey, I heard that having x23 as the baseclock makes it more stable, is it possible to have the same with x23 with the qpi and memory is also oc correctly?
I have same everything but windows enterprise see's 24gb of muhskin ram installed triple channel but says only 16gb usable and it reboots 2 to 3 times before boots into windows something with dram. ANY IDEAS???
I heard this before but makes me wonder how so many people on these boards ended up with bent pins, how did you bend them back, easy to spot? Did your reboot three or four times and then boot-up into windows? i am starting to think mine is not this bent pin plague as my windows does say 24gb installed just 16 use able. It is 64bit windows enterprise. Glad you found yours, now do I take my CPU cooler off, etc as its not an easy one to do...
@Jecoholic03 I've actually only OC'd to 4.2 stable, and when I say stable that is for benchmarks and some programs. It still crashes or causes some hang ups even at that. I have not adjusted any voltages or tweaked the bios further. As far as the lights on your motherboard, they are suppose to be on, and are basically troubleshooting/status lights. If you open the Gigabyte book it will tell you what colors mean what. Red is typicall a bad sign, but depending on which lights come on and stay on.
@amd1507 I'm using 12gigs of A Data brand 1333Mhz ram. I keep the ram "underclocked" below the 1333Mhz speed by changing the multiplier to the lowest speed. This seems to help with stability. I have run it at 1600, but experience crashes rather often.
Hey, I've recently been having some problems with my computer. I just bought it, I'm running the same board/cpu with an H60, HAF X case w/ 2 200mm fans on the top and an additional cooler master sandwiching the H60 RAD. The problem I have is that since I've put the H60 on my temperatures spike up to 100 under load, yet the H60 is very cool. I had to replace the H60 because the last one didnt work, and under load it was warm. This one was not. With the stock cpu fan under load temps were at ~65.
the ram multiplier is the one that has to be twice as high. Pretty sure the QPI does not have to be. Because that always stays the same and you can make your uncore as fast as you want or as slow as you want according to ram. So I used to say the same thing, but I was wrong.
@Kaeden728 Your a brave soul to update a bios. I honestly haven't done that in more than decade... or two. It's a tricky to do and more times than not results in what you had, dead motherboard. With boards costing just a few hundreds bucks anymore flashing the bios, imo, is not worth the hassle. I upgrade pretty frequently, and as matter of fact have sold this particular computer and a few others I've built in the meantime. Currently only running a laptop until I sell another custom rig.
its because the i7 950 has a multiplier of x23, x24 is considered turbo boost, so it is 4.03ghz with 4.2ghz turbo. Normally it would be 3.07 at x23 with 3.33ghz with turbo boost(x24)
@MrTwrdi007TV Is it stable at lower speeds? Try to step it up a little at a time. If you went directly to 4.2 it could have reset to stock as the CPU won't OC that high. Each CPU is slightly different in terms of how high it may overclock to. I'd suggest trying to move the base clock by 5 each time. 160, 165, 170 etc... making sure each time it boots, and runs fine for a while. Run some sort of tests before moving it up further.
@Jecoholic03 I've actually only OC'd to 4.2 stable, and when I say stable that is for benchmarks and some programs. It still crashes or causes some hang ups even at that. I have not adjusted any voltages or tweaked the bios further. As far as the lights on your motherboard, they are suppose to be on, and are basically troubleshooting/status lights. If you open the Gigabyte book it will tell you what colors mean what. Red is typicall a bad sign, but depending on which lights come on and stay on.
@asus3571 Those light are suppose to light up, they are basically like trouble codes/error codes (if it has an issue with the CPU). I don't have the book with me right now but if it flashes certain lights the book tells you what the issue is. If it's say overheating, or say the CPU was unseated in the socket, or ram issues etc.. I think one set is for the CPU only, the other is for the mobo.
@Adywerty88 I'm not familiar with how 2000mhz memory is going to scale up based on the OC methods for the X58. Running slower than factory spec is not going to create any major issues, which is why I set the clock/timer value to 6, or the lowest to keep the ram within factory spec's. You can always slowly increase that setting, but I would read up all you can about your specific ram/brand before overclocking it. GL
@Mountaind3ws The "Smart 6" software comes on a CD with the motherboard. You have to install it, but yes it comes with the UD3R mobo.
@terryn89 I didn't know the settings were in the "Easytune 6" to go above 3.68ghz. I goofed around with it the other day and found the settings under the advanced mode. Anyway, to make a long story short I was able to get a stable 4.2 ghz running "prime 95" for about an hour and never got above 55c with my Corsair H80 water cooler. I read all the time that you shouldn't overclock with an on-the-fly program but easy tune literally does it in the bios. I haven't messed with any voltages yet.
@terryn89 Part 2 HA. What I did was set the overclock in easytune to the maximum under the easy mode which is 3.68 ghz. then it asks to reboot, when it boots up i go into my bios and see it's actually running at 3.84ghz. @ 160mhz. The reason, I think the program was written when the i7 920 was hot. I may be wrong though. Anyway dialing it up to 170mhz in the advanced mode pumped it to 4.08 and 175 shot it to 4.2. She had problems at 180 mhz so I dialed back. Running great @4.2...more testing.
@higherDEFINITION What speed of memory are you using? If you have 1066 memory, be sure to make sure it's not overclocking the memory. That can cause reboot/stability issues. Another thing to check is heat, at the first "Turbo" setting what are your temps? I usually check in the Bios under "PC Health" as well as free monitors such as Fan Speed and RealTemp GT.
A CPU can heat to 100c+ nearly isntantly, if it is overheating while going thru the self test it will shut down the system.
@Tony2438 Stock (auto) @ 1.25v, I didn't mess with anything except what I show in the video. As far as temps once past the 4.0 Ghz mark if you run Prime 95 or something like Handbrake that maxes out the cores, the temps will rise into the 70's and even over 80C over time. The H70 is ok to a point, but by no means the ultimate cooler. If your looking to go beyond 4.0Ghz full time I'd suggest going full water vs the H70 which is more of a hybrid air/water.
I have def won the silicone lottery as my 950 overclock without tweaking anything except ram to 6.0 to not overclock and stepping her up to 24x at 185 or something, it is high into the 4.8.33 range if I remember on AIR. Stable, days... Minus the RAM issue that reboots three times to get windows to start with my triple channel Muskins 24gb however windows does see the 24gb just 16gb usable so thinking that is my GTX 1060 but the reboot three times to get into windows is def the chip or board, I think the board and as in board I mean setting as in can be fixed with settings, ram timings, I will figure it out someday!...
@Awsomedude2142 It's probably a frequency light. Mine has many of those the higher things are set the more lights show up. Mine has frequency lights, and also volt lights. Maybe temp lights too. I have the G1 Guerrilla, but I wouldn't mind a spare mobo such as the UD3R. Best money/performance board IMO.
Exactly what i was looking for, I am new to overclocking and your tutorial looks pretty easy to understand. problem is my spec is slightly different to yours ill post at bottom would you be able to say if it safe to do the same as yours in the vid or reduce some parts cheers.
CoolerMaster HAF X
Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R
Intel Core™ i7 930 @ 2.8GHz
OCZ Reaper 6GB 2000MHz DDR3 3x2gb
HD Radeon 3870 (Temporary)
1x 500gb 1x 1tb
OCZ SilentPro 700watt modular
Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50
nice vid brother ? 4 ya i have that board you have any probs with those lights left of the cpu clicking and blinking at boot mine always boots just seems those lights shouldnt be doing what their doing thanks
@11burke11 Each CPU is unique so it's impossible to say if it will OC to 4.0 or whatever speed your looking for. The best way to start, at least with the mobo you have is to start using the "Smart 6" software, step it up to each setting, run some tests like Prime 95, or this benchmarking software, watch your temps and see how it performs. Then go back to the Smart 6 program, goto to the next higher speed and so on.
You should be fine, but it's always best to take it slow and test each speed.
Excellent i got the same mobo/cpu combo
@Adywerty88 Everything will be the same. The only difference is with the 2000 mhz memory you can run the memory at higher speeds than the x6 mutiplier under the "System Memory Multiplier (SPD)" settings. I basically would start out at 6, boot up, run a few benchmarks, make sure everything is stable. Then up it to 8.
Key to Overclocking imo is taking things slow and methodical.
I also want to Overclock my system. I have :
i7 950 with a noctua nh-d14
Asus Sabertooth x58 motherboard
GTX 570
8GB 1600 MHZ Ram
850W Power supply
Will those settings work on this systen? And what is the difference between voltages, i mean i dont know how i should do it. Most of the people say that upon 3.8 GHZ you should change the voltages. I hope that you can answer this question. Greetings
@higherDEFINITION Are you adjusting the Bios manually or thru the software? (Smart 6) Every CPU and setup is different as to how much overclocking the chip will do. I have booted mine up to 4.32Ghz and been able to run some benchmarks but it is not stable enough to run very long.
Make sure you don't leave your ram on "Auto" this can cause the crash cycle your talking about happen alot, I also set my ram to the slowest multiplier and/or keep it under the stock speed *(1066/1333mhz etc...)*
@bossxii Cheers for help ill give it a try soon enough and let u know how it goes
Funny. I have this board with a I7 940 and I was thinking about doing this today.
back when i had the first Prescott p4 cpu it idled at 60 with stock fan with no overclocking now i have a i7 920 clocked at 3254.97 at 100% use it has reached 100 after about 3 minutes with prime95 for my cpu fan i am useing Noctua NH-C12P SE14
Hi,I have the same motherboard and CPU,I'm just wondering how do I get into the BIOS on Windows 10? What button do I press, when I enter advanced startup,there isn't an option for UEFI
F1
i got this same cpu on a rampage 2 running at 3.6ghz at 1.20v qpi/dram 1.24v, NB at 1.13v
Dram at 1.65v all the rest on auto
Hi there, I followed the video step by step yesterday as I have the same motherboard and an i7 950 bloomfield CPU. On reboot it always shuts down the first time and on 2nd reboot I get a message saying that some voltages or settings have been changed that don't work well with the system and goes back to original settings. I even tried it after un-installing "Easy Tune 6" but the overclock just wont hold. I've tried under 4ghz also. Easy tune allows up to 3.68 and that works great. Any Ideas ?
@Jecoholic03 It could be the ram, or it could simply be the CPU you have. As I mention in the video some CPU's won't run much higher than the speed they are sold/rated at while others can be OC"d very high. This all comes down to basically a roll of the dice and how "perfect" the pc of silicon it was cut from. I have a friend from night school that has the same chip on an Asus mobo running at 4.6 under water with zero issues. I can get to 4.2 and that's it for the most part.
You didn't increase your vcore? I thought you have to when you get into the high Ghz range. Do you have to increase the vcore?
Are you using a stock cooler for your cpu?
@bossxii if i were looking for a less risky overclocking setting say 3.5-3.8 what would my settings be?
i dont' want to damage or upgrade to water cooling
To the OP BossXII,
You didn't need to change any voltages?
@Jecoholic03 what clock are u at i had those orange lights untill i set some voltages manually set as many as u can
I would have liked to see your voltage settings. I have this same board and a 930 and I can push the BCLK right up to 200 and then core up to 3.2 and its stable on auto voltage but when I go to set the voltage to take it further it crashes, even right up to 1.25v
I m really need your help!!! I have the same board and all i want to know can i use Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler On this board? My Case is Cooler Master K282
That cooler will work with everything. Some people still use it on the newest platform. Although its not a strong cooler so you won't be able to get maximum overclocks with it.
how mare any of the lights on ur mobo in the yellow or red and what are your northbridge temps
@reddead2067 Nope. The only changes made were what you see in the video.
Thx the best turtorial
@Jecoholic03 WHAT ARE THE LOCATIONS OF THE LED'S I HAVE THAT BOARD
@bossxii I try to do it. I didint work.Than i tried to do step by step. But it reseats it.
Hey, I heard that having x23 as the baseclock makes it more stable, is it possible to have the same with x23 with the qpi and memory is also oc correctly?
I have same everything but windows enterprise see's 24gb of muhskin ram installed triple channel but says only 16gb usable and it reboots 2 to 3 times before boots into windows something with dram. ANY IDEAS???
one of your ram stick are broken keep on booting it up with one ram stick then 2 ram stick .....
This didnt work for me.In bios the closk is 4.20. But my core sped is 3.2 stil in cpuz
i have to do vcore to 1.42v to get it stable to 4,15ghz D: help i have corsair dominator gt help
iam having a ram problem and iam running the same board and processor can u help me
Same here, I have 24gb installed but shows 16gb but windows enterprise see's 24 just 16gb useable.
ReganMarcelis figured it out it was a few bent pins on the board for the CPU socket
I heard this before but makes me wonder how so many people on these boards ended up with bent pins, how did you bend them back, easy to spot? Did your reboot three or four times and then boot-up into windows? i am starting to think mine is not this bent pin plague as my windows does say 24gb installed just 16 use able. It is 64bit windows enterprise. Glad you found yours, now do I take my CPU cooler off, etc as its not an easy one to do...
ReganMarcelis just go with a different platform this one is notorious for being junk that's why they never expanded it's use
If u look on pcpartpicker.com you will see the limited amount of CPU options
please please pleasem ake this video available..................
@Jecoholic03 I've actually only OC'd to 4.2 stable, and when I say stable that is for benchmarks and some programs. It still crashes or causes some hang ups even at that. I have not adjusted any voltages or tweaked the bios further. As far as the lights on your motherboard, they are suppose to be on, and are basically troubleshooting/status lights. If you open the Gigabyte book it will tell you what colors mean what. Red is typicall a bad sign, but depending on which lights come on and stay on.