3200 C14 1T was kind of hard to stabilize (memtest would throw an odd error here and there, also didn't bother testing 1T+Geardown), so what if I decided to stay at 3466 C16 (what the modules are rated at) and tightened everything else?
Well, it seems it likes it better this way:
1.1v vSOC
1.4v vDIMM + 1.4v vDIMM at boot time
0.9v vDPP
ProcODT 53.3Ω
I couldn't stabilize pure 1T so I enabled geardown. Similar benchmark scores to 3200C14 and tight subtimings, with more bandwidth and faster CCX/IF connection speed to boot. I'll take it. I'll see now what happens with BGSA enabled, if that doesn't impact stability it stays on.
It did boot at 3600 but was unstable
I'm also using zenstates now to overclock once windows loads, this way I can directly change P0 voltage without applying an offset that also raises the rest of the states' voltage. If I change P0 voltage in BIOS things get wonky... It'll probably get solved at some future BIOS update. More power savings at idle this way. Reminds me of k10stat, loved that program.
Edit: This cold boots! I just had to increase the boot retries from 1 to whatever, on a cold boot it restarts once then it boots just fine. This process lasts about 10-15 seconds, the rest is lightning fast boot as usual. Couldn't be happier with how it turned out.
Well, it seems it likes it better this way:
1.1v vSOC
1.4v vDIMM + 1.4v vDIMM at boot time
0.9v vDPP
ProcODT 53.3Ω
I couldn't stabilize pure 1T so I enabled geardown. Similar benchmark scores to 3200C14 and tight subtimings, with more bandwidth and faster CCX/IF connection speed to boot. I'll take it. I'll see now what happens with BGSA enabled, if that doesn't impact stability it stays on.
It did boot at 3600 but was unstable
I'm also using zenstates now to overclock once windows loads, this way I can directly change P0 voltage without applying an offset that also raises the rest of the states' voltage. If I change P0 voltage in BIOS things get wonky... It'll probably get solved at some future BIOS update. More power savings at idle this way. Reminds me of k10stat, loved that program.
Edit: This cold boots! I just had to increase the boot retries from 1 to whatever, on a cold boot it restarts once then it boots just fine. This process lasts about 10-15 seconds, the rest is lightning fast boot as usual. Couldn't be happier with how it turned out.
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