Temperature-wise, at +0.060V the cores report 80-85°C at 22°C ambient. That means I don't really want to go much higher with voltage.
I have had stable clocks but tons of whea errors
Can you post your event log? I have had stable clocks but tons of whea errors
Can you post your event log? I have had stable clocks but tons of whea errors
1) I don't need to understand vdroop because I don't need it, the power supply of this particular board is rock stableHe also didn't understand vdroop, offset voltages, or secondary voltages per his first post and subsequent. He was having stability issues at stock.
Vdroop has nothing to do with the power supply or stability of the motherboard. All boards and cpu's suffer vdroop. You adjust your LLC to give the power you tell the mobo to send to the CPU actually to the CPU. When you set voltages manually in your system (with speedstep and c states off), not using offset, and you type in 1.26v but actually only get 1.225 or some-odd volts to your processor and then under load get 1.21 and it causes errors, that's vdroop and it's normal. You adjust LLC (like every IB OC guide tells you to) until you find a setting where when you type in 1.22 you get 1.22 actually delivered and it stays within .01 of that under load. It takes a mess of going back and forth between the bios and prime95 to figure out, but once you do you can switch to offset mode, adjust your speedstep and c-states and try to find the offset voltage that works best for you, once you have determined the proper level of LLC.1) I don't need to understand vdroop because I don't need it, the power supply of this particular board is rock stable
2) I do understand them. + means it goes up (from whatever the CPU thinks is default for spefic resulting frequency) both under idle and load, - means it goes down.
There are 2 or 3 really good guides on OCing IB out there, mostly at forums dedicated to OCing as their primary function.3) I couldn't google any definite answers to my questions regarding secondary voltages, and every guide I found said something else, or was written for SB, so there's not much to work with, unfortunately.
Memory is tricky because when you overclock it you change the frequency it presents to the VCCIO and it can cause stability issues in both depending on your mobo's binnings. Most memory is just 1333 that was binned higher and tested out at a better speed than it should have. I always buy memory with a ton of headroom so I can either increase the frequency or tighten the timings for my overclock - but you pay for it.4) Stability problems, yes, but not CPU-related. My memory is picky, obviously. This is now 90% sorted and I am still exploring other possibilities how to go around this.
Great news. My 3770k rig below is set to 4.4Ghz with no change to the vcore. I run a little higher at 1.23v when running Intel Burn test etc but overall real solid. I downloaded Intel's Overclocking and testing software and my rig was stable after an hour at 4.5Ghz but the temps were a bit too high for me.I am currently sitting at 4.4@1.130V average under load.
mine does 4.5@1.3v. At first the temps were close to 90C with an NH-D14, so I delided that sumbitch, and now I'm in the 60's. I can run it as high as 4.8 without temps being a problem, but I have to give it a lot of voltage, so I just leave it at 4.5