eVGA X58, poor BCLK overclocking.

[lowfat]

For the life of me I can't get higher than 180 BCLK which is causing me a bottleneck. I've tried increasing all the voltages, adjusting the MCH strap, all of which don't help. Is there something I am missing? On the EX58-DS4 I was using before I had no problem reaching 210 BCLK with everything on default voltages.

[gingerbee]

on my ds4 i have to give very high voltage for a stable bclk above 185 1.4 vcore and qpi (thats only with my muilty 21) tops out at 210 if i drop it down

[MpG]

I don't have the board personally, although if you post your BIOS settings, something might jump out. Any idea what the 'Auto' on the Giga board was using?

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by MpG

I don't have the board personally, although if you post your BIOS settings, something might jump out. Any idea what the 'Auto' on the Giga board was using?

Not sure what auto was on the Gigabyte board, but here are the current settings of the eVGA.

[MpG]

How does your memory run at 800Mhz, at a 2:6 ratio (suggests a 133BLCK), yet your Uncore is running at 2805MHz at a 16x ratio (suggests a 175BLCK)? Or does this board let you run separate clocks? And what is the QPI multiplier?

[lowfat]

The memory is actually running @ 1050MHz. 800MHz / 2:6 is just the selection. That isn't the actual memory clock. The QPU multi is @ 36X I do believe.

[3oh6]

lower QPI to 4.8 manually, just to be sure. then lower all of the voltages to where they start, no need for having them even green...especially drop CPU PLL to 1.5v, i have found this to help with some processors. the only voltages you are going to want to touch are vCORE / vDIMM of course and VTT. +200 may be what is holding you back. remember, the X58 SLI starts with a base of 1.1v so +200mv is 1.3v...but...the X58 SLI also under volts what is set by about .05v and even more under load (here). so start with +300mv and see what happens. don't be afraid to go up to +350 or +400 either.

if the voltage adjustments don't help, try firing PCI-E up to 110. HTH

[lowfat]

I tried everything in your list, still will crash within a minute of prime. I am using 12GB of ram, should there be anything else I should increase because of this?

[3oh6]

never worked with 12GB of memory so i have no idea what effects that will have. i am assuming more VTT but it might just not be able to handle high BCLK and that much memory. that is a lot of work for the IMC.

[rjbarker]

I had very little problems at all getting stable with Bclk 200 Mhz x 19 Mult for 3.8 Ghz.....running Memory at 2:8 1600 Mhz vDimm 1.60v 8-8-8-24 74 1T
vCore "with vDroop 1.3125v" and VTT + 175mv.
As 3Oh pointed out its likely your 12GB RAM that is the "speed bump"....You could always try 6GB RAM and see how that works for you....do you really need 12GB?
If so...also as 3Oh pointed out, bump up your VTT to around +350mv and go from thier.