having issues with clocking i7 920

[ToXic]

ok so iv been test clocking through eVGA e-leet and at 3.1Ghz Prime 95 will stop with one error and about 100 warnings.

Hardware failure detected
ILLEGAL SUMMOUT (only on worker 3)

to fix this do i need to increase my voltage a tad or whats the deal?

[ToXic]

by boosting the DRAM 1.5 to 1.65 i seem to have stabilized it... these are not saved settings however and are just my E-Leet fidlings

[ToXic]

it appears iv fixed all my issues, my i7 is running at 3.2 Ghz stable (prime 95 night cycle started) ram at 1596Mhz stable. if i last the night ill work my way a bit higher!

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[bojangles]

Give us all the settings from BIOS. You should get a decent OC from there and then tweak from E-LEET.

I'm running my 920 at 191x20 with a TRUE so you have a ton of room to play around with.

[Kylzer]

Yeah most ram needs 1.65

whats speeds you're uncore speed?

as said before we need a bios read out.

[Sagath]

Originally Posted by Kylzer

Yeah most ram needs 1.65

whats speeds you're uncore speed?

as said before we need a bios read out.

Uncore would (should) be either 3140 or 3297. His bus is 157, ram was 1570. Uncore is ram multiplier x2 or x2+1. Uncore multiplier is thus 20 or 21 times the bus speed.

As was mentioned 1.65-1.66 is normal for i7 DDR3. Your temps are very safe and you should be able to go higher. Problem with E-Leet is it wont lock things like your Uncore ratio, ram ratio, etc on the fly. This is why, as great as e-leet and other similar programs are, I still prefer clocking things in the bios manually.

Watch your vdroop. Looks like you have 1.1v under load. Depending on how good your chip is, that can be pritty low. Check your stock VID and what windows displays as your boards running vCore, and your load vCore.

You can probably get that chip higher too, if you're only hitting 55c under load. Without touching any voltages, try (in the bios) locking your ram at 2:8, bus to 190 and uncore to 16x or 17x (3040 or 3230mhz). You should hit 3.8 no problems.

[Arinoth]

I found with my own ram i only needed 1.62V to get my entire system to be stable, see if that will work for yourself. If not, go up to the voltages that were recommended by others (1.65V) for your ram

[ToXic]

Originally Posted by Sagath

Uncore would (should) be either 3140 or 3297. His bus is 157, ram was 1570. Uncore is ram multiplier x2 or x2+1. Uncore multiplier is thus 20 or 21 times the bus speed.

As was mentioned 1.65-1.66 is normal for i7 DDR3. Your temps are very safe and you should be able to go higher. Problem with E-Leet is it wont lock things like your Uncore ratio, ram ratio, etc on the fly. This is why, as great as e-leet and other similar programs are, I still prefer clocking things in the bios manually.

Watch your vdroop. Looks like you have 1.1v under load. Depending on how good your chip is, that can be pritty low. Check your stock VID and what windows displays as your boards running vCore, and your load vCore.

You can probably get that chip higher too, if you're only hitting 55c under load. Without touching any voltages, try (in the bios) locking your ram at 2:8, bus to 190 and uncore to 16x or 17x (3040 or 3230mhz). You should hit 3.8 no problems.

right now im trying to sort my random freeze issue (seems to be Vista X64 doing it) so once i get 7 installed i will get back on it.

What would you call a safe Vcore?

Also note im moving to a CM V10 cooler rather then my TRUE

[SugarJ]

Try bumping your vCore. If it's only at 1.1, that's probably your freezing issue there. I'm comfortable up to 1.35 on mine for 24/7 use.

[ToXic]

Originally Posted by SugarJ

Try bumping your vCore. If it's only at 1.1, that's probably your freezing issue there. I'm comfortable up to 1.35 on mine for 24/7 use.

iv been freezing since stock speeds.