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Old October 10, 2012, 08:56 AM
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I finally got some time to messing around on my computer so I am excited to tell people. And check those timings. Yeah buddy.

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Old October 10, 2012, 09:06 AM
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Awesome man, fun chips to OC, takes a bit of paitence and luck but good to see you nailed the big 4.0 on yours.

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Old October 10, 2012, 09:33 AM
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Nice, relatively low voltage too!
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Old October 10, 2012, 07:58 PM
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thanks guys the ram is not so good of overclocking so I have yet to try to push it any further.

Any help on OC'ng my ram would be great its corsair vengeance 4gx3 kit
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Old October 10, 2012, 08:18 PM
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What cooler are you using? My 920 gets in to the high 80s at 3.8
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Old October 10, 2012, 08:49 PM
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to overclock that ram you need 1.42v+ on qpi vtt
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Old October 10, 2012, 09:09 PM
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ah maybe thats why it was not stable I was only going up on the d Ram volts not the qpi thanks
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Old March 11, 2013, 08:18 PM
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What cooler are you using? My 920 gets in to the high 80s at 3.8

it was underwater when I did my testing. Koolance CPU-340 (oldie but a goodie)
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4.2 is is as high as I can get relatively stable on my 920 and 930
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