Complete Overclocking Guide: Sandy Bridge & Ivy Bridge | *ASRock Edition* - Page 101

I thought you'd appreciate it (my first OC was a k6-III 450, and I'm really old).

marty

my bad, been very busy last few days....
my ambient temp is 40...
the 95 temps were only for a few seconds, not constant. i guess they averaged from 60's to 70's. this pc doesn't have amazing cooling (duh..lol) i had to go with a quieter set up. i did replace the front 2 fans after i did all the testing but i'm sure they won't impact anything.
this is my dad's pc. i had some boundrys to work within. being quiet was a request so i knew i wouldn't impress anyone with low temps. i would have lapped the cpu, but again, it's his, and if there was a problem i'm sure he would be pissed if he found out i voided his warranty.
i have to say all in all, this build came out pretty good. i'm not too conserned about the high temps there because i know this pc will never reach those temps with what he is going to use it for.
oh...and here are the pics!

with a keen eye, you will see i don't have an expansion cage. my SSD is in my drive bay. i made an adapter that fits 2 SSD's. i did install the power cable with an extra SATA power connector. that way, in the future, if my dad wants to add another SSD, the connector is there, and he doesn't have to cut the tie string and re do it. oh yeah, the only way i could do something that hasn't been done before, i tied my wires up with tie string. it's a product that people in avaition use to tie up wire harnesses. works just fine for computers too! i also don't like the look of zip ties.
thanks to all for all the help and advice!

Slight problem guys. When I change the frequency to that of one lower than stock clock in the bios or in Atux or whatever it changes readily. But when I set it to one higher than stock, it refuses to take the change. Any clues as to why?

Have you tried uninstalling any overclocking software? I know of someone else who had this issue and removing the software solved the problem.

I can try but the overclocking software shouldn't do anything as it doesn't run at startup.

Didn't work. :(

Wow, I haven't heard the term "lap" in a long long time. That's one thing I never did, though a lot of folks used to do that to help with thermal conduction.

For those not familiar with the term, here's a link from 2002 (not too long after CPUs had just exceeded the 1GHz barrier).

http://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/lapping/

BTW, nice looking rig.

marty

My results


http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2445722

Yay soo my better than my old q6600 as an oc'er

EDIT: Question with my board when i go into the bios with my mouse it starts to spaz out and click on random stuff so i have to use these two old ass one that i have also yes i know my rtam timings are slow il change them later cbf now
Edited by ZeProfessor - 7/20/12 at 8:20pm

lol. i thought people still did that to their cpu's and cpu coolers. yeah, i am a little dated too, i built my rig in 2006 and hadn't even thought about another set up until my dad asked me to build the one shown in the pics.
thanks for the complement.

Aight, so I got a BSOD going for 4.5ghz and the error was "0x1E" (increase vcore). I first tried increasing the turbo which still gave a BSOD. Should I not increase the turbo and just increase the vcore or should I increase both of them? Currently @ 4.4ghz the vcore goes no higher than ~1.25