I've been playing around with my new(ish) system for a while now; and I'm trying to do this right now without touching my voltages and just see how much I can get out of it before I up the volts (I hope to reach 3.2GHz as I've seen others do). I've found I can stably reach higher CPU frequencies by going with a lower multiplier and raising my Reference Clock by 30 or so. For example, I'm currently stress testing it at a multiplier of 13 and a ref clock of 240 resulting in 3.12GHz and seems to be fine (I plan on upping the ref clock another 2 in a few hours); however, before this series of trials I tried the stock multiplier of 14 along with 14.5, 15, 15.5, and even 16 all with reference clocks between 200 and 223. I found that the higher the multiplier, the lower the ref clock had to be; which is as I expected. I did not expect, however, that with each time I lowered the multiplier from 16 I could in turn raise the reference clock high enough to surpass any OC at the higher multiplier.
If you managed to stick it through that jumble above, then I suppose my questions are: is this normal and is there any advantage to having a higher multiplier vs a higher reference clock and vice versa?
Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for any input OCN.
If you managed to stick it through that jumble above, then I suppose my questions are: is this normal and is there any advantage to having a higher multiplier vs a higher reference clock and vice versa?
Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for any input OCN.
