Thanks! I like X60 but to be honest the stock fans are rather noisy at max speed, running with Silent profile for daily use and Custom for benchies. Do you think I can further reduce load temps by applying a good thermal paste like Prolimatech PK-3?
This test was ran in an air-conditioned room with temperature set to 26 degrees, actual ambient I'm not sure... But can't be too far off VCore is default +160mV as shown on screenie

Only way is to de-lid huh? Definitely not what I'm ready to do lol... I also did not clean off the old paste from IHS with any nail polish remover and IPA99%, only tissue paper, will this affect temps in anyway? If yes, then still have hope for improvement and motivation to buy new thermal paste

Do u think it is worth to delid when my chip can barely reach 4.7 at 1.39 vcore? Max keep hit 105 at that stage.

I have try many time due the gflops

I have try i7 with 4.8ghz with 1333 ram my gflops about 103+-
With 4.8ghz with 2000 ram would 111 gflops

I read somewhere that gflops is affected by the background services running in our pc during Linx. In order to get the optimum result during Linx, better to leave the pc to idle for about 5mins then only start the Linx test. This is to ensure there is no background service running, it is also better to quit all of the applications prior running Linx test. I have tested this and all my Linx is above 120gflops for 3570k regardless of the memory speed. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Still trying to figure out how to overclock my ivy bridge. It is a beast difficult to be tamed. Unlike sandy where u can just pump vcore and get stable overclocking, ivy bridge hates excessive vcore. The vcore has to be "just enough" for a overclock to be stable I got a lot of d124 error which was due to excessive vcore.

Also, I found other voltages like pll, vccsa, vccio actually play a role in the stability of the system even in modest overclock.

Another test.

Had to remove the Storm Filter top air filter to get below 84 Celsius.

Did any of u here experience this? During my prime95 the bclk of my proc (3570k) suddenly jump up to 104.++ resulted in higher clock speed. From 4.5 to 4.680. Any idea? I did not tampered with the bclk setting.

When I was stressing with prime, I can't pass half an hour no matter how much vcore I put in (upto 1.42) at 4.5ghz. I always get the BSOD 124. Then I came across an article on hardocp which states that increasing PLL to 1.9 helps. I did so and lowered my vcore down to 1.32v. Now my prime is entering its 3rd hour of testing. Every chip is unique I guess.

Btw, I am now using 16gb for ram populating all ram slots. I find that increasing VCCIO from 1.05 to 1.1 actually helps to stable the system. No sure though since I am still very new to IVY bridge overclocking.

Got other links? Tried dowloading it, network too slow which disconnect itself.

Thanks,

Btw is it safe and stable to run 4.5ghz on 1.150 vcore?

Wa, KVR. I am interested to know the result of KVR 

Anyway, finally got my system prime stable:

Previously can't even run prime for half an hour even at 1.42v vcore 

However, to be Aida64 stable needs much less voltage. And this is before i raise the PLL:

I will try to run my system at Aida stable voltage from now, see whether aida is reliable or not.

Wow, KVR is amazing.  Btw, may i know is your kit cherry picked or randomly grabbed?

Reduced my PLL voltage from BIOS default of 1.85V (shouldn't it be 1.80V? ) to 1.50V just now, doesn't seem to affect stability nor reduce temps. Only problem I've seen so far is a few apps like RealTemp and Intel XTU detecting wrong CPU clocks and wrong BCLK

owikh84
How come my RAMs running at 1866MHz, C9, 1T doesn't seem that much slower than your 2400MHz, C7? Except for latency
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Memory overclocking based on various IC

In this part I will try to show how to overclock more popular IC like PSC, Elpida BBSE, Hynix CFR, Samsung HCH9 and Micron D9.

PSC - can be found in many various 2x2GB kits with XMP 1600 6-8-6, 2000 8-9-8/9-9-9 , 2133 9-10-9/9-11-9/7-10-7, 2200 7-10-10, 2400  9-11-9, 2500 9-11-9 …etc.

Elpida BBSE/Hyper – can be found mainly in 2000 9-9-9 ( G.Skill Ripjaws, ADATA Xtreme ) kits but also in some others sometimes mixed with other Elpida chips

Hynix CFR/HC9- many different series like Patriot, Team or G.Skill 1866 9-11-9, 2133 9-11-10, 2400 10-12-11/10-12-12, 2600 11-13-13 … etc. Best series seem to be in RipjawsZ 2133/2400, TridentX 2400+ and Team 2400+

Samsung HCH9– lately it’s very popular IC mainly because there are really cheap OEM Samsung 1600 kits, but also because most 2400-2600 kits are based on HCH9 like most of new TridentX, Team Xtreem and some others.

Micron D9- new series of D9 are almost only in Crucial Ballistix memory 1600-2133.

dun like this la   

btw, dell will release haswell on june ooo... fyi only

broadwell will be on hold til further notice, OEM manufacturers making noise due to intel change proc too fast, unable to target buyer market.