@Andrei Lacerda shouldn't need it, I have a asrock P55 usb pro 3 or something like that( pretty good if you can get some fans on the vrms) and it ran my x3440 without doing anything special. And I think h55 and p55 should generally work with the same stuff.
A few quick comments after doing this with an x3470 to 3.8Ghz with ALL power saving features enabled on my old i5-750 rig. 1) Don't use the factory CPU clock multiplier IF you want a decent overclock AND leave turbo boost enabled. By doing so you're allowing the chip to boost to it's turbo multiplier. With my i5-750 that's 20x which turbo boosts to 24x and on my x3470 that's 22x to 27x! With a bclk of 180 and a 3.92 Ghz OC if any task is single core dependent it'll boost up to 4.89 GHz! All your voltages will have to be able to accommodate that level of overclock and remain stable if you leave it at the stock multiplier. Setting this manually to a different setting than stock disables the Turbo boost portion but retains the Speed Step tech that allows the CPU to downclock the CPU to conserve power when not needed. My recommendation is just to set the multiplier one below factory. 2) Load-Line calibration INCREASES your voltage when at max load to compensate for the voltage drop that occurs when the CPU undergoes high loads. So if you set your voltage to 1.375v like in the video and enable Load-line calibration you could be pushing somewhere near 1.38v or higher. The Intel limit on Vcore is 1.4v for this chipset. If you can get your overclock stable with the same voltage without it, don't use it. 3) QPI/Vtt is the memory controller on the CPU. This voltage should remain with .5v of the DRAM voltage. So if you're using something like the old OCZ sticks that wouldn't boot with less than 1.65v or other 'performance' RAM that needs extra voltage you need to bump the voltage of the QPI/Vtt to be within .5v of the DRAM voltage. Overall it's a pretty simple process. The time consuming part (for me) is fine tuning all the voltages and memory timings to the lowest voltage possible while remaining rock solid stable. Because I have all the power saving enabled my OC will be lower than basically everyone else on the same hardware but that's fine by me. Having a 25C idle in a 20C room isn't bad either and I haven't finished tweaking the voltages quite yet.
@@badman3364 You lose turbo boost (allowing the CPU to boost to it's highest multiplier) and Speed Step (allowing the CPU to declock itself when not needed which helps lower power consumption). Per your problem, so leaving everything at factory defaults doesn't allow your system to boot? Are you sure you're not just pushing the Bclk too high and when the system boots it tries to reach the turbo boost multiplier and because you bumped the Bclk it just isn't stable at the single core turbo boosted clock?
@@Vermonstered well I never tried to go pass 180. I can boot now @180x22mhz. Any chances it was the ram that can't keep up? because getting higher blck also mean the ram speed is increase ?
@@badman3364 Which CPU are you using? For overclocking stability testing you should be using the lowest memory multiplier (6x usually I think on this chipset) so memory speeds shouldn't be an issue. But just so you know 180 bclk w/ a x22 multiplier is 3.96Ghz. If turbo boost is kicking in that's around x26 multiplier or 4.68Ghz and where you're likely to be unstable/crashing. Go back to my first post and first bullet, to disable turbo boost but not speed step you need to set the multiplier at something other than factory default on many boards.
@@Vermonstered I'm using x3470 with a Gigabyte P55-USB3L mobo. So let say I'm ressting all the settings and in the menu the bclk is multiplier is 22 then I should use x21?
Couple of tips: Before starting the overclock process image your system to another drive. Occasionally after pushing too far when windows crashes it will corrupt the system and set you back 30 minutes to reload windows. Also sometimes changing the PCIe freq on certain boards / chips can help get past walls. Also make sure you have the latest bios installed and its best to set back at default speeds when flashing the bios for safety.
I have a Xeon X3450. This thing is a beast. Got it used for 15€. I got it to 3,4 Ghz without touching the Core Voltage. It runs at 1,120V. It is impressive. I could give it a better GPU than the 660 TI is currently still has and it would play pretty much everything.
Yes, it might do more, but 3,4 Ghz is the sweetspot for it to stay below the Tcas with my cooler. It's in my old gaming rig, so I would go for a 950 perhaps, if I get a good deal in the future.
Here I am, building a budget H55 X3470 system and Im trying to get a little bit more performance from this budget build... I search for a tutorial and the TECH YES has be covered yet again!!!
I can't believe this video exists! I actually not only own but have only ever owned an I7 860 or worse. My computers highest end piece is my gtx 1050...
@jackthegamer it's not that good, better? Maybe but not good. An Athlon 200GE or Ry 3 2200 would annihilate in comparison with their wraith coolers included. Anyway, what's your GC?
@@majicgordon should be fine, I have a i5 760 that I used a little to see what it could do, ans it did play insurgency sandstorm at 100+ fps just fine at like 3,6 ghz or something.
I did overclock my i7 875k to 4.5 ghz and its been 10 years now and she’s still bangin in 2020! Haven’t bought any newer cpu for almost 10 years now! I’m using asrock h55 1156 mobo! I did change my mobo 5 years ago it’s the same asrock h55 1156 socket until now she’s still working like a charm even my cpu! As of today I can play assassins creed odyssey, Fortnite, CRISIS, the Witcher, and many more games in 60 to 70 FPS in high settings paired with my gtx 1660 ti! Imagine how much money I did save for 10 years without buying a new CPU even though I did spend a little bit in gpu! I’m not a hardcore gamer! Nor a expert but I like playing games to relax and enjoy! Today there is a lot of expensive cpu and gpu without overclocking 1080p extreme, 4K, and 8k optimized! For me I’m fine with 1080p high settings and I’m really happy with it!
nice, I only got my x3450 to 3.1 without counting turbo and that gets toasty if I try to run it at 3.3, so 3.1 is much more palatable with a thermaltake contac 12
I got a 280mm cooler 16 gigs of 2400mhz ram and a 2060s to go with it. Definitely gonna try to put it at 4ghz atleast. (Didn't get most stuff specifically for the xeon, but I have it laying around and some guy says its trash). Even with worst case scenario its pretty good.
successfully OC'd my X3440 to 3.9 GHz with a 10 year old Motheboard ASUS P7P55D-E without frying it lol thanks so much Mr. Tech Yes! love from Indonesia! you make me build my first own budget gaming PC!!!
I bought an Lga 775 Asus P5k Se/EPU and an Core 2 duo E4500 today for 15$ from the booth fair. They surprisingly worked, tho i've got to use one of my weirder "memory not detected" beeps fixes by liking the pads of the dimm and, you will pe surprised how many dimms i saved form my "Dead hardware box" by this method...
Hi all. Thousands of thanks for the video. Maybe someone has the patience and time to explain to me (I don't want to burn anything ... I don't have money for another PC). From the beginning I mention that regarding overclocking I am below the beginner level and that is why I need help. The system is (that's how I bought it 2 years ago - I only changed the GPU a week ago): Gigabyte P55A-UD4, BIOS F15, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz, AMD Radeon RX 580 4G, Cooler Scythe Katana 3, RAM: 24576MB, PSU Enermax Ligerty II 80+ 400 AWT-ECO, Fan speed controler and and and.... I watched the video several times, but I don't overclock until I have all the information. What I've done so far: - in the BIOS "load optimized default"; - tested with Prime95 kill test (28 hours - 0 errors, max temperatures 71-73 ° C), - tested with Memtest64 (10 hours - 0 errors), - i have liquid metal but I don't know what material is under the cooler (aluminum or copper) - in a few days must arrive.... untill then i will do nothing: PSU: AZZA 650W PSAZ ATX 80 Plus Bronze (+ 12V 48A). And now the questions: 1. CPU Clock Ratio 20X or 22X like default BIOS? 2. from begin BCLK 190 or lower (for lower i belive are another voltage)? 3. SPD? by 6 i have 800, by 8 - 1066, by 10 - 1333, by 12 - 1600. What do I choose? And voltage for each? I means by 6 - 1,5v, by 8 - 1,55v .... (like one exemple). I understood that the change would be gradual. 4. DRAM: FSB Ratio 5:1. Good or bad? 5. What I don't understand are the DDR3 settings. In Aida64 it is so (4 slots 2x4G and 2x8G DDR3): Memory Timings 9-9-9-24 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS) and at each write Kingston DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM (9-9-9-24 @ 666 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-20 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-17 @ 457 MHz). What do I choose from all these numbers for "Channel A Timing Settings" and "Command Rate"? I must to change "Channel B Timing Settings" too? Or like in video 10-10-10-30 and CMD 1 (i have 2 default)? I hope I didn't write too much. Thnx all.
Thank you thank you I bought this platform because of you all set up running x3440 just waiting on my AIO to come in to start my O.C. Give a hell YES!!!! To the one the only Tech YES City
What aio u use? And how much temp diff. AIO vs fan? Im planning to do AIO too bcz temp was too high. (99'C on 4ghz using thermaltake deep frio advance)
@@bryantan._ Sorry about that, no "in burn", but "in Game" (DX:MD, DS3, DOOM), i use an " Aphalcool" thermal paste and an old but Fat "CoolerMaster" Cooler with one 120 mm Fan
To any newcomers, Look into max safe VTT voltage for Lynnfield CPUs., intel says 1.21v is absolute max, but some tutorials including this one are running 1.3-1.4v. Rumor is that will kill your CPU after a while. With my x3470, I can run much lower VTT voltages and achieve a higher CPU overclock if I keep your RAM speed down around 1333mhz. As long as you tighten your timings and even a command rate of 1, 1333Mhz is more then enough for this platform EVGA P55 SLI, R9280x X3470 3.96Ghz 1.318v VCORE, 1.2v VTT, (618 all/122 single in Cinebench R15) Gskill 1600mhz Ripjaws @1440Mhz 9-9-9-24 CR1 (20,000MB/s in AIDA64 Read)
On average the Xeons are binned better I think, but some 860's are also really good. I have an 860 that is stable at 4.2ghz/1.35v. It also has no problem with DDR3 running at 2400mhz which means it has a very good IMC. It scores about 660 in CB15. Also, I've never needed to up the PLL from 1.8v. I have always left it at that voltage even going for more extreme overclocks (5ghz+ on a x5670).
It's on a P55A-UD4P. It has a pretty solid 12 phase VRM which keeps voltages nice and stable. Edit: It looks like Brian is using a P55A-UD3P (rev2), which has a similar power delivery setup.
Interesting; may I ask what sort of memory kit you're running and if you happen to know if the dimms are single or dual ranked please? I bought into p55 when it was new and have ended up with an i7 875k with a 32gb kit of g.skill 2666 ram on an EVGA P55 Classified; cannot seem to improve it beyond 1720mhz with 9 9 9 24 2T timings. Makes me wonder if the IMC in particular simply cannot handle more given that its a 32gb kit.
I would think that you'd be able to hit at least 2000mhz with that setup. The kit is a Patriot Viper III 2400mhz 1.65v 2x8gb kit running at 10-11-10-24-1t, I honestly don't know whether they are dual or single rank. VTT needed around 1.35v or so. Running four dimms may put more strain on the IMC so that may be the issue you're having.
I have a xeon X5650 (socket 1366, basically the same technology) overclocked from 2.66Ghz to 4Ghz with an old "better than average but nothing extraordinary" air cooler, good temps and total stability, incredible value from money. I also have a X3440 but right now I don't have any 1156 motherboard to play with it :-(
Manuel Estevez just buy. P55 / H55. But x5650 far way better with 6 core. And with right board it can be 32gb RAM. I want to build 1336 too but its more expensive than this 1156 build.
Unique Stuff id I know what to buy, but I'm not willing to pay what people ask for even the most basic 1156 motherboards this days. Yes, the 1366 is a nicer platform, but it can be pretty expensive, I have one only because I found a very good deal in a CPU/mobo/memory combo guaranteed to OC well (and it does, 4Ghz is far from its limit, but I'm happy with that).
Unique Stuff id I paid 185€ (shipping included) for the X5650, an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and 12 GB of Kingston HyperX 1600 memory, as I said it was a very good deal ;-)
Thank you dude My bios is little different than yours but I just pulled the oc out of my ass according to your guidelines. And here I am, rocking the old bastard i7-860 at 4ghz while rarely hitting above 70° degrees (with help of Noctua (NH-D15S)). Also my RAM can unfold it's potential at 2.000mhz instead of crappy 1.333mhz. That just made my pc last two years more, so thank you! I guess I subscribe your channel TO KINGDOM COME!
YES! I want to give my dad's system an OC since his CPU is not keeping up anymore (i5-750), he already upgraded to a GTX 960 (from an HD 4890) so this is just what he needs
I have X3470 and GA-P55-US3L (rev1.0) and I managed to reached 4.20 (21x200Mhz or 22x190Mhz, cpu 1.35-1.40, QPI 1.31-1.35) but once a week the pc crashes even when it's on the desktop (not used) :) The strange thing is that sometimes not only windows crashes but even the bios. Then it loaded the second bios and recovers the first one. But then I got old bios F1 not latest F7 :) So, right now I found the stable overclock settings - 4.03Ghz (21x192Mhz, QPI link x32, cpu 1.35v, qpi 1.31v, turbo boost DISABLED, C1E Enabled, C3/C6 Enabled) I have no idea why, but the pc doesn't start if turbo boost is Enabled.
@@Stefan.Stefanov already failed 2 CPU (x3440 & x3470) when delid. Not gonna delid again. Delid worthed if liquid cooling inside. Im using 2nd x3470 now.
@@areastudiopropcgaming8674 how'd you go about it I got a x3470 seems to be hot stock but I have it at 3.3ghz now I left it alone because of it getting up to 70° sometimes. If I turn off Hyper threading drops about 15,° but I think games nowadays are benefiting from ht.
For chinese brands (or local "alibaba special" brands e.g Zebronics, Zebion, Kazuk, BrazilPC, Bulldozer, etc.), I managed to OC my chinesium H55 mainboard with SetFSB, the clock generator is RTM 875T-587, and best stable result is 355 (with ultra enabled). My never been OC'ed i3 550 goes to 3.5GHz before BSOD galore. Once BSOD, the fix is to clear CMOS by battery removal.
Question: have the same h55 board most likely. Let me ask you, does SetFSB save to bios? The overclock is permanent in that sense? And can you overclock the base clock or only boost?
I just got two P55 kits for free, one's a i5 750 + MSI P55-CD53 and the other is a i7 860 + GB P55A-UD3. I already have the i7 set up w/ a HD7870 OC 2GB (also Gigabyte) and if I can find more parts for cheap (some good RAM sticks and a good PSU), the i5 is getting set up as well (though the GPU might be quite a headache, since I don't really think a GTX 670 2GB would work too well with it.)
I am using x3470 and my cinebench score at stock config (2.9 GHz) is about 630 and after overlooking it to 4 GHz 200x20 is about 480 + heat i am using a deepcool AIO for coordinating.
Help : my system will benchmark just fine for hours, but as soon as I stop the benchmark and go to use the system for something basic like opening the web browser, it freezes... No BSOD it just locks up and will not respond to the reset button or holding the power switch. I have to turn off the PSU in order to switch the computer off. Why might this be happening?
That sounds like a problem with the C-states and/or turbo/speed step. Essentially what is likely happening is that your OC itself is stable but the step down voltage when the CPU shifts to lower power states isn't stable. Though with that being said I'm surprised you're able to even boot into Windows if that's truly the case. The actual problem might be your mobo or PSU as when either of them take a sustained load and heat up their ability to regulate power diminishes hence when the CPU comes off the sustained load of a benchmark the voltage swings past the stable minimum voltage and locks up. So this would be my checklist. - Do you have a P or H55 mobo and do you have a 80+ bronze or better PSU? H55's and non rated PSU's are more likely to have looser voltage regulation so likely will require higher voltages. - Is the C-states enabled? Is turbo speed boost enabled? Did you set a manual multiplier? Do NOT leave it at the factory multiplier for overclocking if turbo boost is enabled. When the computer boots load up CPU-z and check the CPU multiplier. Allow the computer to get down to real idle and see if it clocks down. Is the computer stable doing mundane tasks without benchmarking? Like watching a youtube video, reading some webpages, running through the control panel? - RAM is still downclocked to 6x multiplier with pretty loose timings or just auto should be fine correct? - Did you set a dynamic or offset Vcore or static like the video (dynamic or offset is better if you care about any power saving, static is better if you care about highest overclock) and are you using load-line calibration? If using load line calibration, turn it OFF and up the Vcore one notch up. Do NOT exceed 1.4v on the Vcore, ideally you don't get near that. The result of turning off load-line calibration is the MAX LOADED voltage actually goes down because load-line calibration fights vdroop (voltage lowering during high draw situations) and because you bumped the voltage up one setting is the light load voltage is increased. Maybe that helps your low load stability, keep in mind though this may make your high load benchmark unstable as it might require more voltage once load-line calibration is disabled. - Did you leave any of the Vcore, QPI/Vtt, PCH, PLL or DRAM voltages on AUTO? Don't. Auto goes nuts on many of these overclocks and excessively overvolts them. Depending on your targets you really shouldn't have to touch anything other than the QPI/Vtt, Vcore and maybe a touch of PLL voltage. Either way, manually enter the stock voltages instead of leaving them on AUTO. Ideally you keep the QPI/Vtt closer to 1.2v rather than the 1.31v used in the video. Intel used to spec this chipset with a 1.21v max then changed it to 1.4v after people weren't able to push decent overclocks without exceeding 1.21v. There's probably more but think writing any more might be overwhelming depending on your experience level. But hopefully some of that helps out, if you do still need help post your system specs in a response.
Long time sub and I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I'm currently on an i5-750 3.6ghz @ 1.2375.... Planning to go with either an x3450 or x3470. If I'm looking at this right, the x3450 has an uncore of 16x, so "in theory" shouldn't I just be able to plop in the cpu, cue up my old i5-750 oc settings and use that as a baseline?? (i never had to touch the qpi voltage on the i5-750, is mostly why I'm asking) - Just looking for settings for an x3450/x3470 to hit 3.6ghz easily etc. But I'm curious, since the x3470 turbo's up to 3.6 at stock, shouldn't I just be able to raise the bclk and leave the voltages on auto?? Thanks for the help fellas
Idk where I messed on P55 CD3 with Xeon x3440. I think prime 95 was the problem. The temps hit 83 and was dropping to 70C and the windows crashed and then it rained BsoD until I reinstalled it.
I have a dell optiplex 980 that I upgraded from the i7-860 to a i7-880. Also upgraded to 4x4gb sticks of ram. Looks like I’m going to have to get a overclockable motherboard.
Thank you for this! I built my friend a x3440 @3.8ghz with 1050ti/ 600watt psu. Now has a R9 Fury which seems to have caused OC to become unstable.. I assume this GPU needs a 750watt+ . Trying your settings now.
As to the heat issue. Do they not have really extra lg/ heatsinks with two fans on it in some workstation/s? That's a really big clue for your backside! She needs HD cooling super lg/air cooler or a lg/liquid cooler. Thank you for the videos.
Hello Tech YES city, I clocked my i7 like you did. To 190. 3.8Ghz. but in Core Temp all 4 cores get to 99 Celcius when doing stress test on cpu-z. I got a Hyper 212 and artic 4 cooling paste. And proper ventilation. What is the problem?
@@MechaNick_ He means that maybe the stuff inside your cpu has gotten old. That is why some people delid their cpu to put in better paste, or even liquid metal. Maybe the cooling fluid in your Hyper 212 does not work efficiently because of the position of the heatpipes, gravity has to be able to get (some of) it back to the cpu.
I somehow made it past 4ghz, (4.3Ghz to be exact), bumped my voltage to 1.37v and it is pretty stable. Motherboard: Biostar T5 XE Ram: Ramsta 2x4gb 1600 Processor: Intel X3440 this motherboard can control qpi frequency so I thought I could go beyond 4ghz, and boom 😁😁😁 temps are below 70 btw.
I think it would have helped if you did a combined test after everything, like intel burn test, because my computer crashes in intel burn test as soon as I tweak try to increase and time the memory even though it does fine in a exclusive memory test.
@Dillon Sykes what do you mean buddy? I actually see them fkr under 20 usd on ebay right now... Edit: this one and a few other listings have tons for sale for USD16.49 total with free returns 30 days and a big seller (tons of feedback, 99.7% positive too) rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F113721735532 Edit #2: this one is USD16.80 total, my bad. Confused it with a few listings that were USD16.49 but my point still stands.
@Dillon Sykes man i also bought a ssd 1 Tera, pc box and evga 600W psu with that money, a month ago I built a ryzen 2600 setup to my brother and it cost like 540£, xeon x3470 just destroy fx 8350 man, for cheap gaming at 60 FPS 1080 It does the work. Edit: very similar to yours actually, with a rx580 for 90£ and ram for like 50-60£
I personally try to run them for 1 day, but even after 1 day of stress testing I've had systems fail after just 15 minutes of a moderate load from gaming.
I got my x3430 at 4ghz 3.99 to be exact on a h55 board running on 1.39v Same setting as bryan use but on the memory performance when its on turbo i cant boot changing it to standard did the trick was able to get to windows everything was stable i think i need to delid this thing running 78-80c on cinebench on a cheap 3 heatpipe cooler My board was gigabyte ga-h55-ud3h
Perfect timing on the video. Just got my x3470 last week. Is there much of a performance/stability difference between the P55 and H55 motherboard? Trying to decide if the P55 is worth the extra cheddar.
I had the P7P55D back in 09 and it was a great board with lots of expansion slots. I am not familiar with that particular gigabyte board, but I have not yet failed to get any of the 1156 cpu's I have had to 4ghz without a lot of effort. The only issue with the platform is the power consumption.
I loved your video, I have a Gigabyte P55-UD3 board with a Xeon X3450 processor and I will try to overclock following your video with the values if I'm lucky. Would you have any advice to overclock this particular processor?
yo @Tech YES City i got a p5k deluxe asus board i wanna put a q6600 in it to overclock it, i got a 600 watt evga bronze powersupply and a 212 evo to cool it. and 8gbs of ddr2 1066 g skill. Should i be fine overclocking it. I wanted to ask someone whose done overclocking a lot and has knowledge.
Hi! Thank you for the video! Just have some questions before I get started OC'ing. Maybe you can help? :) It's not easy finding information about overclocking these old CPU's. I have the ASUS P7H55-V motherboard with a Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo. Do you think it's an OK motherboard to overclock with? I hope the CPU cooler should be sufficient. The CPU is an I7 870. I'm currently running the auto OC at 3.3Ghz and the temperature is around 41°C idle. I'm going to repaste it with Noctua NT-H1. Hopefully that will help. It has not been repasted for years. How much OC is possible, while stable? 4Ghz? :) I have 3 intakes, and one exhaust in the case, so hopefully that is ok. I'm running 32GB of RAM in quad channel, but it only clocks in at 1333Mhz, is it possible to run it at 1666Mhz? The ram is labeled 1600Mhz. Ballistix BLS8G3D1609DS1S00.16FND. Timing 9 - 9 - 9 - 24. Best regards, Ulvens. :)
I got the i7 860 and the same keyboard strafe RGB awesome keyboard, my mobo is the maximus iii gene - still can run AC odyssey, i was thinking of an upgrade but still works :P
For a great LGA 1156 overclocking with an I7 860 and GTX 1060 6GB, which card would be better, GIBABYTE Ga-P55A-Ud3R, ASUS P7H55-M / Usb3, ASUS P7P55D-E ?
My P55 board doesn't qualify for the inexpensive or cheap tags, Asus Maximus III Extreme. The specs and the settings running 24/7 on this p55 system are below. Specs/Parts: Intel Core i7 875k 2.93GHz base 3.6GHz boost 16GB kit (2x8GB) G-Skill 1866MHz 10-11-11-30-CR2 Gigabyte Radeon R9 270x 2GB OC 1,100MHz core 5.6GHz effective vram 120GB Kingston SSD as a windows/boot drive 1TB Hitachi 7200 data drive 3TB Seagate 7200 data drive TSST 16X DVD-R/RW drive Corsair CX 650M PSU Corsair H60 in push pull exhausting air out the back. Cheapo mid tower ATX case. OC Settings: CPU 22x multiplier on a 180MHz bclk 1.375v vcc 3,972MHz all cores HT enabled. Ram XMP Profile 2, 12:1 ratio, 2167MHz, 10-11-11-28-CR1 timings, auto voltage. GPU 1,156MHz core 6GHz vram effective CB R15 104.7fps, 98.02 OpenGL reference match, 124 single, 644 multi., 5.20 MP Ratio
I've managed to overclock my ol' faithful i7 860 to 3.4 GHz at 1.15625 voltage. Well, I managed to get it to 3.6 GHz at 1.75 voltage, but I have an Asus P7H55, which doesn't have radiators on some VRMs, so my main target was keeping voltages as low as possible until I had some cooling on them. I had more issues with memory though, 1600 mghz at 10-12-10-28 timings, going to CL9 would cause my system not to boot.
ive also got an i7 860, asrock H55M-LE, I use scythe mugen 2 to cool it down (air flow cpu fan) n ive been trying to overclock my cpu, but I never could get it stable, im pretty new tho but Ive been attempting so many times. If you could help me out I would love ya mate
@@forevergamer6892 I can't really tell you much, because it differs from CPU to CPU, but what I'd recommend is just, when your system crashes, restarting it and adding 1 or 2 steps more to the CPU voltage. Be careful about the VRM though. As for RAM, you can add a little bit of voltage to it. Also, I can't find much info about which type of overclock is more stable, but I heard that lower base clocks are better. So I went through multiplier OC rather than BCLK OC. So, my BLCK is 162, my CPU multiplier is 21 and my RAM multiplier is 10. I could push my CPU for more, but I don't like the idea of my VRMs burning up.
have the same Mobo with a x3470 with a Gammaxx 400 cooling it followed the steps but according to Aida64 my multiplier is stuck at 9x. Any suggestions would be appreciated
I have a Msi H55m -e32 but I'm not sure if it support xeon processors and I don't know where to look to find out. I'm planning to buy a xeon 3440 but I'm not sure if it is. compatible with my motherboard. I want to know if my motherboard can support the xeon3440 but how? I hope you can answer my question
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I bought a 3440 cpu and its amazing! Even better than my 1st gen i7 920
Its nothing I could do it in a *Flash*
Damn right it was.
Didn’t thought I woud see you here😂
Those old blue yellow BIOS were nightmares look wise but worked perfect
yeah i miss em
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True. Is Easier to understand old BIOS rather than the new one
Bookmarked this, this will serve as my guide when I buy X3430/X3440 and H55 motherboard.
And how did it go?
@Andrei Lacerda shouldn't need it, I have a asrock P55 usb pro 3 or something like that( pretty good if you can get some fans on the vrms) and it ran my x3440 without doing anything special.
And I think h55 and p55 should generally work with the same stuff.
Went to a antique market today in a little village here in germany. Bought a 1156 Asus micro atx motherboard with 8gb ram for 10 euro's
Your very lucky, I'm looking at 1156 to my son needs a pc. Needs to be cheap but decent.
@@kevinvanneste2500 1156 is where it is at
I just found a prebuilt pc at a thrift store, i3-550, 1tb hd, 8gb ddr3 for $10usd. In working condition
meanwhile here they try to sell dell optiplex lga 775 for 100 euros
McWop Plays Now that's crazy to me. Great find!
A few quick comments after doing this with an x3470 to 3.8Ghz with ALL power saving features enabled on my old i5-750 rig.
1) Don't use the factory CPU clock multiplier IF you want a decent overclock AND leave turbo boost enabled. By doing so you're allowing the chip to boost to it's turbo multiplier. With my i5-750 that's 20x which turbo boosts to 24x and on my x3470 that's 22x to 27x! With a bclk of 180 and a 3.92 Ghz OC if any task is single core dependent it'll boost up to 4.89 GHz! All your voltages will have to be able to accommodate that level of overclock and remain stable if you leave it at the stock multiplier. Setting this manually to a different setting than stock disables the Turbo boost portion but retains the Speed Step tech that allows the CPU to downclock the CPU to conserve power when not needed. My recommendation is just to set the multiplier one below factory.
2) Load-Line calibration INCREASES your voltage when at max load to compensate for the voltage drop that occurs when the CPU undergoes high loads. So if you set your voltage to 1.375v like in the video and enable Load-line calibration you could be pushing somewhere near 1.38v or higher. The Intel limit on Vcore is 1.4v for this chipset. If you can get your overclock stable with the same voltage without it, don't use it.
3) QPI/Vtt is the memory controller on the CPU. This voltage should remain with .5v of the DRAM voltage. So if you're using something like the old OCZ sticks that wouldn't boot with less than 1.65v or other 'performance' RAM that needs extra voltage you need to bump the voltage of the QPI/Vtt to be within .5v of the DRAM voltage.
Overall it's a pretty simple process. The time consuming part (for me) is fine tuning all the voltages and memory timings to the lowest voltage possible while remaining rock solid stable. Because I have all the power saving enabled my OC will be lower than basically everyone else on the same hardware but that's fine by me. Having a 25C idle in a 20C room isn't bad either and I haven't finished tweaking the voltages quite yet.
do I giving up anything if I turn turbo boost off ? because some how the system won't boot if I leave it on.
@@badman3364 You lose turbo boost (allowing the CPU to boost to it's highest multiplier) and Speed Step (allowing the CPU to declock itself when not needed which helps lower power consumption).
Per your problem, so leaving everything at factory defaults doesn't allow your system to boot? Are you sure you're not just pushing the Bclk too high and when the system boots it tries to reach the turbo boost multiplier and because you bumped the Bclk it just isn't stable at the single core turbo boosted clock?
@@Vermonstered well I never tried to go pass 180. I can boot now @180x22mhz. Any chances it was the ram that can't keep up? because getting higher blck also mean the ram speed is increase ?
@@badman3364 Which CPU are you using? For overclocking stability testing you should be using the lowest memory multiplier (6x usually I think on this chipset) so memory speeds shouldn't be an issue.
But just so you know 180 bclk w/ a x22 multiplier is 3.96Ghz. If turbo boost is kicking in that's around x26 multiplier or 4.68Ghz and where you're likely to be unstable/crashing. Go back to my first post and first bullet, to disable turbo boost but not speed step you need to set the multiplier at something other than factory default on many boards.
@@Vermonstered I'm using x3470 with a Gigabyte P55-USB3L mobo. So let say I'm ressting all the settings and in the menu the bclk is multiplier is 22 then I should use x21?
Couple of tips: Before starting the overclock process image your system to another drive. Occasionally after pushing too far when windows crashes it will corrupt the system and set you back 30 minutes to reload windows. Also sometimes changing the PCIe freq on certain boards / chips can help get past walls. Also make sure you have the latest bios installed and its best to set back at default speeds when flashing the bios for safety.
I learned how to overclock from you and still love watching your overclocking vids when you make them
This video is so irrelevant in 2018 yet so useful because I've been literally googling this 10 minutes ago. Good job man.
Okay screw your opinion?
I'm here in 2020 building a basic gaming set up for my store so I'd say its still pretty relevant.
I mean of you get a good.mobo these xeons are great buys.
Just got my first xeon, luckily on this exact motherboard. Overclock works a treat. Thanks mate :)
Which cooler?
I have a Xeon X3450. This thing is a beast. Got it used for 15€. I got it to 3,4 Ghz without touching the Core Voltage. It runs at 1,120V. It is impressive. I could give it a better GPU than the 660 TI is currently still has and it would play pretty much everything.
Ulfgar-Septimus von Stahlenberg i go 3.7ghz with default voltage. Only changr clock and multiplier.
Go for 960 / 970. 10 series sometimes milisec lag on my x3440, 8gb ddr3 1600.
Yes, it might do more, but 3,4 Ghz is the sweetspot for it to stay below the Tcas with my cooler. It's in my old gaming rig, so I would go for a 950 perhaps, if I get a good deal in the future.
Ulfgar-Septimus von Stahlenberg 950 $75-90 ; 960 $130-150 here.
ulfgar what is the thermals on your 3450? im curious as to what your cooling solution is.
You just made my day, I was hoping for this happens one day, thank you so much.
Here I am, building a budget H55 X3470 system and Im trying to get a little bit more performance from this budget build... I search for a tutorial and the TECH YES has be covered yet again!!!
I can't believe this video exists! I actually not only own but have only ever owned an I7 860 or worse. My computers highest end piece is my gtx 1050...
@jackthegamer it's not that good, better? Maybe but not good. An Athlon 200GE or Ry 3 2200 would annihilate in comparison with their wraith coolers included. Anyway, what's your GC?
@jackthegamer Yeah
Core I 7 860 with rx 480 and h55M mobo 😂
man bottlenecks are coming in!
oh yes, been waiting for this video for so long, got i5-760 to play with ! lga 1156 for the win!
How is it still working for you?
@@majicgordon should be fine, I have a i5 760 that I used a little to see what it could do, ans it did play insurgency sandstorm at 100+ fps just fine at like 3,6 ghz or something.
Heck yeah !
3.6Ghz on my i5-750 =)
do u use stock heatsink fan?
I used a thicker 775 heatsink on my 750 clocked to 3.4ghz
I did overclock my i7 875k to 4.5 ghz and its been 10 years now and she’s still bangin in 2020! Haven’t bought any newer cpu for almost 10 years now! I’m using asrock h55 1156 mobo! I did change my mobo 5 years ago it’s the same asrock h55 1156 socket until now she’s still working like a charm even my cpu! As of today I can play assassins creed odyssey, Fortnite, CRISIS, the Witcher, and many more games in 60 to 70 FPS in high settings paired with my gtx 1660 ti! Imagine how much money I did save for 10 years without buying a new CPU even though I did spend a little bit in gpu! I’m not a hardcore gamer! Nor a expert but I like playing games to relax and enjoy! Today there is a lot of expensive cpu and gpu without overclocking 1080p extreme, 4K, and 8k optimized! For me I’m fine with 1080p high settings and I’m really happy with it!
@@calvinad6205 I used a Mastercooler Hyper T4 and managed to bump it up to 4ghz.
Sorry for the late response :)
@@kalvinvuong5778 yes so late
Just build an old 1156 with x3440, got a good bargain on online market. And this video refresh my memory on overclocking on 1156. Thanks
WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. THANKS BRYAN
Great Tutorial Bro!! Wanna unpack my old 1156's now.
i like my 3440 xeons at 3,5ghz and 1,2 volts. Not much gain between 3,5 and 3,8 or 3,9 but less complicated and you can run a cheap cooler
What cooler are you using?
Do you use a h55 or p55
nice, I only got my x3450 to 3.1 without counting turbo and that gets toasty if I try to run it at 3.3, so 3.1 is much more palatable with a thermaltake contac 12
Thanks for that info. Mines running nicely now at 3.5 ghz.
I got a 280mm cooler 16 gigs of 2400mhz ram and a 2060s to go with it.
Definitely gonna try to put it at 4ghz atleast.
(Didn't get most stuff specifically for the xeon, but I have it laying around and some guy says its trash). Even with worst case scenario its pretty good.
Great video man. I was having a couple issues with getting my x3440 to 4ghz and this solved all of them :)
This was one of my fav videos. Not knowing how to oc keeps me away from old tech.
Really helpful, going up with my i5 -750 oc to 4ghz today.
Imma oc a i5 650 sometime, I don't wanna flex to much but lets see what those 2c and 4t can do in 2020 boy.
@@tilburg8683 You can get easily 3.8, i got 4.0 with stock cooler at 1.29v
Been waiting for this vid for awhile. Great stuff Brian!
who else thinks the intro should sound like "here i am to clock you like a hurricane " lol
Yeah it definitely needed some power like music to go with that thumbnail alright!
successfully OC'd my X3440 to 3.9 GHz with a 10 year old Motheboard ASUS P7P55D-E without frying it lol thanks so much Mr. Tech Yes! love from Indonesia! you make me build my first own budget gaming PC!!!
Asal dr mana bro?
I think I'm about to get 3.6 -3.8 thanks to you this i7 860 is gonna kick ass!
I bought an Lga 775 Asus P5k Se/EPU and an Core 2 duo E4500 today for 15$ from the booth fair. They surprisingly worked, tho i've got to use one of my weirder "memory not detected" beeps fixes by liking the pads of the dimm and, you will pe surprised how many dimms i saved form my "Dead hardware box" by this method...
Hi all. Thousands of thanks for the video. Maybe someone has the patience and time to explain to me (I don't want to burn anything ... I don't have money for another PC). From the beginning I mention that regarding overclocking I am below the beginner level and that is why I need help.
The system is (that's how I bought it 2 years ago - I only changed the GPU a week ago): Gigabyte P55A-UD4, BIOS F15, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz, AMD Radeon RX 580 4G, Cooler Scythe Katana 3, RAM: 24576MB, PSU Enermax Ligerty II 80+ 400 AWT-ECO, Fan speed controler and and and....
I watched the video several times, but I don't overclock until I have all the information. What I've done so far:
- in the BIOS "load optimized default";
- tested with Prime95 kill test (28 hours - 0 errors, max temperatures 71-73 ° C),
- tested with Memtest64 (10 hours - 0 errors),
- i have liquid metal but I don't know what material is under the cooler (aluminum or copper)
- in a few days must arrive.... untill then i will do nothing: PSU: AZZA 650W PSAZ ATX 80 Plus Bronze (+ 12V 48A).
And now the questions:
1. CPU Clock Ratio 20X or 22X like default BIOS?
2. from begin BCLK 190 or lower (for lower i belive are another voltage)?
3. SPD? by 6 i have 800, by 8 - 1066, by 10 - 1333, by 12 - 1600. What do I choose? And voltage for each? I means by 6 - 1,5v, by 8 - 1,55v .... (like one exemple). I understood that the change would be gradual.
4. DRAM: FSB Ratio 5:1. Good or bad?
5. What I don't understand are the DDR3 settings. In Aida64 it is so (4 slots 2x4G and 2x8G DDR3): Memory Timings 9-9-9-24 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS) and at each write Kingston DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM (9-9-9-24 @ 666 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-20 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-17 @ 457 MHz).
What do I choose from all these numbers for "Channel A Timing Settings" and "Command Rate"? I must to change "Channel B Timing Settings" too? Or like in video 10-10-10-30 and CMD 1 (i have 2 default)?
I hope I didn't write too much.
Thnx all.
pre-snowman Tech YES City, a different era.
I needed this video last year
Thank you thank you I bought this platform because of you all set up running x3440 just waiting on my AIO to come in to start my O.C. Give a hell YES!!!! To the one the only Tech YES City
What aio u use? And how much temp diff. AIO vs fan? Im planning to do AIO too bcz temp was too high. (99'C on 4ghz using thermaltake deep frio advance)
Yes Thanks! It's work! x3450 make again!
x3450 4c/8t @3,7Ghz VCore 1,325V
Asus P55
16 Go DDR3
RX 570 8gb
PNY SSD 240go
Win10
Let's Rock, Baby!
Whats the average temperature did you get?
@@bryantan._ 35°c idle / 65°c burn
What cooler do you use? Cause mine got to the 99 when stress test, also i use arctic mx4 thermal paste
@@bryantan._ Sorry about that, no "in burn", but "in Game" (DX:MD, DS3, DOOM), i use an " Aphalcool" thermal paste and an old but Fat "CoolerMaster" Cooler with one 120 mm Fan
To any newcomers, Look into max safe VTT voltage for Lynnfield CPUs., intel says 1.21v is absolute max, but some tutorials including this one are running 1.3-1.4v. Rumor is that will kill your CPU after a while. With my x3470, I can run much lower VTT voltages and achieve a higher CPU overclock if I keep your RAM speed down around 1333mhz. As long as you tighten your timings and even a command rate of 1, 1333Mhz is more then enough for this platform
EVGA P55 SLI, R9280x
X3470 3.96Ghz 1.318v VCORE, 1.2v VTT, (618 all/122 single in Cinebench R15)
Gskill 1600mhz Ripjaws @1440Mhz 9-9-9-24 CR1 (20,000MB/s in AIDA64 Read)
Mine on auto is at 1.34
THAT WAS THE VIDEO WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THANKS
Yes you're the man. Sending love from America! I love 1366 you kick ass brither
Very good guide! I was able to clock my X3440 with Asrock H55 to 4040MHz. Temps around 70c. Thanks :)
4GHZ on my i5 760, looking to drop in a x3440 with the current OC settings 🦾
On average the Xeons are binned better I think, but some 860's are also really good.
I have an 860 that is stable at 4.2ghz/1.35v. It also has no problem with DDR3 running at 2400mhz which means it has a very good IMC. It scores about 660 in CB15.
Also, I've never needed to up the PLL from 1.8v. I have always left it at that voltage even going for more extreme overclocks (5ghz+ on a x5670).
nice! what board you using?
It's on a P55A-UD4P. It has a pretty solid 12 phase VRM which keeps voltages nice and stable.
Edit: It looks like Brian is using a P55A-UD3P (rev2), which has a similar power delivery setup.
Interesting; may I ask what sort of memory kit you're running and if you happen to know if the dimms are single or dual ranked please? I bought into p55 when it was new and have ended up with an i7 875k with a 32gb kit of g.skill 2666 ram on an EVGA P55 Classified; cannot seem to improve it beyond 1720mhz with 9 9 9 24 2T timings. Makes me wonder if the IMC in particular simply cannot handle more given that its a 32gb kit.
I would think that you'd be able to hit at least 2000mhz with that setup. The kit is a Patriot Viper III 2400mhz 1.65v 2x8gb kit running at 10-11-10-24-1t, I honestly don't know whether they are dual or single rank. VTT needed around 1.35v or so.
Running four dimms may put more strain on the IMC so that may be the issue you're having.
wait 32gb? does the board and cpu recognise that amount in the bios?
Intro was amazing
Pyro5151 gold :D
I have a xeon X5650 (socket 1366, basically the same technology) overclocked from 2.66Ghz to 4Ghz with an old "better than average but nothing extraordinary" air cooler, good temps and total stability, incredible value from money.
I also have a X3440 but right now I don't have any 1156 motherboard to play with it :-(
Manuel Estevez just buy. P55 / H55. But x5650 far way better with 6 core. And with right board it can be 32gb RAM. I want to build 1336 too but its more expensive than this 1156 build.
Unique Stuff id I know what to buy, but I'm not willing to pay what people ask for even the most basic 1156 motherboards this days. Yes, the 1366 is a nicer platform, but it can be pretty expensive, I have one only because I found a very good deal in a CPU/mobo/memory combo guaranteed to OC well (and it does, 4Ghz is far from its limit, but I'm happy with that).
Manuel Estevez i7 -920 with sabertooth x58 board for $200-250 in my country.
Unique Stuff id I paid 185€ (shipping included) for the X5650, an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and 12 GB of Kingston HyperX 1600 memory, as I said it was a very good deal ;-)
Manuel Estevez Very great deal! X58 deals rare here.
Thank you dude
My bios is little different than yours but I just pulled the oc out of my ass according to your guidelines. And here I am, rocking the old bastard i7-860 at 4ghz while rarely hitting above 70° degrees (with help of Noctua (NH-D15S)).
Also my RAM can unfold it's potential at 2.000mhz instead of crappy 1.333mhz.
That just made my pc last two years more, so thank you! I guess I subscribe your channel TO KINGDOM COME!
thanks for the video, been waiting for this.
"Quick and Dirty". AHAHAHAHA i've watched this video at least 10 times and i laugh at this every time. Love your work Brian your a legend!
YES! I want to give my dad's system an OC since his CPU is not keeping up anymore (i5-750), he already upgraded to a GTX 960 (from an HD 4890) so this is just what he needs
HazewinDog buy x3470. $29 with $4 discount coupon new user on app.
Спасибо за видео по разгону) Разогнал свой Core i7-860 до 3,7 ГГц
Tremendous, very helpful, put my 750 to 160bclk with the C1E. Single core +6%, All core +15-20%
doesn't boost more than 3360mhz... single core
OK I needed the C-states to be enabled for the 24multiplier to work on single core
I have X3470 and GA-P55-US3L (rev1.0) and I managed to reached 4.20 (21x200Mhz or 22x190Mhz, cpu 1.35-1.40, QPI 1.31-1.35) but once a week the pc crashes even when it's on the desktop (not used) :) The strange thing is that sometimes not only windows crashes but even the bios. Then it loaded the second bios and recovers the first one. But then I got old bios F1 not latest F7 :) So, right now I found the stable overclock settings - 4.03Ghz (21x192Mhz, QPI link x32, cpu 1.35v, qpi 1.31v, turbo boost DISABLED, C1E Enabled, C3/C6 Enabled) I have no idea why, but the pc doesn't start if turbo boost is Enabled.
Try check the temp. At 4ghz, mine at 99'C same CPU & mobo u hv. Cooler : thermaltake deep frio advance.
Me too :) over 90C, so i delided the X3470 and now on full load max temps are about 80C.
@@Stefan.Stefanov already failed 2 CPU (x3440 & x3470) when delid. Not gonna delid again. Delid worthed if liquid cooling inside. Im using 2nd x3470 now.
@@areastudiopropcgaming8674 how'd you go about it I got a x3470 seems to be hot stock but I have it at 3.3ghz now I left it alone because of it getting up to 70° sometimes. If I turn off Hyper threading drops about 15,° but I think games nowadays are benefiting from ht.
@@areastudiopropcgaming8674 Ok did u use razor blades? Trying to find out how delid it without a special tool.
Xeon X3440 @ 3.8 on a h55 motherboard with snowman dual pipe/fan cpu cooler is a great combo for about $70. 65c peak and 40 idle.
Thank you very much!💯 exact with your settings only a bit higher volltage for me.
Xeon x3430@3,8Ghz 1,4v
For chinese brands (or local "alibaba special" brands e.g Zebronics, Zebion, Kazuk, BrazilPC, Bulldozer, etc.), I managed to OC my chinesium H55 mainboard with SetFSB, the clock generator is RTM 875T-587, and best stable result is 355 (with ultra enabled). My never been OC'ed i3 550 goes to 3.5GHz before BSOD galore.
Once BSOD, the fix is to clear CMOS by battery removal.
Question: have the same h55 board most likely. Let me ask you, does SetFSB save to bios? The overclock is permanent in that sense? And can you overclock the base clock or only boost?
@@guy7227 the oc is temporary, restarting would reset them
It OC's BCLK like this video
@@bitelaserkhalif I didn’t think they had the option in bios to go over a certain ratio
@@guy7227 yep, none in BIOS, at all
Use setfsb, that's the only way.
@@bitelaserkhalif do you know of any cheap LGA 1156 that can do it?
thanks for the cool and easy to understand tutorial
I just got two P55 kits for free, one's a i5 750 + MSI P55-CD53 and the other is a i7 860 + GB P55A-UD3.
I already have the i7 set up w/ a HD7870 OC 2GB (also Gigabyte) and if I can find more parts for cheap (some good RAM sticks and a good PSU), the i5 is getting set up as well (though the GPU might be quite a headache, since I don't really think a GTX 670 2GB would work too well with it.)
Got my x3470 up to 4.2 on my P7F7-E Supercomputer with the RAM at 2200mhz - only a few points behind the 3770 in cinebench!
Thx man ! My 9 years old pc runs now stabel on 4Ghz with turboboost up to 4.3Ghz (i7 860 2.8Ghz original) (alienware aurora r2 -2010-)
Hi there! Whats the average temperature did you get?
Thank you, my 870ES run on 4.0, 60-70C with apex, sweet ; )
Another Great ONE!
This makes me kinda miss my old i3 550. lGA 1156 was such a great socket with so many awesome CPUs
i sit here with i3 530/540/550 and xeon x3430. I Play csgo with that paired with a gtx 680 in 3440x1440 haha
Frellin awesome m8, thank you 👍
I am using x3470 and my cinebench score at stock config (2.9 GHz) is about 630 and after overlooking it to 4 GHz 200x20 is about 480 + heat i am using a deepcool AIO for coordinating.
Awesome video YES man! Can you please also do a guide for X79, preferably the ASUS boards?
Ok I have a Intel dh55tc board with a Xeon x3470 at stock speeds. I need to know whether there's any difference between h55 boards and p55 boards?
Thanks for this video!!
Nice video man...
Help : my system will benchmark just fine for hours, but as soon as I stop the benchmark and go to use the system for something basic like opening the web browser, it freezes... No BSOD it just locks up and will not respond to the reset button or holding the power switch. I have to turn off the PSU in order to switch the computer off. Why might this be happening?
That sounds like a problem with the C-states and/or turbo/speed step. Essentially what is likely happening is that your OC itself is stable but the step down voltage when the CPU shifts to lower power states isn't stable. Though with that being said I'm surprised you're able to even boot into Windows if that's truly the case. The actual problem might be your mobo or PSU as when either of them take a sustained load and heat up their ability to regulate power diminishes hence when the CPU comes off the sustained load of a benchmark the voltage swings past the stable minimum voltage and locks up. So this would be my checklist.
- Do you have a P or H55 mobo and do you have a 80+ bronze or better PSU? H55's and non rated PSU's are more likely to have looser voltage regulation so likely will require higher voltages.
- Is the C-states enabled? Is turbo speed boost enabled? Did you set a manual multiplier? Do NOT leave it at the factory multiplier for overclocking if turbo boost is enabled. When the computer boots load up CPU-z and check the CPU multiplier. Allow the computer to get down to real idle and see if it clocks down. Is the computer stable doing mundane tasks without benchmarking? Like watching a youtube video, reading some webpages, running through the control panel?
- RAM is still downclocked to 6x multiplier with pretty loose timings or just auto should be fine correct?
- Did you set a dynamic or offset Vcore or static like the video (dynamic or offset is better if you care about any power saving, static is better if you care about highest overclock) and are you using load-line calibration? If using load line calibration, turn it OFF and up the Vcore one notch up. Do NOT exceed 1.4v on the Vcore, ideally you don't get near that. The result of turning off load-line calibration is the MAX LOADED voltage actually goes down because load-line calibration fights vdroop (voltage lowering during high draw situations) and because you bumped the voltage up one setting is the light load voltage is increased. Maybe that helps your low load stability, keep in mind though this may make your high load benchmark unstable as it might require more voltage once load-line calibration is disabled.
- Did you leave any of the Vcore, QPI/Vtt, PCH, PLL or DRAM voltages on AUTO? Don't. Auto goes nuts on many of these overclocks and excessively overvolts them. Depending on your targets you really shouldn't have to touch anything other than the QPI/Vtt, Vcore and maybe a touch of PLL voltage. Either way, manually enter the stock voltages instead of leaving them on AUTO. Ideally you keep the QPI/Vtt closer to 1.2v rather than the 1.31v used in the video. Intel used to spec this chipset with a 1.21v max then changed it to 1.4v after people weren't able to push decent overclocks without exceeding 1.21v.
There's probably more but think writing any more might be overwhelming depending on your experience level. But hopefully some of that helps out, if you do still need help post your system specs in a response.
What about Xeon X3470? Its only few bucks more than the X3440.
Max out 4 - 4.2 ghz but 100'C temp
Long time sub and I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I'm currently on an i5-750 3.6ghz @ 1.2375.... Planning to go with either an x3450 or x3470. If I'm looking at this right, the x3450 has an uncore of 16x, so "in theory" shouldn't I just be able to plop in the cpu, cue up my old i5-750 oc settings and use that as a baseline?? (i never had to touch the qpi voltage on the i5-750, is mostly why I'm asking) - Just looking for settings for an x3450/x3470 to hit 3.6ghz easily etc. But I'm curious, since the x3470 turbo's up to 3.6 at stock, shouldn't I just be able to raise the bclk and leave the voltages on auto?? Thanks for the help fellas
Idk where I messed on P55 CD3 with Xeon x3440. I think prime 95 was the problem. The temps hit 83 and was dropping to 70C and the windows crashed and then it rained BsoD until I reinstalled it.
I have a dell optiplex 980 that I upgraded from the i7-860 to a i7-880. Also upgraded to 4x4gb sticks of ram. Looks like I’m going to have to get a overclockable motherboard.
love ur vids
where did you get from liquid metal...??? did you broke some bulb thermometer???? thanks..... best regards from Bogotá....
I never leave anything in auto. I just copy every prescribed base numbers on left, then incremental increase as I go along.
And how do you know how much to increase which figure?
Thank you for this! I built my friend a x3440 @3.8ghz with 1050ti/ 600watt psu. Now has a R9 Fury which seems to have caused OC to become unstable.. I assume this GPU needs a 750watt+ . Trying your settings now.
As to the heat issue. Do they not have really extra lg/ heatsinks with two fans on it in some workstation/s? That's a really big clue for your backside! She needs HD cooling super lg/air cooler or a lg/liquid cooler. Thank you for the videos.
Hello Tech YES city, I clocked my i7 like you did. To 190. 3.8Ghz. but in Core Temp all 4 cores get to 99 Celcius when doing stress test on cpu-z. I got a Hyper 212 and artic 4 cooling paste. And proper ventilation. What is the problem?
The i7 is with thermal Paste under the IHS
@@Hibiki_Tachibana ???
@@MechaNick_ He means that maybe the stuff inside your cpu has gotten old. That is why some people delid their cpu to put in better paste, or even liquid metal. Maybe the cooling fluid in your Hyper 212 does not work efficiently because of the position of the heatpipes, gravity has to be able to get (some of) it back to the cpu.
I somehow made it past 4ghz, (4.3Ghz to be exact), bumped my voltage to 1.37v and it is pretty stable.
Motherboard: Biostar T5 XE
Ram: Ramsta 2x4gb 1600
Processor: Intel X3440
this motherboard can control qpi frequency so I thought I could go beyond 4ghz, and boom 😁😁😁
temps are below 70 btw.
I think it would have helped if you did a combined test after everything, like intel burn test, because my computer crashes in intel burn test as soon as I tweak try to increase and time the memory even though it does fine in a exclusive memory test.
How to get I7 performance for $20
Well, a xeon x3470 is a slightly higher binned i7-870; 3460 is 860...
So... of course you're getting i7 performance, it's an i7
@Dillon Sykes what do you mean buddy? I actually see them fkr under 20 usd on ebay right now...
Edit: this one and a few other listings have tons for sale for USD16.49 total with free returns 30 days and a big seller (tons of feedback, 99.7% positive too)
rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F113721735532
Edit #2: this one is USD16.80 total, my bad. Confused it with a few listings that were USD16.49 but my point still stands.
@Dillon Sykes 13.53 €
@Dillon Sykes man i got a cheap pc for leas than 230 dollars capable of gaming in 1080
@Dillon Sykes man i also bought a ssd 1 Tera, pc box and evga 600W psu with that money, a month ago I built a ryzen 2600 setup to my brother and it cost like 540£, xeon x3470 just destroy fx 8350 man, for cheap gaming at 60 FPS 1080 It does the work.
Edit: very similar to yours actually, with a rx580 for 90£ and ram for like 50-60£
idk if 10 mins in aida 64 is really enough, I've had aida tests fail after like half an hour. I would probably run it for at least an hour to be sure.
I personally try to run them for 1 day, but even after 1 day of stress testing I've had systems fail after just 15 minutes of a moderate load from gaming.
I got my x3430 at 4ghz 3.99 to be exact on a h55 board running on 1.39v
Same setting as bryan use but on the memory performance when its on turbo i cant boot changing it to standard did the trick was able to get to windows everything was stable i think i need to delid this thing running 78-80c on cinebench on a cheap 3 heatpipe cooler
My board was gigabyte ga-h55-ud3h
Perfect timing on the video. Just got my x3470 last week. Is there much of a performance/stability difference between the P55 and H55 motherboard? Trying to decide if the P55 is worth the extra cheddar.
Adam Thilges try to change thetmal paste on motherboard chipset first
idiot
what boards were you considering buying?
McCready 747 its actually same. Im using gigabyte P55-US3L. Other alternative ASUS P7P55D for 1156.
I had the P7P55D back in 09 and it was a great board with lots of expansion slots. I am not familiar with that particular gigabyte board, but I have not yet failed to get any of the 1156 cpu's I have had to 4ghz without a lot of effort.
The only issue with the platform is the power consumption.
Overclocking never made easier with the YES!
I loved your video, I have a Gigabyte P55-UD3 board with a Xeon X3450 processor and I will try to overclock following your video with the values if I'm lucky. Would you have any advice to overclock this particular processor?
yo @Tech YES City i got a p5k deluxe asus board i wanna put a q6600 in it to overclock it, i got a 600 watt evga bronze powersupply and a 212 evo to cool it. and 8gbs of ddr2 1066 g skill. Should i be fine overclocking it. I wanted to ask someone whose done overclocking a lot and has knowledge.
Hi! Thank you for the video! Just have some questions before I get started OC'ing. Maybe you can help? :) It's not easy finding information about overclocking these old CPU's. I have the ASUS P7H55-V motherboard with a Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo. Do you think it's an OK motherboard to overclock with? I hope the CPU cooler should be sufficient. The CPU is an I7 870. I'm currently running the auto OC at 3.3Ghz and the temperature is around 41°C idle. I'm going to repaste it with Noctua NT-H1. Hopefully that will help. It has not been repasted for years. How much OC is possible, while stable? 4Ghz? :) I have 3 intakes, and one exhaust in the case, so hopefully that is ok. I'm running 32GB of RAM in quad channel, but it only clocks in at 1333Mhz, is it possible to run it at 1666Mhz? The ram is labeled 1600Mhz. Ballistix BLS8G3D1609DS1S00.16FND. Timing 9 - 9 - 9 - 24. Best regards, Ulvens. :)
I have a zebronics h55 motherboard and i3 550 I don't have the overclocking option in it please help 🥺🥺
I got the i7 860 and the same keyboard strafe RGB awesome keyboard, my mobo is the maximus iii gene - still can run AC odyssey, i was thinking of an upgrade but still works :P
M3Gene for the win
@@milchkopf3881 The M3Gene died on me last week and that upgrade I was talking about 2 months ago, actually happened.
Can I use this guide to overclock an E5450
do X58 next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES
For a great LGA 1156 overclocking with an I7 860 and GTX 1060 6GB, which card would be better, GIBABYTE Ga-P55A-Ud3R, ASUS P7H55-M / Usb3, ASUS P7P55D-E ?
gigabyte
Please make a X58 overclock guide Bryan!
Your mobo seems more complicate then mine p7p55d by asus
yeah, gigabyte does their bios weirdly
Any idea whether the board will support ECC memory (registered and/or unregistered)?
@@tcrolius consumer grade motherboards don`t support ecc
I still have an i7-860 with an HD 7870 XT in my main PC
My P55 board doesn't qualify for the inexpensive or cheap tags, Asus Maximus III Extreme.
The specs and the settings running 24/7 on this p55 system are below.
Specs/Parts:
Intel Core i7 875k 2.93GHz base 3.6GHz boost
16GB kit (2x8GB) G-Skill 1866MHz 10-11-11-30-CR2
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270x 2GB OC 1,100MHz core 5.6GHz effective vram
120GB Kingston SSD as a windows/boot drive
1TB Hitachi 7200 data drive
3TB Seagate 7200 data drive
TSST 16X DVD-R/RW drive
Corsair CX 650M PSU
Corsair H60 in push pull exhausting air out the back.
Cheapo mid tower ATX case.
OC Settings:
CPU 22x multiplier on a 180MHz bclk 1.375v vcc 3,972MHz all cores HT enabled.
Ram XMP Profile 2, 12:1 ratio, 2167MHz, 10-11-11-28-CR1 timings, auto voltage.
GPU 1,156MHz core 6GHz vram effective
CB R15 104.7fps, 98.02 OpenGL reference match, 124 single, 644 multi., 5.20 MP Ratio
whick motherboard is the best for overclocking a x3480?
I've managed to overclock my ol' faithful i7 860 to 3.4 GHz at 1.15625 voltage. Well, I managed to get it to 3.6 GHz at 1.75 voltage, but I have an Asus P7H55, which doesn't have radiators on some VRMs, so my main target was keeping voltages as low as possible until I had some cooling on them. I had more issues with memory though, 1600 mghz at 10-12-10-28 timings, going to CL9 would cause my system not to boot.
ive also got an i7 860, asrock H55M-LE, I use scythe mugen 2 to cool it down (air flow cpu fan) n ive been trying to overclock my cpu, but I never could get it stable, im pretty new tho but Ive been attempting so many times. If you could help me out I would love ya mate
@@forevergamer6892 I can't really tell you much, because it differs from CPU to CPU, but what I'd recommend is just, when your system crashes, restarting it and adding 1 or 2 steps more to the CPU voltage. Be careful about the VRM though. As for RAM, you can add a little bit of voltage to it. Also, I can't find much info about which type of overclock is more stable, but I heard that lower base clocks are better. So I went through multiplier OC rather than BCLK OC. So, my BLCK is 162, my CPU multiplier is 21 and my RAM multiplier is 10. I could push my CPU for more, but I don't like the idea of my VRMs burning up.
Thank you, I think im gonna get a water coolah.
Hello my mother board doesn't have the AI tweaker option and my multipliers are locked (grayed out) must I install the tweaker or
have the same Mobo with a x3470 with a Gammaxx 400 cooling it followed the steps but according to Aida64 my multiplier is stuck at 9x. Any suggestions would be appreciated
sunny a Hey did u figure out anything?
I have a Msi H55m -e32 but I'm not sure if it support xeon processors and I don't know where to look to find out. I'm planning to buy a xeon 3440 but I'm not sure if it is. compatible with my motherboard.
I want to know if my motherboard can support the xeon3440 but how?
I hope you can answer my question
Some updates. I dont delid it. Manage to 4ghz. But max temp at 99'C with noctua NT H1 + thermaltake frio advance. Is that ok? If 3.8 max at 80-85'C
This is late, but I recall 72C being the max temprature you really want to see on your 1156 cpu.