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When using this resource, please read the opening post. The Tech Support forum regulars have helped create countless of desktop systems without any compensation. The least you can do is provide all of the information required for them to help you properly.
wptlzkwjd
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada1240 Posts
January 03 2014 01:43 GMT
#3541
On January 03 2014 09:21 ZeromuS wrote:
Yeah I am running 1.4 on VCORE. Anything less and my computer locks up and crashes and causes all sorts of errors at anything more than 4.2GHz

I set 1.4 in the bios, and I tried 1.35 1.36 etc and 1.39 works up until heavy load on my CPU and then it causes errors.

I have stress tested and I got at its worst 64 celsius but when I play games and other things I am around 55 celsius.

Good to know the PSU is probably fine which is great. But I am curious as to why I appear to be needing such a high VCore.

I am not sure how I am supposed to OC my CPU if I can't really do so at less than 1.4v without errors :/

I mean when I started OCing I looked at tons of guides and started slow and checked temps every time. And I am having zero temp issues.

Running OCCT I maxed out at 75 celsius and bumped it down to 1.395. 1.39 leads to instabality and blue screens :/ as well as things like chrome just crashing for some reason.


Boy...and I thought my 4.5GHz @ 1.355V was bad. Have you tried IntelBurnTest or Prime95? They skyrocketed my temps to 90 when I was OC'ing at 1.355V.
Feel free to add me on steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/MagnusAskeland/
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
January 03 2014 02:02 GMT
#3542
Yeah I am running 1.4 on VCORE. Anything less and my computer locks up and crashes and causes all sorts of errors at anything more than 4.2GHz

I set 1.4 in the bios, and I tried 1.35 1.36 etc and 1.39 works up until heavy load on my CPU and then it causes errors.

I have stress tested and I got at its worst 64 celsius but when I play games and other things I am around 55 celsius.


Those temps are wrong, you have some issue with OC, that's why i said check benchmark scores
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
January 03 2014 02:03 GMT
#3543
On January 03 2014 09:33 .Mystic wrote:
Hey,
thanks for the help incognoto and Myrmidon.

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

This is what I created based off both your builds. I opted to go with i5 and decided to keep it under $1000 excluding taxes. The small jump in price is worth the performance is how i explained to him.

He wanted to use this comp for few years so 760 seems to be a good choice for future games even though it may be overkill like you said.
I believe the PSU is strong enough for this setup, but would like to double check.

If I missed anything, let me know. I'll prbly stick to ME and NCIX like Myrmidon's build to save on shipping costs. I don't trust partpicker website to have the lowest prices from the web lol.


That link doesn't show anything for anyone else, it runs on a browser cookie or something else local machine, you need to use the permalink
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13410 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-03 03:45:34
January 03 2014 03:12 GMT
#3544
On January 03 2014 11:02 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
Yeah I am running 1.4 on VCORE. Anything less and my computer locks up and crashes and causes all sorts of errors at anything more than 4.2GHz

I set 1.4 in the bios, and I tried 1.35 1.36 etc and 1.39 works up until heavy load on my CPU and then it causes errors.

I have stress tested and I got at its worst 64 celsius but when I play games and other things I am around 55 celsius.


Those temps are wrong, you have some issue with OC, that's why i said check benchmark scores


I reinstalled the bios and reset my OCs. I can run 4.2 at 1.25v maybe something is goofy with my mobo and once i go up to 4.4 I need to run much higher voltages?

1.25 is stock voltage on my CPU on this mobo. That seems better no? Any idea why I can't hit 4.4 with 1.25 or 1.3? Just curious.

Everything is set to auto except my core clock and my Turbo boost which I set to 42.
StrategyRTS forever | @ZeromuS_plays | www.twitch.tv/Zeromus_
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
January 03 2014 03:52 GMT
#3545
^Well, what mobo and llc setting is it?
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13410 Posts
January 03 2014 04:01 GMT
#3546
llc is 1.81something

and its a Gigabyte Z77-HD3
StrategyRTS forever | @ZeromuS_plays | www.twitch.tv/Zeromus_
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
January 03 2014 04:39 GMT
#3547
z77-hd4 is listed as 4+1 phase on sin vrm list, z77-hd3 isn't listed. It's probably not capable of more than like ~1.2-1.3v
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
.Mystic
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada486 Posts
January 03 2014 04:42 GMT
#3548
On January 03 2014 11:03 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 03 2014 09:33 .Mystic wrote:
Hey,
thanks for the help incognoto and Myrmidon.

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

This is what I created based off both your builds. I opted to go with i5 and decided to keep it under $1000 excluding taxes. The small jump in price is worth the performance is how i explained to him.

He wanted to use this comp for few years so 760 seems to be a good choice for future games even though it may be overkill like you said.
I believe the PSU is strong enough for this setup, but would like to double check.

If I missed anything, let me know. I'll prbly stick to ME and NCIX like Myrmidon's build to save on shipping costs. I don't trust partpicker website to have the lowest prices from the web lol.


That link doesn't show anything for anyone else, it runs on a browser cookie or something else local machine, you need to use the permalink


Sorry, permalink is here
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/2uzQJ
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
January 03 2014 04:44 GMT
#3549
On January 03 2014 13:42 .Mystic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 03 2014 11:03 Cyro wrote:
On January 03 2014 09:33 .Mystic wrote:
Hey,
thanks for the help incognoto and Myrmidon.

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

This is what I created based off both your builds. I opted to go with i5 and decided to keep it under $1000 excluding taxes. The small jump in price is worth the performance is how i explained to him.

He wanted to use this comp for few years so 760 seems to be a good choice for future games even though it may be overkill like you said.
I believe the PSU is strong enough for this setup, but would like to double check.

If I missed anything, let me know. I'll prbly stick to ME and NCIX like Myrmidon's build to save on shipping costs. I don't trust partpicker website to have the lowest prices from the web lol.


That link doesn't show anything for anyone else, it runs on a browser cookie or something else local machine, you need to use the permalink


Sorry, permalink is here
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/2uzQJ


get 2x4gb RAM, psu is fine if you use the rebate (better quality units available, but a good enough unit capable of supplying twice as much power as you are using is fair 'nuff at $40)
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13410 Posts
January 03 2014 04:52 GMT
#3550
On January 03 2014 13:39 Cyro wrote:
z77-hd4 is listed as 4+1 phase on sin vrm list, z77-hd3 isn't listed. It's probably not capable of more than like ~1.2-1.3v


Sorry it was the HD4, I mistyped it
StrategyRTS forever | @ZeromuS_plays | www.twitch.tv/Zeromus_
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
January 03 2014 05:46 GMT
#3551
So: You won't actually get bios voltage unless you use high-extreme llc, and it may not supply more than like 1.3v very well
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13410 Posts
January 03 2014 05:51 GMT
#3552
On January 03 2014 14:46 Cyro wrote:
So: You won't actually get bios voltage unless you use high-extreme llc, and it may not supply more than like 1.3v very well


how come it lets me change the vcore voltage then in the settings? I think I need a better breakdown of the bios :/ and no I can't change the LLC away from auto to extreme. That must be the bottleneck.
StrategyRTS forever | @ZeromuS_plays | www.twitch.tv/Zeromus_
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
January 03 2014 08:17 GMT
#3553
Bios vcore on z77 is just a target voltage, especially without ~turbo llc and suitable amount of power phases etc; you can't really run ~1.4-1.45v on lower tier boards, that's what the z77x-ud3h etc is for
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
January 03 2014 15:12 GMT
#3554
Are there any difference between "Samsung 840 Evo" and Samsung 840 Evo Basic"?
I want to buy a 250GB version. I guess I can buy one, mainboard is a ASRock 870 Extreme3.
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
S3ph
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany76 Posts
January 03 2014 19:50 GMT
#3555
Guys, I need your help. Atm Im torn between GTX 660 and AMD Radeon 7870. -.-

I know, its the matter of personal preference, but sill - what would you suggest?
Lots and lots of benchmarks have been read already. And Im still not even 1 cm further.

I tend to value HD7870 over GTX 660.
#1 Pretty much same benchmarks;
#2 Most important - less power consumption (My PSU is not very strong --> Super Flower Golden Green PRO SF-450P14XE)

Second queston is: AMD had huge problems with shitty drivers. Have they learned from their mistakes and CCC 13.4 now OK?
Dura lex, sed lex!
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-03 20:24:46
January 03 2014 20:23 GMT
#3556
On January 04 2014 00:12 Dingodile wrote:
Are there any difference between "Samsung 840 Evo" and Samsung 840 Evo Basic"?
I want to buy a 250GB version. I guess I can buy one, mainboard is a ASRock 870 Extreme3.


No such thing as a Samsung 840 EVO Basic.

On January 04 2014 04:50 S3ph wrote:
Guys, I need your help. Atm Im torn between GTX 660 and AMD Radeon 7870. -.-

I know, its the matter of personal preference, but sill - what would you suggest?
Lots and lots of benchmarks have been read already. And Im still not even 1 cm further.

I tend to value HD7870 over GTX 660.
#1 Pretty much same benchmarks;
#2 Most important - less power consumption (My PSU is not very strong --> Super Flower Golden Green PRO SF-450P14XE)

Second queston is: AMD had huge problems with shitty drivers. Have they learned from their mistakes and CCC 13.4 now OK?


A Superflower Golden Green 450 is a really strong unit. More than enough for 7870 or GTX 660 unless you're running two CPUs or another similar GPU already for some reason...
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20341 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-03 20:58:06
January 03 2014 20:51 GMT
#3557
Indeed it is (i was going to buy one for 4770k+770)

for GPU, i would take 660 just because shadowplay, it's somewhat amazing to be able to keep it open invisibly and be able to manually record somewhat near-lossless 1080p60 with very little performance hit (slight hit if GPU bound, like single digit % on one GPU but no weird performance stuff or messed up frametimes etc) and no real HDD footprint (like 10GB an hour)

In the end; i just record pretty much everything, tab out and rename a file if it has something that i want, and end of the day if you play for 3 hours and discard 80% of the footage, it's like 20GB on the hdd, pretty negligable, so you can just play for a month and do that every day then come back and edit it
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
S3ph
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany76 Posts
January 03 2014 21:04 GMT
#3558
On January 04 2014 05:23 skyR wrote:
A Superflower Golden Green 450 is a really strong unit. More than enough for 7870 or GTX 660 unless you're running two CPUs or another similar GPU already for some reason...

On January 04 2014 05:51 Cyro wrote:
Indeed it is (i was going to buy one for 4770k+770)

for GPU, i would take 660 just because shadowplay, it's somewhat amazing to be able to keep it open invisibly and be able to manually record somewhat near-lossless 1080p60 with very little performance hit (slight hit if GPU bound, like single digit % on one GPU but no weird performance stuff or messed up frametimes etc) and no real HDD footprint (like 10GB an hour)

In the end; i just record pretty much everything, tab out and rename a file if it has something that i want, and end of the day if you play for 3 hours and discard 80% of the footage, it's like 20GB on the hdd, pretty negligable, so you can just play for a month and do that every day then come back and edit it


Thank you, guys. Never thought I have a good taste in PSUs. :D

One last question. Now its 100% personal preference.
Asus or Gigabyte? --> Links to mindfactory.de
Dura lex, sed lex!
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
January 03 2014 21:41 GMT
#3559
Gigabyte? Seems like a huge price gap to me..?
S3ph
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany76 Posts
January 03 2014 22:01 GMT
#3560
On January 04 2014 06:41 skyR wrote:
Gigabyte? Seems like a huge price gap to me..?


27,81€ is not a big deal. What my concern is, that there are plenty of RMAs of the Gigabyte card.

Thank you, skyR, for your great help. *handshake*.
Dura lex, sed lex!
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