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Alex DeJesus
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Overclock Question ASUS Board Sandy Bridge

Jul 13, 2011 9:10 AM

The BIOS utility for the P8P67 Pro B3 Board has an EZ Mode that allows you to select from 3 performance presets: Powersaving, Normal, and Overclock mode. When I set it to Overclock, the system becomes unstable - won't bootup or will freeze during some operation.

 

There is also a tool for overclocking from within Windows after bootup. Again, anything other than the stock setting causes instability.

 

I had hoped to overclock the traditional manual way, but don't think it's a good idea if the presets don't work. I was wondering if anyone else had similar problems or should I disregard the presets.

 

CPU i7-2600k

16 GB RAM

751 Views   10 Replies   Latest reply: RjL190365, Jul 13, 2011 7:08 PM
 
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  • Scott Chichelli
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    1. Scott Chichelli,
    Jul 13, 2011 9:25 AM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    installing any of those utilities on the mobo disk is a bad idea for that matter anything on the disk (all drivers should be downloaded other than the NIC so you can get on the internet)

     

    OCing needs to be done in the bios not thru software

     

    Scott

    ADK

     
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  • Alex DeJesus
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    2. Alex DeJesus,
    Jul 13, 2011 10:58 AM   in reply to Scott Chichelli
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    @ Scott: thanks for that advice. I planned to OC the traditional way. I just thought it strange that the OC preset designed for its own board would be unstable. It actually pushed the clock speed to 4.3Ghz. Not too conservative, is it?

     

    The software is part of the BIOS utility. It has an EZ Mode and AI advanced (manual) mode.

     
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  • Luc van Vliet
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    Jul 13, 2011 2:52 PM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    I did read a big piece about easy -step by step- 2600k overclocking but i'm dutch and will spare you my funny language.

    But  it's very easy in general and a lot off the new 1155 motherboards like Asus also does have a very nice OC app included for clocking to +/- 5 GHz.

     
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  • Bill Gehrke
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    Jul 13, 2011 3:00 PM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    If you cannot overclock with those easy preset tools I suspect that your CPU may be overheating. What temperature are your cores running without overclocking?

     
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  • Alex DeJesus
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    Jul 13, 2011 4:04 PM   in reply to Bill Gehrke
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    It runs at about 48 under load and 28 idle with the new heatsink installed. However, I first installed the cpu with its stock heatsink. It ran hot under loads - pushing 90 deg.

     
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  • RjL190365
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    Jul 13, 2011 4:52 PM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    Actually, in my case, the auto-overclock setting not only set the multiplier to 43x, but also raised the BCLK from its stock 100MHz to 103MHz, resulting in an overall clock speed of 4.429GHz. However, some i7-2600K CPUs start running unstably at this slightly elevated BCLK setting.

     
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  • Alex DeJesus
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    Jul 13, 2011 5:34 PM   in reply to RjL190365
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    @RjL I noticed the 103Mhz. You call 4.429 GHz "slightly elevated"? That's what I'm trying to say. The factory overclock preset seems pretty aggresive to me. I would think it should be a starting point. But oh, well. Maybe I'll just disregard it altogether.

     
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  • Luc van Vliet
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    8. Luc van Vliet,
    Jul 13, 2011 5:46 PM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    Here's the Asus ''easy to OC'' board

     

    http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8H67M_PRO/

     

    My Q6600 is with org. cooler and no OC 65 degrees celcius, with 30 % OC and zalman cnps 7500 cpu cooler below 60 degrees celsius.

     


     
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  • Alex DeJesus
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    Jul 13, 2011 6:19 PM   in reply to Luc van Vliet
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    @Zoop: yes, my board has the same utilities

     
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  • RjL190365
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    Jul 13, 2011 7:08 PM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    Actually, I was referring to the 103MHz BCLK, not the 4.429GHz core clock, as being "slightly elevated".

     
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