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So after 8.5 hrs of prime95 my temps were 60/65/68/68 vcore was 1.32 but RAM usage was only 2.99 and I have 8 so I'm going to have to do another prime run. Then I'll try to lower the vcore some.

I believe the turbo power limit was causing the frequency to drop. Here are my current settings at 4.5 CPU Ratio-45 PLL overvoltage - disabled gt over clock - disabled speedtsep - enabled short duration power limit - 250 long duration power limit - 250 additional turbo voltage - +0.004 core...

I was using cpuz 1.54 and updated to 1.60 and everything seems fine. I was able to go all the way to 4.7 before i couldn't boot into windows. Weird thing now is when I'm running p95 the frequeny goes as low as 4.1 when its set at 4.6 voltages top off at 1.276 after 30 mins of p95 temp...

That would be great. Should I have the speedstep stuff, c1 c3 disabled?

Fixed 1.25 to try and see if I could hit 4.0 at stock

PLL overvoltage is disabled. additional turbo voltage is set at .05 i believe I can't disable it so its either auto or the lowest .05

This is my first Build and I'm trying to achieve an OC of 4.2-4.4 I have an I5 2500k, Asrock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3. The stock vcore on load is 1.216-1.241. I changed the multi to 40 and the vcore raises to 1.341. I tried the Auto settings just to see what they were set at and at turbo 4.0 its...

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6870 1gb xfire vs 6870 2gb xfire for 1920x1200 Its about $60 more for the 2 gb, but i want to be able to max out Metro and BF3. Not worried about micro stutter or xfire issues. It will be at least a month before I purchase so a 7970 which I know is the best choice may be doable but i'm trying...