Hello, I recently acquired a i7 5960x that had never been opened before, and a board on ebay (EVGA x99 Micro R.2) that was in great condition. My last system was a i7 2700k with an rx580 gpu and 16GB DDR3, so this is a upgrade for me (Im into older parts, recycling is good plus older CPU's run just fine nowadays unless you're on the frontier of development) and was kinda confused because of all the stuff I had read about how if you wanted to OC the memory on a haswell-e past 2666 you had to up the blck to 125. I bought a pack of Corsair Vengeance LPX 4x4GB (for quad channel) @ 3000MHz and when I set the xmp profile, it set the ram speed to 2666 and the blck to 125. Having had bad experiences with a blck of anything other than 100, I changed it back down, went to my BIOS and as 3000MHz wasnt an option, I set to 3200 2 1.35v with 100 BLCK and set the CPU Multiplier to 42 @1.225v. So now Im running at 4.2Ghz CPU, 3.2GHz Ram, all with a blck of 100, and after testing with intel burn test, prime 95, memtest86, and various other bench's over a day or two and Im 100% completely stable.
So my question is, why does every website or forum say I need to increase the blck to OC my ram past 2666 MHz While Simultaneously OC'ing my CPU? My system works fine with a 100MHz multiplier.
View: https://imgur.com/a/kzGKyKX
So my question is, why does every website or forum say I need to increase the blck to OC my ram past 2666 MHz While Simultaneously OC'ing my CPU? My system works fine with a 100MHz multiplier.
View: https://imgur.com/a/kzGKyKX