Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

[Serpentor]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

Wazza I need your help. I have the exact same motherboard and chip. 8 gigs of ram and a corsair h60 water cooler. I have built dozens of pcs since the mid 90s but I dont know a thing about overclocking. So honestly I have avoided. Up until I made this build. This motherboard came with a little tool named AI suite.... Which claimed it could overclock for you with just a click. So I figured what the hell. I did the turbo V auto tuning. After several reboots and one failed attempt it had determine itself the magic OC number was some where around 4.5 Ghz............4.588 or something...........Anywho...............I tried out some games and it did feel like it was oced. I could even hit the "monitor" down in ai suite and it would give me this oc'ed number. Then all of a sudden, I'm thinking a week or so later. Its like it just wore off or something. The monitor would just show the stock 3.4 and the games did seem to feel less then they were. So I fired this app up again and this time it never stops anymore..........it goes and goes and goes.....up to like 8 ghz to where it just becomes laughable and I turn it off. So obviously something in AI suite is broken. So I want to just oc with bios now and leave the "toy" alone. So I Googled and found this guide and here I am. I followed all your settings in the first post................ however system manager still tells me I am 3.4 ghz.................and the performance test in street fighter 4 still says 3.4 ghz. What am I doing wrong man? Do I need to uninstall/remove AI suite? Then do all your settings again? Does OC's show in windows like in device manager? Let me know, thx.

[wazza300]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

best way to see if cpu is clocked correctly is download install cpu-z

ftp://ftp.cpuid.com/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.60.1-64bits-en.zip 64bit

cpuz_x32_01.zip 32 bit

if you stress the cpu with intel burn test, IntelBurnTest 2.5.3.zip set to standard and max of 10 runs no more than that you will see cpu speed jump to the oc speed then back down when idle like this


^^ cpu at idle will auto downclock to save temps and power


^^if stressed for example gaming,video editing ect cpu will auto switch to full power/speed

[Serpentor]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

Ok Wazza. When it first boots up it shows the 4.5 ghz then after a sec will drop down to 1600 like you said it would in CPU-Z. Once I ran prime 95 and did a test it locked up and BSOD. This is typical OC trial and error right? Now what? I used your 4.5 OC guide setting for setting. My board may not be the exact you have. Its P8 Z68-v/GEN3

[wazza300]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

there will be some differences due to each chip needing more or less voltage ect,you could set cpu offset to +10 or +15 and retest,dram should be around 1.5-1.55v,vccio should be fine at stock 1.05v

did you set the timings according to your ram? it will be printed on the ram itself

[ea3ot]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

Updating muy post,s I must to say all coldboots are gone long time ago. The problems was my old SSD Cucial M4. No more problems with an OCZ Vertex 4. All runs very stable and solid.

[wazza300]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

mines still going strong aswell,when are you getting your phanteks cooler?

do you still have your crucial m4? there was a 5400 hour use bug with that drive so you have to flash to the latest firmware and it will stop the freezing up

[ea3ot]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

No Wazza, I have sold muy old M4, and the interesting thing is ... it is running very well in his new location !!! but in my PC have make feel crazy with the error " disk error " in the boot. My new Vertex4 is running superb and gave a much higher escore in the AS SSD benchamrak than the M4.I did use the good firmware with the M4. I did remove the WC system just last week and I switched to the Phanteks. I am Feeling sick and tired of the heavy job every year changing the coolant and tubes.

[wazza300]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

yeah that's the trouble with water,ive always used air coolers,less hassle

[ea3ot]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

Very true !!!

[ea3ot]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

By the way Wazza. I am back to check this oc beacouse looking for the best values/temp. The CPUZ reads my Vcore 1.328 V under ( Prime ) load ( 4.5) and an offset of + 0.005. The question is will it run stable wiht less Vcore ??? To reduce that Vcore the best way will go to negative offset. like -0-005 for start ???

[wazza300]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

well you could try +0.000v offset then see,and then try -0.005v I doubt you will get it much lower

[ea3ot]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

Is just a test

[ea3ot]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

The step below 0.005 is AUTO. When you want to go below 0.005 it changes to AUTO

[wazza300]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

does it let you set -0.005v? I forget that asus doesn't let you use 0.0000v like gigabyte but it doesn't matter try -0.005v

if it will just crash or freeze if its too low

can you do 9-10-10-21-1t timings? that's what im using now with the same voltages trfc is lowered from 128 to 96 aswell

[ea3ot]

Re: Asus Z68 V PRO 4.5GHZ Bios Screenshots

By the way Wazza. I am back to check this oc beacouse looking for the best values/temp. The CPUZ reads my Vcore 1.328 V under ( Prime ) load ( 4.5) and an offset of + 0.005. The question is will it run stable wiht less Vcore ??? To reduce that Vcore the best way will go to negative offset. like -0-005 for start ???

Hi Wazza. Set to sign (-) and 0.005. the Vcore under Prime load, drop to 1.320/1.312 and running Prime . At the moment no errors with 23 laps..

BTW in idle ( 1.6 ghz) Vcore drop to 0.880 0scilating to 1.008 ( plus minus )