OC over 4.0Ghz-Time for help-agian!

[PorPorMe]

I've got my E8400 to 4.05Ghz just by voltage. (Overkill at this point, I think.)

I have left memory alone except to up the volts a little.
In every day usage-web, DVD's, music, she is stable.
Running Everest stress test-stable.
3Dmark Vantage gives me a BSOD within 10 seconds. Here are my screenshots and bios settings. Is it time to change mem timings? and if so, what to?
Is it the vid card? It is not OC'ed.
TR has said that instead of unlinked-I should be at 1:1 but I've never been able to get it to boot under any Change in settings-even default-if I do that.

EDIT:
I just droped FSB speed to 1775 which dropped CPU clock from 4.05Ghz to 3.999Ghz.-I dropped volts to 1.36v.
I'll run tests later but I new I was to high , temps were ok though. This was more Psych than anything else! I.4v!

[MUff1N]

From what I'm looking at your vcore isn't all that high for the speeds you are running. If anything they are probably to low & the reason it's not totally stable.
I'm almost running the same vcore for 3.4GHz to keep my rig stable.

Weldzilla was running a vcore of 1.488v @ 4.5GHz to keep his rig stable...
But something ccper said that made a lot of sense to me & still does.
OC & apply the voltages that you "Feel" comfortable with. This is different for everyone.
For me that is when I start going over 1.4v on the vcore which makes me a bit uneasy.
Now, if I had the money to replace stuff I'd be trying for much higher with a new mobo, but as it stands I can't so I don't
& settle for 3.4GHz.

Here's Weldzilla's original post...You might want to ask him if he's still running that E8400 at that speed & voltages still as its been over a year now.
I'd also be interested how it's held up over the last year...

P5KE-Wifi + Wolfdale = Incredible!!

[ThunderRd]

Voltage will get you there at the expense of heat. There is a point at which the MHz gain is a diminishing return. Only you can determine what that point is, because it is different for everyone. If adding .05V gains 100MHz, is it worth it? How about 50MHz? It's up to you in the end.

1:1 tells you that your memory is out of the way and not limiting your CPU speed. It's a starting point for most overclockers because it lets us see what the CPU can do independent of the memory.

It's not necesssarily a final setting. Dividers in some circumstances can do a lot for a high overclock.

Also be aware that tight timings at n CPU speed will often be a "faster" feeling machine than loose timings at >n CPU speed.

[PorPorMe]

I can't do anything with it until later this afternoon. I put castor's on it-the final switches, and am giving it a couple more shimmer coats.
This rig used to run at 3.87Ghz with just raising CPU core to about 1.32v and CPU fsb to 1.3v and everything else was set to auto.
I'd run Prime and OCCT and anything else with no problem.
I'm not having a problem with Everest's stress test either and that gives me pause.
Correct me but don't they just stress CPU and/or memory?
Might the problem be the vid card?
I tried 3DMark06 same BSOD as 3DMark Vantage..
Now is the time to go TRs' route.
Since I know what causes the BSOD-I'll take it back a ways-3.50Ghz everything auto-and go from there.

[PorPorMe]

MUff!n,
I'll check with Weldzella as soon as I get up and going!

[MUff1N]

I'd say there's a good chance that your graphics card was OCed really high & pushed really hard for a long time & that's why it does what it does. Just a gut instinct tell me this. Basically I'd say that vidcard is just about shot.

If you have another one to put in there that's what I would do even if it doesn't perform as well.
It doesn't do you any good if your graphics card quits on you all the time & that's why I think you are getting the BSOD on 3DMark & why it can't even go 10 seconds into testing.
Every time you push that card hard it dies, even at default clocks.
I also think this is why your score went down with the optimize 185.85 Windows 7 drivers because it can't handle them.
Whereas with my card I got the highest scores ever & the best performance ever out of them!

[PorPorMe]

I just got fired up-stock-I start right here and set a bench mark.

EDIT: Everything stock-Win 7 185.85 drivers, 3DMark Vantage BSOD within 10 seconds.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by PorPorMe

I just got fired up-stock-I start right here and set a bench mark.

EDIT: Everything stock-Win 7 185.85 drivers, 3DMark Vantage BSOD within 10 seconds.

I'd just about guarantee that the graphics card is pretty much shot if it can't even run a Vantage bench @ stock clocks with all the system's setting at stock.

If you got another one (anything at this point) put it in & replace it.
Once you've done that then see what it does in Vantage benches.
Any benchmark at this point would be an improvement over what you got now.

[PorPorMe]

The last thing I had was the Geforce fx5400! Time to go to work on this one.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by PorPorMe

The last thing I had was the Geforce fx5400! Time to go to work on this one.

Unfortunately I don't think this card can run DX10 which is what Vantage runs on, so you'll have to use Mark06 instead if you use that card.
I won't have PhysX either I'm pretty sure...but Mark06 doesn't use PhysX anyways in the bench.

[PorPorMe]

Originally Posted by MUff1N

Unfortunately I don't think this card can run DX10 which is what Vantage runs on, so you'll have to use Mark06 instead if you use that card.
I won't have PhysX either I'm pretty sure...but Mark06 doesn't use PhysX anyways in the bench.

You forget the scores I was putting up in Vantage-but it's all under the bridge now-It won't run Mark06 either.
I just uninstalled the GPU client and I'll just fold with the SMP client-no strain on the card. I'm selling thins off on Craig's List hoping this thing will hold together for a couple of months.
G. Skills got here today-they will probably go on the block.