Tips for maxing sandy
 

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2167244


that should say enough about the situation that I am in at the moment. As a new user to sandy bridge I was wondering if there was anything specific you all did to preserve the chips (more than just cold) and if anyone had any advice on how to get the most out of it.

Its max multi is 56x but I know it will do near 5.7, crashed trying to vaidate at that speed.

any and all advice is appreciated!

Tried multi of 55 and a lower BCLK?

My experience is they'll go as fast as they will, and no faster :ohcrap:

what type of cooling are you using ?

but like md said once you hit the wall it really doesnt matter what you do :blink:

is there any use messing with the BCLK skews and skew voltage or whatever?

negative, the max cpu-z is usually within 10mhz of the max benching speed.

For my 5880mhz chip its as easy as setting
1.685vCore
1.1vCCIO
.85vCCSA
1.75vDimm

Will boot 101.3x58 thru 104.7x56 and anywhere in between. The easiest way to boot at higher bclk though is to boot low multi say x40 and set your high bclk like 108 so you boot 40x108 and it will probably soft off at 79 post code and then boot or hang at 19 then boot again and say oc failed. If it boots fine then set your multi and it wont shutdown to apply it. If the oc failed shows up ignore it and set the multi anyways and it will boot if your chip can do it. :thumbsup:

If youve played with a bad chip and a good chip you can tell that a monkey could OC a good chip but any amount of tweaking till the cows come home wont make a shit chip any better.

thanks for the info mr sprave :p

Chip only does about 105BCLK or so but it should be good enough to get max Mhz.
Have only tested on water, but I will give it more jiggawatts once i get it on DICE or Ln2.

I booted straight into winders at that 5650, and it almost made it at 5700, but needed more voltage than i was comfortable giving on water.

and my previous 2600k and 2500k were both walled at 5100....it sucked. But dam you are right its easy to overclock these LOL

how many chips did it take to find that 5880 chip Splave?

30 or so lol

9K worth ........ :scared:

I think of it more or less like losing $50 per chip, more like 1.5k