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ever since I built my main video editing rig here this is x79 a lot of you guys have been asking for an overclocking tutorial for it so Who am I to deny a very worthy request from you guys today we're gonna be getting straight into it and we're overclocking the eight cores II on the 1680 v2 welcome by to take your city and right here on the desktop I have three programs that I cherish for overclocking and I'm gonna start recommending this one right here dota 2 because it's free-to-play you can download it and you can just even boot up the single-player and it will find unstable overclock so quickly.i to 64 we're gonna use this for stress testing the CPU and seeing that our overclocks are actually locking in and they're stable as well as looking at our memory speeds and then Cinebench we can actually just make sure ascertain that our overclocks are indeed working at the correct speeds by looking at the score that this gives out and seeing that it's indicative of what other people would be getting with that aside let's restart our machine and boot into the boss by pressing f2 or the Delete key are the magical land of the BIOS and this is the Zeus BIOS which is of course gonna look different to the asrock MSI and gigabyte versions and if you're on a 1 and and I feel sorry for you but this is a fast boot as well so the boot settings here I'm going to quickly point this out before we move on because I'm on nvme which is kind of hard with x79 because it was never really natively supported from it you've just got to use an add-in card on the PCIe slots and then I'm not the fastest support it but what we got here is fastboot so we need to disable that and we can see here with boot option 1 now that we've done the natural order of installing from the SSD it recognizes it as Windows boot manager so you can also post delay time drop that down to one second or zero seconds they used like to have it at one second I think default is three seconds that'll just help you PC blew it up a little bit faster so I know we've got that out of the way we can go over to the by hitting the left and right keys over to extreme tuner now of course it may be called something different in the other biases but what we're looking up for here is the CPU core ratio and we want to hit enter and then we want to go a sync all cause because Ivy Bridge essentially this is the architecture with the X 79 you've got Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge in 79 30 KS and also the 49 60 X's and all that stuff keep in mind the Z on the 1680 b2 that I'm using here today is pretty much the cream of the crop you're not going to get a better chip on x79 than these Zeon's no later they've the best bin but there are also eight called 16 threads which the consumer I 7 desktop lineup had no eight core equivalent so it's a very unique CPU and in fact it's it's such a good CB due to the point where I don't think you'll be able to replicate the voltages at the levels ongoing for so I'm gonna be over vaulting my CPU now and today just for the sake of helping guys who don't have the Zeon's but we want to sync all caused here and then go to the one core ratio which will now be linked to all the eight cores and I'm gonna drop this say we're gonna start off with 4.4 gigahertz because that should be obtainable for anyone who's got a water cooler a decent x79 motherboard in a 3930k for example now other things to get it out of the way as well I do have pretty much the best of the best x79 board I didn't waste any time when I hustled the deals I made sure that I not only had the best dizzy on but I picked it off a really good price but also picked up a really good as the onboard xm9 board for really good price as well so that board coupled with the fact that I'm using a really good power supply enables me to have low ripple and achieve higher overclocks for lower voltages as well so there's all these other factors that are pretty much leaning my voltage levels to probably not be that indicative of what the average person could obtain so anyway 4.4 gigahertz locked it in now we're gonna worry about DRAM frequency later always overclock your cpu first and try to obtain the highest overclock that you can for that CPUs level so we're gonna go down down to digi power control CPU line load calibration I'd like to have this somewhere on either medium or high but since we are again using a really good power supply but it really good BRM high would be the most I'd take it to if you've got maybe you might want to get ultra high but high is gonna work well for me the third setting from the top a cpu current capability now this is very important because it's just the capabilities of your CPU you can set this to the maximum because it's just going to allow more power if it's needed to go through CPU voltage frequency we'd have to touch that vrm over temperature protection we can leave that on auto it just protects your vrm from getting too hot it's mainly for LN to overclockers but essentially what we're doing again we're sending settings on high V si si si as well and we're just setting these current capabilities so that there's no bottlenecks when we're overclocking essentially there's nothing that can limit our overclocks because some of these current capabilities can indeed cause problems on your motherboard and so we're setting those up we're giving them more capabilities to be able to allow more voltage to go through but at the same time we're still keeping the protections in place CPU performance settings we don't have to really do much here you can leave turbo mode on I find it's not a problem as seen with the enhanced speedstep technology you'll actually want them on because when you're when you're overclocking and you're not in use you'd want it to down clock so now extreme over volt as well you can enable this if you want to it's not a big thing I do leave it on enabled because it essentially just allows you to have more voltage to go to the CPU but of course there's a voltage protection you shouldn't really need it for 4.4 gigahertz if you just want to keep things super safe and you didn't just leave that I'm disabled I'm sure for 4.4 it should be fine but here we've got CPU v core voltages so I like to set this to manual mode and then I like to go to one point I mean on my CPU I can go four point four at one point three or four that's very easy I think most people will have to go to one point three or four point four gigahertz maybe they might need a little bit less a little bit more but again depends on those circumstances the very important setting same with this here this is the VTT CPU voltage that's what essentially allows the CPU the thickness of the band going to the voltage that supplies essentially the arm the Katia's well at the end of the case ratio and stuff like that so you want to leave this at that 1.15 you may wish to go one point one eight it's not a big deal of course maybe leave this a little bit higher again because my super use a nice CPU ii vtt i have no idea what this does i've never seen this before on x79 besides this motherboard very interesting setting yeah I mean the Zeus just offer these settings that I seen I'm like scratching my head but here's another one here the VCCS a voltage this is the system agent and essentially it's responsible for managing the PCI Express controller and also the input/output so we can set this to the default by standard is I think it's one that you can set it to one point zero five just to give it a little bit extra juice and that'll just make sure that there's no problems there now DRAM of course I had mine previously at one point five four hence white as the voltage is locked in there CLL assuming you peel ll as well you want to raise this above the standard of one point eight I believe that's the default you want to put this up to one point eight six I just allow your CPU again to have the band of the power going to the CPU itself so there's nothing bottlenecking that CPU when it requires the power needed to get going our platform chipset hope you will not have to change this at all one point one's the stand you can leave it at that you might even want to down clock this to 1.05 since again we've got good gear on this but it's not really necessary so you don't even have to borrow worry about that CPU spread-spectrum disabled PCI spread-spectrum disabled and so those are essentially in if you've got Wireless interference you don't need a bottle of them CPU tweakers paradise PCIe clock skew and stuff like that never really have to worry these are just pazoozas fancy showing off settings mainly for LN to overclockers and people going to break records and they're just these really intricate settings that does in ways set azuz aside from other motherboard manufacturers so now we've done that we're essentially got the CPU locked in we haven't bothered with the DRAM just yet because we're gonna see if we can boot at one point three into Windows and after that we should be good to go so if you want you can save this as a profile there should be the option to save it wherever wherever I put that my favorite I I think it's over here yeah so on the Zeus it's like in a different tab Zeus overclocking profile and you can see here I've already got a lot of different profiles is already overclocked it but the profile name is we can put 4.4 tests and we said that's setup so yes so now 4.4 tests will come up and we can move on with life we can save changes and exit and get back to Windows and start stress testing now we're back in Cinebench out of 64 and dota 2 but we're just gonna open up Cinebench I mean out of 64 first and get that cracking crack-a-lackin' and see if we've got a stable overclock so cpuid we've bring that up that's just to make sure that our 4.4 is indeed locked in and it's saying it is and then we get a system stability and we just hit start and I'll put the links for all this stuff in the description below if you'll want to download it yeah we just let that run now usually I let it run for 10 minutes to make sure that the CPU cooler is working fine nothing's blowing up but also overclock is relatively stable if it passes 10 minutes in idle and the heats pretty good and also hasn't crashed then you know you're at least close to a stable overclock if anything so we just finished the stress test after 10 minutes it's actually closer to 13 minutes the temperatures are absolutely fine maximum was only 62 degrees and it's about 22 degrees and being in here so that is a benefit of x79 is that you have the CPU and that's sold it from the guy to the IHS and enables it to get low temperatures of course we're using the corsair 280 mill h 110 which is a pretty good all-in-one cooler too and besides that we can take it a bit higher though but we quickly run Cinebench if you're happy with 4.4 you can run dota 2 as well and if it runs a game of dota 2 for 20 minutes it's gonna be pretty much rock-solid stable but we'll quickly open up Center bench make sure our scores are absolutely fine as well we should be getting I'd say close to 1500 4.4 but I'll double-check then we are 4.4 gigahertz we're getting fifteen hundred and fifty six CB which is actually a lot better than I expected so we're gonna quickly restart the computer go back into the BIOS and then go for four point six and now we're back in the BIOS there's only a few settings to change around here but they are important of course first being the core ratio upping this from 4.4 gigahertz to 4.6 we just change that to 46 lock that in now it's important to note that on the Ivy Bridge 1680 v2 this is already kicking in to diminishing returns after 4.5 you start to get diminishing returns harden will show this later so already above diminishing returns and with that we're going to have to up the CPU v core manually as well I'm gonna go with one point three six as opposed to four point four which I initially needed one point two four one point two five volt you can just start to see that the voltage already the increase that we're giving here is quite sizable because voltage also doesn't scale linearly even though it may look like it is if this is actually using up a lot more power in relation to one point three six and a number form versus one point two four so do be very careful once we go past these levels of course on Sandy Bridge of 3930k they generally overclock higher for the same voltages so you may be able to get four point seven four point eight at around one point three six to one point four volts but after that I wouldn't really take your CPU that much higher unless you've got some seriously good cooling and maybe some vrm cooling as well also before we lock in 4.6 gigahertz one important setting that I believe I left out is internal PLL over voltage we will want this enabled this essentially allow more voltage to travel to the CPU which in this case at four points easkey goes on the eight core it will need so we're back here now after ten minutes and everything is looking absolutely fine but one thing I notice straight away is the fans are noticeably louder in my Corsair fi40 case and that's because of course there's more temperature the temperatures are a little bit higher as well they're reaching 70 degrees now which is still absolutely fine on this platform still well within spec you would want to ideally keep it under 80 degrees 24/7 just for peace of mind and of course longevity which of course on x79 you will definitely want to keep since this is a keeper this one but also we're going to quickly run a stress test now so we're gonna stop this stress test and just run a Cinebench run and just make sure the scores are lining up as well with our 4.6 gigahertz overclock now because we've got 1556 before we do want to get a higher number it can not considerably more but we would want to get a higher number just to make sure that everything is running okay there we go there blue screen so what we're gonna do now is actually go back in and yeah we have to pump more voltage into this overclock so we saw that we passed Adam the diminishing returns it's crazy this is the Ivy Bridge variant so diminishing returns are crazy here so we're gonna go back in and make sure that voltage Pro you need about 1.38 I'm guessing a little bit more and then after that we'll start overclocking the memory so there's a Cinebench score unfinished at four places gigahertz that the amount of extra voltage we needed to pump into this CPU to get it to this level is not worth it in my opinion and just to prove it I'll quickly restart the machine and run the exact same Cinebench run at 4.4 gigahertz at one point two five volt so now here we are with the final part of this tutorial that is overclocking your memory it's pretty simple here because we've got quite channel we don't have to worry a whole lot about the speeds themselves because the bandwidth is going to be huge with 4 dims together now if you can use XMP profiles do lock them in because they do toon all the earth all the other intricate timings as well that you generally wouldn't have to waste time on and of course it helps fast-track but what we're actually more concerned with here is getting these timings the CL timings down as low as possible so when go down to our DRAM timer control setting and we go into here and we can see that I've already actually pre tuned my memory it's not that good the four sticks that I have in here are just ordinary vengence 1600 megahertz dims and so I'm able to get them down to eight nine nine twenty six and one command rate so your luck and your mileage may vary you may be able to get this to seven-seven eight-eight 24 or 23 or 24 for example but for me I can only do that so what you have to do is I'd recommend finding the lowest latency at 1600 megahertz or 1866 of course you can go for higher speeds but it's not really that beneficial as opposed to lowering all these latencies to as low as possible on this platform that's just my recommendation we've established already that having your CPU at 4.6 gigahertz or four point seven is not really worth it with the Ivy Bridge variance with the Sandy Bridge variance though going to 4.7 4.8 is usually a quite doable so here for me 4.4 is sort of like my everyday overclock because I don't need to pump a whole lot of voltage in it and the results really I'm getting extra a TCB there's so much more power consumption so much more heat and strain on my CPU it's just not worth it for five it could be worth it I just don't really have time at the moment to play around with it a whole lot but I believe it would still the diminishing returns on this CPU I believe is it 4.4 for me so I'm happy with that overclock and I'm also happy with this ddr3 1600 but of course what about the voltages for this so we're going down here we've got important voltages here are us certain system agent voltage as well that can help with memory overclock but of course the DRAM voltages themselves we've got one point five five here on both that's just a little bump over the XMP profiles which are 1.5 and because we have so many memory sticks increasing this will increase power consumption too so do keep that in mind so for me I like to find the sweet spot of lowering the Layton sees but still keeping the voltage quite low so 1.55 is where I've found the sweet spot for my memory with the lowest latency as possible and that's what I do recommend to people with overclocking memory now the the VT T's here they're usually half of what the DRAM voltages so you can leave them on auto and they should automatically be half of what this is now on certain motherboards for instance if this here can't lock in because you see here it pretty much can lock in half of what this is here but in certain motherboards if it can't lock in half of what it is then you may wish to set in for instance so there's half of what we've got so we find that for instance you may wish to lock in 0.18 to 1.6 if you can do it manually like for instance in setup room 1.59 it doesn't have the setting here to go to half then you may wish to just bump it a little bit and make sure it's just half of that so that is a little trick to helping with memory over clocks especially on mediocre boards but since this is a board with so many different settings it's not a problem you can leave that on auto so that's about it really you've got make a memory tweakers paradise which again is I find us for ln2 overclocking in extreme overclocking a lot of settings here that I actually don't fully understand but without a side we can go to save & exit' changes and just go back into Windows and then stress our memory so now we're on the final tests here and we're going to use Ida 64-bit instead of having all these options checked which I usually like leaving checks since it's really indicative of real-world stress testing for instance if I edit videos and premium Pro this here pretty much stresses the exact same heat and wattage out of the CPU but what we're gonna do for the memory test alone is just take those three options off and just leave stress system memory and then hit that and go for ten minutes and then we'll come back so there's the memory test that passed absolutely fine if you do come into problems while you are doing these tests then you may have to bump voltages just a little bit or lower speeds to what I've got here in this guide just a little bit keep in mind when I first started the four point four gigahertz for example I'm pretty sure what I said in was pretty much obtainable by anyone out there with decent gear now also with the 1600 megahertz you should be able to achieve these clocks with a decent quad channel kit of memory as well so what I've locked in here is pretty safe it's pretty good for 24/7 use and it's not going to damage any of your gear and now all this left to do is play a bit of dota2 and make sure everything's running a ok and that's about it for the overclocking tutorial 4x 79 I hope you guys enjoyed this one if you did then be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the comments section below if you need any help or there is anything you don't understand I'll be sure to get back to you as soon as I can or of course if you just want to leave a comment on how much you love X 79 then be sure to do that too but without aside we saw some of the diminishing returns they're actually kick in live with the difference between that 4.4 gigahertz and 4.6 now I will stay that again this is on the Ivy Bridge 8 core version fact 79 the Sandy Bridge 6 core for instance the 3930k should be able to get up and boogie it around 4.7 gigahertz 4.6 after that it may hit its own diminishing returns where you'll see some people get 4.8 for example or even 4.9 this CPU I've got here most likely will top out at 4.7 and even then you'd need good cooling to keep it under control 4.6 we got that today but again the amount of voltages that needed as opposed to 4.4 was just way too much in my opinion it's not worth it for that extra 200 megahertz so that that's diminishing returns you guys got to see that live and we'll all that aside I'll catch you in the next tech video very soon peace out for now bye