Everybody is welcome here, even those that have yet to ascend.Begin your ascension today! General Information In the absence of an answer to this question, I can only say that it is now for months that I run it at 4.9, at 50c, with no problems.Official Subreddit of the PC Master Race We're the largest community of PC enthusiasts on the Internet. In order to boost up to 4.9, I have to disble speedstep!?Īnd about gorilla overclocking, this brings another question for which I have no answer yet: Is it the maximal frequency or speed that kills the cpu, or is it the temps wich go along when you overclock? The answer to this question has practical implications, because if you are able to cool your cpu to under 50c even when overclocking, you could go away with it! But if it is the overclocking per se which kills the cpu, then even with good cooling the lifespan of the cpu would be shortened. Thanks for your thought! Yes, you are completely right with your opinion, I must even admit that my vcore is 5.2.the strange thing is that with speedstep enabled, the cpu never gets past 4.2, this is strange and I have no explanation. I have tweaked it to hold that speed longer than the standard motherboard settings. My core goes down to 1.6GHz when idle which saves power and processor life span. Effectively it will take the overclock as the new Max Turbo value. This allows the clock to move up and down as required. The new way is to allow the processors to run in boost mode. This is not the way to do it with newer motherboards. The old method of overclocking was to lock all the cores to a 4.xGHz speed. The processor lottery has obviously favoured you as you are up to 4.9GHz which is excellent.
I overclock to around 4.5GHz (water cooled) and everything is very stable. If you have an ASUS motherboard you can tweak the turbo boast parameters to increase the performance of these processors further. It might be that the software is missing the 4.9GHz boost as they can be very short time slots.
If you lower your overclock does it still hold 4.2GHz. I have an Intel 3970X which is slightly different to the 3960X in terms of power limit (TDP 150) and max temperature of 91C.
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