CL3P20

not used the regular Mpower.. but had none of the issues your having on the Max or the Xpower. make sure you have: Fasboot MRC - disabled XMP - enabled SVID - disabled CPU power options - set to max amperage OCP and OVP disabled Overspeed protection - disabled vcore mode - override **Can you recreate your issue using ; 2.5vccin and 1.6vcore ? or 2.28vccin and 1.77vcore?

can take 2nd with more uncore and tighter mem ! Nice pre-testing on water

power edition or reference PCB? Strong result !

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/393027-pll-pinmod-overclocking-methods-examples.html **you will likely need to 'soft swap' PLL.. there is some info in the above link on how to do so.

*make sure +12v isnt dipping too much either.. even -.05v low makes huge difference in current/strain on inductors and fets at full load.. Anyone added +12v capacitance to PCB yet?

Clockgen should have similar options for Hex read.. been a while since I had to use it though

Nice result, and chilled inductors! ** @ andrix : must set power options to "custom" to get rid of all EIST and Speedstep function on MSI.

some lappy's of these gen have a PLL 'slave' that acts as a "safegaurd" against clock change/skew.. for those, you have to open the lappy and short the slave for the PLL changes to actually apply. *it should detect the PLL and display clocks correctly.. you say you get error as soon as you select the PLL though? You have correct chipset drivers installed in OS?

Epic work on the 55 bro.. Your pouring arm can sleep for a bit now. *anything left in the 230L?

Did you have to follow the cookie crumbs?

@ K404 - the 2>1 vccin to vcore 'rumor' was pertaining to early rev B0 and first rev C0 ES.. which seemed to respond better to VCCIN for OC than vcore. **Seems retail doesnt like +2.5v vccin ..? Just sucks that to move CB you need the higher vccin on some cpu..

LOD and RAM latency across the platforms are more than enough to make up the points with proper tweaks. *Nice run Calathea.

nice tertiary set and RTL.. beast result! *what PSC?

top5! Nice result.. too bad cpu. Seems to be the way with HW though.

when Aida reads +40GB/s .. run for the hills! ; I think Haswell is breaking Aida's bandwidth numbers..definitely seen some "buggy" readings with less than stellar performance.

Just wanted to relay my thanks on the board and BIOS. It was a pleasure benching the platform..and results were nice as well

from boot.. full pot 6.8 valid corrupted

X58 has slow mode.. the 1156skt does not.. *if your clocking 1156.. you will need to keep secondary and tertiary timings loose for IMC as you scale bclk up. With decent memory and cold, you should see +250bclk.

cold and tWCL@8

throwing class B winner in with class A at the finals is a bit of a let down too.. not sure what the intent was there.. *between retail death and no epower.. i would say MSI has their work cut out for them; if they are planning to get any decent PR from this years comp.

Having similar issues where I'm at. Stores still have the first shipment.. isnt even an ETA on the next batch at Fry's until they move more CPU off the shelf it seems.. ;(

if the focus was not to be on overall WR's.. then why Titan at all? **Can only hope for MSI sake that they have a tray of ES CPU for finals.. lest they take the blame once again for the 'brown hand' and rando-deaths. Bollocks really..cant believe they would step on their own toes like this. ..more popcorn i guess.

vddr and vddrq are RAM voltage and termination/driving voltage.. vDDR is needed for speed increases.. vDDRq can help stabilize IMC at high RAM speeds.. like VTT/Aux voltage on ATI vDDRq was good for me on 285 with +.15v only.. more did not help me hold higher speeds under -0.. I think cold helped the mem more.. but when your squeezing for every mhz..

'9-9-7' .. where does the insanity stop? Looks cold man.. will have to see that next weekend in action.

Setting all of the amperage settings to max, along with increasing switching freq helped me gain stability over 5.7ghz, 4c4t. *IO's and SAv will be useful for finding stability when pushing RAM latency and speed.. ~1.25 - 1.2v for IO's and ~1.3 - 1.35v for SA when pushing +2800mhz with certain IC's less is possible. **I would use some frost-king on the mobo between the CPU socket and the first RAM slot, to help slow cold moving into the slot and freezing over.. as well as vas. My pot is fat and actually touches the first stick when populated.. it freezes over pretty quick if your not prepared for it.