Day of tweaking pays off

[Zantheus]

Well after having a rain day from work, I decided to tweak my new rig after I installed my new heatsink and ended up with some nice results


By zantheus

[BlackArrow]

[Reconsnipe1]

Nice

[{CLR} Cobalt]

Details.....

[Duke{CLR}]

That's looking good. A few minutes and a couple of tie wraps and it could be perfect.

[Zantheus]

Details.....

Ai Overclock Tuner => Manual
Intel Speed Step Tech => Disabled (this just makes the CPU clock frequency change depending on load and I want a steady CPU clock)
Intel Turbo Tech => Disabled (this just makes the CPU clock frequency change depending on load and I want a steady CPU clock)
CPU Ratio => 19
BCLK Freq => 200
PCIE Freq => 100
DRAM Freq => DDR3-1603MHz
UCLK Freq => Auto
QPI Link Data Rate => Auto

Voltages
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CPU Voltage => 1.35
CPU PLL Voltage => 1.88
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage => 1.35
DRAM Bus Voltage => 1.64
CPU Differential Amplitude => 800mV
... all other voltages to Auto

Under CPU Configuration, I turned Intel Hyperthreading Technology off, to reduce the CPU to 4 real cores instead of 8 threads. By doing this it dropped my CPU Temps under load by 25C

To stress test my system, I used Intelburn which is the best testing system you can find, along with the LinX mod for i7 Chips.