Just cause you've water cooled the chip itself, you've still got the rest of the components to deal with. I know the i9s run hot, but I was thinking that with the CPU delidded and with the custom water loop, I'd be able to overclock up to 48 or 49 and be able to pass stress tests.Has anyone else managed that and published repeatable results? Any suggestions? I'm using Cubase 10 in case that makes a difference (hyper-threading seems to be working well so far). But hopefully there's something I can tweak in my BIOS settings. I've also read that it's a subtle difference and a lot of people just really like the look of them. I'm wondering if a Monoblock for the P280 kit would help - I've read that the VRM's on the x299 run hot. Any recommendations for settings/what to tweak? If I put voltage higher, won't I just increase the temps? I could run fans higher but they're about as loud as I want them for mixing (computer in the same room as me). I know the i9s run hot, but I was thinking that with the CPU delidded and with the custom water loop, I'd be able to overclock up to 48 or 49 and be able to pass stress tests. Here are my BIOS settings:ĪVX-512 Instruction Core Ratio Offset: 12Įnhanced Intel Speedstep Technology: Disabled I have all throttling turned off and voltage is set manually at 1.2 Volts. If I overclock at anything beyond 43, the computer shuts down after 2 minutes of the FPU test.

When testing with AIDA64 software (the Stress FPU test) with the setting below (all-Core-Ratio limit at 43), the CPU goes up to the low to mid 90s. I've got a delidded i9 7940x on Windows 10 with an Asus x299 motherboard and am using an EKWB P280 custom water loop. I'm overclocking an i9 7940x and don't have a lot of experience with tweaking BIOS - been doing my best to research/learn.

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