Any good tutorials on overclocking?

I have to admit that I know nothing about overclocking. I have been hearing about how the i7 920 has so much unused potential and I would like to tap into mine. I was wondering are there any good tutorials that go through the steps of OCing? Thanks in advance.

dont.Angry_Bosmer

I fried 1000$ worth of stuff inculding three PSUs, a P4, ram and a 200$ board. so bad idea even if you know what to do and I never seen improvments anyway.

And why would you oc a i7 it can do ANYTHING?

I know, for now I am perfectly happy with my performance. I want to read up on it for future use. When it starts getting to the point that I could use that little extra push I want to know what I need to do. Instead of just going into the situation blind and risking really frying my system.

I know, for now I am perfectly happy with my performance. I want to read up on it for future use. When it starts getting to the point that I could use that little extra push I want to know what I need to do. Instead of just going into the situation blind and risking really frying my system.

taliff

what the warrenty on that thing? 1 year? give it 2 then it's fried. by that time Crytek wouldn't of made a game so the requirments won't be very reveloutionised

[QUOTE="taliff"]

I know, for now I am perfectly happy with my performance. I want to read up on it for future use. When it starts getting to the point that I could use that little extra push I want to know what I need to do. Instead of just going into the situation blind and risking really frying my system.

Angry_Bosmer

what the warrenty on that thing? 1 year? give it 2 then it's fried. by that time Crytek wouldn't of made a game so the requirments won't be very reveloutionised

[QUOTE="Angry_Bosmer"]dont.Angry_Bosmer

I fried 1000$ worth of stuff inculding three PSUs, a P4, ram and a 200$ board. so bad idea even if you know what to do and I never seen improvments anyway.

And why would you oc a i7 it can do ANYTHING?

[QUOTE="Angry_Bosmer"]dont.Angry_Bosmer

I fried 1000$ worth of stuff inculding three PSUs, a P4, ram and a 200$ board. so bad idea even if you know what to do and I never seen improvments anyway.

And why would you oc a i7 it can do ANYTHING?

How far can you overclock using the stock heatsink?RobboElRobbo

[QUOTE="Angry_Bosmer"]dont.Angry_Bosmer

I fried 1000$ worth of stuff inculding three PSUs, a P4, ram and a 200$ board. so bad idea even if you know what to do and I never seen improvments anyway.

And why would you oc a i7 it can do ANYTHING?

My specs are in my tag at the bottom.

[QUOTE="Angry_Bosmer"]dont.Angry_Bosmer

I fried 1000$ worth of stuff inculding three PSUs, a P4, ram and a 200$ board. so bad idea even if you know what to do and I never seen improvments anyway.

And why would you oc a i7 it can do ANYTHING?

I agree with bosmer. Overclock when that CPU becomes garbage that costs $40. Then push the hell out of it if you really have the urge.

as long as you have the cooling for it...why not? im pretty sure its the heat that kills cpu because of overclocking so if your keeping it at low temps even when overclocked...whats the problem? i got the same build as you pretty much and just finished setting up my comp yesterday and started overclocking. its very easy on the asus p6t. do you have the C0 or D0 stepping btw? D0 is SLBEJ. if you have the D0 stepping you can push it to 3.4-3.6 probably at stock voltages so heat shouldnt be too much of an issue.

thats a nice littler setup you got there, overclocking has a lot of factors you have to think about when you decide to do it, how much do you want to, what kind of mobo do you have, how old is the cpu and the most important question, what type of cooling are you going to be using for it, after market cooling is a must with overclocking, things run hot enough in a computer without working about your cpu melting

Give this a read

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=642527&mpage=1&key=򜷟

since we have the same mobo i tried it out and it seems you can run cpu 3.6ghz with 1523mhz ram @ 1.1v and 1.56v(stock voltages i think) each chip differs though but if you havea newer chip you should be fine.

1. go to AI Tweaker tab

2. ai overclock > change to manual

3. cpu ration setting > i changed it to 19 for my build and didnt change it back but shouldnt matter

4. BCLK freq > 190

5. Pcie Freq > 100

6. Enter into DRAM timing control

set the top 4 to whatever your ram works with. mine is at 8 so 8-8-8-24. i also changed the DRAM Timing Mode > 1N

escape out.

7. cpu voltage > 1.1

8. qpi/dram core voltage > 1.2

9. dram bus voltage 1.56

10. Load-line calibration > enabled

POWER TAB

ACPI 2.0 Support > enabled

you could probably leave the voltages to normal but i manually set them. also for load line calibrationand acpi 2.0 supporti read they help in stablizing so i enabled them. i could be wrong but i use it and its fine. everything else is set to auto. i idle at 35 and with prime95 stress testing all cores it goes up to 58

if the cpu isnt stable just raise the voltages from cpu voltage > 1.1 > 1.15 or qpi/dram core voltage > 1.2 > 1.25 or just lower the BLCK freq

Thanks for all the info everyone! And Karsa I have the C0 step.

you can overclock that safely. To burn up your psu,motherboard and processor you must be very bad at overclocking. or your house is unusualy warm.

you can oc it temporarly using clock gen

http://www.filecluster.com/downloads/ClockGen.html

dont.Angry_Bosmer

I fried 1000$ worth of stuff inculding three PSUs, a P4, ram and a 200$ board. so bad idea even if you know what to do and I never seen improvments anyway.

And why would you oc a i7 it can do ANYTHING?

Anyways, to the TC, OC that Corei7 right now!!!!!