hard to overclock prebuilt i7 920? how to do?

Digital storm has a prebuilt i7 920 with a gtx 285 card with a 650W powersupply with standard factory heatsink and fan.

Intel Core i7-920 Processor
Intel X58 Chipset Motherboard
3GB 1333MHz System Memory
NVIDIA GTX 285 Video Card

I am a complete newbie. I've heard the i7 920 should be overclocked. How difficult would it be for me to do so, and how precisely would I do it (in detail pls)? would the powersupply be enough if I overclocked? do you think this is a good deal for $1750.00 and a powerful computer (I may wait until they have a prebuilt gtx 295, but the same question applies)

thanks!

DigitalStorm is probably one of the best pre-built computer companies around, very high quality. That being said, for $1750USD it may be a little on the expensive side, and could be built cheaper by yourself. If you're not comfortable I would definately go with digitalstorm.

The i7 920 doesn't need to be overclocked.. however if you did you're going to be limited by the stock fan.If you don't have any experience, i wouldn;t really overclock a system that expensive. Power supply is fine

You will never oc an i7 on a stock cooler. They run HOT, because of the MCH being on die. That being said, if you are willing to overclock you might as well build your own rig. (Safe)Overclocking is much more difficult than slaping some components together.artiedeadat40

Agreed, definately worth looking into your own built rig, and with a smaller or similar budgt, you're going to get something a little better.

I actually just threw a killer one together on Newegg

It had an:

i7 920

Asus P6T X58

6gb Mushkin 1600 (3x2gb)

Noctua NH-U12P 120mm CPU cooler

Corsair 750TX

EVGA GTX285

WD 750gb 32mb Cache

Zalman Professional GS-1000-TT full sized tower

Samsung DVD-Rewriter

Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Subtotal: $1,709.90

After Rebates $1639.90

i thought you were talking about an actuall prebuilt like a dell with an i7 920, those cant be overcloked but if its built by actual people not a huge corperation then you cancornholio157

Yeah pre-builts are just notorious for having stock cooling in there. If you're paying a ridiculous amount for a performance pc, the least they could do is stick an average aftermarket cooler in there

would there be a big difference in performance between a clocked and unclocked i7 920? if not, I will just buy the prebuilt unclocked

is there a big difference in performance between at gtx 285 and a gtx 295?

also what is the cheapest cooling or fan I could use for the overclocked i7? what is the least amount of wattage?

thanks

any other thougths? thanks everyoneket222

tommywine,

I have looked at the digitalstorm option bc of overclocking. In their forums, they seemed to say that it's good to by a v8 cooling source (or something like that, just below liquid cooling in price) and that they would overclock more, up to about 3.5 on a i7 920. is it worth buying the v8 for that amount of overclocking? was your overclocking less productive bc you didn't have the v8 (maybe just a cheaper cooling solution)?

does everyone agree what was written above? it doesn't matter if you overclock an i7 920 or not for today's games like crysis? What about games two or three years from now?