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Well, i got my I7 920 today and i figured we should probably have a 920 overclocking thread. I will try to link helpful articles, and "cheat sheets" i can find. if you find any good ones PM me and i'll post em here.
here's mine so far.

for some reason if i go any higher no post, i'm guessing i have alot to learn. because it is rock solid stable and good temps, but no amount of voltage will let me go any higher. we will see what we find.
here's a good overclocking article
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==
and here
http://www.custompc.co.uk/handsongui...-overclocking/
and here
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...=expert&pid=13

 

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yeah, i know like i said there's obviously something i'm missing. we will figure it out though.

 

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whatever came wiht it lol i have had about an hour with it. i think i know my problem though. my memory is ddr3 1600 @ 1.9v but to keep it under 1.65 i can't go over ddr3 1033

time for new ram i guess.

 

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Originally Posted by BizzareRide You should try 1066 RAM and OC from there.

i have them at 1080 right now and that's the lowest divider i can get.

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Originally Posted by ErBall Are your temps that your showing with your water loop? I am seriously worried about temps even with my TRUE.

yup, that's with this cpu block i ran occt for about an hour but i don't have time to do much more testing tonight, maybe more tomorow. this board has so many options i don't even know what they all do. I can't wait to get a 4870X2 though.

one really weird thing is that i can run any stress testing program for a long time, and any benchmark with no problems except for super pi... it crashes when i try to run it. i haven't even done any windows updates yet so i'm gona take it easy till i get all my programs installed and running.

edit i'll upload pics tomorrow.

 

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pictures

 

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Originally Posted by Mattb2e If I remember correctly the non extreme i7's are limited by there wattage?

i thought you could turn that off though.

 

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well, a bios flash fixed my super pi problems, but i haven't tried overclocking any higher yet because i'm doing windows updates first.

 

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Originally Posted by Microsis That is a sexy looking mobo my friend. Although isn't that voltage slightly too high? I thought anything over 1.3625 was no no for 45nm?

it changed with nehalem intel said the new max is 1.55

edit: i like this turbo mode thing though 3.7 now.

Edit 2: 3.88 now... i'm getting there.

 

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i didn't see this option in the bios
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=93
so i called asus and asked them about it. they said that option wasn't supported yet, but they submitted a feature request for that option to improve the overclocking on the p6t-deluxe.

 

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Originally Posted by Korben Is the new max voltage 1.55 now for a fact?

that's what the articles i have read so far have said, but i'm not too worried i haven't needed anything over ~ 1.34v anyways.

 

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Originally Posted by XFreeRollerX How good is this motherboard in terms of cooling I might get this P6T Deluxe only if the standard motherboard cooling is good enough to where I will not need a freaking LCS for the motherboard. Can you comment on temperatures of the motherboard (include your ambient temp and what your setup is too) please

my ambient is 21degrees celcious, and with the stock cooling in my antec 1200 case the northbridge idles at 32-35 degrees celcious, and it loads around 50 degrees. I put an 80mm fan blowing on the north bridge and now it only loads into the low 40's. like i said the current bios doesn't allow you to remove the over current protection, so i would try to find one that does if you aren't buying an extreme.

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Originally Posted by bowman So, it should be arriving some time this week.. 1.55V, seriously? That's pretty good. Should enable over 4GHz on the stock cooler even..

i doubt it, my chip runs pretty hot. low 60's on load and that's with watercooling at 3.88 Ghz. Before they moved the memory controller onto the chip you were limited by voltage, but now it seems we will be limited my temps again, or maybe i just seated my waterblock wrong, who knows.

 

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Originally Posted by XFreeRollerX What I am more concerned about is when the RAM slots are full.. will you ever be getting more RAM? I know there is a massive difference on my current chipset... With 2-4GB (two sticks) installed, my NB doesnt go more than 5*C over room ambient (35*C max with 30*C ambient) but when I put in 4 sticks (8GB) I start going over 50*C ON A LIQUID COOLED chipset! Air cooling would be past 60*C which is unacceptable. Keep posted! I need to know before I buy as I don't have much money to spare Thanks for input +

I might get a triple channel kit, but other than that i don't plan on getting more ram for awhile. the reason your chipset is getting hot might be because the ram controller is on the north bridge, so the CPU might get hotter when you add more ram on an i7 machine.

 

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Originally Posted by XFreeRollerX Ah How are your temperatures on the current LCS you got going now? you mind running realtemp and PRIME95 x64 and finding the highest load temp after a few minutes?

 

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Originally Posted by Toonshorty Are they the temps at 3.88GHz? If so thats not bad, although for air cooling overclocking to 3.8GHz and beyond may be a little harder.

yeah it is, i don't know why real temp says 3.6 but cpu-z reports 3.88

 

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Originally Posted by zlojack Hey c2dwerd, did you try this? That supposedly is the famous setting you need.

that's disabled, but that has been there since the late p4 days. i asked Asus when i called and they said that was not the option i was looking for anyways.

 

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Originally Posted by gooddog Careful on voltage. The new max is NOT really 1.55. That is the absolute max voltage. See quote below. It is around 1.375. 1.55 is the voltage after which you may not recover, even when you drop the voltage below 1.375 again. From the PDF http://download.intel.com/design/pro...hts/320834.pdf

it says that 1.55 is the absolute max, and i wouldn't push it that high, but it doe NOT say that 1.375 is the maximum safest voltage.

edit maybe you are confused because it says the max vid is 1.375. that is the max stock voltage they will make a chip with, and there is always room above that for overclocking.

 

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Originally Posted by error10 You probably need to reseat your HSF. You shouldn't have hit PROCHOT# during your bench. (That means your CPU temp exceeded Tjmax.)

yeah, WOAH those are idle temps. mine were load.

 

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Originally Posted by gooddog From the same pdf. Table 2.7. It is the VID range. Again, I can be wrong, but I am sure that 1.55 is not the safe voltage.

yeah, i'm thinking the max safe voltage is probably around 1.4625 just because the max voltage for wolfdales was 1.45 and the max safe was 1.3625. and this is all for 24/7 usage going above that for short periods of time will not kill your chip in most cases.

 

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Originally Posted by Ecchi-BANZAII!!! Just a question how many in this thread actually have a Ci7? cuz the sig rigs is swarming with Ci7's. I hope none here is having a fake rig right now. If you have ordered one but not got it it's not an excuse to have it in the sig rig.

LOL first of all i do have my i7, but second if they ordered it, and it's on it's way they have every right to put it in their sif rig lol.

 

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maybe i should change this to just an i7 overclocking thread instead of i7 920?