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New and hoping to learn
I'm not young...
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but that comes with advantages. For example, money is no longer nearly as tight as it once was. I'm retirement age but still working 10 hour days.
As a wonderful hobby, I enjoy building PCs. I'm now on my third one. This time it's the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with an Intel i7 920 cpu. I have 6GB of high-end G.SKILL RAM, a new ASUS 5850 Graphics Card, a 150GB Raptor boot drive and four WD RE3 500GB drives configured in RAID 10.
The CPU is air-cooled with the Noctua NH-U12DX CPU Heatsink.
I'd like to get the best stable performance I can from the PC, but I've never tried Overclocking before and WOULD SURE APPRECIATE YOUR SUGGESTIONS.
Thank you in advance!
- Pete
As a wonderful hobby, I enjoy building PCs. I'm now on my third one. This time it's the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with an Intel i7 920 cpu. I have 6GB of high-end G.SKILL RAM, a new ASUS 5850 Graphics Card, a 150GB Raptor boot drive and four WD RE3 500GB drives configured in RAID 10.
The CPU is air-cooled with the Noctua NH-U12DX CPU Heatsink.
I'd like to get the best stable performance I can from the PC, but I've never tried Overclocking before and WOULD SURE APPRECIATE YOUR SUGGESTIONS.
Thank you in advance!
- Pete
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Welcome to OCN! Best place to learn a lot!
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Oh disposable income. That should be a pretty glorious situation with out an OC on anything.
Big fan of ASUS boards good call there. Cant help you out much with the CPU but........
For the vid card MSI afterburner is pretty great at life, easy place to start, can crank the voltage, set a custom curve for your fan speed's increase or decrease which is very very useful. Will work with non MSI card as well which is convenient. Also has a nice graph that shows CPU usage, Temps (and will store your highest and lowest temperature for that particular session which is very useful) and a bunch of other info.
However depending on the brand of your 5850 you will only be able to go so high.... I think MSI and ASUS are the two that are unlocked where as the other brands you would have to do a quick bios flash to really max things out.
Welcome to the party pal
(holiday season gotta start throwing in the Die Hard quotes)
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Big fan of ASUS boards good call there. Cant help you out much with the CPU but........
For the vid card MSI afterburner is pretty great at life, easy place to start, can crank the voltage, set a custom curve for your fan speed's increase or decrease which is very very useful. Will work with non MSI card as well which is convenient. Also has a nice graph that shows CPU usage, Temps (and will store your highest and lowest temperature for that particular session which is very useful) and a bunch of other info.
However depending on the brand of your 5850 you will only be able to go so high.... I think MSI and ASUS are the two that are unlocked where as the other brands you would have to do a quick bios flash to really max things out.
Welcome to the party pal
(holiday season gotta start throwing in the Die Hard quotes)
Welcome to OCN, Hope you enjoy your stay with us
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Welcome to OCN, if you have a spare moment, can you fill out your system's specifications here? It makes it easier for people to give you help on overclocking etc. if they know exactly what is in your system.
Also, Here is a link to the photography section here on OCN.
Enjoy your stay!
If you want advice on overclocking, you're better off making a thread in one of the Intel sections here, since they get a lot more traffic than this sub-forum, and there a few experts there who would be able to help you out gladly.
Here is a good thread to look at to get the basic gist of overclocking on the LGA 1366 platform.
Welcome to OCN, if you have a spare moment, can you fill out your system's specifications here? It makes it easier for people to give you help on overclocking etc. if they know exactly what is in your system.
Also, Here is a link to the photography section here on OCN.
Enjoy your stay!
If you want advice on overclocking, you're better off making a thread in one of the Intel sections here, since they get a lot more traffic than this sub-forum, and there a few experts there who would be able to help you out gladly.
Here is a good thread to look at to get the basic gist of overclocking on the LGA 1366 platform.
Hey Pete, welcome aboard and that's a nice rig you got there.
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You're welcome and I wish I had your GPU. lol Mine's starting to show its age. As for the CPU, get it up to 4GHz is pretty easy for any D0 stepping. Getting it past four on air is hard (well, not with my motherboard anyway).
You should check out this thread on Core i7 batch guide, quite a few OC'd it well past 4GHz mark.
Originally Posted by Pete M Thank you, Reaper. It looks similar to yours... except mine looks like it would be a tad slower. How did you manage to OC to 4.0? Impressive! |
You should check out this thread on Core i7 batch guide, quite a few OC'd it well past 4GHz mark.
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