The Intel Core i7 Overclockers Club

zAAm · Jul 20, 2009

Today I just tried some settings and hit a very interesting snag in the Intel motherboard. With my BIOS it would not allow me to change ANY memory settings without locking up, so I tried the newest BIOS and that worked wonders. In no time I got it up to 4GHz stable in OCCT (but strangely it gave a blue screen in Prime95, which prompted me to increase the VCore a tad).

Idle temps are in the region of 38-39 degrees and OCCT got it up to 71 degrees max. (Which is a bit high for my liking but still way lower than the stock cooler at 2.66GHz)
So here is my results so far:

Chicken Patty · Jul 20, 2009

zAAm said:
Today I just tried some settings and hit a very interesting snag in the Intel motherboard. With my BIOS it would not allow me to change ANY memory settings without locking up, so I tried the newest BIOS and that worked wonders. In no time I got it up to 4GHz stable in OCCT (but strangely it gave a blue screen in Prime95, which prompted me to increase the VCore a tad).

Idle temps are in the region of 38-39 degrees and OCCT got it up to 71 degrees max. (Which is a bit high for my liking but still way lower than the stock cooler at 2.66GHz)
So here is my results so far:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=27274&stc=1&d=1248118963

that seems about right for a C0. Thats what mine needs to be fully stable at 4GHz. Good job :toast:

johnny, good job too! how hot does it get there at this time of the year?

johnnyfiive · Jul 20, 2009

Chicken Patty said:
that seems about right for a C0. Thats what mine needs to be fully stable at 4GHz. Good job

johnny, good job too! how hot does it get there at this time of the year?

100's with ease. Hit 109F last week. :shadedshu

Chicken Patty · Jul 20, 2009

johnnyfiive said:
100's with ease. Hit 109F last week. :shadedshu

here its like a constant high 90's low 100's with heat index and such. Thats crazy.

zAAm · Jul 21, 2009

Welcome to DarkSaber and his extreme overvolted C0 and Reapers...

dr emulator (madmax) · Jul 21, 2009

hm i will be watching this page as i intend getting myself an i7 920 and mobo for my birthday
(well no one else will get me 1 :laugh:

)
i'd love to know some of the problems you guys have had with them
i'e mobo's processors memory pm me so you dont clog up this page i'm waiting
p's i love the idea of this thread

btw guys CPU-Z 1.52 is out for anyone interested

Tatty_Two · Jul 21, 2009

Chicken Patty said:
here its like a constant high 90's low 100's with heat index and such. Thats crazy.

Apologies for off topic..... I am on holiday in Florida at the beginning of November with my family, what temps can I expect then?

zAAm · Jul 21, 2009

Just a short question, do you guys run your i7's at ~4GHz 24/7? Or just for benchmarks and then clock to a more reasonable clock (like 3.6GHz or so at lower voltages)? I'm thinking that even though my chip will run mostly under speedstep at around 2.4GHz, the voltage will stay pretty high. Think I should be worried?

Tatty_Two · Jul 21, 2009

zAAm said:
Just a short question, do you guys run your i7's at ~4GHz 24/7? Or just for benchmarks and then clock to a more reasonable clock (like 3.6GHz or so at lower voltages)? I'm thinking that even though my chip will run mostly under speedstep at around 2.4GHz, the voltage will stay pretty high. Think I should be worried?

I do run 4gig 24/7 on mine, but i got lucky with this C0 chip, I do that at 1.25V with HT on and on full load she stays in the high 60's so i figure.. why not, I dont run with turbo enabled either (although I should really) so I am on a 200BClk @ 20x.

Binge · Jul 21, 2009

zAAm said:
Just a short question, do you guys run your i7's at ~4GHz 24/7? Or just for benchmarks and then clock to a more reasonable clock (like 3.6GHz or so at lower voltages)? I'm thinking that even though my chip will run mostly under speedstep at around 2.4GHz, the voltage will stay pretty high. Think I should be worried?

mine is at the stats in my specs 24/7. These chips can handle it.

johnnyfiive · Jul 21, 2009

I've been running mine at 3.6 mainly because I haven't found the right setting(s) for 4.0 with 100% stability. At 3.6 I'm using default voltage and its prime95 stable for 8+ hours, HT on, 1.16v. I'm trying to get 4.0 HT to be be stable at the lowest voltages possible, still working on it. But like Binge said, 920's can handle the abuse. They are stout CPU's.

MrHydes · Jul 23, 2009

nice to know that gulftown 32nm will be LGA 1366 and support X58

as fuad said like a bloomfiled 4 plus 2 (hexacore) :toast:

i might keep my classfied and get one of these westmere tok

Ammugonevil · Jul 23, 2009

Well i have a i7... can i join.. contimplating overclocking

Wetbehindtheears · Jul 24, 2009

Ammugonevil said:
Well i have a i7... can i join.. contimplating overclocking

If you've got one...welcome!!

more details please...

zAAm · Jul 24, 2009

Ammugonevil said:
Well i have a i7... can i join.. contimplating overclocking

Just give me your details as set out in the first post and I'll add you as our first Extreme user I believe (975).

Also, welcome to Dreadnought33, our first 940 user! :toast:

Ammugonevil · Jul 24, 2009

Willco, saturdays the only day that i have off.........so ill do it then (tomorrow)

deathmore · Jul 25, 2009

id like to join the club
I7 920 D0, gigabyte EX58-UD5, g skill 1600mhz ram, noctua NH-u12p cooling with two fans.
http://img.techpowerup.org/090725/i7 920 mhz.jpg
full load crunching:
http://img.techpowerup.org/090725/i7 920 full load.jpg

zAAm · Jul 25, 2009

deathmore said:
id like to join the club
I7 920 D0, gigabyte EX58-UD5, g skill 1600mhz ram, noctua NH-u12p cooling with two fans.
http://img.techpowerup.org/090725/i7 920 mhz.jpg
full load crunching:
http://img.techpowerup.org/090725/i7 920 full load.jpg

Added, welcome to the club deathmore! :toast:

Do you run your 920 undervolted all the time?

deathmore · Jul 25, 2009

yes i do i haven't had any problems at this voltage should i be putting the voltage higher?

Wetbehindtheears · Jul 26, 2009

If it's running fine then why bother adding V?

... I just wish I had time at moment to try and lower mine!

Ammugonevil · Jul 28, 2009

Well this is me... Core i7 975...

#
1

Name
Ammugonevil

Frequency
3.33GHZ

Base Frequency
@

Multiplier
25X Unlocked

Voltage
Better check...

Stepping
5

Motherboard
P6T Deluxe V2

Memory
Corsair 2048MB DDR3 1602 MHz x3 (6GB)

Cooling
Liquid cooling ...

-

zAAm · Jul 28, 2009

Ammugonevil said:
Well this is me... Core i7 975...

#
1

Name
Ammugonevil

Frequency
3.33GHZ

Base Frequency
@

Multiplier
25X Unlocked

Voltage
Better check...

Stepping
5

Motherboard
P6T Deluxe V2

Memory
Corsair 2048MB DDR3 1602 MHz x3 (6GB)

Cooling
Liquid cooling ...

-

Hey Ammugonevil, welcome to the club as our first Extreme user :toast:

I would like to know your cpu voltage, ram timings and if you can be a little bit more specific on the "liquid cooling" part? Is it a standard kit or was it factory fitted or... I would just like to add it since no watercooling kit is alike. Just want to complete the list

Thanks

Yukikaze · Jul 28, 2009

A 975 on STOCK ? Heresy !!!!! :laugh:

Ammugonevil · Jul 28, 2009

Well the Cooling system was factory fitted... yes im scum.. Its called alienice 3.0..

mudkip · Jul 28, 2009

shame on you...

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Cooling	Corsair H115i Pro iirc
Memory	16GB Corsair DDR4-3466
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Storage	Samsung 960 Evo 500G NVMe
Display(s)	34" ASUS ROG PG348Q + 28" ASUS TUF Gaming VG289
Case	NZXT
Power Supply	Corsair 850W
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	CoolerMaster Storm XT Stealth
VR HMD	Oculus Quest 2

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Case	Phanteks NV7
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Software	Windows 11 Pro

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Case	Phanteks NV7
Power Supply	Seasonic Vertex GX-1200, 1200W 80+ Gold, ATX 3.0
Software	Windows 11 Pro

Processor	Intel i7-8700k @ stock
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Memory	16GB Corsair DDR4-3466
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Storage	Samsung 960 Evo 500G NVMe
Display(s)	34" ASUS ROG PG348Q + 28" ASUS TUF Gaming VG289
Case	NZXT
Power Supply	Corsair 850W
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	CoolerMaster Storm XT Stealth
VR HMD	Oculus Quest 2

System Name	not very good (wants throwing out window most of time)
Processor	xp3000@ 2.17ghz pile of sh** /i7 920 DO on air for now
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Cooling	1 green akasa 8cm(rear) 1 multicoloured akasa(hd) 1 12 cm (intake) 1 9cm with circuit from old psu
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Storage	wd 320gb + samsung 320 gig + wd 1tb 6gb/s
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Case	thermaltake XaserIII skull / coolermaster cm 690II
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	corsair hx 650 w which solved many problems (blew up) /850w corsair
Software	xp pro sp3/ ? win 7 ultimate (32 bit)
Benchmark Scores	6543 3d mark05 ye ye not good but look at the processor /uknown as still not benched

The Intel Core i7 Overclockers Club

zAAm

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Chicken Patty

johnnyfiive

Chicken Patty

zAAm

dr emulator (madmax)

Tatty_Two

Gone Fishing

zAAm

Tatty_Two

Gone Fishing

Binge

Overclocking Surrealism

johnnyfiive

MrHydes

New Member

Ammugonevil

New Member

Wetbehindtheears

New Member

zAAm

Ammugonevil

New Member

deathmore

zAAm

deathmore

Wetbehindtheears

New Member

Ammugonevil

New Member

zAAm

Yukikaze

Ammugonevil

New Member

mudkip

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System Name	Vader...(Alienware ALX X-58 Yes Im scum...)
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System Name	Still ongoing
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