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TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

here is my latest stable overclock, re did the overclock as I felt as my 4.2 GHz settings were grabbed from a guide and probably didnt need that much voltage.

If you notice on the sidebar, the up time has been over 13 hours, I had restarted for a windows update, so its been running like this for about 24 hours or a bit more already. :D

Things i've noticed with this overclock compared to my previous 4.2 GHz grabbed from a guide.


Used to take me over 1.4v to run this clock, only 1.305v now, except for vcore, all other voltage settings were in the colored area of my bios, now they have been increased only a minimal amount, still within non colored settings in my BIOS. Before I needed to run 1.67v to my ram to run them at 600 MHz with a divider of 6. 200 BCLK x 6 = 1200/2=600 MHz. Now RAM is running at 767 MHz with 1.63v :toast:

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Good show CP. You really don't need that much voltage. 4.2 is hard to obtain with less than 1.4v, but it can be done.
 
Binge said:
Good show CP. You really don't need that much voltage. 4.2 is hard to obtain with less than 1.4v, but it can be done.
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you mean not that much voltage now, or for 4.2 GHz. Took me about 1.45v to stable out 4.2 GHz, and 1.411v for 4.0 GHz which is what im at now for 1.305v.

I was completely unfamiliar with this i7 architecture at the time so I grabbed some settings from a guy that worked, but weren't tweaked to my likings. Now i feel like I have accomplished something and have really overclocked the system myself :)
 
Well yeah I mean "One does not need to be a brute to achieve an overclock!" LOL

It feels nice, doesn't it?
 
Binge said:
Well yeah I mean "One does not need to be a brute to achieve an overclock!" LOL

It feels nice, doesn't it?
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yeah dude it does, i feel really happy now lol. I want to go up to 4.2 GHz, thats where I was before, so for now i'm just enjoying it. Tomorrow when I get bored ill up the BCLK another 5 MHz which is good for 1.0 GHz more :D
 
Binge said:
Well yeah I mean "One does not need to be a brute to achieve an overclock!" LOL

It feels nice, doesn't it?
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But it's more fun that way. Get it really cold, crank the voltage, and away you fly. lol.
 
Wile E said:
But it's more fun that way. Get it really cold, crank the voltage, and away you fly. lol.
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haha, just hope your CPU doesn't literally fly out of the socket from the amount of voltage you feed it lol.


Naw but on a serious note, yeah thats fun too! But you feel much more accomplished starting from scratch.
 
here is my progress since I started from scratch. Spreadsheet style, helps tremendously :D

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its not hard to get 4.2ghz to boot to windows at 1.32v BUT when you put the cpu under a load such as benchmarking it just cant do it.

i can run all week at 1.32v 4.2ghz with it never restarting but like i said... 3dmark fucking dies REAL fucking fast with less than 1.45v
 
fitseries3 said:
its not hard to get 4.2ghz to boot to windows at 1.32v BUT when you put the cpu under a load such as benchmarking it just cant do it.

i can run all week at 1.32v 4.2ghz with it never restarting but like i said... 3dmark fucking dies REAL fucking fast with less than 1.45v
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well at least this setup of 4.0 i can benchmark as well. 3dmark, wprime 1024m, 32m, etc.
 
4.0 GHz

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Here's my latest 4.1+GHz.

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im waitin for new users to pop up with similar names

like...

Fitseries4
dark2100
billfrown
turkeypatty
2HIGHsnooper
purge
danishdildo

just interesting.

hell....

new mods... W4rlock and Lightsaber would be sick! even Danthepianoman would be funny.
 
sorry... im just killin time till my shit gets here.
 
^^^ :roll: turkey patty :laugh:
 
I'd guess there must have been a fitseries1 and fitseries2 as why else is there a fitseries3.:) If they're still around I haven't seen any post by them.
 
msgclb said:
I'd guess there must have been a fitseries1 and fitseries2 as why else is there a fitseries3.:) If they're still around I haven't seen any post by them.
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its a trick if youve ever played FFX youd know fit has a 3 after his name so people actually serch the forums for fit1 etc then he gets the last laugh cause you wasted ur time
 
Maybe we're looking at this wrong. Could it be fitseries III?:rolleyes:
 
Chicken Patty said:
you mean not that much voltage now, or for 4.2 GHz. Took me about 1.45v to stable out 4.2 GHz, and 1.411v for 4.0 GHz which is what im at now for 1.305v.

I was completely unfamiliar with this i7 architecture at the time so I grabbed some settings from a guy that worked, but weren't tweaked to my likings. Now i feel like I have accomplished something and have really overclocked the system myself :)
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So your running 4Ghz as your 24/7 @ 1.305?
 
I just realised, this is a PDF from "gigabyte technical marketing" but if you can overlook it's somewhat "spammy" nature, then find the little bits of info in there regarding voltage, memory settings etc.. They were able to get their 1333mhz DDR3 3way ram up to 1600mhz passing memtest and still maintain a stable 4ghz OC :)
 
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