Dust off your bookmarks, help with an x58 overclock!

[Atnevon]

So I magically came into possession of a new 1080 founders and I am THRILLED! (replacing my 780ti in all its glory) However, I suspect my i7 950 is a little bottlenecking in some of the games in keeping me from clicking everything over to ultra and watching the beauty.

So I decided in the interest of money to hold off a bit until 1: the 960 Evo SSDs come on sale (thats 90% of the reason); and 2: What will become of the Kaby Lake vs Zen battle. So for the first time in the 6 years I've had my EVGA x58 board and i7 950, I'm ready to push. Just one problem: All the guides with good pictures have broken image links lost to internet time

So, does anyone have a good guide to follow? I haven't done CPU pushes since my old Q6600 on the 680i board back in 07....yea its been a while....

I'm on air only and cooling on a XIGMATEK| LOKI SD963.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

No matter how fast you get your CPU to run it will cripple your GPU by a significant amount.


have a look at this thread for X58 overclocking
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/xeon-owners-club.211143/

 

[brandonwh64]

I had good luck with my I7 920 back in the day. It would do 4.5ghz stable but ran pretty hot for my air cooler so I stuck with 4.2ghz. I Followed binges guide back then and it worked great. I turned off all power saving features as well as speed step.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/overclocking-the-x58-a-practical-guide.108526/

or

http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz

 

[Atnevon]

No matter how fast you get your CPU to run it will cripple your GPU by a significant amount.

Well I was in debate this weekend over a 6700k and a 6800k. Newegg had some decent deals, but, I'm also seeing the early benches for the 7700k coming up having a nicer upgrade worthy-for-the-buck qualities. The 960 Evo, or the lack-of I should say, was the biggest holdback for me. >_< I'm not expecting a night-and-day savior difference but it should hold over nice until the real word on the next batches for Kaby and Zen arrive.

 

[Tomgang]

As a fellow X58 user with and I7 920 @ 4.1 GHz (can do 4.4 GHz, but do to heat it is not for daily use). I have 2 x GTX 970 in sli and for single gpu performence comparison that is like a GTX 980 TI or GTX 1070 and most games there is not a bottleneck, but in a few games you will see a bottleneck like in GTA V i can exspirience som sort of lag some places in the city. But since your GPU is more powerful and need more cpu power to feed it your bottleneck may be a bit bigger.

I will not recommend you getting a more powerful GPU atleast or your CPU will be a bottleneck for sure. But get the CPU to 4 GHz or more you shut be fine in most games. My X58 setup is with my GTX 970´s the last GPU upgrade my current system will get. Next GPU upgrade = a complete new pc.

This is the OC guide i used back then i need to oc my CPU for the first time. Its for at I7 920 but besides your CPU have more multiplier and a bit higher CPU clock stock, they are the same. So just be sure to compensate for your cpu higher multiplier count that will give you a higher cpu clock than my CPU in the guide. By the way im on Air cooling aswell som can say that 4 GHz is possible depending what cooling you have.

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_i7_920_overclocking

This is the bios settings i use for 4 GHz on my chip if that can be to any help. Just remember the multiplier and bus speed clock difference for your CPU vs. my cpu.

My system as it is today.

For benchmark as i told before my cpu runs 4.4 GHz, but only for benchamrk because of heat.

Alright this shut be a nice help to get you going with OC on X58. Most CPU's for X58 oc pretty well and hits 4 GHz or more.

 

[Atnevon]

As a fellow X58 user with and I7 920 @ 4.1 GHz (can do 4.4 GHz, but do to heat it is not for daily use).


Alright this shut be a nice help to get you going with OC on X58. Most CPU's for X58 oc pretty well and hits 4 GHz or more.

Thats a GREAT set of shots and info. You certainly went above and beyond for sure. Many many Thanks to you.

 

[Tomgang]

Thats a GREAT set of shots and info. You certainly went above and beyond for sure. Many many Thanks to you.

You are very velkomne. Just glad i can help a fellow x58 user, to keep these old brave veterans going for a while longer.

 

[FilipM]

As every chip is different, just follow what OC guide was posted in here and good luck

I've had a chip that could barely do 4GHz at 1.3375V in bios and now have a chip that does the same OC with ease at 1.18-1.19V.


At stock speeds it will bottleneck, however once OC'd, I do believe it will perform as good as any up-to-date chip.