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Intel Core i7 980X Overclock @ 5.00 GHz - Air Cooling

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Binge said:
Speaking of. I'm going to have a 32nm chip soon. Do you have any recommendation of what the new "danger zones" are for OC voltages on this lower process?
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Roughly..

No more then 1.4vcore Try to stay below it, however some oc's will require you to go tad above it.

Then:

No more then 1.375 VTT (absolutely MUST! do not venture off in the 1.4v unless u dont intend to keep that chip longer then 6-8months... possibly even shorte).

While holding the 2 above:
Keep your QPI link LOW... like 4.8mts low... gulftowns do not like a high qpi link.


My 24/7 settings are:

1.3875vcore
1.325 Vtt
1.325 QPI
1.65 Dram

This is holding 4.3ghz /w HT On.

This is on hexcore, the quadcores are easier to handle i heard.
 
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Doesn't the ram power also supply a little juice to the cpu also?
 
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Trigger911 said:
Doesn't the ram power also supply a little juice to the cpu also?
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.5 rule... but this is universal on all i7's.

My i7 975 which i :love:
Can do 1.5vcore easily, and probably stay for a while.
Even 1.4VTT isnt much on a D0.

Its the 32nm gulftowns which are fragile.
Now the ones i got to play with most is the A0's.
I have a B1, my 980X, however i never got to see what the upper limits on a B1 is. (nor could u ask me to try on this puppy)

As i said, it hurt a lot when i pop'd the first one.
I am not poping a second gulftown.
 
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Binge said:
Except that's not what my people at Intel tell me. It's not on their agenda to make a 6-core chip fiscally available when they could make more money selling smaller chips.
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Yep I have heard that it is not in their roadmap. And yet I see it ending up there anyway.
 
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