TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

[Fitseries3]

hahaha, no biggie bro.

im glad you went i7 man. really i am. everyone seems to be too bitchy to even think about getting i7.

 

[Wile E]

I'm not too bitchy, just too poor. lol.

 

[Chicken Patty]

CP its more like amd am2 chips so you should feel at home. leave the multi on auto with speedstep and turbo enabled. everything else disabled. leave HT enabled as well for now.

you should be able to get to 160 bclk easy

make sure you have a setting called "ACPI 2.0" aka "HPET timer" ebabled. it helps keep the x58/i7 clocks in sync.

Thanks fit.


Just getting familiar with terms in the BIOS, thats all.

Well for now I have everything on auto, I just upped the BLCK. I will try a bit higher tomorrow. I'm done for today.

BTW, ACPI is enabled. However, turbo mode enabled caused my o/c to crash, but then again, could have been a voltage setting. now that it is on auto, I will try for turbo mode again. I will also enable speedstep.

Can you tell me what speedstep is exactly? Thanks.

 

[Chicken Patty]

im glad you went i7 man. really i am. everyone seems to be too bitchy to even think about getting i7.

Bro, I loved my AMD rig, but it was itching me to try out intel for a while, so here I am.

this chip continues to amaze me the more I use it, lets see what it has in store for me

 

[Chicken Patty]

I'm not too bitchy, just too poor. lol.

I feel ya, I got my bonus from my job, thats why I am i7 now, if not I would have just gotten a new AMD board.

 

[Fitseries3]

Bro, I loved my AMD rig, but it was itching me to try out intel for a while, so here I am.

this chip continues to amaze me the more I use it, lets see what it has in store for me

it just feels fast as fuck doesnt it?

 

[Chicken Patty]

it just feels fast as fuck doesnt it?

well, everyday use, I mean how much faster can it feel? But benchmarking just changes completely, the difference is night and day.

Funny thing is my best 3dmark CPU score was 4997 with my 9850 at 3.4 GHz. the core i7 at default clocks with turbo mode enabled did over 5200 !!!!!

 

[Fitseries3]

well, everyday use, I mean how much faster can it feel? But benchmarking just changes completely, the difference is night and day.

Funny thing is my best 3dmark CPU score was 4997 with my 9850 at 3.4 GHz. the core i7 at default clocks with turbo mode enabled did over 5200 !!!!!

dood....

my 920 at 4ghz gets 25k with 3 gtx260 at stock in vantage

OC the vid cards a bit and i got over 28k STILL at 4ghz.

thats a MONSTER improvement on JUST video power cause the i7 can feed the data to the cards.

 

[Chicken Patty]

dood....

my 920 at 4ghz gets 25k with 3 gtx260 at stock in vantage

OC the vid cards a bit and i got over 28k STILL at 4ghz.

thats a MONSTER improvement on JUST video power cause the i7 can feed the data to the cards.

yep, with only 100 MHz increase, my sm2 score jumped about 300-350 points!!!!!

This was on the CPU, not the card. for some reason I cant overclock my card more than 810 core and 1100 memory. I gotta volt mod it.

 

[Fitseries3]

i need to fix my fans on my x2's before i can run them again. asus top bios has them stuck at 100% and i cant stand it.

 

[Chicken Patty]

i need to fix my fans on my x2's before i can run them again. asus top bios has them stuck at 100% and i cant stand it.

hahahaha, that must suck dude, sorry if I laugh, but damn, the fans are noisy as hell!!!!! I could only imagine.

EDIT: I just ran my VGA fan at 100% for like 30 seconds, oh man, i'm not laughing at ya no more!!



Hey fit, i'm really loving this EVGA board bro, its got a nifty little utility too!!!!


check it out:

http://www.evga.com/eleet/

 

[Fitseries3]

send it to me. i want to see if it works on my board.

 

[Chicken Patty]

here you go fit

 

[Fitseries3]

seems to work on my x38. no OCing though. i will give the i7 a try in the morning.

 

[Chicken Patty]

seems to work on my x38. no OCing though. i will give the i7 a try in the morning.

cool let me know.

 

[Chicken Patty]

here is what the rig looks like now, tomorrow i'll put everything back in the case, for now this was just to test it and make sure its working before I put everything back in the case.

 

[Fitseries3]

dont ask me how i did this...

 

[Fitseries3]

anyone having problems with their i7 setup getting over 200bclk....

use a 19x multi on the 920
and i would assume using a lower multi on the 940 would work as well.


somehow this lets me get to 210bclk(so far) and its A LOT more stable than 20x

 

[Chicken Patty]

anyone having problems with their i7 setup getting over 200bclk....

use a 19x multi on the 920
and i would assume using a lower multi on the 940 would work as well.


somehow this lets me get to 210bclk(so far) and its A LOT more stable than 20x

so was that the secret you were sharing here?

 

[Fitseries3]

sorta yes.

 

[Chicken Patty]

sorta yes.

interesting!

 

[Chicken Patty]

this is where i'm at right now, any suggestions???

I started prime for a few seconds so the temps can rise for you guys, doesnt get much hotter than that, I dont have it in a case yet, maybe thats why. I think i might hold off until I put it under water to put it in a case, should stay cooler in the open how it is now




here is a shot of my Memory

 

[Castiel]

I think a Core i7 Build is just to expensive. I think that I am going to stick with AMD a PII setup.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I think a Core i7 Build is just to expensive. I think that I am going to stick with AMD a PII setup.

Castiel sorry about this,

but it is just as expensive almost. Phenom II will be about $25 less than the i7 920, the board is about the same price, I got my EVGA for $298, a high end board will be $200 for a PII setup, and the RAM you can find some good and cheap DDR3 ram, dual channel of course. Perfectly fine for me so far.


It is only about $100-200 dollar difference between PII and i7, definitely worth the extra money to me.

 

[Fitseries3]

CP... DONT run any p95 or orthos until you get better cooling.

you may want to turn your vcore up a good bit and run superPI 32m a few times. that will burn in the cpu and loosen it up a bit for better OCing.