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Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« on: September 22, 2010, 12:04:42 PM »
any experiences to share???

OCing of course!  :lol:

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Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« on: September 22, 2010, 12:04:42 PM »

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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 12:32:42 PM »
i7 is an i7 is an i7. They all overclock in much the same method. You just need to test your cpu/mainboard combo to see what yours can do.

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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2010, 12:33:49 PM »
yea, a friend of mine has one..,
He bought an H70 to overclock it... i can ask him to tell u how it went :)


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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2010, 02:01:42 PM »
i kno an i7 is an i7

i just read a few places online that ppl had a harder time gettin it stable at 4ghz+

yeh doomtack..

u do that :)

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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2010, 03:13:55 PM »
Most likely, that CPU is a 'D0' stepping, so it should not need as much voltage as my C0
model to OC.  You can start at 1.3V Vcore, set your CPU ratio to 20, and increase your Bclk
in increments of 10.  Make sure you can boot into Windows, and run three tests of LinX.
If its not stable, LinX won't even complete the 1st test without an error, or you will get a BSOD.
You can then increase the Vcore very slightly...say, to about 1.32V and test again.

To achieve absolute stability at 4 GHz, you may have to adjust your CPU PLL voltage to about 1.60 to 1.89V,
and your IOH voltage to about 1.30V (I have to verify this one later).  Increasing your Bclk will also affect your RAM as well, so you may want to increase your RAM voltage to about 1.55 to 1.60V.  DO NOT EXCEED 1.65V,
or you WILL damage your CPU.  I can't stress that one enough.

I currently have my 920 at 4 GHz, but I can do that because of the uber cooling.  When I get home,
I'll record all the pertinent voltage values, and you can use that as a guide.


Its going to be a long and tedious process to see just what your CPU is capable of, so don't rush things.
Do the LinX test each time you change a setting, so you will know right off the bat if that change was OK.

Eventually you'll get there.

Let me give you a lil tip that might save you a few hours of headache:  do not use your main Windows install
when OCing, because sometimes when you get a BSOD because of a bad setting, Windows gets corrupted,
and you will have to reinstall from scratch.  Use a Windows install on another drive that you can afford to f@#ck-up.  Trust me on this one.  :)
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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2010, 03:26:49 PM »
Good advice from Arc there. Could not have said it better myself.

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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2010, 08:53:10 PM »
thanks arc !!

i have good experience with the q9xxx CPUs

the i7 i am new to
so i will take ur advice
another thing is i read that about the ram to
the 1.65v shouldnt even see the ram!

thx mate!

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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2010, 03:07:08 PM »
well i am at 4.1ghz now guys

just did a test and crossed the 30k vantage line
pics in my bench thread

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Re: Anyone here with experience with i7 950
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2010, 03:07:08 PM »

 


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