Broke 4.4Ghz today. :)

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  1. 01-14-2011, 10:23 AM #1
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    Post Broke 4.4Ghz today. :)

    I know 4Ghz is pretty standard these days but I always seem to have a stupid bottleneck of some kind.

    I was capping around 3.8 Ghz since I got my current rig a few months ago, I decided it was a mobo limitation and left it at that. Well yesterday I got board and messed around with my QPI, lowered it from 8xx0 to around 2xx0. I was able to raise my fsb to 190 with no issue and was not able to make my computer fail in Prime.

    I will push it farther sometime this week.

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    I decided to push farther though, see below.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GSG-9 View Post
    I know 4Ghz is pretty standard these days but I always seem to have a stupid bottleneck of some kind.

    I was capping around 3.8 Ghz since I got my current rig a few months ago, I decided it was a mobo limitation and left it at that. Well yesterday I got board and messed around with my QPI, lowered it from 8xx0 to around 2xx0. I was able to raise my fsb to 190 with no issue and was not able to make my computer fail in Prime.

    I will push it farther sometime this week.

    Processor:     i7 920 @ 4.1Ghz (1.26V) Motherboard:Asus P6TD Deluxe Cooling:Thermaltake Frio Memory:12Gb Kingston DDR3 1533Mhz 8-8-60-8 Video Card:AMD HD6970 Hard Disk:2x Seagate LP 2TB + Spinpoint F1 1TB

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    Quote Originally Posted by EnJoY View Post
    Follow this: http://www.techreaction.net/2010/09/...-and-gulftown/
    I followed it for my QPI settings.
    My Bclock is at 195, I have done a lot of meddling and cannot get it stable at 200 unless I up my voltage and I am pretty happy sitting @ 1.26v.

    My 3dmark scores are not bad though.
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    Hey, you being happy is what matters most when it comes to overclocks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EnJoY View Post
    Hey, you being happy is what matters most when it comes to overclocks.
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    So today I changed quite a bit of stuff and after changing to 1000mv on my cpu I'm at 4.4Ghz Given I am using a LOT more power now.

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    Really nice overclock, I could never get my 920 up above 4.2 but that was a C0 revision CPU too.
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    But, is it 24/7 stable? what settings did you use

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pedros View Post
    But, is it 24/7 stable? what settings did you use

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    Hey, yeah its pretty close to 24/7 stable, my video card driver crashes sometimes (every few days if I let it run), but the cpu the rest seems good.

    I ran it at 1.27v, my ram is clocked as low as it can go, (so around 1300mhz) Multiplayer is at 20. My ram is 1066mhz, so it limits what I can do. If I let my ram run at 1600mhz it is not 24.7 stable and has hard crashes, the ram also wants more than 1.6v to go over 16000mhz, and I hear that is bad for mycpu.
    I am also running the cpu @ 1000mv.
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    Over 1.6 is fine if you increase VTT to keep within .5volts of it. IE 1.6 RAM = 1.1 VTT

    VTT might need to be increased anyway to run faster RAM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neuromancer View Post
    Over 1.6 is fine if you increase VTT to keep within .5volts of it. IE 1.6 RAM = 1.1 VTT

    VTT might need to be increased anyway to run faster RAM.
    I will keep that in mind and up my VTT the next time I push my OC, that could be why it crashes when I am running around 1600mhz for a while.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GSG-9 View Post
    ...that could be why it crashes when I am running around 1600mhz for a while.
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