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Hey guys now that I have my system put together I want to do a light overclock. I dont want anything to crazy that will make my computers parts die fast or anything like that. Can you guys give me some directions on what you would do?

MY parts are
I7 920
OCZ platinum 1600
Asus p6t deluxe v2
Sapphire 5850
850 watt power supply
WD 640gb black
Sony DVD
Dark Knight cooler
Antec 900


This computer will be used to play games and to play movies every now and then. I guess I wouldnt mind overclocking the ram, CPU and the graphics card.
 
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That would be a personal decision, based on what you would consider to be a 'light overclock'. You've got some decent parts there, they should overclock well. What you need to be asking yourself is "I read the overclocking guide and want some clarification about _____, maybe the forums can help me." But what YOU want YOUR system to overclock to based on what YOU do to it?

No, I have a child that I make decisions for. It's your money, it's your loss. Educate yourself first and understand what you are doing before you even decide if you want to overclock.
 
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Worthwhile checking to make sure you have the latest BIOS first. Then I'd suggest reading .... a lot.

Meanwhile make sure you have no Event Viewer messages which will be frustrating if you din't resolve those b4 starting OC'ing

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&id=20081220191040237&board_id=1&model=P6T%20Deluxe&page=1&count=66
http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/538439-guide-overclocking-core-i7-920-4-a.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-core-i7,2268-4.html

In the past, was a casual OC'er never looking for more than 20% for two reasons:

1. I build mostly production boxes and
2. I just didn't have the patience to fiddle w/ it

But this is actually my son's box and working on the OC is something we can d together and that's a fun thing.

The Asus 'enthusiast" boards like the R2E have a "CPU Level IP" feature which w/ one setting, just bumps you up to say a 950 or 965 processor speeds. Those settings are therefore a good target.

The asus guide above is among the best I have seen. I started with a 3.0 Ghz OC and all I did was change the BCLK to 150 ...then I went to 160 and left it therefor a couple of weeks. The R2E MoBo does a lot of things automatically and I always wondered if It was setting RAM speed and other things correctly so i always went to the HW Monitor page in the BIOS after saving and exiting. from any changes. We're now at 176 (3.7 GHz @ v1.2v) w/o shutting off any BIOS features (i.e. Speedstep , HT). Goal was 3.66 so we happy though I'm dying to understand why BCLK 177 fails so miserably no matter what we do :)
 
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Cache this is for my little brother.... I dont have time to sit and dick with a computer all day. I was looking for a basic answer as in, "hey those parts you have are solid. For a light overclock look at bumping your cpu to this... your ram to this... and ya sure maybe your gpu to this..." Thats great you give your son advice... but take into consideration that not everyone is interested in learning anything and everything about a certain subject. I am just interested in what should this thing be overclocked to without its life being shortened. I dont know a thing about it and I will have someone else do it for me Im just looking for the numbers at this point.
 
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OK so If I wanted a mild overclock. I would have to overclock my I7 to like 3.0, my ram up to 1600 and do my graphics card a little also? Im worried about bottle necking and everything. Again this will be used to run games mostly. I was able to test crysis on it and play it on all high, X8 AA at about 35fps average. I wouldnt mind it playing a little smoother though. Should I add more fans to the case, It has stock fans then my darkknight on the processor.
 
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hey Newtopics,

I can't really help you with your overclock as I don't have your exact components, but wanted to add that I think you are going about this the wrong way.

Your components are plenty powerful, most people would be overclocking to try and reach the performance of your base rig. It doesn't sound like you have a major reason like needing more performance in a game or app, so you don't really need to overclock.

Also, if someone were to just give you numbers to overclock, even if they seem 'light' and worked for them, if you don't know exactly what you are doing when changing things in the bios you can be royally screwed. After you mess the bios if you didn't know what you were doing that messed it up it can be near impossible to fix. So unless you really want a 'little' overclock for a great risk, it is better to just leave it until you do research.
 
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There is no guarantee with overclocking. I can take identical systems, the exact same part up and down and one will overclock with minimal effort, the other will need all kinds of work to make it work even half as good. Anyone here could just throw numbers and some might work. Others might make your system unstable. A few might even break something. You're looking for an all-in-one solution to a question that cannot be answered except by careful work based on a firm understanding of what you are doing.

Overclocking is about work. If you are not willing to put in the work you are only endangering the components you own. I would still highly urge you to read and educate yourself on the subject--it's a worthwhile read because it shows you all kinds of things your computer can do that most people are blissfully unaware of. If you have specific questions I can't think of a better place than Tom's to ask--just don't ask for easy answers because they will never tell you what you did, and what you are actually doing to the computer.
 
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All figures below based upon CPU multiplier of 20, with memory rated at 160, you can do:

Your BCLK at 2.66 GHz is 133.33, and w/ memory multiplier of 8, memory is 1067
Your BCLK at 2.66 GHz is 133.33, and w/ memory multiplier of 10, memory is 1333
Your BCLK at 2.66 GHz is 133.33, and w/ memory multiplier of 12, memory is 1600

Your BCLK at 3.00 GHz is 150.00, and w/ memory multiplier of 8, memory is 1200
Your BCLK at 3.00 GHz is 150.00, and w/ memory multiplier of 10, memory is 1500


 
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Setting up a new rig for someone else you should just leave it stock. You have a high end processor, it really will not "feel faster" with a o/c. Plus he might need adjustments to memory timings set up stock. Just look at the comment section for ram at Newegg. Its a little disheartening. x58 supports 800 and 1066 mhz. Everything higher is technically o/c. Overclocking is more personally rewarding for the person doing it themselves on the computer they work on.
 
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