New to overclocking i7 920

[johnstac]

Well, I thought this was going to be easy. I found this guide at evga.com:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=642527

I followed the instructions exactly and when finished, got a blue screen. I know this is common, but as a noob, I don't know what to do next. In their instructions, I saw quotes like, " Your voltage may vary". I didn't want to just start increasing voltage and didn't know which voltages to begin increasing so I opted to load defaults and come here first.

Perhaps there is an easier guide somewhere to oc the 920? Any help would be appreciated. Thank.s

 

[cjl]

First, they are both going for quite a high speed, and are using rather extreme voltages to get there.

I would tend to go for a lower voltage and speed. For a relatively safe overclock, staying below 1.36V core is reasonable. At that voltage, an i7 920 should get to 3.4-3.6 GHz without much difficulty.

 

[wimcle]

my 920 does 3800 (20x190) everything on auto except the mem which is 1.64v, the cpu is 1.21v

you can set qpi to x36, and uncore to x16 if you want but 'auto' should be fine

 

[wimcle]

my 920 does 3800 (20x190) everything on auto except the mem which is 1.64v, the cpu is 1.21v

you can set qpi to x36, and uncore to x16 if you want but 'auto' should be fine

 

[johnstac]

Okay, I will go over what you guys have posted here and try it again. The voltage you guys are referring to.....which one is it. As I recall, there was one main one but there were also some others.

To wimcle: are you saying that the instructions that I posted originally, I can pretty much ignore all of that and just change those two voltages and that's all I really need to do to get to 3800? That would be much easier if I understand you correctly. To confirm, I will be changing the dimm voltage, cpu vcore, cpu uncore freq and I couldn't find that last one you mentioned. Where is the qpi?

 

[chad_69]

Well, I thought this was going to be easy. I found this guide at evga.com:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=642527

I followed the instructions exactly and when finished, got a blue screen. I know this is common, but as a noob, I don't know what to do next. In their instructions, I saw quotes like, " Your voltage may vary". I didn't want to just start increasing voltage and didn't know which voltages to begin increasing so I opted to load defaults and come here first.

Perhaps there is an easier guide somewhere to oc the 920? Any help would be appreciated. Thank.s

Always overclock in the bios. I do not trust OC palm or overclocking from the desktop with oc programs becuase you will not get a high stable OC. Go into bios, go into "manual" AI tweaker, turn turbo off, up the Blk frequency in increments of two reboot each time and test for crashes. You should have a very good cooler if you want a high overclock. As far as the memory I am just learning that phase. The 920 is the best overclocker at of the I-7 Core series. I have a 940 and I am at 3.4ghz with a V8 Cooler Master. I know I can go higher but I do not to test my luck. Also down load a program calles CPU-Z onto your desktop and utlize that to confirm your overclock speed.

Good Luck.