Hello Tom's Hardware members!
I have hopefully a simple question.
To begin with, I was thinking of upgrading my i5-750 to an i7 processor, because of the small/medium boost in performance it would offer. Currently, I have my i5-750 overclocked to 3.5GHz (20x multiplier, 175 BCLK) on my Asus P7H55-M motherboard, because you can overclock this CPU to about this range without touching voltages ( as mentioned here: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-750-overclock,2438-3.html ; also, multiple hours in Prime95 and a few hours in AIDA64's stress test, plus the weeks of medium-to-heavy usage have confirmed these findings, to my joy).
Now, looking at these two i7's (i7-860 and i7-870), I want to know the same thing: want is the highest overclock possible on these two processors without touching voltages? I can't seem to find this information anywhere like I could with the i5-750. I want to be able to squeeze out some more performance out of them with little to no effort, and besides, if I don't overclock them, they aren't going to be too much more "powerful" than my overclocked i5-750, from what I can tell (at least gaming-wise; productivity-wise, with their hyper-threading, at stock clocks, I'm sure they would be close to or above my overclocked i5-750).
I'm relatively new to overclocking, so not having to touch voltages yet still be able to overclock is very nice. Besides, I don't care for all of the hours of at-the-desk tweaking and testing that is required for higher clocks able with voltage-tweaking, or the higher heat output and power draw accompanied with those clocks. Hence, a small overclock with voltages set to "auto" is what I look to do with either of these i7's, and is currently what I am doing with this i5 of mine.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I have hopefully a simple question.
To begin with, I was thinking of upgrading my i5-750 to an i7 processor, because of the small/medium boost in performance it would offer. Currently, I have my i5-750 overclocked to 3.5GHz (20x multiplier, 175 BCLK) on my Asus P7H55-M motherboard, because you can overclock this CPU to about this range without touching voltages ( as mentioned here: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-750-overclock,2438-3.html ; also, multiple hours in Prime95 and a few hours in AIDA64's stress test, plus the weeks of medium-to-heavy usage have confirmed these findings, to my joy).
Now, looking at these two i7's (i7-860 and i7-870), I want to know the same thing: want is the highest overclock possible on these two processors without touching voltages? I can't seem to find this information anywhere like I could with the i5-750. I want to be able to squeeze out some more performance out of them with little to no effort, and besides, if I don't overclock them, they aren't going to be too much more "powerful" than my overclocked i5-750, from what I can tell (at least gaming-wise; productivity-wise, with their hyper-threading, at stock clocks, I'm sure they would be close to or above my overclocked i5-750).
I'm relatively new to overclocking, so not having to touch voltages yet still be able to overclock is very nice. Besides, I don't care for all of the hours of at-the-desk tweaking and testing that is required for higher clocks able with voltage-tweaking, or the higher heat output and power draw accompanied with those clocks. Hence, a small overclock with voltages set to "auto" is what I look to do with either of these i7's, and is currently what I am doing with this i5 of mine.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!