I must be doing something wrong here... I have a i7 920 on a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 with 6 Gb of Ram (1333, 9-9-9-24). I am using the stock cooler but wanted to see what happened if I overclocked my system. At stock (running Vista 64 bit) my 3DMark Vantage score was 12919. I ran Prime95 on all cores and temps reached 60 (already). I decided to give it a try anyway.
So in the BIOS I disabled Turbo (already disabled EIST and C1E), set blck to 166 so the CPU runs at 166x20 = 3,33. I set the mem multiplier to 8 so the ram runs at 1333. That's all I did. No voltage adjustments and I also let QPI (or whatever) at default. I only changed those 3 things mentioned before. All is cool so far. Rebooted and the post screen showed me the CPU was running at 3,33. Nice!
I ran Vantage again... The score was 12727...? I ran Prime... temps still reached 60...?
It seems the OC doesn't do anything at ALL...??? I mean, with the CPU at 3,3 instead of 2,66 I should notice a difference SOMEWHERE, right...?
So in the BIOS I disabled Turbo (already disabled EIST and C1E), set blck to 166 so the CPU runs at 166x20 = 3,33. I set the mem multiplier to 8 so the ram runs at 1333. That's all I did. No voltage adjustments and I also let QPI (or whatever) at default. I only changed those 3 things mentioned before. All is cool so far. Rebooted and the post screen showed me the CPU was running at 3,33. Nice!
I ran Vantage again... The score was 12727...? I ran Prime... temps still reached 60...?
It seems the OC doesn't do anything at ALL...??? I mean, with the CPU at 3,3 instead of 2,66 I should notice a difference SOMEWHERE, right...?