I7 Guys Check In

[imported_pendragon]

i7-920
P6Tdeluxe
stock Intel hsf

@3.0ghz= mid 30's idle, sixty's prime95
Realtemp 3.0

 

[BubbaBooBoo]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem

Originally posted by: 2dt Drifter
I run mine @ stock. 30's @ idle. I think im the ONLY one here on a stock 920. lol

You're not alone.

Yup. Box stock and lovin it! Best CPU Ive ever owned!

 

[alcoholbob]

Stock but when I game I set it to 3.8 with evga e-leet.

Idle is 33 load is 65. I haven't tested it when its overclocked.

No reason to keep it overclocked really unless you're number crunching. If you are doing general productivity work you're limited by your hard drive anyway. Otherwise its mostly a waste of electricity, decreases lifespan, and generates more heat.

 

[iCyborg]

i7 920 @ 3.60 GHz
30-35 idle, 65-70 load
turbo disabled, HT, C1E and EIST enabled.

 

[Toadster]

4Ghz on my Ci7-965 right now, haven't played with bus speeds (yet)

details in link below

 

[2March]

I can give you prime temps but they are a bit flattering, I'm afraid. I found this kind of synthetic benchmarking to be no longer sufficient for my I7.

Not that I'm one of those "real world scenario" preachers. I've always used these burners to check the overclock and they always worked well, meaning I would not exceed those temps in a real world scenario. Not so for the I7. Under stress testing temps go up to 70 degrees but NB stays low. When stressing the video as well the temps on the NB start to rise and so does the CPU. So I end up about 5 degrees higher in the CPU (75). Still acceptable. FSX however pushes the NB to about 75 to 80 degrees and after e vew hours it seems to saturate the whole area around the NB and CPU socket. I can see that because when I shut down FSX the temps don't fall quickly as the usually do. The NB barely cools down at all and the CPU appears to be waiting for the NB to cool down first. It can take about half an hour to cool down 5 degrees.

I've mounted a 40mm fan on the NB and now temps fall again right after the load comes off. So now Prime on 8 cores is about 65 degrees and with Futuremark running as well about 70 degrees

FSX about 75 degrees tops. Used to but 85+ without the NB cooler. Temps are about 2 degrees higher at 3.8GHz but until I've decided on what cooler to get for the CPU I leave it at 3.3-3.4.

CPU cooler: stock
NB cooler: forced 40mm
Hyperthreading: enabled
Vcore 3.3GHz: 1.17-1.18.
Vcore 3.8GHz: 1.25-1.26 (tested stabel but cooler to bad to risk my new processor on)

 

[QuantumPion]

920 cpu, 3.6 ghz (180 bclk), 1.22 Vcore, ram at 1440 ghz, V-ram at 1.56 (corsair white-label dd3 1600), V-qpi at 1.2 I think. Asus P6T Deluxe. Basically I bumped up the cpu and qpi voltages to the maximum of the "blue" region, everything else is forced to manual at the default voltage except ram which is bumped up a little. I'm getting temps of ~42 idle and ~68 load, with a Thermalright UE at stock RPM in an Antec P182 case (all fans on low speed).

I was able to boot successfully at 4.2 Ghz but I had to crank the vcore up to 1.33 v, and the system BSOD'd as soon as I started a stress test. I think it would be stable but only at >1.35 V. I was seeing temps over 80 degrees at 1.33 V so I didn't want to push it that high (since I can't increase my fan's speed, it's not a PWM fan).

 

[spire303]

Running @ 3.6GHz/1.27V
Temps ~40C @ idle / ~70C @ load (+/- 5C depending on room temp)

I hate seeing people say they get 30C on 4.0GHz OCs. :\ It makes me obsess about my temps... :[

 

[exar333]

Originally posted by: spire303
Running @ 3.6GHz/1.27V
Temps ~40C @ idle / ~70C @ load (+/- 5C depending on room temp)

I hate seeing people say they get 30C on 4.0GHz OCs. :\ It makes me obsess about my temps... :[

Don't worry about their temps, their lying anyway (or their definition of "load" is running 2 browser windows or playing a puzzle game).

Show me a 4 ghz i7 running at full load <45C on air. I would LOVE to see it.

 

[Rick James]

Originally posted by: spire303
Running @ 3.6GHz/1.27V
Temps ~40C @ idle / ~70C @ load (+/- 5C depending on room temp)

I hate seeing people say they get 30C on 4.0GHz OCs. :\ It makes me obsess about my temps... :[

Haha After i'm done with my new WC system i hope for high 20C temps at 4Ghz

 

[Cookie Monster]

Before we OC core 2 parts, we normally have C1E and EIST disabled due to stability issues. Doesn't this apply to nehalem?

 

[exar333]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Before we OC core 2 parts, we normally have C1E and EIST disabled due to stability issues. Doesn't this apply to nehalem?

This was not an issue in my experience, and I haven't seen this as a major issue for most people. This may come into play more with more exotic (WC and up) overclocks 4.2ghz+.

 

[palladium]

Just got my TRUE ( at long last), managed 165*21=3.45GHz at 1.2V @ BIOS ( LLC disabled). Prime95 16hr stable. Load temps are around 57C. I want to get ~3.6GHz with 170-175BCLK, but thanks to gigabyte's BIOS bug, it wouldn't cold boot properly until I hit 185BCLK. Unfortunately at that BCLK setting, even with turbo off, I couldn't get it P95 stable at stock volts ( 1.2625V). I'm not comfortable with overvolting, so yeah....am stuck with this speed until gigabyte fixes its BIOS. ( it was better compared to one month ago, when nothing above 150BCLK works).

 

[mazzmond]

What Gigabyte board you using? I have the EX58-UD4P using F6 Bios and my settings are 181*21=3.80GHz also using stock voltage vcore 1.18125, QPI/Vtt 1.175, DRAM at 1.50, everything else at stock on the i7 920 and have every energy saving feature enabled as well as HT and Turbo. RAM is at 1448MHz. I had no problems changing my BCLK with this BIOS I'm using the Monsoon III LT cooler with Arctic 5 thermal compound. Currently as I type on idle with only Folding running with about a 10% processor load my CPU temperature is at 37C, System temp also at 35C. Running Prime for a few hours gets me up to 56-58C at full load. Even running it overnight I none of my cores went over 58C. I'm at max for my chip currently without increasing my voltage but did get it up to 4.2 GHz but that required a vcore of 1.4 and my temps under load went up to 82-85 which was a bit uncomfortable for me so figured I'd just leave things alone as running at 3.8 GHz with stock voltage and all power saving features enabled with good temps was enough for me and the extra 400 MHz wasn't really going to help much except for benchmarks. Very happy with this chip so far and my system has been rock stable with these settings and is on 24/7.

 

[palladium]

I'm using the DS4 ( F5 BIOS). The issue only exist if you have 12GB of RAM, and only cold boot is affected. Is your vcore from CPU-Z or BIOS? If it is BIOS you are extremely lucky, you have a chip with low VID. I can't even get 3.7GHz stable ( 20*185) with my stock vcore ( 1.26V), I think my chip's IMC is holding me back.

 

[2March]

Originally posted by: ExarKun333

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Before we OC core 2 parts, we normally have C1E and EIST disabled due to stability issues. Doesn't this apply to nehalem?

This was not an issue in my experience, and I haven't seen this as a major issue for most people. This may come into play more with more exotic (WC and up) overclocks 4.2ghz+.

Since you have the same board as I have, I wonder whether you had te same experience as I had. When I put the BCLK to manual all features like TURBO and throttle all disappeared from the BIOS. After rebooting ASUS OC told me it couldn't work anymore because the BCLK was no longer on Auto. Makes sense of course but according to realtemp the proc is still throttling down when the load goes off. CPU-Z though shows a frequency of 3345-3366 MHz.

 

[Loafysnacks]

Running Vista 64 bit, my idle is around 34-37C, 8 instances of Prime95 64bit running, 100% load temp is 54C. I was wondering if this is a little too high? I expected more from this big bastard of a cooler I installed. I was planning on OCing, but if this is the temp at idle with no OC, I'm worried about beefin her up. Any suggestions?

 

[mazzmond]

Maybe that would be a problem with my board too as I'm only running 6 GB of RAM.

I have my vcore set to 1.18125 in BIOS, cpuz has it at 1.152 when running Prime with 8 cores. I know I'm pretty lucky. It won't boot if I set my vcore to 1.1625 in BIOS though and its been stable at these settings without any problems for about 9 days now so I'm pretty happy with it and looks like I got pretty lucky with a good chip.

 

[palladium]

Question: If I get a BSOD from P95 small FFT after 3 mins ( temps 55C), is the fault more likely to be my CPU core, or the uncore portion?

 

[palladium]

Originally posted by: Loafysnacks
Running Vista 64 bit, my idle is around 34-37C, 8 instances of Prime95 64bit running, 100% load temp is 54C. I was wondering if this is a little too high? I expected more from this big bastard of a cooler I installed. I was planning on OCing, but if this is the temp at idle with no OC, I'm worried about beefin her up. Any suggestions?

You have plenty of temp headroom. i7's run very, very hot and on a stock cooler with stock speed and voltage, 72-73C on P95 small FFT is not uncommon. I personally aim to keep below 70C on P95 small FFT, but that's just me.

 

[SniperWulf]

Fresh setup, finally got it dialed in

CPU: Intel Core I7 920 @ 4Ghz (20 X 200)
GPU: Sapphire HD4870x2
Ram: Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3-1600 (PVT36G1600LLK)
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P
PSU: PCP&C 750W Silencer (The Orange one)