Overclocking Core i7 920 D0, Can't hit 3.6?!?!

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Originally posted by: Tristor
My friend with a HAF932 is telling me I'm failing it and thinks its my case. Stacker830 vs HAF932, thoughts? He says he's got his sitting at 4.4GHz, stock voltage, and his peak load temps are 58C vs my 1.22v (now) and peak load temps of 73C... Any validity to his idea?

I think your friend is spilling cow dookie on you.

Or he's running some insane cooling system with a hand picked cpu directly from the CEO of intel.

I can say honestly less then 1% of the world is running an i7 @ 4.4

less then .001% can pull it off with stock voltage and have it be stable.

This is how a true typical 4.4ghz 24/7 machine runs and its full load temps.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...enchmarks/newstats.jpg

Sorry i cant even keep my load temps under 60.

And this is the cooling that i have for it:
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...la/Haruhi/IMG_1385.jpg

So tell your friend to stop lying because he's inflating whats really possible.
If he's on air... show him this post and make him feel stupid.

Because my water pulls on average -10-12C on my coretemps compared to what the best air sink can get with the best fans.


But my watercooling loop itself probably costs 10x or more what your air sink will cost.

Originally posted by: Tristor
I'm tempted to push to 1.7v, see if I can drop the multiplier significantly (5-5-5-8-34 vs 8-8-8-24-72 anybody?),

Nice way to kill your chip.

1.7v gogogo.. have fun poping it.

i think your completely forgetting the .5voltage rule from memeory and cpu vcore.
If your Cpu Vcore is at 1.25v like you say.. and with vdroop it drops below 1.2v.

You just got a delta greater then .5vcore and you'll fry your Ondie MC.
Even then Ram which is raited 1.5-1.65 should not be clocked to 1.7v on heavy load for long periods of time unless you have uber cooling on it.

If your not talking about Ram voltage and its CPU voltage.. then No..

STOP, b4 you fry something and try to get an RMA...

You need to STOP listening to your friend who will end up killing your hardware.
You need to READ trusted overclocking guides and learn what NOT to do.
You should not accept anything because someone told you, without at least 3 people telling you the same.