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snowdude1492   10-28-2009 at 03:37:25 AM

Hey guys!
I just built a new comp (in my signature)
and i've been successful it overclocking my i7 920 to about 4ghz (190 x21 because of turbo boost)
but I have not been successful in getting to the base clock over 190. Whenever I try everything is fine until it gets to *starting windows* then it stays at that screen forever. I have tried bumping the voltage on the CPU a tiny bit and didn't help i kept on moving it up and then finally it would show starting windows and then blue screen.

If you guys could help that would be awesome!

currently my CPU voltage is 1.3000
my QPI voltage is 1.3000

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------------------------------ Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
CPU: i7 920 @ 4GHz
GPU: ati xfx 5870
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE
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Bronze Overclocking badge overshocked   10-28-2009 at 04:49:08 AM

Any adjustments to QPI voltage? That could be the problem.

What motherboard are you using? It could possibly need a pci bump up.

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Crashman   10-28-2009 at 05:10:21 AM

snowdude1492 wrote :

Hey guys!
I just built a new comp (in my signature)
and i've been successful it overclocking my i7 920 to about 4ghz (190 x21 because of turbo boost)
but I have not been successful in getting to the base clock over 190. Whenever I try everything is fine until it gets to *starting windows* then it stays at that screen forever. I have tried bumping the voltage on the CPU a tiny bit and didn't help i kept on moving it up and then finally it would show starting windows and then blue screen.

If you guys could help that would be awesome!

currently my CPU voltage is 1.3000
my QPI voltage is 1.3000



You're fine where you are. You probably need a little more Uncore voltage to go higher, but you're already fine so why bother?

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snowdude1492   10-28-2009 at 07:00:31 AM

overshocked wrote :

Any adjustments to QPI voltage? That could be the problem.

What motherboard are you using? It could possibly need a pci bump up.




Wait... so should i bump up the uncore voltage to... like 1.350 or all the way to 1.4
What would you suggest?

BTW i have a EVGA X58 SLI LE mobo

------------------------------ Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
CPU: i7 920 @ 4GHz
GPU: ati xfx 5870
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE
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snowdude1492   10-28-2009 at 07:02:50 AM

Crashman wrote :

You're fine where you are. You probably need a little more Uncore voltage to go higher, but you're already fine so why bother?



Should I put QPI at 1.350, or 1.4, any ideas?

thanks

Message quoted 1 times
------------------------------ Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
CPU: i7 920 @ 4GHz
GPU: ati xfx 5870
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE
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Crashman   10-28-2009 at 07:29:14 AM

snowdude1492 wrote :

Should I put QPI at 1.350, or 1.4, any ideas?

thanks



I use 1.45V Core, 1.50V Uncore for liquid-coold overclocking and 1.35V Core, 1.30V Uncore for air coold overclocking.

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snowdude1492   10-28-2009 at 05:22:19 PM

thanks for the help guys!

------------------------------ Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
CPU: i7 920 @ 4GHz
GPU: ati xfx 5870
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE
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