I've been reading everywhere NOT to OC with the stock cooler, but to me that does not make sense. Sure, it's a less high end cooler, but it is STILL a cooler. As long as you have a reliable CORE temp reader it should be fine, right?
That being said this is the first time I've ever overclocked a computer. I'm using the i7 920 with antec silver 5 thermal compound with the Antec 1200 full tower. I feel that the tower will help cool the processor as well, this thing is a beast... cold to the touch.
I've been doing my research and I think I'm going to bring it up to 3.0 Ghz and run Prime95 Small FFT for about 10-15 minutes and as long as the core stays below 75c I'm safe.
Thoughts?
I still have a lot of research to do, maybe someone can answer a few of my questions or direct me to where I can find my answers.
*What is "stepping?"
*How can I tell if my cpu is D0 or C0 stepping? What does that imply?
*I stability test before the OC, correct? Core THEN Memory?
*You use Prime95 to test stability of the Core, but how to test memory stability?
That being said this is the first time I've ever overclocked a computer. I'm using the i7 920 with antec silver 5 thermal compound with the Antec 1200 full tower. I feel that the tower will help cool the processor as well, this thing is a beast... cold to the touch.
I've been doing my research and I think I'm going to bring it up to 3.0 Ghz and run Prime95 Small FFT for about 10-15 minutes and as long as the core stays below 75c I'm safe.
Thoughts?
I still have a lot of research to do, maybe someone can answer a few of my questions or direct me to where I can find my answers.
*What is "stepping?"
*How can I tell if my cpu is D0 or C0 stepping? What does that imply?
*I stability test before the OC, correct? Core THEN Memory?
*You use Prime95 to test stability of the Core, but how to test memory stability?