How to overclock i7 930 w/ asus p6td delux board

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hey bud great forum on the overclocking my question is i got my i7 930 to 3.6 ghz witch seems like a safe OC my only question is my ram is running at 764.5 mhz is this normal? in bios i have ram xmp on at 1600 mhz just want to make sure im not bottlenecking my ram i have 12g corsair dominator

Intel Core i7 930
Windows 7 (6.1) Home Premium Edition (Build 7600)
CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
CPU PSN : Intel Core i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
CPU EXT : MMX, SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2), EM64T, VT-x
CPUID : 6.A.5 / Extended : 6.1A
CPU Cache : L1 : 4 x 32 / 4 x 32 KB - L2 : 4 x 256 KB
CPU Cache : L3 : 8192 KB
Core : Bloomfield (45 nm) / Stepping : D0
Freq : 3958.65 MHz (179.94 * 22)
MB Brand : Asus
MB Model : P6TD DELUXE
NB : Intel X58 rev 13
SB : Intel 82801JR (ICH10R) rev 00
GPU1 Type : ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
GPU1 Clocks : Core 157 MHz / RAM 300 MHz
GPU2 Type : ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
DirectX Version : 11.0
RAM : 12288 MB DDR3 Triple Channel
RAM Speed : 539.8 MHz (2:6) @ 8-8-8-24
Slot 1 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 2 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 2 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 3 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 3 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 4 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 4 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 5 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 5 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 6 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 6 Manufacturer : Corsair
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got a little higher everything look safe? thank you for help

764.5mhz is a reading you got from cpu-z i assume? You can double that number to give you your actual speed so 764x2=1528mhz which isn't unusual when overclocking. The ram speed is equated with this formula...

memory speed= bclk x memory multiplier

or as an example.... 1368 = 171 x 8


If you have the ram settings at auto using xmp profile it will adjust according to your bclk, that's how you get your speed of 764.5 x2 = 1528mhz.

Anyone correct me if Im wrong on this.

cool ty gonna run prime95 now to see if im stable under stress

Didnt see this before I replied.
Your ram speed is actually 539.8 x 2 = 1079.6mhz

A couple things, you can try using the x21 multiplier instead of 22. This might make your overclock more stable as you go higher. So in BIOS lower your multiplier by 1 which will probably look like 20x in BIOS (intel turbo boost enabled adds +1x multiplier in windows). So recalculate your bclk to get you the desired cpu frequency. If you want 3.9ghz cpu then 3900/21=185.7bclk or 186bclk.

You can keep using xmp or start to set your ram manually to give you the timings you want. Or just leave the ram to auto and manually set your memory multiplier to 8 istead of 6 which will give you 1488mhz (which will look like 744mhz in cpu-z).

Showing your voltage settings would help if you want to know whether or not things are safe, or showing anything you have modified in BIOS for that matter.

Intel Core i7 930
Windows 7 (6.1) Home Premium Edition (Build 7600)
CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
CPU PSN : Intel Core i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
CPU EXT : MMX, SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2), EM64T, VT-x
CPUID : 6.A.5 / Extended : 6.1A
CPU Cache : L1 : 4 x 32 / 4 x 32 KB - L2 : 4 x 256 KB
CPU Cache : L3 : 8192 KB
Core : Bloomfield (45 nm) / Stepping : D0
Freq : 3958.72 MHz (179.94 * 22)
MB Brand : Asus
MB Model : P6TD DELUXE
NB : Intel X58 rev 13
SB : Intel 82801JR (ICH10R) rev 00
GPU1 Type : ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
GPU1 Clocks : Core 157 MHz / RAM 300 MHz
GPU2 Type : ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
DirectX Version : 11.0
RAM : 12288 MB DDR3 Triple Channel
RAM Speed : 719.8 MHz (2:8) @ 8-8-8-24
Slot 1 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 2 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 2 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 3 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 3 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 4 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 4 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 5 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 5 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 6 : 2048MB (10700)
Slot 6 Manufacturer : Corsair
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alright these are my new setting raising ram seems to be running good no bsod going to run prime95 over night my system temp at 38 deg c and cpu temp at 34c seems to be ok thnx for ur help if all goes good gonna try to raise blck more tomorow

Nice.

Let us know how it goes.

Looks good. Pretty amazing what these i7's can do isn't it?!!

It's a big leap for me from my old athlon 3800x2 and 400mhz ddr system. Its so good to have fresh hardware to play with