Intel/AMD CPU OC poll

Hi there,
What type of CPU do you have, how much do you have it overclocked by, and what is your voltage? =)

The one in your sig? Impressive. =D

i7 920 @ 4.0 Ghz with games and 3.2 Ghz daily

Have a
Q9550 @ 3.6ghz on stock voltages (1.23VID on this one). Mmm...

Had a
E8400 @ 4.0ghz on 1.38v

@SpidersWeb

Nice OC, I freaking love that CPU.

AMD Phenom II 920 @ 3.361 GHz (2.8 stock) with 1.325 volts (1.35 stock)

prime 95 loads 47 C with 23 C ambient

Thanks
Wish I could take credit, but it's really the quality of the E8x00 series CPUs. Mine isn't even a great one (seen many higher, and some the same but at lower voltages). My favourite little achievement is the 333Mhz -> 533Mhz on the FSB not that it makes a huge a difference, but running the 1066 RAM at 1:1 just feels 'right'.

4Ghz for you, and you're barely outside Intel's maximum recommended voltage range. I'd say that's just as good if not better than mine.

You guys put me to shame.

I can't even get my i7 920 to cold-boot properly at 3.0GHz with a DX58SO (prolly do not enuff voltage, but I'm too lazy to find out)...

And I barely got my E5300 to 3.0GHz at 1.26v with a Biostar P43, trying to do 3.2 at 1.26-1.27 (left it on auto voltage since the mobo doesn't allow you to manually set votlages) and it crashes within 5 minutes.

I either lack proper OCing skills, or I keep getting "meh" chips, or all the mobos I've bought suck for OCing...

q6600 @ 3ghz.
I waited about a year and a half before i overclocked cause I had a junk GPU in it. Once I upgraded to a GTX 260 I juiced it to 3ghz and it made a huge difference. Been running rock solid since march without a hiccup. I think I did have a hung boot once or twice since overclocking, for a total of maybe 5 times in the 2.5 years ownership. Reset button fixxed it right up.

Running at 1.275volts, I think thats slightly under stock voltages but I am too lazy to look it up or care. I could boot to windows at 3.6ghz, but I BSOD later cause I didn't put more juice to NB/SB.

Two year old system that will run most games I play at near max settings at more than playable fps.. Why push it further? Maybe in a year or two when my system is "slow" I might throttle the CPU and sqeeze a little more life out of it before I go to a i5/i3 system.

And if you are overclocking you should always buy the parts. Asus or Gigabyte are usually failsafe. I am a gigabyte fan for the last couple builds and after seeing comparable reviews (like the p55 toms comparison that Gigabyte was best overclocker).

I personally don't need more features or Sli/Crossfire. I understand you can get some great deals messing with it but graphics cards are meant to be replaced every few years anyway.

Single GPU, aftermarket cooler, namebrand mobo and you can expect to get some life out of your system.

Q9550 @ 3.6 stock voltages. As soon as I get my mobo back from RMA I plan to have the same specs in my media center. I only want it OC as I will do some gaming on the 10' fixed projector screen and my new ATI 5770 coming in the mail in a couple of days...

I've got my other rig (Q9550/Foxconn Black Ops) overclocked to 3.6 on stock voltage. They only thing I messed with is the FSB.

That's roughly 40% OC. Just curious, what's considered a heavy overclock then? I guess I'm still stuck in the mindset of the P4 Prescott days that you were lucky to get a stable 10-15% OC, lol...

550 @ 3.850Ghz @ 1.375v *Daily*

4.050Ghz Max OC for benching @ 1.425v

Phenom II X4 940 stock 3.0Ghz overclocked to 3.5Ghz
Phenom 9850 stock 2.5Ghz overclocked to 3.0Ghz
Athlon X2 7750 stock 2.7Ghz overclocked to 3.0Ghz

Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.8GHz

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Only 3.8GHz with a 965? I have the same OC with the 955.

^Ok, $5 in your country, in my country are $150.

the 955 is $208 the 965 is $213 here

My favorite rig is my 2p slot1 P!!! workstation w/Win2k --- no OC but that SCSI RAID is da bomb.

HTPC rig has an unlocked Sempy 140 OC'ed to 3.4GHz and undervolted with C&Q to 960MHz and 0.9v --- seemed to run fine at 3.8GHz but my idle was above 1GHz and I couldn't have that - LOL --- sleeps at 6w.

Spiders, what P4 you looking for? I throw them away everyday lol. For the cost of shipping I might be able to send ya one if you really want to OC one. I think I have three sitting around my office as I type this...unless they went out this morning with the E-dump..

I will keep an eye out, if I come across one of that nature I will PM you--shouldn't be more than $5 to ship out.

woah, nice OC on a non-D0 chip.

It might be Microcenter =)
They sell i7 920s for $200, and Q9400s for $140

AMD Phenom II 955: normally on 3.8ghz with 1.4-1.45V for absolute stable use, any lower and I get occasional blue screens during heavy load.

I've been able to run it 4.0ghz (20x multiplier) with 1.55V with my window open over a very cold allnighter for about 6-7 hours and @ around 10AM it started to get close to the 59C, meaning BSOD for AMD CPUs.

As the winter comes nearer, I can probably test out how high I can OC it, but this is all done on air cooling (Antec 902 + Mugen Scythe 2), so I doubt I can really go significantly higher.

Apparently it seems Intel CPUs are more overclockable since their out-of-the-box values are kept at a lower clock speed?

Here's a foolish question for you guys:

Is it possible that overclocking makes your CPU run slower? Heard one of the genius' best buy salesmen (who also tells people that a dual core 2.6ghz runs at 5.2ghz since it is 2.6 times two cores) saying this to someone.

I suppose, if you didn't know what you were doing and had a bad OC profile it could hinder performance--but with proper cooling, voltages, timings, components...how could it possible make it run slower? lol

Any thoughts?