Arfur Schrunkunpecker
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Hi guys.
Sorry for the typical noob overclocking intro. I've followed another thread on another forum and clocked the above to 3.6 before which was the first part of an i7-920 overclocking tutorial.
I still kept a couple of Asus or Intel bios options enabled which meant that the rig stayed quite slow unless it was pushed harder and then the OC eventually kicked in and the Mhz went up.
Because the tutorial was for the 920 and not specifically the 930 I was concerned about having the optimized settings. (Although I appreciate no CPU, ambient temp etc are the same) I also read around online and a few more knowledgable people than me were disagreeing with the advice or figures shown or suggested.
Having subscribed to Tom's youTube vids and followed his advice and appreciated his style and commitment - I was hoping to come here and get a second opinion based on actual i7-930 experience.
This room is very hot in summer and very cold in winter. (I'm a brit living in Japan at the moment).
As per the title - my humble rig is a 930 on a P6T Deluxe V2, 6 gigs of Corsair XMS3 DDR 3 (1600) with a Noctua NH D14 for cooling, a Silverstone Raven RV02 case, Silverstone ST 1000 P PSU and a Sapphire HD 5870 (2010). It's not the highest spec - but I'm coming from a 3.4 Ghz P4 rig I used for 5 years - so I'm quite chuffed for now.
I basically want the PC to be as zippy as possible within acceptable temps. I'm new to this and the idea of having it only speed up when necessary was quite appealing if it saves mostly heat and maybe energy but I'm open to advice and opinions. So far it is back to default settings with the ram set to 1600 in the bios. I've uninstalled the Asus applications and would prefer to just stick with the bios.
To start - please let me know what to and what not to enable. As an overclocker do you always run your cpu at overclocked speed or do you run speedstep or whatever it's called so it only kicks in when pushed?
Anyway - obviously I'm a nub - so I'm all yours - tell me what to do and treat me gently..
Sorry for the typical noob overclocking intro. I've followed another thread on another forum and clocked the above to 3.6 before which was the first part of an i7-920 overclocking tutorial.
I still kept a couple of Asus or Intel bios options enabled which meant that the rig stayed quite slow unless it was pushed harder and then the OC eventually kicked in and the Mhz went up.
Because the tutorial was for the 920 and not specifically the 930 I was concerned about having the optimized settings. (Although I appreciate no CPU, ambient temp etc are the same) I also read around online and a few more knowledgable people than me were disagreeing with the advice or figures shown or suggested.
Having subscribed to Tom's youTube vids and followed his advice and appreciated his style and commitment - I was hoping to come here and get a second opinion based on actual i7-930 experience.
This room is very hot in summer and very cold in winter. (I'm a brit living in Japan at the moment).
As per the title - my humble rig is a 930 on a P6T Deluxe V2, 6 gigs of Corsair XMS3 DDR 3 (1600) with a Noctua NH D14 for cooling, a Silverstone Raven RV02 case, Silverstone ST 1000 P PSU and a Sapphire HD 5870 (2010). It's not the highest spec - but I'm coming from a 3.4 Ghz P4 rig I used for 5 years - so I'm quite chuffed for now.
I basically want the PC to be as zippy as possible within acceptable temps. I'm new to this and the idea of having it only speed up when necessary was quite appealing if it saves mostly heat and maybe energy but I'm open to advice and opinions. So far it is back to default settings with the ram set to 1600 in the bios. I've uninstalled the Asus applications and would prefer to just stick with the bios.
To start - please let me know what to and what not to enable. As an overclocker do you always run your cpu at overclocked speed or do you run speedstep or whatever it's called so it only kicks in when pushed?
Anyway - obviously I'm a nub - so I'm all yours - tell me what to do and treat me gently..
