Is it worth it?

[MIKMANNER]

Would I notice any difference if I got my i7 950 up to 4ghz? I use PC all day for sound design, game design, little bit of rendering and gaming. Just trying to figure out if it's worth it - also I have a Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 700W Modular PSU - is that okay to overclock with do you think?

My cooler is Noctua nh-d14, gfx GTX570

Cheers,

Mik

www.crudepixel.com

 

[VonBlade]

Absolutely. Check our review on the site for the gains you can expect from the overclock. Rendering is always something that needs maximum power, and the gains are good for a minor tweak. A i7-950 will easily hit 4GHz unless you're very unlucky or have a really rubbish motherboard. Your cooler is fine and dandy too, the best around in fact.

 

[MIKMANNER]

Absolutely. Check our review on the site for the gains you can expect from the overclock. Rendering is always something that needs maximum power, and the gains are good for a minor tweak. A i7-950 will easily hit 4GHz unless you're very unlucky or have a really rubbish motherboard. Your cooler is fine and dandy too, the best around in fact.

Thanks for the reply! - My mobo is Asus P6X58D-E I guess that's fine. I've toyed with overclocking in my core 2 quad but I should defo google some tutorials for the i7 I guess lol.

Cheers,

Mik

 

[Aurus_OC]

Definetely overclock that 950 of yours. It's going to give a pretty big leap in performance

Oh and also, post back with some results

 

[MIKMANNER]

Definetely overclock that 950 of yours. It's going to give a pretty big leap in performance

Oh and also, post back with some results

I'm going to do it tomorrow when my new PSU arrives. BOOM

Yeah I'll post up how it fairs when I do.

 

[MIKMANNER]

Absolutely. Check our review on the site for the gains you can expect from the overclock. Rendering is always something that needs maximum power, and the gains are good for a minor tweak. A i7-950 will easily hit 4GHz unless you're very unlucky or have a really rubbish motherboard. Your cooler is fine and dandy too, the best around in fact.

I have no idea what I'm doing in the asus p6x58d-e BIOS and with an i7 processor, can anyone recommend a good guide for me? lol I'm such a noob.

 

[tallun123]

theres plenty on this forum m8 just have a scout about

 

[MIKMANNER]

theres plenty on this forum m8 just have a scout about

Yeah I am heheh got lots of things open with various tutorials and the like. Was just wondering if anyone knew of a good one off the cuff.

 

[Getyasome]

Have a look at my youtube Vid on Overclocking Core i7 950 on ASUS Boards and BIOS Settings. Use 21 on CPU Ratio , 191 blck , UCLK Lowest u can go. QPI L

 

[MIKMANNER]

Have a look at my youtube Vid on Overclocking Core i7 950 on ASUS Boards and BIOS Settings. Use 21 on CPU Ratio , 191 blck , UCLK Lowest u can go. QPI L

Got a link for the vid? I think I get it now spent a lot of last night reading about it - going to do it incrementally. One thing - is it better to increase multiplier or BCLK? Because I in theory could get up to 4ghz cpu with 1600mhz ram on 200 BLCK and 20x Multiplier.

Also voltages, should I keep it all on auto? Tom Logan on the i7 950 review said that he got his to 4ghz on stock volts, is it safe to keep volts on auto? Also how do you know how many volts to use?.

I did a prime95 on stock to check my temps and I'm getting 35-40 on idle and 55-60 on load. Are these temps okay for the 950 on a Noctua NH-D14?

Cheers,

Mik

 

[MIKMANNER]

I'm going for it! So far got it to 3400.03 mhz - running prime95 max stress test and I'm at 63 degrees highest and 38 lowest according to Real Temp.

Is this okay? hahah I have no idea - I'm just gonna keep bumping the BLCK up by 5 and running prime 95 to test, if it starts to hit mid-70 degrees on load I'm gonna chill and ask for advice.

 

[Getyasome]

**BIOS Settings**

Try these as a starting point , you may need to raise CPU Voltage / QPI/DRAM Core Voltage / just a bit if a test with prime fails but I think you may be able to lower them also.. Just a good starting point.

Ai Overclock Tunner / Manual

CPU Ratio / 21.0

SpeedStep / disabled

BCLK / 191

PCIE / 100

DRAM Frequency / DDR3-1611 MHz

UCLK Frequency / 3224 MHz or lowest setting

QPI Link Data Rate / 7254 MT/s or lowest setting

RAM Latency: ( 7-7-7-19 2T )or whatever your Ram can run.

CPU Voltage / 1.25

CPU PLL voltage / 1.88

QPI/DRAM Core Voltage / 1.28

DRAM Bus Voltage / 1.66

CPU Differental Amplitude / 800 mV

CPU Spread Spectrum / disabled

PCIE Spread Spectrum / disabled

Everything else set to / Auto

Advanced Tab / CPU Configuration

Hardware Prefetcher / enabled

Adjacent Cache Line Prefetcher / enabled

Execute Disable Bit / enabled

Disable the rest.

ID : 1595500

Submitted by GETYASOME-PC | Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:18:03 +0100 | Validated by CPU-Z 1.56

Intel Core i7 950

Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 (Build 7601)

CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 4 Threads

CPU PSN : Intel Core i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz

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 : 4217.2 MHz (200.82 * 21)

MB Brand : Asus

MB Model : P6T DELUXE V2

NB : Intel X58 rev 12

SB : Intel 82801JR (ICH10R) rev 00

GPU Type : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465

GPU Clocks : Core 625 MHz / RAM 1620 MHz

DirectX Version : 11.0

RAM : 12288 MB DDR3 Triple Channel

RAM Speed : 803.3 MHz (2:8) @ 8-8-8-20

Slot 1 : 2048MB (10700)

Slot 1 Manufacturer : G.Skill

Slot 2 : 2048MB (10700)

Slot 2 Manufacturer : G.Skill

Slot 3 : 2048MB (10700)

Slot 3 Manufacturer : G.Skill

Slot 4 : 2048MB (10700)

Slot 4 Manufacturer : G.Skill

Slot 5 : 2048MB (10700)

Slot 5 Manufacturer : G.Skill

Slot 6 : 2048MB (10700)

Slot 6 Manufacturer : G.Skill

youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_VEbiUyih8

 

[MIKMANNER]

**BIOS Settings**

Try these as a starting point , you may need to raise CPU Voltage / QPI/DRAM Core Voltage / just a bit if a test with prime fails but I think you may be able to lower them also.. Just a good starting point....

youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_VEbiUyih8

Thanks man - at 3.8 stable. Going for 4