Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

[Kanasatake]

Indeed, I'd be extremely impressed by that. I loaded up 19x222MHz today with 1.3V but it was not stable at all. No way I could run any stress test on it. You got some nice chip there. My chip does 3.8GHz (19x200MHz) at just 1.18V, about 1.26V for 4GHz using 19x211MHz, but if I go with the 20x or higher multipliers for say 4GHz, 4.2GHz, or higher then the voltages jump way up. At 20x200MHz I need about 1.3V to be stable, or rather that was before I set up my new cooling. I can expect that I can drop that now to about 1.26-1.28 probably but I have not tried. Running 4.2 at 1.36V using 21x200MHz on the i7 940.

@Kanasatake - LinX will push your temps higher still. The TRUE does not exactly hold it's own at 4.2GHz with or without HT. Without HT you can run it ok most likely but with HT on there is no way. Not unless you can get chance's 1.30V 4.2GHz I own the TRUE as well, same one as you, and it's sitting in the closet right now. I just had to ask about the temps because people get the wrong impression about what realistic clocks/temps are when reading this thread and then complain a lot about how they cannot get the same results. That's all. I did not mean to sound mean. If you do not do overly intense work that needs all 8 threads then your temps should be ok for day to day use and you should not be worries. Realistically, you got nothing to worry about until you are way up in the upper 80s or even low 90s.

I have gotten up to 3.9 Ghz with all the "goodies " on including HT, the temps were very reasonable again.

My Asus Temp alarm goes off at 65C...I just simply don't feel like turning my beautiful CPU into a hotplate. I am very happy with the results, thats good enough for me. Later on when there are better Bios updates for the new"Elipta" memory I will want to get to 2000Mhz for the memory.
I have found this chip to be the smoothest at 3.2 Ghz, with the memory @ 1600 and "all the goodies and HT on".
I do work with Photoshop and have noticed a huge performance increase when the HT is on.

Now could you explain to me the rationale of pushing your CPU temps so they can cook an egg for you? Whats in that?
As a rule I have always thought ..... 30C idle.....50C load( max)..thats been my guideline for years. What gives here, why are folks wanting to do this? Is it to kill the CPU so you can get another one?

Lastly, so the Ultra didn't work for your temps,so the same thing happened to you as did with th folks at Hardware Canucks?....load temps in the 60C range?..Personally I though he might have gotten one of those coolers that has a bad curve on it

Lastly I am very happy with the Rampage 2 Extreme, I am sorry there are so many folks on the Asus forum having all kinds problems. That was true when I got the Crosshair years ago, it was a "love /hate" thing.

Cheers, JRM/Hermes