Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

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Ok, what settings? Sorry, this is my first time OCing in like six years!

Aha, well i'm no pro but i can tell you i've found prime to be 100% reliable And i hear it's one of the best for quad cores.

You don't really need any settings for prime, it will run the appropriate number of threads automatically. Just choose 'blend' test and let it run for 8-10hr minimum From my experience with IBT on my QX9650 i don't use it, my 24hr prime stable setting was not stable according to IBT. Yet it was crash-free for the entire time i ran my overclock

Actually I have no vdroop. The vcore under load is slightly higher, not lower, in my case. Goes from 1.34375 to roughly 1.35. No turbo on.

Yeah i think it's this board, it's getting ridiculous, i up the voltage from 1.475v to 1.48v and i'm still getting 1.465v idle, 1.44v load.

Or does Memory bandwidth actually affect system performance with Core i7? On Conroe as I remember memory bandwith wasn't really the bottleneck (it was almost purely CPU performance that mattered)

From what i can figure out tri-channel is going to give you more bandwidth than you will ever need. On X48 i was running 2x2gb of corsair 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 with something like 10,000 read score in everest. Even that was more than i needed. With X58 i'm on 3x2gb corsair 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 and the read has went up to 16-17k without upping clocks / tuning timings

Depends what you use the system for i guess, for games / general use tri-channel is probably overkill but on the server side, just check out that article on Anandtech from yesterday