I really need a hand guys. I have tried these setting along with a few other ideas and the same thing happens to me. I save the settings and hit enter to restart and it just locks up. The screen just goes black and nothing happens. I have tried turning HT and turbo off as well as relaxing my timings alot. Here is my current setup:


ASUS Rampage II Extreme
Core i7-920
12GB G.Skill DDR3 (1600 MHz 8-8-8-21)
Corsair 1,000 watt PSU
a very good water cooling setup
4870 X2

Anyone also having this issue. What setting should I use to find the maximum base clock for my Board?



Quote Originally Posted by jasonelmore View Post
Alright here are the settings to reach 4.0 Ghz with a Core i7 920. This will allow you to get 4.0 Ghz on all cores and 4.2 Ghz in turbo mode. This will really help your Super PI Scores. Note: Try my CPU voltage first. If it still blue screens that is a sign that you need more voltage. If it does'nt blue screen then you can try to back it off a little at a time. Do this in .05 increments. For Example 1.43 then 1.38 then 1.33. The same goes when increasing your Vcore Voltage. Print this post out and follow the settings EXACTLY!

MB - Asus Rampage 2 Extreme
CPU - Intel Core i7 920
RAM - Corsair 3X2GB 1600mhz Cas 8
CPU Cooler - Water
Fan - Several 120mm
VGA - BFG GTX 280
PSU - Corsair TX-750
HDD - Maxtor 500GB Sata-2 7200 16MB
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AI overclock - manual
OC from CPU level up - AUTO
OC from Memory level up - auto
CPU Ratio setting - auto

CPU configuration
CPU Ratio Setting - auto
C1E Support - disable
Hardware prefetcher - Enable
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - enable
Intel Virtualization tech - disabled
CPU TM Function - disable
Execute Disabled bit - disabled
Intel HT Technology - disabled
Active Processor Cores - all
A20M - enable
Intel Speedstep tech - enable
Intel Turbo Mode tech - enable
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled
BCLK frequency - 200
PCIE frequency - 100
DRAM frequency - DDR3 1603MHz
UCLK frequency - AUTO
QPI frequency - AUTO

Dram timing control NOTE: YOUR RAM WILL BE DIFFERENT. GO WITH STOCK SETTINGS
1st iformation - 8-8-8-24
2nd information - Insert Timings Here in X-X-X-XX -X-X-Xformat
3rd information - Insert Timings Here in X-X-X-XX-X-X-X format

EPU II phase control - full phase
Load-line calibration - enable
CPU differential amplitude - auto
Extreme OV - disabled

Current voltage 1.54v - 1.812v - 1.35v (May be different/ JUST IGNORE THIS)
Cpu voltage - 1.4350 START OFF WITH THIS!
CPU PLL voltage - AUTO
QPI-Dram voltage - AUTO

Current voltage 1.131v - 1.508v - 1.111v - 1.508v
IOH voltage - auto
IOH PCIE voltage - auto
ICH voltage- auto
ICH PCIE voltage - auto

Current voltage X.xxx v, X.xxx v, X.xxx v ,X.xxx v
DRAM Bus voltage - auto
DRAM REF voltage - auto

Debug mode - string
Keyboard TeakIt comtrol - disabled

CPU spread spectrum - disabled
PCIE spectrum - disabled
CPU clock skew - auto
IOH clock skew - auto
ON YOUR RAM VOLTAGE SET IT TO 1.66v

Like i said, If you Blue screen with these settings that means you need more CPU Voltage. Only increase it at .05v at a time. So i have you starting out at 1.43. If this does'nt work, then try 1.48. You should'nt have to go over 1.5 to hit 4Ghz. Actually you will probably be able to get a lower voltage than i have listed above. I have found out that i have a power hungary chip. Also you need some good cooling. This is'nt recommended at all on the stock cooler so DONT DO IT!

The most I recommend doing on the stock Cooler is 3.2 Ghz. And i'd just use the CPU level up Feature for that one.

The goal here is to get you to windows. Then you can tweak your memory and all that good stuff.

Hope that helps.. if you have any questions just PM me. And if you have a better overclock POST IT!!!!!