Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

[Astratuner]

close to my batch (can't really make yours out though).

B = golden. Been telling people this for weeks now lol.

i have now 2 B batch CPUs..

3837B072 = 4Ghz @ 1.264v
3838B079 = 4Ghz @ 1.248v (try now lower vcore)

Got myself a Q here .


The later I order the more chance I get to have a 'B' batch model?


And when you guys overclock, do you burn in your cpu then with a amount of time? Or...


Thanks!

[Astratuner]

Got myself a Q here .


The later I order the more chance I get to have a 'B' batch model?


And when you guys overclock, do you burn in your cpu then with a amount of time? Or...


Thanks!

Anyone?

[Astratuner]

Anyone?

Got myself a Q here .


The later I order the more chance I get to have a 'B' batch model?


And when you guys overclock, do you burn in your cpu then with a amount of time? Or...


Thanks!

Really no one?

[dejanh]

Really no one?

Well, you can always try to tell your place where you are buying that you want to buy a CPU but only if it has ####B### in the code, instead of ####A###. However, there have been some A chips as well that were good for voltages. As they are the same stepping I would say that there may have just been some issues with the very early chips, but I will be able to tell that soon. I am getting a brand new i7 940 from Intel in a couple of days so I am eager to compare it to the existing one. If I can shave down the voltages to 1.35-ish range for 4.0GHz I will be reasonably happy. The 1.2xV chips for 4GHz are lucky even if they are B chips.

Now in terms of waiting, yes, you can wait, but you have to remember, stock on i7 920s moves slow, on i7 940 and i7 965 XE it barely moves at all so you may be waiting for a very long time for them to all flush through the market...