Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

[dejanh]

Anyone knows where the clock generator for the bclck on the mobo is located?

I thought about something regading the 222mhz bclck limit.

What if this limit is not due to the qpi clock but rather caused by the bclck generator itself?

This would also explain why all boards can clock near that limit, some higher, some lower.

Maybe a voltmod for the clock generator would harness higher clocks?

Or it also could be a complete brainfart from my side.

Actually...that makes no sense.

If it was the clock generator of some sort causing the 222MHz BCLK limit then it would surely be different across different manufacturers. But, if it is a limitation of the CPU it would show up on all boards, from all manufacturers, regardless of the board engineering and would have very slight variations (few MHz up and down).

Remember this, and then maybe we can revisit it sometime...

If Intel unlocks new QPI multipliers, particularly lower than 18x (16x and 14x would be nice) and unlocks the 20x multiplier we will be able to push the BCLK much higher. I heard that this is in the works in the likes of a BIOS patch, but I do not have this officially confirmed.