Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

[jcool]

Quick question: isn't using the i7 turbo feature to reach your 'max' overclock sort of cheating? Doesn't the increased multiplier only apply to one core? When you get the turbo multiplier to show up in CPU-z it's really only increasing the multi on that one core right? So lower voltage should be required for turbo enabled vs disabled for a given clock speed. Meaning you lower your clock speed as you enable turbo to maintain your same (well, close) non-turbo max clock. I.E. 20x200 turbo disabled ~= 20x190 turbo enabled, on CPU-Z.

No, not really.
20x with turbo enabled = 21x permanent on all cores, 22x if only 1 core is loaded - unless you're on a mobo that doesn't disable the current limit. Then the CPU will drop back to 20x if it detects 130W are exceeded.