Core i7/X58 Overclocking Thread

[derektm]

Great news on 3836B043! This chip is DEFINITELY a buy! It's only been in for about a minute so I haven't tested it much yet.

My other 920's and 940 took 1.4v+ to even boot Vista at 4GHz. I took out my previous 920, which took 1.3V for 3.8GHz stable, dropped in the 3836B043, left it at 1.3V and raised the BCLK to 211. Booted right into Vista!



Will test further later.

Edit: Can't get it Prime blend stable no matter what I do. Tried PLL up to 2.1V and uncore at 1.4V. Vcore up to 1.425. It seems to fail when it hits 86C or so. I don't think it likes the heat.