UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[dejanh]

@aln688

1) It has allot to do with luck. The only benefit of a 940 is you can theoretically clock it higher because the multi is higher. Unfortunately I had no luck with my 940.

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It is purely theoretically in case of i7. I have gone through quite a few i7 940s so far, different weeks, different lots, all clocked the same at about 4.2GHz for 24/7 use. Only difference was temperatures and voltages needed to get to the same clocks. Any higher does not seem to be practically possible for 24/7 use.

Don't create problems for yourself. I cannot get over the fact that I bought a i7 940 and that I cannot clock it higher than a i7 920. Practically threw away $300. Sure I can get uber-low voltages for say 3.8GHz (1.192V) or for 4.028GHz (1.296V), and a 222MHz BCLK at 1.47500 QPI/DRAM (VTT) but all of it is meaningless when a processor that is half the price can get the exact same overclock as mine using basically the same settings.