I would like to hire an expert to overclock my i7

Keth

Keth

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First of all, I'm not asking for a guide or whatever you're going to recommend. I'm tired of all guides which I've read more than 10 times and none of them actually worked for me. I'm not saying I did everything correctly. This is the reason I would like to pay someone for a good job to have it finally done.
I'm able to pay through PayPal around 40 - 50 GBP (around $67 or whatever your currency is) for stable system at 3.85GHz or higher. I will be using Prime95 (or was it 97?) and Everest to test the stability. The temperatures should be fine with water cooling. On stock settings I get around 25-30 idle and around 45-55 in stress.

PC Specs:
CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 3.33 GHz (20 x 166, auto voltage) - stable in my opinion
Motherboard: Asus P6T
RAM: Corsair DDR3 1333 MHz (3 x 2 GB = 6GB)
GPU: XFX GTX295
Water/Liquid cooled CPU by Thermaltake

I do have two PCs at home, on one I am able to talk through MSN or whatever you're able to use. Second one is the rig I would like to overclock.
We could be able to do that on phone, however I preffer not to because of my low speaking level of English. (I live in UK, originally from Poland).

What I require is someone who'll tell me step by step everything I need to know and what to set. I'm not an expert in hardware overclocking - basicially I never did it before. I do know how to enter bios, change settings, test stability and stuff.

Anyone interested, please contact me as soon as you'll be able to:
MSN: [email protected] (email as well)
 
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Just an outside opinion, but overclocking a PC is not a simple job which can just be done and left. I had mine overclocked and stable on Prime95 for 12 hours a few weeks ago, until i started rendering in 3Dmax yesterday and the PC was crashing. I knew it was something to with my overclock, and because I'd taken the time to learn how to do it, I knew how to fix it. If someone else had done it for me, I'd just be stuck with a computer crashing.

I think half the fun with all this overlclocking and pc fidling is doing it yourself. If you don't want to risk it, fair enough it's not for everyone but I don't know if I'd recommend getting it overclocked by someone else. Just my opinion.
 
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Just an outside opinion, but overclocking a PC is not a simple job which can just be done and left. I had mine overclocked and stable on Prime95 for 12 hours a few weeks ago, until i started rendering in 3Dmax yesterday and the PC was crashing. I knew it was something to with my overclock, and because I'd taken the time to learn how to do it, I knew how to fix it. If someone else had done it for me, I'd just be stuck with a computer crashing.

I think half the fun with all this overlclocking and pc fidling is doing it yourself. If you don't want to risk it, fair enough it's not for everyone but I don't know if I'd recommend getting it overclocked by someone else. Just my opinion.
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Well, I agree but as I said. I tried doing on my own, according to lots of articles about overclocking i7. In result I had in total like 50 blue screens of death so I gave up. I'm tired of trying again.
As far as I know it's pretty hard to mess i7 especially with liquid cooling (where temperatures are low) and keeping voltage below the recommended maximum. Am I right?
Indeed, it is fun when you do know what you're doing. The thing is, I've never been overclocking any kind of hardware. I don't know what some settings are for and how to solve problems such as BSOD. I have no idea what it's caused by (I just guess too low or too high voltage).

Anyway, thanks for information. Does that mean cpu will never be stable?
 
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This thread makes me very sad... I know people with the relative intellectual capacity of a fieldmouse as young as 12 that have successfully overclocked PC's, it really is THAT easy if you do a bit of homework, and I don't mean that as a personal insult to you. Personally I think you clearly just haven't made the effort and perservered with it as well as tried to troubleshoot the issues you've been having.
 
Keith i have the same mobo and cpu and find it hard to get it stable at 3.8.I think its my cr@p ram letting me down.
Have you got the latest bios? this lets you use a 21 multiplier which i have found makes clocking much easier.
I have added you to msm and i will gladly help you for free.
 
Its just a case of perservering and --A LOT OF PATIENCE--. I only started overclocking 6 weeks ago, and over the course of one evening I sat down to do it properly, increasing voltage, checking prime, crashing etc.. Blue screen of death just means you've not got enough voltage on the CPU or NB.
 
I guess for some people they have the money but not time. If the OP wants to hire someone to overclock his i7 then let him. I know that if I had the patience, I could service a modern car to the same standard, or better than a mechanics shop but I simply don’t have the time or interest to pursue it ... each to their own really.
 
I agree just started having a go at overclocking my e7400 so far all i have to do is change the Mhz currently at 3423 Mhz looking at 3.6 hopefully then maybe 3.8 as that a whole 1000 Mhz upgrade.

Just keep trying and if you get an error post it here and there will most like be able to resolve it! The only problem i have got is when i run 4 x 1GB ram
 
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I guess for some people they have the money but not time. If the OP wants to hire someone to overclock his i7 then let him. I know that if I had the patience, I could service a modern car to the same standard, or better than a mechanics shop but I simply don’t have the time or interest to pursue it ... each to their own really.
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There's no such thing as not having the time to overclock when you are a PC enthusiast. When using a PC of such specs you are sitting at it gaming or watching movies... and that is not the sign of a man with no time.
 
Richdog said:
There's no such thing as not having the time to overclock when you are a PC enthusiast. When using a PC of such specs you are sitting at it gaming or watching movies... and that is not the sign of a man with no time.
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When you full time work, full time College and full of things you would like to do on pc, you would find like 1-2h daily to do something with it (from the beggining without knowing ANYTHING about overclocking). Considering I need to wait 10 minutes each time I overclock or change anything - I need at least 4 hours to do anything otherwise it will take weeks. I preffer to pay 50 GBP instead of loosing time.
However, I agree with some of you but not with everyone. I would say learning a programming language is extremely easy and you can make applications with more than 1,000,000 downloads in age of 13. It's because it's easy to say how it was when you went through it. Somebody said it's easy to overclock. It's easy because you've been through it and did it already.

I managed to overclock to 3.72GHz stable for 2 hours of full stress (used Prime95 to torture CPU).
I'm going for 3.8+ but the temperatures are pretty hot.

It depends which test and which software I use. Most applications (using 100% cpu) go for 70C maximum. Prime95 goes for 81C (maximum), it never reached 82 for now.

What are the safe temperatures of i7? I've seen them somewhere but please, it's pretty hard to surf the net on wireless connection with low signal and like 1kb/s transfer.

I will post my final settings as soon as I will get fastest, highest, most stable settings.

I got plenty of questions about overclocking but I guess I will ask them in a new thread.
 
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Save the money by not paying somebody to overclock your computer and buy a better cooler.

Thermaltake watercooling gear is not what I would describe as "good" so use that as a basis for finding a way to get your temps down.

I wouldn't put a 45nm chip above 70oC for any lengthy period of time, although I suspect i7's maximum temperature is not far north of that.
 
From what I can gather and the little knowledge I have of OC'ing a i7, I would bet your ram is holding you back. When you increase your qpi, you in return increase your ram speed (or should anyhow). I'm at 3.8 with a 21x multiplier which puts my ram about 1440mhz or something in that range. If your ram taps out @ 1333, then you will never achieve your 3.8.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong...

Buy some 1600mhz ram, and clock it to 1066 in your bios, then increase your qpi to 185 with your turbo on, speed step off. That would surely give you 3.8 with no probs as that is how I got mine. If you have read all of the guides you say you have, this should be a piece of cake. I would be more than happy to offer free help, but I speaka da engrish...

Step one, buy better ram.

Step two, bump this thread...
 
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A good air cooler will far outperform the Thermaltake WC gear you have atm. The Thermaltake water cooling is known for giving very poor temps, and there have been horror stories of some of the plexi tops on their blocks cracking and leaking everywhere.

If you get a decent cooler OCing will be a much less painful experience.
 
Yeah but that is moot really^^^. Granted A good air cooler is better than a bad liquid cooler, but I do give the guy credit for trying as no way am I putting water that close to my i7. I refuse to put a drink on the same desk if that tells you anything.

Also those temps he has currently should allow him to get to 3.8. Heck even just to find out that idle temps are too high, at least he would still know it's just a cooler at that point

And to the OP- it took 2 weeks worth of tweaks to get the optimal OC for me. That is why people on here are telling you that you should really learn yourself as that is the best way to fine tune. Like others I thought I was stable because I gamed for a week on my first OC before I got a blue screen. Also try to remember what the blue screens say. It's not rocket science. If it tells you there was a clock interruption, then obviously it is cpu related (like voltages) and if it says memory failure than it is your ram. Not all blue screens are equal.

If only more people were like the OP,... I'd be able to quit my job completely!
 
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Keth said:
When you full time work, full time College and full of things you would like to do on pc, you would find like 1-2h daily to do something with it (from the beggining without knowing ANYTHING about overclocking). Considering I need to wait 10 minutes each time I overclock or change anything - I need at least 4 hours to do anything otherwise it will take weeks. .
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*worlds smallest violin*

Most of us on this forum are busy people eith full-time jobs and social lives... your schedule is nothing out of the ordinary. OC'ing took little time to learn, it's not rocket science, in fact the principles are pretty damn basic and i'm no science boy.
 
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Yeah but that is moot really^^^. Granted A good air cooler is better than a bad liquid cooler, but I do give the guy credit for trying as no way am I putting water that close to my i7. I refuse to put a drink on the same desk if that tells you anything.
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*Sniff sniff* I smell ****y!

Get a grip - you wouldn't pour water into your fuel tank, either, but unless you drive a Nazi Beetle, moped or pre-1997 Porsche 911, your car will be watercooled. And I'm also going to go out on a limb, here, and venture that most automotive engineers employed by car manufacturers around the world have a reasonable idea of what they're doing. ;) :)

At the OP: read those overclocking guides a bit more carefully (try opening them ;) ) and see that temperature is a big limiting factor when overclocking. As such, you need to bring your CPU temps down a bit. This could be achieved by swapping the cooling apparatus entirely, or uprating the fans on the existing setup.

The reason you're getting all of this advice and recommendation stuff is because it does actually appear as if you haven't tried particularly hard or diligently to overclock your computer. If you pay somebody to do it for you, shoul a problem occur, you've going to either be out of pocket by having to pay somebody to sort it out for you or you're potentially going to come back on here and accuse them of screwing over your system and leaving you high and dry.
 
If you are planning on doing this over msn, how are you going to prove you have or haven't reached a stable overclock? I assume you will only pay out on a successful overclock.
 
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