1st try at over clocking my I7

[Naybad]

Ok im new to this over clocking thing got a 920 I7 and have corsair ram and a PT6 Deluxe MB(air cooling). I have managed to get 3 GHZ with settings of 160 X19 running 1.232 volts (temps 37 idle and 60 full load). I seem to have hit a brick wall every time i try and pust the CPU past this ie put the Bus speed up it fails. I was hopping to get 3.2 any ideas where i am going wrong?????

Thx

 

[VortexA1]

What is your memory running at after you've upped the fsb? Did you use the memory divider?

 

[Naybad]

its running at 1603 and im not sure what you meen about memory divider

 

[sithlord]

For the first try let the CPU set the volts to Auto and the QPI volts to Auto as well. Once you have established that its not lack of volts causing the problems you should start lowering them.

 

[thevet]

what motherboard do you have?

 

[Garyj881]

what motherboard do you have?

and a PT6 Deluxe MB

 

[Stu]

3.2 should be a piece of cake!!! Manually set the memory voltage according to the manufacturer spec, set the BLCK to 160, disable CPU and PCIE spread spectrum and set everything else to AUTO.

 

[Naybad]

Ok i can get the CPU to 3.2 but every time i try and run a mem test it is blue screening ive set the Dram volts to 1.64 ( as it says this is bad for the cpu if higher)

 

[thevet]

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/asus-p...cing/12157000/

try this video link

 

[engstrom0304]

What batch is it? If its 3838A then thats probably why.

 

[Naybad]

Ok thats me at about 3.2 and mem at 1600MHz well i think it is

 

[Landy]

well i got 3.2 peice of cake 24/7 stable cpu volts were 1.35 ram was set to 2.8 and 1.64 volts orthos prime ran for 24 hours with no blue screen, then............
got an overclock failed message grrrrrrr

 

[Stu]

Ok thats me at about 3.2 and mem at 1600MHz well i think it is

If you are running RAM at 1600MHz, stick to my previous recommendations, but increase VTT (called QPI/DRAM on P6T) to 1.35v.

well i got 3.2 peice of cake 24/7 stable cpu volts were 1.35 ram was set to 2.8 and 1.64 volts orthos prime ran for 24 hours with no blue screen, then............
got an overclock failed message grrrrrrr

1.35v through the CPU is high for only 3.2GHz. I'm going to guess that you running an Asus P6T... sometimes they just post with the overclocked failed message... you can typically enter BIOS, keep everything the same and then reboot.