At what point would you stop?

'Wes

'Wes

'Wes

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Overclocking atm, at 3.9GHz with cores all maxed out and temperatures of 56c max out of 62c. I am tempted to see if i can get 4GHz stable and a decent temperature, but i'm curious as to what point you would throw in the towel?
 
I set a temp and stop there. I know with my current overclock, even trying to up it 5mhz was virtually impossible without pumping a lot of volts through it! If 3.9 was difficult, then stop there! Personally, I would stop at the temps you have. I always set a max of 65 under maximum stress as a target temperature for overclocking!
 
If I'm going for a 24x7 stable clock I generally stop at the max volts generally reccomended as safe. Usually my cooling is more than upto the job so thats not an issue... generally there becomes a point where your having to massively increase the voltage for tiny gains so thats about when I would stop.
 
'Wes said:
Overclocking atm, at 3.9GHz

what point you would throw in the towel?
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at 3.9GHz I don't think I'd quit until I got a *taste* of 4GHz, not without exhausting every single possibility . . . that would include things like spending weeks tinkering with BIOS options and turning the central heating off and also opening the windows and sitting there in a freezing cold lounge in an effort during testing to help crack it! . . . I realise not everyone is obsessive like that . . . I prefere to see it as committed ;)

You gotta have your priorities right? :cool:
 
I tend to set various limits and not go over those. For my i5 I set a Vcore limit of 1.4 and then temperature limit of 70C running IBT. At 4.2GHz Im just under 1.4V and temps are low 60's, trying to get anymore speed out of it is tricky and needs the voltage upping quite a bit so I settled with 4.2 :)

Just know whats safe 24/7 for your CPU and just get as fast as you can without going over those limits
 
I go with 1.4v and about 70deg under intel burntest as a limit and for bench only overclocks 1.44v and the same temp but at the moment im at 4.0ghz with 1.26v starting to struggle stablity wise after that but im abit new to this i7 stuffs
 
Big.Wayne said:
at 3.9GHz I don't think I'd quit until I got a *taste* of 4GHz, not without exhausting every single possibility . . . that would include things like spending weeks tinkering with BIOS options and turning the central heating off and also opening the windows and sitting there in a freezing cold lounge in an effort during testing to help crack it! . . . I realise not everyone is obsessive like that . . . I prefere to see it as committed ;)

You gotta have your priorities right? :cool:
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i like your style.

Just picked up a 550 just for the sole purpose of unlocking and overclocking it, no other reason.

ATM its @ 3 cores (1 is a DUD) and 3.7Ghz @ under stock voltage. Once i reach 3.9-4Ghz. I will stop and wack it for sale then get something else :) Go for the 4 unless you have to seriously wack some volts into it.

happy days.
 
I'm at max volts atm, failed on 4GHz doing the test last night. I'm going to keep the multiplier at 19.5, and increase the FSB and other things such as memory etc.
 
Big.Wayne said:
at 3.9GHz I don't think I'd quit until I got a *taste* of 4GHz, not without exhausting every single possibility . . . that would include things like spending weeks tinkering with BIOS options and turning the central heating off and also opening the windows and sitting there in a freezing cold lounge in an effort during testing to help crack it! . . . I realise not everyone is obsessive like that . . . I prefere to see it as committed ;)

You gotta have your priorities right? :cool:
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Love it!
 
Im well under any unsafe voltages but temps are too high to push much over 4.2Ghz. 85c load is too much. Once better cooling is sorted i will push to max safe voltage. Your so close to 4Ghz you may as well round it off.
 
Bradley8988 said:
920 D0 @ 4Ghz 1.16.
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i hate you :D

if i push for 4GHz, i need about 1.35v to get relatively stable; under prime i hit 100oC after about 20 seconds, and considering i'm under water something ain't right! reseated twice, new TIM on there, and still the same....

i suppose you get good chips and bad chips :)
 
OP I am assuming is clocking his 955BE? In which case if your temps are hitting 62c then you will have real trouble keeping that CPU stable..
 
Yeah, it's my 955. I haven't hit 62c yet but i'm at 56c at 3.9GHz atm and if my Titan wasn't so big, i could fit another fan in my case, i have been tempted to go the liquid way.
 
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You will probably find you hit stability issues as you approach 60c.. the three 955BE I have clocked all have.. doesn't matter what voltage you put through!.. The PII love to be keep cool..

There are examples on XS where people are running stable (sub ambient - 10c load) PII @ 4.3ghz / 3.2ghz NB on stock voltage.. and 4.7ghz 24/7 @ 1.5v with those sorts of load temps.. now that is a bit extreme I know but if you can keep your core temps sub 45/50c (you will need good water) you will see a real benefit to your overclock
 
I could turn my fan controllers to max, last time i did that, it dropped to 50c, but it get's proper noisey.
 
Well you aren't going to run those sorts of load on the CPU every day.. so might be worth it to get the clock.. you can turn them down for 24/7 use when you wont hit those sorts of load temperatures
 
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