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I have now had lord knows how many attempts at overclocking my I7 920 D0 and every one has failed miserably. There are so many threads all over the place but despite following the many variations, none seem to work for me, hence the title of the thread. I have read that 4.00ghz should not be a problem, frankly 3.8 would do me for starters, but even that didn't work (neither did 3.6). I did read somewhere that there are minimal changes that have to be made to achieve these...yes please.

Any help from someone who has done this will really be appreciated. My specs are as follows just in case anyone has the same board.

GIGABYTE EX58-UD3R
CORSAIR 3X2GB DDR3 1333C9
ASUS TRITON 81

Thanks


Paul
 
What exactly have you tried to reach the 3.6 figure? Lets start at the bottom and work our way through.

CPU, Cooler, Case, Mobo, Ram (and timings), gfx, psu also.
 
i have I7 Do with same mobo, took some messing about with but got 4.2 stable in intel burn with 20 passes and temps load of 69,,67,65,67 idle is now 36,37,39,39.

vcore is now 1.31
200 x 21
ram was the main problem had to drop it back to 1200 @ 1.5V
 
CPU, Cooler and RAM are all in original post? Timings for RAM are stock (8-8-8-20) Case is Aopen Nouveaux, 680 watt PSU and GFX is Geforce GTS8800 (6403mb)

prt, did you make nay other adjustments or just vcore?

Cheers
 
yeah i had to change a few things.
bios screens will show you what i have set.

I have tried a good few times to get a stable 4.2 @ 1600 on ram, but cant so gave up to be fair.
will settle for min of 10 passes on max intel burn and 20 pass on im. all i do rlly is play 1 online game and surf email ect.

screen 1

Screen 1 Of Bios

screen 2

Screen 2 Of bios


screen 3

Screen 4 Of Bios

screen 4

Screen 4 Of bios


now these work for me, dont know if it will for you or not.
have tried to lower volts but never remains stable
 
Well I have it running at 4.00, I left QPT/VII voltage as auto. My big problem seems to be cooling. Currently sitting at 55 on average. If I run prime..bang right up to 100 which is a bit of a worry as I was told this cooler would easily do the job. Whats odd is when I check CPUID the multiplier shows 12 not 20 and speed seems to hover around 2440, not 4000, so now I am even more confused
 
If you have a read about the forums, and have a good look through my settings you should be fine. there is plenty of good help in posts on these forums. It's just a case of having a play about with your own settings.
what works for 1 person may not work the same for another
 
prt said:
have you turned off all the crap speed step or what ever its called
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His CPU is overheating... turning off features which help cool it down isn't a great idea :(

100c is far too hot. The CPU is probably throttling back at that point. What is your vCore? What's your case airflow like? Is the heatsink fitted securely? How did you apply thermal paste? What speed are the fans running at?
 
Vcore in CPUID is showing 1.248. Airflow should be okay, there is a fan at the front and back, plus it has a glass side with a round Ventilation port there. Initially I spread the thermal paste but that wasn't too clever. So I had a look around and had a go at just putting a line as per the instructions. At the moment CPUID is showing speed of 4200.41 MHZ , I only really want to go to 4000 MHz but whatever I do it keeps putting the multiplier @ 21 ?? temps are 57 57 53 57. Not doing a fat lot apart from this, is that normal?
 
Disable the Turbo feature in the BIOS, this increases the multiplier to 21 when the cpu has work todo.

Advance cpu features > Disable Intel Turbo mode.
 
His CPU is overheating... turning off features which help cool it down isn't a great idea :(
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If his voltages are all screwed up and high it will shoot to 100, and oveheat

thats why i said read about and follow the screens of mine as it was same board, and turning off speedstep.

So it was a good idea to follow some basics.

at the end of the day if he reads through some posts and double check and plays with settings it will come, as i had to find out.
 
Thats what I have done, in fact my settings are exactly the same as yours (following the gigabyte procedure, so Voltages are not the issue, after I saw your screenshots I realised I had the same and everything boots okay. Now been running (albeit not with Prime as that pushes Temps up at 100% more or less straight away, which makes me think heatsink?) Not really sure what acceptable temps are while working, i.e 3ds Max at the moment and internet, temps hardly moving from avg 52 CPU at 4ghz
 
The heatsink is a Asus Triton 81 which is supposed to have a 4 way throughput, pulls from front and out back, they are 92mm fans, also have a fan at the front of the case and large 120mm fan at he back. I did have it running all day yesterday at 4.00ghz, with Internet, Photoshop CS3 and 3DsMax running, average temps were about 54.

By the way, should hyperthreading be left on?
 
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