i7 Overcloking worth it?

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As title really, some of you know i have messing with my rig since i got it about a month now, Let me say this is a pure gaming machine and yeah i know i7 are not a gaming platfrom per say:D

After using 4.0Ghz for 3 weeks or so i went for 4.2Ghz which i must say put out some fair old heat in a tiny office room. So today i thought i would use 3.6Ghz and do you know theres not 1 daily task that i can notice a diff in...if there is was prob in my head:p So is this golden 4.0/4.2 really worth the lecy bills you think?

And we all know that yes the clock will make a diff in encoding and benchies etc but were talking about the majority of people who bought say the 4.0+ bundle for games:D
 
BigBruiserAl said:
So is this golden 4.0/4.2 really worth the lecy bills you think?
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If your using the machine as a professional media workstation and are able to produce a lot more work in less time then it makes perfect sense and in a lot of cases it actually works out more power efficient too! :)

If you using it for casual gaming then I haven't seen any evidence or anything that shows a real tangeble benefit by overclocking the chip to high heaven and therefore increasing the machines running costs £££

I don't think Intel® Core™ i7 really brings home the bacon for a casual gamer so by over-volting it to high heaven in most cases you are throwing good money after bad! :(

I'm interested to hear from an RTS gamer who plays multi-player games with thousands of units running around beating hell out of each other, I suspect in that scenario the Intel® Core™ i7 could start to shine! :cool:
 
Unless you need something that will benefit from the extra power then I'd reccomend not running at 4.2, but the thing is thats good to know is that you have a rig CAPABLE of 4.2 so that when something comes along that struggles at stock or 3.2 or whatever you are happy with you know you can crank up the OC and you'll be ok.
 
sorry to jump in on the conversation ....i have a 4ghz bundle and was wondering what do you ned to alter to set it to say 3.6 or 3.8ghz ?
sorry still very new to overclocking and wanted to do the same as you and make a profile in bios so can pick what setting i like .

I want to do this as im having a few issues with windows so want to test at a lower clock speed to see if its the 4ghz setting causing problem ...but dont want to go to standard setting at mo ...just want to drop it a bit first

Any help most appreciated
karl
 
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Well its X21 if you have turbo mode on so:

191 x 21 = 4Ghz.
181 x 21 = 3.8Ghz.
172 x 21 = 3.6Ghz.


Lowering the BLCK your also slowing down the Uncore and Ram speed.
 
well mine is running at 200x20 = 4ghz with turbo mode off .
so i guess i need 190x20 = 3.8ghz and 180x20 for 3.6 ??

cheers for your help :)
 
yes might be worth a try .. i know if i turn turbo mode on at the current setting it runs at 4.2ghz ....but under prime it crashes withing seconds .
think my voltage at mo is 1.25 or something like that .
cheers
 
ok will do that , so best to get it stable at 4ghz with turbo on ...and lower vcore ...then lower the BLCK

so putting turbo mode on should allow you to drop the vcore ?
 
karlos103 said:
sorry to jump in on the conversation ...
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karlos,

anyone is welcome to join in a thread . . . however what you are doing is *hijacking* BigBruiserAl thread! :p

If you want specific help with something feel free to make your own thread! instead of hijacking someone elses topic :cool:
 
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