Overclocking question

esoteric · 4 Jun 2013 at 19:01

I recently OC'd my i7 930 2.8GHz to 3.4GHz, which is water cooled by a Corsair H40 pump. I was hitting 85c in games and didn't like the overall temps inside the case.

So I've dropped down to 3GHz where my mobo would turbo boost my CPU at. But to get to 3GHz I went a different route.

Turbo clock spec was 134.9 x 22, to go back to 3Ghz I have done 200x15

What I wonder is if there is a difference in performance between the 2 methods to get to 3Ghz, or any difference at all?

esoteric · 4 Jun 2013 at 19:10

wazza300 said:
their shouldn't be,

can't remember now if its better to use a higher cpu multi or not

it shouldn't be hitting 85c at 3.4ghz either,what kind of cpu volts were you using?

Was the higher end of 1.3v, not sure precisely. I forgot to change it and left the Voltage on Auto :eek:

my temps right now are 48c average at 3GHz and it was around 65 with the overclock on. I've got the voltage locked now at 1.12v for 3GHz.

esoteric · 4 Jun 2013 at 19:28

My mobo is a Gigabyte. GA-X58A-UD3R. My RAM is 6Gb Corsair XMS3 Classic, 3 sticks.

esoteric · 5 Jun 2013 at 00:17

wazza300 said:
well you could try dvid,first set cpu voltage to normal in cpu voltage list

then see how much cpu v is being used in system info and enter maybe a - minus dvid to take off voltage maybe try -0.05v

to work it out use a calculator and enter stock cpu voltage when set to normal say 1.2v and your stable with 1.12v so 1.2v-1.12v= 0.08v so enter -0.08v into dvid and so on

Never heard of DVID and can't find anything useful from Google.