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i7 860 how do u guys like it?

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Skotty

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hey i have a i7 860 2.8ghz cpu. don't have the right mother board to test it out. Just wondering what some of u guys with the same cpu over clocked it to on air and liquid. ill prolly end of up selling it but it seems like a nice cpu. jw what u guys got it up to. thanks
 
I had one, 4.0Ghz with HT on and 4.2Ghz without HT. Water cooled though.
 
I have an 870 at 4.2Ghz with HT on air. I pretty much just went in and set the bus speed to 200, disabled Turbo mode, and bumped the voltage up a tiny bit so there may be more available. It hangs out at around 38C at idle and 60C under load.
 
@Bankie different parts of the world have diff ambient temps.
I only managed 3.8Ghz + HT on air with the i7 870 ambient 33 Degrees Celsius (typical Brisbane Australian weather) that would reach up to 75 Degrees C under Prime95 and 80 Degrees C under IntelBurnTest.
I assume your ambient must be no more than 18 Degrees Celsius (considering past 3.8 is not linear with voltage).

I went up to 4.2 myself (just to see how many volts). The max volts I tested was 1.45. However, due to my locality in the world to have HyperThread enabled requires 3.8Ghz max on my processor with 1.3 volts and LLC, Speedstep and C States on whilst keeping it all under 80 Degrees C.
I'm also running high VTT due to 4 sticks of 2GB ram running at 2000Mhz (9-10-9-28 CR1|1T).
 
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We generally keep the house around 21C. So it idles at about 9C above ambient. IntelBurnTest will take it up into the mid-70s but I can't get any of my usage patterns to get anywhere near that so I normally go with the highest temps I see during gaming.

I can't remember what my Vcore is set to off the top of my head (I'm at work). I don't think E-LEET shows the voltage as it's set in the BIOS.

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I had mine at 4.2. Running 4.0 now with all the ram slots full. There's more leeway but like to keep a good bang/voltage ratio.

oh that's on air with a CNPS10X Flex & Nexus PWM Fan.
 
If only my sinus did not play up in aircon, my computers would be very happy. :(
 
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