New at Over-Clocking and Need Help

[Helterran]

Hi all,

Its my 1st post here and i am not 100% technically sure what i am doing.. if you can help me out it would be great...
I am hoping to make my computer an stable/high performance machine...

Scary part is that i am kind of afraid on Over-Clocking and my computer is on 24-7...

Currently what i have.. air cooled..

Below is from windows experience index.

Component Details Subscore Base score 7.5

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz 7.5 7.5
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 18.0 GB DDR3 3x2GB XMS + 3x4GB AMD 7.8
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series 7.9
Gaming graphics 11003 MB Total available graphics memory 7.9
Primary hard disk 12GB Free (56GB Total) 7.7
Windows 7 Professional

System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer --> Custom
Model System Product Name --> Custom
Total amount of system memory 18.0 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 2850 GB
Disk partition (C 12 GB Free (56 GB Total)
Disk partition (D 1725 GB Free (1863 GB Total)
Disk partition (E 140 GB Free (932 GB Total)
Media drive (F CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Total available graphics memory 11003 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 2048 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 8955 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.920.0.0
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1200
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Adapter TAP-Win32 Adapter V9 (Tunngle)

 

[Helterran]

Asus Turbo V shows..

BCLK Frequency 134 (MHz)
CPU Voltage 1.22500V
DRAM Bus Voltage 1.65V
QPI/DRAM Core Volt 1.375V


AMD Overdrive
GPU Clock 300 MHZ
Memory Clock 300 MHZ
Temp 40~41 C
Fan speed 24%

High Performance GPU setting 890 MHz
High Performance Memory Clock 1375 MHz

 

[Rdzona]

I realize you posted over a month ago but if you're still looking for a little info I just OC'ed my 930, so I might be able to help you out. First, what kind of cooler do you have and also what kind of OC were you planning on shooting for?

 

[Egrimm]

What air cooler do you have? Stock? What motherboard?

Go to the bios, go to the advanced/cpu settings page, change the bclock to a bit more (150 for example), make sure the ram is set to about 1333 (or a strap that does the same depending on what speed ram you have), set spread spectrum to disabled, do the same for turbomode and let the vcores at default at first. When you then hit a wall begin raising the cpu vcore until you're stable, a max of 1.35 is what I'd recommend as my experiences on several X58 mobos with my old 920 didn't give me more.

 

[Helterran]

Thansk for the reply, i have everything "stock" from the manufacture...

for example, if i purchased my CPU, it came with an fan / heat sink...

if i purchased the case, the power supply came with it.

 

[Helterran]

Motherboard --> asus p6x58d premium

 

[Tsumi]

Before overclocking the 930, get a better heatsink. Those things demand a good heatsink to make any overclock worthwhile.

You probably want to get a better power supply as well. Most power supplies bundled with cases are absolute crap.

 

[Egrimm]

Second on the power supply with case comment, I7s need good PSUs to oc. I had a quite good BeQuiet 650w that had powered an oc'ed Core2 Quad fine that based on specs should have worked well, but it had only 18A per 12v rail, but it was not 100% stable when oc'd. Changed to a 1000w PSU with 35w 12v rails and the trouble went away.

Same goes for cooling, definitely get something better than what the system came with as an oc'ed I7 is going to release massive amounts of heat.

Motherboard is decent, that should be fine.