OC

[NicaDeli]

Hello everyone,

This forum has been very helpful to me but I can't figure it out so I decide to post. I've been trying to OC my i7 920 to 3.4GHz but when I try to run prime95 it keeps crashing after a couple of min. I followed different guides but it just keeps crashing after a couple of min. At first I thought I had a bad CPU but I ran prime 95 on stock (2.6GHz) and it ran fine but when I OC, that's when is fails. I decided to use the Dummy OC feature on my BIOS but that also crashes when I run prime95. I'm a noob when it comes to OC so please be easy on me. Some of the guides I've used
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-core-i7,2268-3.html

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=20028&mpage=1

The reason I used this as a guide is because he had the same specs as me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFXN6jTkqoA
SPEC:
EVGA X58 LE
i7 920
Windows 7 32bit
H50
700 PSU

Thanks for the help,
NicaDeli

 

[Doubl3KiLL]

what do your temps look like? anything under 3.6 should be easily do-able without adjusting anything. You might be hitting a thermal barrier Report back with temps.

 

[NicaDeli]

what do your temps look like? anything under 3.6 should be easily do-able without adjusting anything. You might be hitting a thermal barrier Report back with temps.

Idle was around 23c but when prime95 started it would freeze @ 42c. Forgot to mention that I have 6g of DDR3 ram but I'm only using 4g of ram (32 bit).


Thanks