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TeeJay88

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I tried to overclock my i7. Just baby steps. i went from 134 BCLK to 150, and my machine locks up. I have to restart, i think it may be my veris premium with its hardware monitor fucking it up. bit im not sure.
 
I know I've had that happen when I've made large jumps in bclk. I think it just doesn't cope well. Even after notching it up little by little it eventually freezes.

Its really meant for tweaking things once you get in the ballpark.
 
Can you recommend a different way to OC it then without dicking around in the bios.
 
Meh. I only got to 150BCLK before I had to change my Vcore, 151BCLK wouldn't even POST at stock voltages.
 
You are only going to get so far with software utilities. Most of the time TurboV/TurboV EVO tops out around 160MHz BCLK. After that you need to go into the BIOS and OC from there. What you normally don't see is TurboV adjusting all kinds of crap in your BIOS. It adjusts things that don't necessarily need adjustments. So again you are better off going and doing most of your OC'ing in the BIOS.

Software overclocking tools are pretty lame as a whole.
 
By doing it in the BIOS you probably can get to 165-175 without touching anything but the BCLK.
 
Thanks guys, im just neverous about oc'ing the i7, its not as easy as my c2d was.
 
TeeJay88 said:
Thanks guys, im just neverous about oc'ing the i7, its not as easy as my c2d was.
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Actually, it's easier. There are about 4 to 6 settings that you need to adjust at the most generally speaking. Most boards I can hit around 180MHz BCLK without doing anything but adjusting the BCLK and maybe adding a little CPU voltage.
 
Dan_D said:
You are only going to get so far with software utilities. Most of the time TurboV/TurboV EVO tops out around 160MHz BCLK. After that you need to go into the BIOS and OC from there. What you normally don't see is TurboV adjusting all kinds of crap in your BIOS. It adjusts things that don't necessarily need adjustments. So again you are better off going and doing most of your OC'ing in the BIOS.

Software overclocking tools are pretty lame as a whole.
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For me it has been my first experience with software overclock. Though, like I said before I do most of the work in the bios. I use TurboV when in windows to increase or lower voltages to find a stable overclock for a given speed. I've adjusted bclk over 160 using TurboV, I just don't move it more than 10 at most before I restart and enter the settings in bios.
 
So I gave it one more shot, I went uber slow, 1mhz at a time, 9mhz later it bsod. And i think it corrupted my windows files becuase when my gf went to use my computer this morning she said it was stuck at a black screen with the cursor in the middle, she said she left it how it was and went back to sleep, when i woke up it was at the desktop but when she told me i restarted to see what would happen, and same thing, it was froze. i rebooted, went to my vista partition and it loaded fine, went back to win7 it loaded fine but it seems a bit slow.I think i might replace teh board, because i havent been to happy, something by evga i think.
 
I'm honestly surprised that anyone would really use the included TurboV application. When I'm writing that part of the motherboard articles I always have this feeling that the enthusiast doesn't give a damn about the included overclocking utilities. It just surprises me that people are using this one.

Though I do have to say TurboV is FAR better than most of these software packages are.
 
OK, so i figured out what was causing it to hang with a black screen and teh cursor in the middle, i left a blu ray disc in the drive. and ive decided not to oc on this board, ill wait until then new asus with usb 3 and sata 3 are out
 
It sounds like to stll have speed step and the other INTEL power saving features enabled.This will cause a unstable OC.Now with that said you can set a few thing that will get the OC you are looking for
1.CPU voltage(Auto allows voltge to be moved up and down as CPU speed moves per INTEL Speed step and will cause OC issues)find the default and set +1 above that use TURBOV to find it.This my need to be raised a little more depending on speed you are looking for.
2.Dram 1.65 or below(Unless you have 1600-2000 speed ram i would makes sure you set this)
3.MUILTY AND BLCK these go hand in hand with what ram you have(speed) the higher the BLCK the more OC memory will go up to get the right settings you have have to lower MULTY
4.QPI/DRAM voltage i have found that this needs to be kept at or very close to CPU voltage as they work together.
5.CPU/PLL the may need to be increased to allow stable OC i am unsure what default is but upping it +1 or 2 will only help
Thats is the only setting that will need to be touched to achive a stable OC and as long as you have a good CPU cooler i would not worrie to much about I7 they are am AMAZING chip that gives a lot of headroom to OC them.
 
TeeJay88 said:
Thanks guys, im just neverous about oc'ing the i7, its not as easy as my c2d was.
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I found overclocking the i7 to be way easier.

20*200 = 4GHz just bump the volts a little bit.

Couldn't be easier than that!

There were a lot more maths involved in getting my old Q6600 to 3.6GHz successfully.
 
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