EPTOn November 22 2011 19:46 SoulWager wrote:
well, you can find out what's limiting you by minimizing all the multipliers, scaling up BCLK till you lose 5min stability, then go through the multipliers one at a time first just CPU, then just RAM, etc. to see exactly where the instability is coming from.
for further reading: http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz
That guide works just as well for an i7 950, you just have the option of higher multipliers.
well, you can find out what's limiting you by minimizing all the multipliers, scaling up BCLK till you lose 5min stability, then go through the multipliers one at a time first just CPU, then just RAM, etc. to see exactly where the instability is coming from.
for further reading: http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz
That guide works just as well for an i7 950, you just have the option of higher multipliers.
I did exactly that, 160x19 is unstable at 1.2-1.24v, up to ~150 runs perfectly, 155 threw some errors.
I have to massively ramp up vcore to keep a base clock anything higher than that stable, think i wrote before, that bclk would limit me to 3.6ghz as im limited to a multiplier of 24 (found out how to bypass turbo mode thing and run permanant)
First paragraph of your guide, "Everything in the guide should still be the same although from what I can tell there is a much larger vcore range for the 950 with some people needing closer to 1.4 to hit 4ghz."
Probably related?
Yea he goes on to say "You may now need over 1.3v to hit 4.0 ghz on a d0" which is very specific
