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Windows 7 - i7 920 C0 Overclock 3.6ghz-3.8ghz help |
07-19-2011
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#1 | | Windows 7 Professional 64bit |
i7 920 C0 Overclock 3.6ghz-3.8ghz help Hi guys I have been running my cpu at 3.8ghz for some time now, as of late i have noticed it is not entirely stable, if i run it to hard for too long i get a BSOD with the error "clock innterrupt not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval".  (it never actually finishes the "crash dump")
I am aiming for around a 3.6 to 3.8 overclock, which seeing as i have an earler revision C0 chip is probably all i can get. I have a Trition 81 cooler which at the time i got the system was almost the only one available, it seems to work alright but the cpu does get a bit hot, hence the reason for a less aggressive target.
Current timing's below:
Cpu ratio: 20.0
Base clock: 190
PCIE freqency: 100
Cpu Voltage 1.35
Cpu Pll Voltage:1.88
Qpi/Dram Core voltage:1.35
Dram Bus voltage 1.64
Speedstep : disabled
Everything else on auto see images
I would rather it be stable and cool than a high overclock
Any help would be great, | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build OS Windows 7 Professional 64bit CPU Intel i7 920 OC 3.8ghz Motherboard Asus P6T Memory 8gb Kingston DDR3 Graphics Card Gtx 460 1gb & 9500gt 1gb OC Sound Card Realtek HD audio inbuilt 7.1 surround Monitor(s) Displays SyncMaster 2333 Screen Resolution 1920*1080 PSU 1200 watt Cooling Trition 81 Hard Drives Seagate es2 barracuda 1TB,
Kingston 128gb SSD,
2 WD 2TB green drives , |
07-19-2011
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#2 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit |
One thing you can do right off the bat is set the memory timings, command rate (if an option), and the voltage manually.
Another thing is, and I'm presuming here, you can just crank up the multiplier and bus speeds and expect instant stability. You have to do it in incremental steps. Overclocking is a time consuming process and you're going to be doing this for hours (and i do mean hours). If you did work your way to where you're aiming now, what was the last stable frequency/voltage? In any case, 1.35v is a little low for 3.6 or 3.8. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number RX-3570[K] OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit CPU Core i5-3570K - 4.5GHz Motherboard ASUS Sabertooth Z77 Memory G.Skill Sniper 12GB DDR3-1600 Graphics Card HD6950 CrossfireX - 850/1350 Sound Card Realtek ALC892 Monitor(s) Displays Gateway FHD2402 Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech G110 Mouse Logitech G9x, Saitek RAT-7 PSU Corsair HX1000W Case HAF-X Cooling XSPC Rasa RS360 Hard Drives OCZ Agility 3 90GB (OS, Games), Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB (Additional storage, Backup) Internet Speed 3Mbps Other Info Razer Vespula Gaming Pad, Razer eXactMat |
07-19-2011
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#3 | | Windows 7 Professional 64bit |

Quote: Originally Posted by Terronium 12 One thing you can do right off the bat is set the memory timings, command rate (if an option), and the voltage manually.
Another thing is, and I'm presuming here, you can just crank up the multiplier and bus speeds and expect instant stability. You have to do it in incremental steps. Overclocking is a time consuming process and you're going to be doing this for hours (and i do mean hours). If you did work your way to where you're aiming now, what was the last stable frequency/voltage? In any case, 1.35v is a little low for 3.6 or 3.8. Not to sure how to set the memory timings which is why i never did it, i am running triple channel memory which i believe complicates things, as well as different brands/modules.
The last it was truly stable, which was quite a while ago 8 months + was at 3.3ghz, almost everything was at auto except the base clock and the cpu voltage, i think the cpu voltage was around 1.3 and the base clock around 170 | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build OS Windows 7 Professional 64bit CPU Intel i7 920 OC 3.8ghz Motherboard Asus P6T Memory 8gb Kingston DDR3 Graphics Card Gtx 460 1gb & 9500gt 1gb OC Sound Card Realtek HD audio inbuilt 7.1 surround Monitor(s) Displays SyncMaster 2333 Screen Resolution 1920*1080 PSU 1200 watt Cooling Trition 81 Hard Drives Seagate es2 barracuda 1TB,
Kingston 128gb SSD,
2 WD 2TB green drives , |
07-19-2011
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#4 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit |
Why are you running three different DIMM's?
That alone complicates thing more than necessary. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number RX-3570[K] OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit CPU Core i5-3570K - 4.5GHz Motherboard ASUS Sabertooth Z77 Memory G.Skill Sniper 12GB DDR3-1600 Graphics Card HD6950 CrossfireX - 850/1350 Sound Card Realtek ALC892 Monitor(s) Displays Gateway FHD2402 Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech G110 Mouse Logitech G9x, Saitek RAT-7 PSU Corsair HX1000W Case HAF-X Cooling XSPC Rasa RS360 Hard Drives OCZ Agility 3 90GB (OS, Games), Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB (Additional storage, Backup) Internet Speed 3Mbps Other Info Razer Vespula Gaming Pad, Razer eXactMat |
07-19-2011
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#5 | | Windows 7 Professional 64bit |

Quote: Originally Posted by Terronium 12 Why are you running three different DIMM's?
That alone complicates thing more than necessary. Was just the way the build progressed, i had two initially, than bought another one, was than given three | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build OS Windows 7 Professional 64bit CPU Intel i7 920 OC 3.8ghz Motherboard Asus P6T Memory 8gb Kingston DDR3 Graphics Card Gtx 460 1gb & 9500gt 1gb OC Sound Card Realtek HD audio inbuilt 7.1 surround Monitor(s) Displays SyncMaster 2333 Screen Resolution 1920*1080 PSU 1200 watt Cooling Trition 81 Hard Drives Seagate es2 barracuda 1TB,
Kingston 128gb SSD,
2 WD 2TB green drives , |
07-19-2011
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#6 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit |
So now you have three DIMM's anyone of which might operate at a lower or higher stock frequency and/or voltage. Have a look and see what they are.
Use CPU-Z. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number RX-3570[K] OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit CPU Core i5-3570K - 4.5GHz Motherboard ASUS Sabertooth Z77 Memory G.Skill Sniper 12GB DDR3-1600 Graphics Card HD6950 CrossfireX - 850/1350 Sound Card Realtek ALC892 Monitor(s) Displays Gateway FHD2402 Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech G110 Mouse Logitech G9x, Saitek RAT-7 PSU Corsair HX1000W Case HAF-X Cooling XSPC Rasa RS360 Hard Drives OCZ Agility 3 90GB (OS, Games), Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB (Additional storage, Backup) Internet Speed 3Mbps Other Info Razer Vespula Gaming Pad, Razer eXactMat |
07-19-2011
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#7 | | Windows 7 Professional 64bit |
| My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build OS Windows 7 Professional 64bit CPU Intel i7 920 OC 3.8ghz Motherboard Asus P6T Memory 8gb Kingston DDR3 Graphics Card Gtx 460 1gb & 9500gt 1gb OC Sound Card Realtek HD audio inbuilt 7.1 surround Monitor(s) Displays SyncMaster 2333 Screen Resolution 1920*1080 PSU 1200 watt Cooling Trition 81 Hard Drives Seagate es2 barracuda 1TB,
Kingston 128gb SSD,
2 WD 2TB green drives , |
07-19-2011
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#8 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit |
I wouldn't recommend trying to overclock any further as it's most likely the inconsistency in the DIMM's that's causing the BSOD's. I wouldn't at all be surprised if you got Memory Management stop screens because of this.
Get yourself 8GB of identical DIMMs and then you can worry about getting to 3.6 or 3.8, or at least (for the time being) remove the Corsair and Kingston sticks. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number RX-3570[K] OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit CPU Core i5-3570K - 4.5GHz Motherboard ASUS Sabertooth Z77 Memory G.Skill Sniper 12GB DDR3-1600 Graphics Card HD6950 CrossfireX - 850/1350 Sound Card Realtek ALC892 Monitor(s) Displays Gateway FHD2402 Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Logitech G110 Mouse Logitech G9x, Saitek RAT-7 PSU Corsair HX1000W Case HAF-X Cooling XSPC Rasa RS360 Hard Drives OCZ Agility 3 90GB (OS, Games), Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB (Additional storage, Backup) Internet Speed 3Mbps Other Info Razer Vespula Gaming Pad, Razer eXactMat |
07-19-2011
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Quote: Originally Posted by Terronium 12 remove the Corsair and Kingston sticks. Yep.
You have 3 different brands populating all dimms - no wonder you're having an issue.
Stick with matched sets. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Me OS 7 Ultimate x64 CPU i5 2500K 4.7 Ghz Motherboard ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe Gen 3 Memory 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 2133mhz Graphics Card Asus GTX 580 DirectCU II Sound Card X-FI Forte 7.1 + ATH-AD900 Headphones Monitor(s) Displays x2 Dell U2410 / 58" Samsung / "40 Sony Screen Resolution 1920*1200 / 1920*1080 Keyboard Topre Realforce // Ducky Shine MX Black // Filco Ninja TKL Mouse Razer Imperator + Razer Lachesis PSU Corsair AX1200W Case Lian Li PC-V1020A Cooling Noctua NH-D14: 3x140mm Gelid Wing 14 : Noctua NF-P12 120mm Hard Drives 2x Intel 520 240GB * Crucial M4 128GB * 2x Samsung F3 1TB (RAID 0) * 2x WD Caviar Blacks 2TB (RAID 0) Other Info Laptop Specs:
Clevo Sager P170HM //
17.3 Matte 1920x1200 //
i7 2720QM // 8GB 1333mhz //
Dedicated GTX 485M //
240GB Intel 520 + 750GB + Blu-Ray //
Samsung Story 2TB USB 3.0 |
07-19-2011
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#10 | | |

Quote: Originally Posted by Terronium 12 I wouldn't recommend trying to overclock any further as it's most likely the inconsistency in the DIMM's that's causing the BSOD's. I wouldn't at all be surprised if you got Memory Management stop screens because of this.
Get yourself 8GB of identical DIMMs and then you can worry about getting to 3.6 or 3.8, or at least (for the time being) remove the Corsair and Kingston sticks. How do you get 8GB with Triple Channel memory? it's going to be 6GB or 9GB. Remember, he has 6 DDR3 slots and you use 3 at a time for Triple Channel. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HAL-9000 OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit CPU Intel i7 2600K @ 4.44Ghz Motherboard Asus P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1 Memory 16GB DDR3 1333 Corsair XMS3 Graphics Card XFX HD5850 1GB EyeFinity Sound Card Logitech G35 & Sennheiser PC135 & VIA HD Monitor(s) Displays 23" HP 2310e, 23" Samsung B2230, 21.5" Viewsonic Screen Resolution 5760x1080 Keyboard Logitech G15 and G13 Mouse Logitech G700 Gaming Mouse PSU Antec True Power New 650watt Case Cooler Master HAF-932 Cooling Corsair H60 Hydro Cooler, 3x 230mm Fans, 2x120mm Fan Hard Drives 16TB of Storage
128GB & 256GB Crucial M4 SSD's, 2X 1TB WD Black, 3x 2TB WD, 3x 2TB Samsung F4, 1.5TB Seagate, WD 500GB, Internet Speed 50/10 Mbit Other Info Speakers : Alesis M1 Active Mk2 Studio Monitors , APC RS 1200 UPS, HP 4500DN Color Laser, HP P1006 mono Laser, Kodak 8500 Dye-Sub, Epson 1280 inkjet, Epson Worforce 610 MFC All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:17 PM. |  |