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Overclocking i7 965 EE on Gigabyte X58 Extreme

Badbonji

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Overclocking i7 965 EE on Gigabyte X58 Extreme
« on: January 26, 2009, 10:31:37 pm »
I am still trying to find the best stable overclock on this system. Maximum so far is 4.35Ghz under water with 1.37Vcore (loadline calibration on). What is strange is that at 4.15-4.3Ghz the sytem gets stuck when turning off, so I had to get past that and at 4.35Ghz it shuts of fine, using the same voltages from 4.3Ghz. I am very pleased with the board, I haven't had much overclocking experience as of yet. QPI is at 7.7Ghz.
Prime 95- small fft stable 4 hours.

Setup is in sig, and so far the only real trouble was installing raid, which in the end I found out that my external USB drive somehow was conflicting the raid configuration during OS install which was fixed by unplugging it during setup.

Maximum I have posted this CPU at was around 4.8Ghz, failed to finish loading OS however, may work on that further to get some nice benchmarks.
Core i7 965 @ 4.35Ghz 1.37Vcore
6Gb G.Skill 1600Mhz DDR3 @ 1740Mhz 8-8-8-20 1T
HIS HD5970 @ 800/1100
Gigabyte Extreme X58
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty
256GB M4 + 150GB Raptor
EK Supreme HF/GTX480/MCP655/EK Res :D

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Re: Overclocking i7 965 EE on Gigabyte X58 Extreme
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2009, 05:21:28 pm »
Hi

did you try to use hints from overclocking guide for EX58-Extreme from this location ?
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Badbonji

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Re: Overclocking i7 965 EE on Gigabyte X58 Extreme
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2009, 10:31:34 am »
I did take a look at that but found that using a higher multiplier is more successful, and I have alot more freedom with the QPI/uncore and memory speeds. Wheras the 920 is limited to a 20x, with the possibility of 21x/22x with turbo mode.
Core i7 965 @ 4.35Ghz 1.37Vcore
6Gb G.Skill 1600Mhz DDR3 @ 1740Mhz 8-8-8-20 1T
HIS HD5970 @ 800/1100
Gigabyte Extreme X58
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty
256GB M4 + 150GB Raptor
EK Supreme HF/GTX480/MCP655/EK Res :D