Originally posted by omegaman7:

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And the temps? :P

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Then where are the benchmarks? LOL

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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If you're willing to overclock by any significant amount, you should sell the 965 for a 920. The 965 retails for $1000 at Newegg, you should be able to sell it for at least $800, which as you say, turns a good i7 system into a great i7 system.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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It won't perform identically, but it will be so close it does not justify anywhere near the extra expense (we're talking a small handful of percent at best here)

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so will the i7 920 @ 3.2ghz perform the same as the i7 965 @ stock speed (3.2ghz)?

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Originally posted by Sophocles:

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Sam

I think he forgot to put a 2 where the first digit is. He probably means 2.2-2.4. I have my Corsair 1066 RAM hitting almost 1100 Mhz with 2.1V.

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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You know...if I didn't know any better, I'd say that windows 7 were picky about OC'ing! It seems like I read something similar about Vista and OC'ing. Perhaps there's some merit there huh?
I cant seem to get anything above 3.5 stable in windows 7!!! I tried a voltage bump. I tried bumping the FSB instead of the multi, and it seemed more stable, without the voltage increase. In one instance, Black screen, in all other instances, BSOD. I guess tomorrow I can try increasing the RAM Voltage huh? But I dont think that would have anything to do with it. I had the voltage up to 1.425 before I became frustrated. I played with HT, FSB, multi. Perhaps a clear head in the morning :) Perhaps the CPU heard me speaking of the 1066 Ram ehh LOL!

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Oman7,
I doubt that the memory voltage is a factor at the moment, depending on what it's clock speed is. That's another reason I like 1066 Ram in it. It runs at 1066, but you can use the next multi down 4.00 and you would have no worries about the memory voltage. I sure wouldn't bump the memory voltage more than 0.1v. I know that doesn't sound like very much, but DocTY told me a long time ago that I could raise it to 2.2v from a stock 2.0v, (G.Skill PC26400 1.9-2.0v) but he wouldn't recommend it! Considering Memory's his thing, and he does like to play with the memory settings, I'll take his advice, and I strongly suggest you do too!

Best Regards,
Russ

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I've got acceptable temperatures. Now time to overclock.

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I've turned off turbo obviously, but not HT. When I run 8 thread prime95, it runs for about 1 minute, temp goes up to around 78c (I don't know if the TEC on my V10 has kicked in at that point) then it BSODs.

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Originally posted by rubixcube:

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Ok, so, cooling problems fixed for now (I'm running my case with the side off) so I've got acceptable temperatures. Now time to overclock. I've read a review of my motherboard, and the guy was also using a core i7 920. He used 1.375v vcore and 1.24v VTT, and I'm currently running 1.35v vcore, same VTT, bclk 200 with 20x multi, 8x ram multi for 1600mhz, 16x uncore, and 32x QPI. Does all this look ok? I've turned off turbo obviously, but not HT. When I run 8 thread prime95, it runs for about 1 minute, temp goes up to around 78c (I don't know if the TEC on my V10 has kicked in at that point) then it BSODs. So it's either a) the fact that I have HT on or b) my vcore is too low. Is 1.375v safe? I don't even know what the stock vcore is for this chip, but I remember sam saying once that he doesn't like going anymore than 0.15v over stock. And would turning off HT make a difference other than temperature? And would that decrease performance? Thanks!

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Originally posted by rubixcube:

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OK I ripped her apart, here are some photos of the contact.

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Image 2

There is a lot of TIM towards the edges... but overall I don't think it looks like bad contact. It is thin in a few places though. For the record, I am using OCZ freeze because I heard it was better than AS5, but if anyone thinks I should be using AS5 instead I have some on hand... Also whats the best method for even TIM spread using this cooler/processor? With my core2duo I used to do the single strip down the centre.

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