Could I safely overclock Intel Core i7 920....?
Trumandrummer
Taylor Michigan Icrontian
Hello,
I am just curious. Could you safely OC an Intel Core i7 920 (2.67 ghz) to at least 3 ghz without adding a CPU cooler?
I have never Overclocked before, I do not know much about it. I have seen the i7 920 OC'ed to 4ghz online. Obviously with some good CPU cooler. But I just want to be able to say that mine is 3ghz.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
I am just curious. Could you safely OC an Intel Core i7 920 (2.67 ghz) to at least 3 ghz without adding a CPU cooler?
I have never Overclocked before, I do not know much about it. I have seen the i7 920 OC'ed to 4ghz online. Obviously with some good CPU cooler. But I just want to be able to say that mine is 3ghz.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
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Wait. Is that unique to 486's?
Of course, you could always thumb your nose at the corporate evil that is Intel and equip your system with an AMD Black Edition CPU for the best frequency performance like I do, but I am just strange that way.
Old territory. AMD = bang for buck, Intel = maximum bang. His i7 @ 3GHz will teach just about any AMD CPU a thing or two, unless you get that black edition over 4GHz.
Edit - as for the overclock, odds are good you can hit 3GHz without entering "dangerous" overclocking. By my own definition, overclocking does not become dangerous until you start increasing the voltages to pieces of the system. Any overclock you can obtain while retaining stock voltages is icing on the cake.
Well I took a look at my bios and There is settings in there for OC I think. But they are greyed out. I got excited when I saw that there was OC settings for the CPU, but then I realized they were grey. Is this a bad thing?
EDIT: Actually, looking at this picture. I think that if I change the CPU ratio setting to manual instead of auto, it will probably let me use the OC settings that were greyed out.
EDIT AGAIN: It turns out, I guess my computer came with software to overclock. It has 2 settings "original" and "2.93Ghz" I am going to try that and see what happens.
In my bios it says to manually set it, then set cpu level up to "manual" I did this, and it brings up a bunch of options....
There are so many options, I get confused just looking at it. Can anyone tell me what option(s) I need to look for to change it from 2.93 to 3ghz???