I am pulling my hair out here, I have an i7 940. Don't hate on it I got it really cheap! And I am running on a p6t with a Coolit domino, I see all of these people getting sick OCs on i7 920 and all that but mine seems to hit a wall at 3.8 Ghz. It is not at all thermally limited, it idles at 36 to 37 degrees. I can get it to passmark cpu test at 3.9 but it is not at all Prime95 stable. I am looking to run this 24/7 at the highest clock speed I can muster with my current set up, while trying to keep idle temps under 40 C. I am a nut but I just really want my 940 to beat a Xeon 5650 and I am darn close 7070 pts to Xeons 8070pts, I'm within spitting distance to an opteron too, 8203 pts.
Here's my rig:
Coolermaster 840 ton's of air flow
OCZ 1600 drr3 at 1600 8 8 8 24
BFG 900 watt PSU
GTX 460 Oced to 846 2125
GT 240 for Physx Oced to 625 2000
Coolit Dominoe using decent thermal paste
i7 940 at 3.8 Ghz 200 x 19
Vcore 3.5
Pll1.9
QPI/Dram 3.5
1.1 ich 1.1 ioh
LL enabled
Here's my rig:
Coolermaster 840 ton's of air flow
OCZ 1600 drr3 at 1600 8 8 8 24
BFG 900 watt PSU
GTX 460 Oced to 846 2125
GT 240 for Physx Oced to 625 2000
Coolit Dominoe using decent thermal paste
i7 940 at 3.8 Ghz 200 x 19
Vcore 3.5
Pll1.9
QPI/Dram 3.5
1.1 ich 1.1 ioh
LL enabled