i7 930 overclocked at 3.8Ghz

[txR]

Hello,

I came up with my first overclock today and wanted to share my results/settings with you and know if I have to change some settings and maybe some tips to go to 4ghz (I failed all my tests this far when going to 4ghz).

My specs are :
CPU : i7 930
Mother board : GIGABYTE X58A-UD5 rev 1.0
RAM : 3x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 2000mhz
Case : COOLER MASTER HAF 932
Ventirad : Noctua NH D14

BIOS Settings :

CPU Clock ratio : 21x
QPI Clock ratio : x36
Uncore clock ratio : x20

BCLK Freq : 181
SPD : 10.0

CPU Vcore voltage : 1.25 V
DRAM Voltage : 1.66 V
Everything else is in auto

RAM Timing is 9/9/9/30 and runs at 1810 Mhz so far.


I tryed to overclock to 4ghz with Vcore voltage up to 1.33v without success (BSOD after +10min in OCCT).
Using Vcore voltage at 1.23750V for 3.8ghz OC also get me a crash after +30min in OCCT.

What do you guys think ?

Thank you !

 

[Oldschool_OC]

Try reading through this guide:

http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz

Using this got me near 4GHz with my i7 920 on an Asus P6T back in the day. There is a lot of useful information in this guide, especially on BSOD errors and what you need to fix specific codes.

My old build is still in service, and I believe it is used daily.
Hope that helps.

 

[txR]

Try reading through this guide:

http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz

Using this got me near 4GHz with my i7 920 on an Asus P6T back in the day. There is a lot of useful information in this guide, especially on BSOD errors and what you need to fix specific codes.

My old build is still in service, and I believe it is used daily.
Hope that helps.

Yeah actually that's the one I used
I've downloaded the Bluescreen viewer and mostly the error I had with 4ghz was "0x124 = increase/decrease vcore or QPI/VTT...have to test to see which one it is" and also had 0x24 = "Disk corruption (Did you OC the PCI-E bus?)"