Sun Tzu Posted April 9, 2010 Member ID: 542 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 311 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1628 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 29 Achievement Points: 11299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/30/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 3, 2014 Birthday: 03/01/1975 Posted April 9, 2010 Ok I have never tried to overclock my system. Yesterday I replaced my CoolerMaster V10 with a Domino A.L.C. and modified my air duct which contains 2 - 120 mm fans which blows towards my graphics cards to put some cool air on them and blow the heat out the back. Here are my idle temps: What I am wanting to know is how much more performance can I gain by overclocking and will I see a drastic rise in temps. Also I need to give the CPU cooler sometime to get broken in for the true temps to show. System Specs: Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard Patriot Extreme Performance Gaming Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) !2 GB total 2X BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB PCIe 2.0 (D) in SLI Any and all comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated from our resident overclockers.
RickJames Posted April 9, 2010 Member ID: 58 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 7 Topic Count: 370 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2552 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 3 Achievement Points: 16507 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 26, 2012 Birthday: 08/27/1975 Posted April 9, 2010 Well TZU I gained almost 3,000 pts in 3dmark06 by overclocking my proc and video cards. Yes your temps will increase significantly
Sun Tzu Posted April 9, 2010 Member ID: 542 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 311 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1628 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 29 Achievement Points: 11299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/30/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 3, 2014 Birthday: 03/01/1975 Author Posted April 9, 2010 Here is my base score 3DMark Score 17983 3DMarks SM 2.0 Score 6774 SM 3.0 Score 8916 CPU Score 4890
NightmareXI Posted April 9, 2010 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Posted April 9, 2010 hey Sun Tzu, i have an i5-750 oced up to 4.01 Ghz aircooled... it will be an easy deal to oc your i7 up to 3.4~ 3.6 Ghz with this watercooling sys...(I had this earlier but traded with X-Ray) I dont like to oc graphic cards aircooled btw...you wont get this higher scores with aircooling only... my score 3DMark ~25000 3DMarks Awards
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