Core i7 930 vs. 920 Comparison Review! Ing Core i7 930 & Gigabyte X58A-UD5 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net. Review - Intel Core i7-930 CPU Review. Testing As the i7-930 is intended as a direct replacement for the i7-920 the most important comparrison is between these two CPUs. To give the graphs a bit more flavour we've also included benchmark results from the fastest Core i7, the i7-975 Extreme Edition, plus the ever-popular Core 2 Quad Q6600, Core i5-750 and AMDs fastest desktop CPU, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition. Test Setup Software Here is a list of the applications we've used for our testing - most of them are available free for public consumption, although some are popular professional software applications. We've used Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, as this is the most flexible and reliable 64-bit OS for testing the applications above.
Hardware It's impossible to construct a set of test kit that's common across LGA1366, LGA1156, LGA775 and Socket AM3, but we have strived to keep as many components consistent as possible: Common Hardware Intel LGA1366 (Core i7) Hardware LGA1156 (Core i5) Hardware LGA775 (Core 2) Hardware. Adrian Cantrill's Blog » Overclocking – Core i7 930 & Gigabyte X58A-UD5. Ultimate Core i7 Overclocking Guide -- We Push Nehalem to its Li. Here’s everything you need to know about overclocking Intel’s new CPU Overclocking can kill your CPU. It can corrupt your OS, melt your motherboard, and cause you to lose a month’s work or more. Despite those dire orange-alert warnings, however, overclocking has moved on from the Nerd’s Only Club to become practically a mainstream hobby in the last few years.
So why overclock if the risks are so great? For some folks, it’s about bragging rights. The bulk of overclockers, however, are more concerned with the cost dividends. Whether you’re a cheapskate or a drag racer, you’ll find that Intel’s new Core i7 CPU is unlike any previous Intel CPU, and overclocking this beast requires more tinkering than you might expect. A Brave New World -- The crumbling of the front-side-bus wall means a wholesale change in how you overclock Intel’s top parts Veteran Intel overclockers know that little about the process changed since the beginning. The Base Clock Doing the Math Turbo Talk More about QPI. Bit-tech.net Forums - Powered by vBulletin. Overclock.net - Overclocking.net. CPU Overclocking Forums. Overclocking Forum. Help i7 930 overclocking - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net.
Hi Recently brought i a system upgrade that included these parts : 2 XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 XXX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card Corsair Dominator GT 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C8 2000MHz Triple Channel Kit (CMG6GX3M3A2000C8) Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA77511561366AM2AM3) Intel Core i7 930 2.80Ghz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MH080G2C1) Pic here - Anyway, After reading the forums a bit i managed to overclock it to 4Ghz stabe 2 hours on prime 95, But was a bit worried about the 95degrees celsius recorded by Realtemp @ 100% Load , I was also wondering what would be best to do next to get 4.2ghz Ram voltages are also concerning me.
CPU Batch# : 3002B013 Here is my bios template : Code: