I've just built my new PC with the following: i7 920 D0 Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Thermalright ultra Extreme 120 with 2 x 120mm 1600rpm fans in push pull Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Goop 6Gb (3 x 2Gb) Corsair Dominator DR3 1866 (9-9-9-24) RAM CM Storm Sniper case CM Real Power M1000 1000W PSU plus some other bits. Now my question is: What are considered good temps for over clocking this sort of set up. I've never Overclocked before so it is all bewildering to me. I have tried 3.7GHz (186*20), temps: I = 40C, L = 75C (the odd 80C for a second) then I tried 4.0GHz (200*20), temps: I = 46, L = 79C (the odd 84C for a second here and there) with HT on This was tested using Prime95 (64bit) and OCCT under Win7 64bit. Are these temps good? Bad? Oh my god it's gonna blow!!!!!? Is it OK that every core is at a different temp at any given moment? Also can someone explain why when the BCLK is 200 with a 20 multiplier the Frequency reported by the likes of CPUZ & Core Temp fluctuates around 3999.89 but never settles. Is it because I've done something wrong? HELP!!!!
Oo-er, I think lapping is a bit beyond my level of expertise at this stage. I'm pretty happy that the thing didn't blow up when I first switched it on! So my temps are OK are they? No dangers I should know about? I can knock a degree off (or even 2!) by turning my case fans up to full. The average seems to be around the 80C mark at load for 30 minutes.
you wont put ur rig under the stress that prime puts it under. i assume that you ran it for several hours?
