Core i7 Memory Overclocking "Madshrimps" Article

Kal-EL · #1 07-07-2009

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Introduction

It has been a while since my latest article for which I blame examinations at school and of course the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Competition, which eventually led me to the great city of Taipei. However, since I have a few weeks of vacation now, I'm able to present you some of the findings of the Madshrimps team regarding the Core i7 platform.

Maybe you remember the X58 motherboard round-up which was published already four months ago, close to the release of the Core i7 platform. Having 7+ X58 motherboards at home (I was sent a couple more after the round-up) gave me, and my collegues, the opportunity to digg deeper into the different aspects of overclocking an i7 processor. In fact, we focussed on three different aspects:

BCLK frequency
Memory frequency
The combination of BCLK and memory frequency

As for this article, we'll be spending time on one setting that seems to give us the best solution when running into either stability or performance problems when overclocking the memory. It seems to be one of the key elements to stabilize the memory when running at high frequencies.

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DrNip · #2 07-07-2009

Nice catch supes. Goin to read this.

marcam923 · #3 09-15-2009

Bookmarked need to read this!

Chicken Patty · #4 09-15-2009

thank you for posting this man

I'll ready it when I have a few, I just got home from work.

Neuromancer · #5 09-15-2009

Good read his bullet points need some work though.

point 2 I have only been OCing for a bout a decade, but softclocking memory to the bleeding edge in windows has always produced system lockups for me. Sometimes I get the BSOD, but usually it requires a Raytheon reset. (hard power cycle)

and point 3. Just means that he is running an Intel CPU, Large L2/L3 cache means memory is not getting accessed up to the 2M test. Doubled to 4M now he hits onboard memory, and crashes. Seems obvious to me.. (so I must be wrong lol)