How to overclock Core i7 920 to 4,1GHz on Asus P6T motherboard (+ performance comparison)

A noob-friendly tutorial that I created to help people with overclocking Core i7 CPU's.

Remember that this tutorial was done with C0 stepping, D0 stepping doesn't need nearly as much voltage as C0.

To see what settings I'd use for 3,2GHz and 3,66GHz check video responses.

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[esponert105]

i overclock my i7 920 to 4ghz @stock fan. everything default settings, all volts auto. the only thing i changed is the baseclock to 200. full load 83°C. is this ok? without changing any volts?

[arvutihull]

@esponert105 - 83C is too high.

[TheXtremeGamer90]

I have an i7 920 and a x6 1100t !!! What do you think ? Stay with i7 or amd ??? When is the best time to upgrade to z68 or something ??? please reply !!!

[arvutihull]

@TheXtremeGamer90 - They're both pretty equal CPUs. If you need to sell one of these, sell the X6 1100T, wait and get AMD Bulldozer in a few months.

[arvutihull]

@Dynose - Overclocked i7 is faster than default clocked i7, so default clocked i7 is slower than overclocked i7 - default clocked i7 is not faster than everything.

[Subcidal]

This video is totally pointless. All you've done is get a bunch of people to crank their clock way up without doing anything necessary to make it stable.

[TheHitlerGuy]

@HansensUniverse Too slow for what exactly? As I see it there is still no use for HT or clocks above 3.6GHz in the gaming world (besides MAYBE if you run a 3k$+ setup with tri-sli in BF3 64Player MP) so I don't see your point.

And the only reason we'd even have to overclock our i7 in the first place was because the games before BF3 didn't really use more than 2 cores.

[HansensUniverse]

Good old days huh time s flying so fast. now 4 GHZ is getting a little to slow these days :)

[gunit01234]

I'm running an i7-920 on the Asus P6T, but I could only get it past 3.06GHz before it failed and I had to start over, and I'm running a Silver Arrow on top of it using EVGA Frostbite thermal compound. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

[arvutihull]

@TobbenCod - Yes. Depends on your cooling and how good CPU you got.

[TobbenCod]

@arvutihull Can i oveerclock my i7 950 3.06 Ghz?? if so. how many ghz will it be able to go up to?

[TheNorefunds]

I did this today and was able to get 3.9 GHz from my 920 2.67 GHz thanks for the guide.