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November 11th, 2010 04:00

Alienware Aurora i7 920 Successful Overclock @ 3.66GHz

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share my overclock settings, could be useful to someone!

I managed to successfuly overclock my system to 3.66GHz and it is rock solid stable

 

Memory Multiplyer: x8 (for 1333 RAM), x6 (for 1066 RAM)

BLK: 183

Vcore: +60mV

IOH: 1.20

Spread SPectrume: ON or OFF works fine

Turbo: OFF

 

Temperature wise, only a small increase of 4c per core under load.

 

  • Nexc1127

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    Posted November 11th, 2010 13:00

    Very nice.

    Could probably reach 4ghz and still be completely stable.

  • VasVas

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 06:00

    I now managed to overclock to 4GHz with the new bios A10!!!

     

    Memory Multiplyer: x8 (for 1333 RAM)

    BLK: 200

    Vcore: +60mV

    Memory: 1.60v

    IOH: 1.20

    Spread SPectrume: ON or OFF works fine

    Turbo: OFF

     

    The RAM goes all the way up to 1600MHz but the system remains stable

    Well done Alienware!!! The new bios is fantastic

  • teegale

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 07:00

    I'd be very wary about what you call "stable". Did you run prime95 for 12-24 hours? I'll try those settings and report back tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up.

  • VasVas

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 07:00

    I did run Prime95 on all cores for about 2hrs only, also played games all the afternoon yesterday without a single problem.

    So far, I can really confirm that the A10 bios is a major improvement.

  • teegale

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 08:00

    I tried the settings and they don't work for me. Computer crashes the second I load p95. Oh well back to 3.6.

     

    EDIT: They do work for 3.8ghz. Not sure how stable it is because p95 has only been running for a very short period of time. At least my computer didn't show off immediately, so that is a good sign.

  • teegale

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 09:00

    Have you tried raising the qpi/uncore? Supposedly that's fairly important to improve stability.

  • VasVas

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 09:00

    Try:  Vcore: +80mV, should help you go through Prime 95 for a couple of hours.

    I am now running @ 4.1GHz (205) but I am pretty sure it will not be as stable as 4GHz.

  • VasVas

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 09:00

    Haven't tried that yet but will give it go and try to go pass 4Ghz.

     

  • teegale

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    Posted December 7th, 2010 10:00

    I just don't think my machine has any interest in breaking that 4ghz barrier :) I'm just gonna call it quits at 3.8, run some tests and make sure everything is dandy. Thanks for the informative post and maybe this can help some people like me who's computer doesn't like to cooperate with them!

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    Posted December 8th, 2010 11:00

    I got my i-975 to 4.8ghz. But ran pretty warm.