My first overclock

[Labze]

Hello

So its my first time overclocking, i'm using Asus P7P55D-E, I7-870 and scythe mugen rev. 2. I've managed a overclock to 3,8ghz running 19multi and 200 bclk, giving me temps about 78C when running prime95, does that sound reasonable?

Also, i have 4Gigs om Mushkin 1600mhz ram, but in CPU-z they are only shown as 802.6 even though i set dram target frequency to 1600mhz, why is this?

 

[Shmee]

hey, grats on ur first oc. current memory is called DDR(3), meaning double data rate.

multiply the base ram clock by 2, which is what CPUz shows, and you get ~1600 MHz effective.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Hello

So its my first time overclocking, i'm using Asus P7P55D-E, I7-870 and scythe mugen rev. 2. I've managed a overclock to 3,8ghz running 19multi and 200 bclk, giving me temps about 78C when running prime95, does that sound reasonable?

Also, i have 4Gigs om Mushkin 1600mhz ram, but in CPU-z they are only shown as 802.6 even though i set dram target frequency to 1600mhz, why is this?

Are those temperatures your "ballpark estimation" of an average among the CORE temperatures? If that's the case, you should be just fine, I'd think. . . . The temperature "throttling" spec references a TCASE temperature, which is supposed to be several degrees (~10C) lower than the cores. The TM1 spec is probably in the low-70's C on those first-gen I7's. Someone else with socket 1366 and I7 would know more precisely.

 

[blackphoenix]

The memory showing up at 800 should be normal, DDR is Double Data Rate so in reality it is 1600, but the clock is 800.

Same reason my DDR2 800 shows up in CPU-Z as 400.

 

[Labze]

Thanks for the responses

Are those temperatures your "ballpark estimation" of an average among the CORE temperatures? If that's the case, you should be just fine, I'd think. . . . The temperature "throttling" spec references a TCASE temperature, which is supposed to be several degrees (~10C) lower than the cores. The TM1 spec is probably in the low-70's C on those first-gen I7's. Someone else with socket 1366 and I7 would know more precisely.

I'm not really sure what you mean, i have used RealTemp to check the temperatures, and 78C is the highest temperature a single core reached during my stress test with prime95