How far have you stably over clocked your CPU?

1	I have gotten my 2.20GHz over clocked to 2.50GHz. I know it's not much of an over clock but 3.0GHz nor 2.75GHz was stable.(it froze allot) overclock cpu stability asked Jun 09 '10 at 12:25 sulljason 2.4k●110●126●156 edited Jun 09 '10 at 12:39 Liam Quade 7.4k●92●121●197

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2	My i7 920 (2.66GHz) to 4.2GHz (Update: 4.3GHz) and yes very stable. answered Jun 11 '10 at 11:27 Blind Fury 985●32●41●53 edited Feb 01 '11 at 01:21 *Update I have now stably overclocked to 4.3GHz (Jan 14 '11 at 11:21) Blind Fury

1	I've overclocked an old Pentium 4 from 2.4 GHz, to 3.0 GHz, it ran fine. answered Jun 09 '10 at 12:39 Liam Quade 7.4k●92●121●197

1	I overclocked an old 2.2 GHz...I dunno how old but I overclocked it to about 2.8...it was fine as well... answered Jun 09 '10 at 12:55 CharlesYin96 4.7k●22●71●185 Any advice on how to figure out the RAM timings? (Jun 09 '10 at 12:59) sulljason

my Q6600 i got to 3.36Ghz stable, but didnt have the cooling to go over that.

also got my I7 920 to 4ghz with a few clicks, very simple, but didnt need that much power, and it was heating up alot. would easily go over but it's pointless for me.

answered Jan 14 '11 at 14:23

roguekiller23231
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0	I've over-clocked my 2.66 i7 to about 5Ghz. The only thing it was doing was converting a HD video. I couldn't run anything else and sometimes it has crashed. Oh well. answered Jan 14 '11 at 15:38 Mattophobia ♦♦ 7.0k●73●122●206

my pc

name. zero mark 3.

case:Rosewill DESTROYER.

mobo:asus p5q pro turbo.

cpu:Intel q9400 overclocked 3.20GHz and @1.285votts and a 1600mhz rated fsb idle temp 30c max temp 57c .

masscool model # 8wa743 cpu cooler.

ocz gold ddr2 @800mhz @1.9votts 8 gig timings 5-5-5-18.

gpu: xfx radeon hd 4870 1gb gddr5 @800mhz core 1100mhz memory.

and a scythe musashi VGA cooler to cool it.i run it for 18 hours a day no crashes

answered Jan 26 '11 at 02:17

Michael Willoughby
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edited Feb 01 '11 at 12:07

Tim Fontana
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0	A friend of mine overclocked his i7 to 4 ghz, but i haven't tried mine because i'd rather not burn my processor out with my crappy heat sink answered Feb 02 '11 at 00:09 Omen_6 151●2●2●8

You need to find the CPU documentation to find out what overclocking range your cpu will tolerate. I had a machine where I monitored the temperature of the CPU as I was overclocking it to make sure I wasn't giving it more power than the documentation said it would handle.

Which processor are you trying to overclock?

answered Feb 02 '11 at 02:23

Duodave
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