Could I get some help on how to OC my i7 920 with P6T mobo? | Forums

[Ba5tard5word]

I've been using a program my Asus P6T motherboard came with called EPU-6 engine to overclock my processor by 8%. I never had a problem with it when I was using Vista 64-bit. I installed Windows 7 64-bit a few days ago. EPU still seemed to work but I would get a "can't open Asio.sys" error message when booting up windows which I think is related to the EPU thing. I uninstalled the EPU program and reinstalled it and kept getting the message. Also last night I tried playing Left 4 Dead 2 for the first time in a while and enemy zombie movement was very jerky, I tried a lot of stuff and couldn't fix it. Just now I uninstalled the EPU-6 engine to see if it would do anything and the enemies are moving like normal again.


ANYWAY...now that I can't use the EPU-6 engine to OC my processor, I'd like to do it another way but I've never tried anything else. I had it OC'd to 8% and it helped make a lot of my games like Prototype and others play without a lot of annoying stutters.

The P6T also has a program called TurboV which lets you OC, but it seems to do it by voltage so it's a bit complicated. If anyone can tell me how to use it I'd be really grateful.

OR really I guess the safest thing is to OC it through the BIOS setup or whatever, but I've never done this before so I'll need some advice and hand-holding.

[Ba5tard5word]

Ok I'm looking at this and it looks like it just involves plugging in numbers...

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view...ge=1&SLanguage=en-us


The stock for my i7 920 is 2.66Ghz. I want to try and overclock it by 8%, to about 2.87Ghz. How do I figure out the numbers to plug in?

[Ba5tard5word]

Well I did some research last night but this stuff is still pretty confusing.

I went into BIOS and put the BCLK number at 142 (stock is 133), which I think OC's the processor to around 2.9 Ghz, CPUz says the core speed is 2900Mhz when I open a program though it seems to jump down to 1790 when I'm at desktop. Should I change any other numbers in the BIOS? I tried playing Prototype as a test, which is a very fast-paced game, and it ran sort of poorly--in Vista it would run pretty well with the EPU-6 Engine increasing the CPU speed by 8%. But maybe it's running badly because of Windows 7.

[KG26_Alpha]

There's 3 pages there that might help you.

can't open Asio.sys

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view...anguage=en-us&page=1

[gprr]

Hi

Here is most siplefied version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...15JU&feature=related

Don't forget to fix PCIE freq to 100
Best disable TurboV
Keep QPI low

Overclocked my P6TD Delux/I7 920/6GB 1600,CAS 8.
to 3.73 without a problem but backed it to 3.2+TurboV enabled(just now don't need more than that )

Cheers
gprr

[Ba5tard5word]

Thanks gp I guess I will take a look at that.

And the asio.sys thing went away when I uninstalled the EPU-6 program.

[gprr]

Originally posted by gprr:
Hi

Here is most siplefied version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...15JU&feature=related

Don't forget to fix PCIE freq to 100
Best disable TurboV
Keep QPI low

Overclocked my P6TD Delux/I7 920/6GB 1600,CAS 8.
to 3.73 without a problem but backed it to 3.2+TurboV enabled(just now don't need more than that )

Sorry,ment for disabling Turbo Boost in the bios !!!!!
Also,best not to create memory overvolting 1.65v and damege the onchip memory controller.

gprr

Cheers
gprr

[ytareh]

The Core2Duos had somekind of intel feature like "Spedstep" which slowed down cpu speed when not under load ...all that stuff like Spread Spectrum etc should be disabled....

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

I could tell you some numbers to put in the bios and try but it wouldn't really help you to understand what you are doing, and to overclock safely you really do need to understand it. Best way to learn is to go here and start reading, and read some more, then post a topic there and they'll help you, there may be the occasional jerk over there but for the most part they are way helpful. There's a lot of handy guides in the sticky at the top of that page, this one may be of particular interest.

[Ba5tard5word]

There's a lot of handy guides in the sticky at the top of that page, this one may be of particular interest.

Actually this is exactly what I'm looking for, it actually explains what all the options are, I'll peruse it tonight closely, thanks!

I've been doing a lot of googling for stuff like this all weekend and couldn't find anything useful which is why I asked here. A LOT of techie articles and "how-to" guides, even when they're "_____ for beginners" always seem to assume that the reader knows everything about what is being discussed so they always make a big leap from A to B without explaining why they did what they did or explaining steps C, D and E that need to be done between A and B...it's frustrating but I guess I'll figure it out.