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- Date:
- Thursday , November 06, 2008
- Author:
- Kyle Bennett
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Intel Core i7 920 Overclocking and Heat
We give you a quick look at overclocking the Intel Core i7 920 processor that runs at a stock speed of 2.66GHz. What do you need in terms of cooling when you bring it up to 3.8GHz with at 1.35 vCore? You are not using the stock heatsink for sure.
Introduction
This is one of those subjects that needs to be covered but to put it simply we don't need to take you through 10 pages of text and ads to get our point across, so we are not. A quick video and some explanation is all that is needed and we will follow up with a chart so that you can see all of the data we are referring to on your own desktop.
Core i7 920 Overclocking & Heat
We posted a video follow-up to our ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard review yesterday. A lot of questions were asked and we are going to follow up on those as well, but I thought that Core i7 920 overclocking and cooling posed some questions that are important enough that they be covered in their own segment. So we spent the day putting together some data on our ASUS P6T Deluxe test system and we have produced the video for you below. A supplemental chart is listed below as well.
11/7/2009: Follow-up on Intel Stock Boxed 920, 940, and 965 coolers!
The cooler that we showed being used in the above video is the cooler that is shipping with boxed Intel Core i7 processor models 920 and 940. As we joked about in the video, we did not think that cooler was up to the 965. Here is what Intel has to say.
The Core i7-965 processor includes a more powerful air cooled thermal solution called DBX-A that has some additional overhead baked into it. It also has two switch selectable cooling modes we call quiet and performance to allow a little more flexibility for our customers, in addition to the standard 4-wire PWM fan speed control.
Intel has always supplied coolers that are robust enough to handle stock usage and it looks as if they will be doing so in the case of the Core i7 965 Extreme Edition as well.