Overclocking a i7-930?

[gardav858]

I've just got my PC from you guys (awesome machine btw, so much power with excellent build quality) and I got it with a stock 930 and the Fenrir cooler. Rather than let the Fenrir go to waste I want to overclock the system and get even MORE power (mwuaha). I know I should have selected an overclocked PC from the start but it didn't occur to me at the time.

How would I go about this? I looked in the bios at the start up, but there was no OC option (bear in mind I'm used to using a 6 year old mobo+XP). And what is the safe limit to overclock it to?

 

[Rakk]

I was actually wondering the same thing - though given it's me and I'm not very good at such things, I'd probably never get round to it.

 

[Meds]

We offer the i7-930 @ 3.8GHz as we feel if you push this for 4GHz, the temperatures get a bit high and the system becomes unstable. I will PM you the settings we use for this CPU.

 

[PCS]

We can provide you with the settings for the Overclock. Please PM me and I'll pass these on to you.

 

[PaulH]

Also remeber unless you are benchmarking and chasing numbers, you will notice no difference at all by overclocking an i7 is most tasks such as gaming, HD video editing however......remeber a cooler machine is a more efficient machine (although i dont know how i can speak i run on the cusp of stability 24/7 with my rig)

 

[Rakk]

Ah right, cool, I'll stop thinking about such things as overclocking then (Rakk breathes a sigh of relief having no idea how to do such things anyway).