Overclocking my old and only machine

[SlavicSpy]

Morning(evening)/afternoon/??

I got myself a nice rig! That is if we were living in 2011. I'm running a basic P6T motherboard by Asus, an i7-920 (yh ik), 2 kits by 3 sticks (2gb each) of hyper ex ddr3 1600mhz ram and a gtx 750! Lad managed to play cyberpunk on lowest with 50% fidelity at 15fps so I'm good with it lol. Recently I found out the ram was running at 800 MHz, while the CPU I had overclocked at 3.66 GHz. Can you help me understand how to overclock the ram, so the CPU keeps the oc? I've been trying for hours now and can't get it to work...

[Jurrunio]

Wait you did the overclock BCLK or FSB to get the CPU to run faster? DDR3's minimum speed on the CPU is 800MHz and raising the BCLK/FSB also raises it. It shouldnt be 800MHz in this case, more like 1GHz.

[unclewebb]

1 hour ago, SlavicSpy said:

ddr3 1600mhz

DDR3-1600 memory runs at 800 MHz. Run CPU-Z to check your memory speed.

 

The Core i7-920 is not an Extreme processor so the memory dividers are limited to DDR3-800 and DDR3-1066. 

 

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37147/intel-core-i7-920-processor-8m-cache-2-66-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html

 

To run the memory faster, keep increasing the BCLK speed. The memory and BCLK are linked.

 

These boards work much better with 6 core Xeons like the W3670 or W3680. Should be able to run either Xeon at 4500 MHz on all cores when fully loaded. X58 boards are expensive but processors are cheap on eBay.