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November 6th, 2012 16:00
First time overclocking
Hello everyone!
I have an Aurora with an i7 980x CPU. A week ago I new nothing about overclocking. I read what I could find here and other places for a few days then I started to carefully experiment with the BIOS (A11) settings. After a few days I've settled on an overclock setting that is a big performance boost and is very stable. I've been carefully watching my temperatures and torture testing with Prime95.
The weak links in my system are slow Corsair ram memory and a SATA II bus.
My benchmark tests are here:
http://www.3dmark.com/pcm7/482139
Here is my no load stats:
Here is my 100% load stats:
I could probably get more out of this but I think I'll quit while I'm ahead! I love my Alienware Aurora!