pulling the battery out of the motherboard.
And this is why i grafted a cmos reset switch into the back of my case lol.
Dude just because ive overclocked everything I own doesnt mean I know shit about your generation of I7. You have an OCN account I told you to use that shit. Your best bet is to talk to the people in the club for your particular motherboard. Once we get oast the kid shit things like the particular voltage regulator setup and capabilites of the board really play into this.
Erik seems to have gotten his to 4.2 and didnt even have his water block down properly. Someone like that who even has the exact cpu you have might be worth talking to. Its unlocked so you dont even have to touch bclk. I know enough about sandy bridge now to help someone there but all I can do is read a guide and guess for you.
Let me break down overclocking
Your processor is made up of switches called transistors. These switch at a particular rate or frequency. This is the processor speed usually rated in Ghz. For a given architecture, process and even the individual processor made the transistors will only switch so fast. At a given voltage the (worst) transistor will switch at so many ghz and at a higher voltage it might switch even faster.
With higher frequency comes more current which causes a little more heat. With higher voltage comes even more heat. The processors circuitry etched out in silicon is just like wiring in your car, house whatever. It will only take so much voltage period without extreme measures of cooling. Stay within a safe voltage and keep the cooling under control and you should be safe. That said not all things are free of major defect.
Your case
So your CPU frequency = your FSB or BCLK X the multiplier. So for you 133 x 24 = 3192 Mhz or 3.2 Ghz. If your CPU was locked the only choice would be to raise the BCLK but it isnt so we change the multiplier but you could do both.
Once you find a multiplier thats above stable (and we would be checking this with hours of Prime 95 runs or something similar) we have to start increasing vcore. Now the confusion sets in for me because on that generation alot of things were moved onto the processor. Alot of voltage adjustments became available. Sandy bridge response almost purely to vcore.
The main thing outside of that is keeping the power stable and clean. A good power supply. Load line calibration and a decent vrm all help with this. If the LLC and VRM are adjustable on the motherboard definitly something to talk to other owners of the same board about.
But realize not every 965 has made it to 4ghz on air. I just read 2 reviews of the cpu that failed to. Ive got 4.5 possible stable and i still cant boot 4.6 on this turd.
