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So this is a funny story related to my 4770k

After i resetted my PC (because it was about time) i decided to go tinker with my motherboard bios, i noticed a 'max performance' setting, so i turned it on, also turned chassis and CPU fan on turbo cuz y'know, why not.
My motherboard is a asus B85M-G (First PC here, pre-assembled by a shop, will do next one myself and make sure its an ATX board)  and my CPU is an i7 4770k.

I noticed in task manager that my CPU clock speed was boosted to 4.2ghz, and i was suprised, i couldn't reach that speed normally on this motherboard since it's not an overclockable chipset.

So i went into gaming, with my gtx970 being our humble assistant, first Battlefield 1, with MSI afterburner for stat tracking, CPU never went above 70C and everything is rock solid stable (Cooler master hyper 212 evo for the epic win)

Other games? No problem!

Now my question is, would it be safe to leave it on this mode and let the CPU run above 4ghz on this chipset, or would it be wiser to reset it back to it's 3.50 ghz? (3.9ghz actually, as i used intel XTU to set the cpu to perma turbo boost)

Thanks in advance for the answers!

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Task Manager is often incorrect with clockspeeds

 

Check using NZXT CAM or Afterburner that the CPU is actually at 4.2

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Some older 8 series Mobos could overclock through some tweaks. 

 

Intel wasn't too happy about that and tried to order all the manufacturers to remove that option. Some didn't get removed, most got. You could have one of those happy boards that kept that feature.

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It's running at 4.2ghz, intel XTU also says so.

Extremely happy with this! :D

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