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Hey everyone, just wanted to ask if I have won the silicon lottery? :P my current overclock on my 4670k is 4.5GHz at 1.175V stable (tested with AIDA64). I have heard some people say that it can be difficult to get a haswell chip that can reach 4.5 without a high amount of extra voltage added, and I have gotten there while undervolting the CPU :P Any thoughts?

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Hey everyone, just wanted to ask if I have won the silicon lottery? :P my current overclock on my 4670k is 4.5GHz at 1.175V stable (tested with AIDA64). I have heard some people say that it can be difficult to get a haswell chip that can reach 4.5 without a high amount of extra voltage added, and I have gotten there while undervolting the CPU :P Any thoughts?

post cpu-z validation link

 

I bought a new 3770k a few days ago, and it boots on 5.2GHz. Not had time to stabalise it though.

 

http://valid.canardpc.com/qyc9c6 This is the highest stable ive managed to get.

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Eh, Haswell will hit a point where the voltage required vs clock speed goes way out of proportion, most of the time this is at 4.5/4.6Ghz. So sitting a Haswell chip at 4.5 isn't really a good indicator of if it's a good OCer or not.

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Got my 4670K last week, using only the...what is that stuff that comes with new Asus motherboards? Dual Intelligent Processors 4, or something like that. Got it up 4.6GHz. That's awesome because I don't know how to do anything manually.

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I don't know about you but I'm sure I didn't win it, my 4670k, won't go past 4.0, if I put in a 4.1 GHz OC, when I reset the system it will say "Overclock setting failed, booting with default setting" so yeah

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No, go up to 4,8 and see how much volts you have to burn into it. If you can reach 5 stable you did win a cookie.

I could get my 2600K to 4,8 stable with an avarage air cooler. But the temps were getting to high for my liking, so I went back to 4,6. Not that the difference between 4,6 and 4,8 is noticeable for me.. 

 

Edit: @Nicolas 

 

Do you know how to overclock? If you did not change the bios at all and just went, let's go 4,1! It won't work like that. Need to set ram timings, undervolt your cpu first - then start to overclock. It takes a good day or 2/3 till you find the point where you are like.. "do not cross the line."
But in like.. almost all cases, the 4670K should get to 4,3 at least.

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5ghz or more, then show me the volts.

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My 4770K went to 5.0 GHz and was ALMOST 100% stable with safe voltage

Drop some liquid on it, get that sucker stable.

 

Then it is a golden chip ;)

Le Bastardo+ 

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Red Alert

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Take a look at my build it is definitely watercooled: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41632-bertha-20-modded-prodigy-with-520mm-of-radiator/

Needless to say, I won't be buying a new CPU anytime soon ;)

Fair enough, sexy little minx that machine mate  :wub:

Le Bastardo+ 

i7 4770k + OCUK Fathom HW labs Black Ice 240 rad + Mayhem's Gigachew orange + 16GB Avexir Core Orange 2133 + Gigachew GA-Z87X-OC + 2x Gigachew WF 780Ti SLi + SoundBlaster Z + 1TB Crucial M550 + 2TB Seagate Barracude 7200rpm + LG BDR/DVDR + Superflower Leadex 1KW Platinum + NZXT Switch 810 Gun Metal + Dell U2713H + Logitech G602 + Ducky DK-9008 Shine 3 MX Brown

Red Alert

FX 8320 AMD = Noctua NHU12P = 8GB Avexir Blitz 2000 = ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 = Sapphire Radeon R9 290 TRI-X = 1TB Hitachi Deskstar & 500GB Hitachi Deskstar = Samsung DVDR/CDR = SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W 80 Plus Gold = Xigmatek Utguard = AOC 22" LED 1920x1080 = Logitech G110 = SteelSeries Sensei RAW
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Fair enough, sexy little minx that machine mate  :wub:

Thanks :) Just wait, she's getting an update in the coming weeks. Acrylic tubing anyone?? 

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Thanks :) Just wait, she's getting an update in the coming weeks. Acrylic tubing anyone?? 

:D

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Red Alert

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You did not win the silicon lottery but you sure didn't lose it....well done.

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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Darn, I can only get my 4770k to 4.2 ghz albiet with air-cooling

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Hey everyone, just wanted to ask if I have won the silicon lottery? :P my current overclock on my 4670k is 4.5GHz at 1.175V stable (tested with AIDA64). I have heard some people say that it can be difficult to get a haswell chip that can reach 4.5 without a high amount of extra voltage added, and I have gotten there while undervolting the CPU :P Any thoughts?

4.5 @ 1.175V is good but it doesn't mean you have a golden chip. The 5% who win the silicon lottery can reach 4.9 @ 1.2V. So see if you can't get some extra MHz.

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Drop some liquid on it, get that sucker stable.

 

Then it is a golden chip ;)

 

What cooler are you using to get 5Ghz on the 2500K dude.

Nothing to see here - move along.

 

 

 

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No, go up to 4,8 and see how much volts you have to burn into it. If you can reach 5 stable you did win a cookie.

I could get my 2600K to 4,8 stable with an avarage air cooler. But the temps were getting to high for my liking, so I went back to 4,6. Not that the difference between 4,6 and 4,8 is noticeable for me.. 

 

Edit: @Nicolas 

 

Do you know how to overclock? If you did not change the bios at all and just went, let's go 4,1! It won't work like that. Need to set ram timings, undervolt your cpu first - then start to overclock. It takes a good day or 2/3 till you find the point where you are like.. "do not cross the line."

But in like.. almost all cases, the 4670K should get to 4,3 at least.

I know that, I was just trying to explain it quickly, I thought everyone would know what I meant, but w/e

MSI Z87-GD65 - GTX 760 DirectCU II - i5 4670k @4.0GHz - 16GB Corsair Vengeance @1866 MHz

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I know that, I was just trying to explain it quickly, I thought everyone would know what I meant, but w/e

 

Well, I was just skeptical because a 4,0 OC on that chip is very bad. There is a shop who sells pre OC'd systems with a 4,3 OC on the 4670K. Because they know that "all" chips will get there. 

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Well, I was just skeptical because a 4,0 OC on that chip is very bad. There is a shop who sells pre OC'd systems with a 4,3 OC on the 4670K. Because they know that "all" chips will get there. 

 

Then they are going well past 1.3v on bad chips (cyperpower PC does this), and it is there butts if they are gong to warranty that. I hope that price includes the OC warranty from Intel. :)

 

Origin PC, which is the probably the most stupidly expensive prebuilt you can buy, only guarantees 4.1 on water. Why? Because their name is built on the product lasting.

 

http://www.originpc.com/configurator/prime/3.aspx?shellid=3

 

I haven't seen a Haswell do less then 4.2 at 1.3v on water, but going by the forums and what premium companies are guaranteeing? They exist. I have never personally seen a 4770k do 4.8 at 1.3v or under. Supposedly they exist. Have seen an I5 get around there, but that is without hyperthreading. Goin past 1.3v on a I7 is asking for trouble from the heat alone. Never mind the voltage. 

 

P.S. No I would never buy an origin pc. I don't like paying double the price for a company playing lego's. :) 

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Well, I was just skeptical because a 4,0 OC on that chip is very bad. There is a shop who sells pre OC'd systems with a 4,3 OC on the 4670K. Because they know that "all" chips will get there. 

Well not quite "all"... As linus says on every overclocking video. Your chip may be the best overclocker of them all and get you a 5.1 stable, or it may not oc at all, so I guess I just wasn't lucky enough :'(

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