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how far can I push 3930k?

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Looking to buy a 2080 to slap in my system, so I want to push my 3930k as much as I can. I am rocking a 240mm aio from corsair. How high do you think I could OC it? (I have it at 4ghz right now)

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So would you say I'd be safe going with 4.5 ?

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33 minutes ago, Wigit said:

So would you say I'd be safe going with 4.5 ?

Not sure what you want to keep the voltage under to be safe (I think under 1.5 but someone can correct me), but you can just keep tweaking the clock up till it crashes without issues. If it crashes you just turn the clock back to your most recent stable OC, and then tweak the voltage up and repeat turning the clock speed up again. Voltage and heat are the only things that risk damaging your processor, manage those and your fine. (most CPUs shut themselves off before these problems occur anyways)

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Well I think the wise the decision is to check if the mobo is up to the task.

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I don't know... 4.5ghz sounds awfully optimistic as it seems this CPU has a really hard time accepting anything beyond 4.3ghz for an all cores frequency. Specially when you take into account OP only has a 240mm AiO.

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4 hours ago, Oalei said:

Well I think the wise the decision is to check if the mobo is up to the task.

looks like a guy with the same mobo as me got up to 4.6ghz so I should be good

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1 hour ago, Wigit said:

looks like a guy with the same mobo as me got up to 4.6ghz so I should be good

Well it's silicon lottery tbh, good luck.

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2 minutes ago, Oalei said:

Well it's silicon lottery tbh, good luck.

got it to 4.5 

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2 minutes ago, Wigit said:

got it to 4.5 

Well what's the mobo temps? From software and hardware. 

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18 minutes ago, Oalei said:

Well what's the mobo temps? From software and hardware. 

not sure on mobo temps, but did an aida64 test and it was at 74c at full load

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5 hours ago, Wigit said:

not sure on mobo temps, but did an aida64 test and it was at 74c at full load

Nice mobo and airflow, like below 80c is what I wanted above 80c i would just lower it. 

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