Should I keep going?

[abhay6547]

I got my 4770k to 4.3GHz at 1.225V with max temps of 56 Celsius. Should I keep pushing and if so, how far?

[acidydragon]

Yeah, keep pushing. Your voltage can get up higher, so can your Temps.

Google Thermal Limits, and TDP Limits.

[mikeangeles 75]

 

PUSHHHH.

[helping]

Where are you getting your readings? 56c with that cooler at that voltage and clock is pretty low.

[AMICLG]

Yup you seen to have a pretty good chip.

[abhay6547]

Where are you getting your readings? 56c with that cooler at that voltage and clock is pretty low.

Realtemp and HWMonitor

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Yeah, I would definitely keep going.

[Fred Castellum]

Ugh I wish my chip was good at overclocking... after having it sit at 4.8Ghz borderline 4.9Ghz for a year and a half its seemed to have lost its overclocking stability. Highest I can push now its 4.78Ghz. Meh... 

 

Keep going OP! No point in buying a K series if your not gonna push it to it's limits like a enthusiast!

[Enderman]

are you sure youre stress testing and stability testing properly?

make sure youre using proper tests that push your cpu to over 100%

the intel extreme overclocking utility is the best

[abhay6547]

are you sure youre stress testing and stability testing properly?

make sure youre using proper tests that push your cpu to over 100%

the intel extreme overclocking utility is the best

 

The thing is, there are two problems. Intel extreme tuning utility does not show my voltage or the amount of cores, which is weird. I was running it and saw the temps max out at 56, but what I didn't see was that the cpu was only at like 20% load. I then used OCCT and got temps around 70, which makes sense. I pushed it to 4.4GHz at 1.25V and after a couple minutes of testing with OCCT, it BSOD'd. I set it back to 4.3 at 1.225 and its stable for now.

[abhay6547]

Could it have crashed because of the possibility that OCCT was overvolting it too much? I know that Prime95 and other stress testers bump up the voltage when testing.