Overclocking Question

[Kryptyx]

Just curious about the turbo frequency when overclocking. My experience has always been with the 1st gen i7 920 where you had to turn off most of the features to reach a decent OC. With my new 4790k I am able to reach a turbo frequency of 4.7ghz, passing Prime95 and Intel's XTU. Should I be focusing on making the base clock 4.7ghz or is the turbo clock the focus now? Every time I raised the multiplier with turbo off it automatically turned back on. I know if I changed the BCLK and left the multiplier it would raise the base clock but started throwing off other things like my ram speed.

TLTR;
100mhz BCLK

47 Multiplier (Sync Cores)
1.3v VCore (never went above 78 in stress testing)

Is that good?

Also, for me to hit 4.8ghz I had to really push the vcore to about 1.4 which I didn't feel was worth it, temps were hitting 87 in stress testing.

[Enderman]

Increasing the base clock is not worth it because when doing only moderate workloads your CPU frequency will skyrocket creating more heat and wasting more power. The point of turbo boost is so that it only reaches those high frequencies when it is really needed, such as playing games or processing/rendering stuff. Increasing the base clock will add unnecessary wear to your CPU and shorten it's life span.

[Leonard]

4.7Ghz with 1.3v is so good but your temperatures is ok so i wouldn't worry. Also, don't stress test with Prime on Ivy Bridge and higher use AIDA64 and make sure CPU and FPU is checked. Now run your games and programs and see if you get any instability and if you do it means you need a bit more voltage.

[Kryptyx]

Increasing the base clock is not worth it because when doing only moderate workloads your CPU frequency will skyrocket creating more heat and wasting more power. The point of turbo boost is so that it only reaches those high frequencies when it is really needed, such as playing games or processing/rendering stuff. Increasing the base clock will add unnecessary wear to your CPU and shorten it's life span.

 

Excellent, thank you! Back on the Nahalem it was common to keep the turbo off so I was a little confused with the newer Haswell.

[Enderman]

Excellent, thank you! Back on the Nahalem it was common to keep the turbo off so I was a little confused with the newer Haswell.

yup youre welcome