4790k Voltage

[tuberolector]

I am in the process of overclocking my i7-4790k, and as I am going through this process, I realized that I don't know what the max voltage for one of these chips is. The voltage that I am currently testing, I know is fine, but how high can I go?

 

My cooler is the Hyper 212 Evo and my motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5.

 

Thanks for your help.

[Janne]

With that cooler you don't have to worry about high voltages, you can up the voltage as much as you want until your cooler cant handle it.

[Enderman]

Your CPU will overheat before you even get to dangerous voltages with that cooler.

[SpecTre12345]

I am in the process of overclocking my i7-4790k, and as I am going through this process, I realized that I don't know what the max voltage for one of these chips is. The voltage that I am currently testing, I know is fine, but how high can I go?

 

My cooler is the Hyper 212 Evo and my motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Seems to be under 1.4v is the most people are putting in them for daily usage. For benchmark runs different story. 

[Faa]

Your CPU will overheat before you even get to dangerous voltages with that cooler.

You can do short burst stressing like cinebench with 1.6V etc. Also total heat dissipation of your cooler means jack for Haswell cooling due to the heat transfer bottleneck between the die & HSP, there's always some heat left which isn't alot so it's just all about how fast you can move it to your cooling fins something pumps will do better than heatpipes. Most AIO's come with crappy backplates and you see them underperforming because of light pressure

[ProKoN]

. The voltage that I am currently testing, I know is fine, but how high can I go?

 

 

you can go up to

 

piv 2.6V

 

vcore 1.79V

 

go any further and immediate death is fairly imminent.

[tuberolector]

You can do short burst stressing like cinebench with 1.6V etc. Also total heat dissipation of your cooler means jack for Haswell cooling due to the heat transfer bottleneck between the die & HSP, there's always some heat left which isn't alot so it's just all about how fast you can move it to your cooling fins something pumps will do better than heatpipes. Most AIO's come with crappy backplates and you see them underperforming because of light pressure

Well supposedly, Intel fixed the TIM problems with the Devil's Canyon CPUs, which this one is, but I don't know...yet. 

[Faa]

Well supposedly, Intel fixed the TIM problems with the Devil's Canyon CPUs, which this one is, but I don't know...yet. 

"fixed". They didnt fix it, they improved it marginally.

[Enderman]

Anything over 1.5v will severely reduce the lifespan of your CPU.