Overclocking Help

[ScottieLK]

I just built my system a few months ago, and I'd like to overclock my 4770k, but when a friend of mine came over to help me, the temperature was pegged at 100˚C when running prime95 in small FFT mode. It is currently being cooled by a Cooler Master Sedion 120M with the two fans that were included in the case.

 

Does anyone have any ideas to bring the temp down without spending a ton of money? and I also need a bit of help overclocking since my friend is no longer in town.

 

[Scouten]

dont use prime 95 to stress use aida64

[Guest Kloaked]

I'm assuming it's currently at stock speeds?

 

What thermal paste did you use?

 

Are you 100% sure it's mounted correctly? Meaning, is the block seated on the CPU properly?

 

Can you provide pictures of how the block is seated?

 

 

I also remember someone saying Prime95 isn't good for Haswell for some reason.

[Butterfish]

[DeViLzzz]

I just built my system a few months ago, and I'd like to overclock my 4770k, but when a friend of mine came over to help me, the temperature was pegged at 100˚C when running prime95 in small FFT mode. It is currently being cooled by a Cooler Master Sedion 120M with the two fans that were included in the case.

 

Does anyone have any ideas to bring the temp down without spending a ton of money? and I also need a bit of help overclocking since my friend is no longer in town.

Uh I would clean off the thermal paste on the cpu and cooler and reapply it and reseat the cpu also.  Wow at that temperature you got!

[ScottieLK]

I'll give aida64 a shot.

 

I just used the tube of paste that came with the cooler.

 

Currently it is running at stock speeds, where (at least with prime 95) it also will hit 100˚C

[Scouten]

I'll give aida64 a shot.

 

I just used the tube of paste that came with the cooler.

 

Currently it is running at stock speeds, where (at least with prime 95) it also will hit 100˚C

never stress test with your voltage set at anything other than manual as the others will just cause the cpu to draw more power as it needs thus increasing heat and invalidating your clocks

[Fulgrim]

dont use prime 95 to stress use aida64

Why exactly?

 

Prime95 works fine for stress testing a rig.

[ScottieLK]

I'm trying to get a photo now but the motherboard heatsyncs are getting in the way

[Scouten]

Why exactly?

 

Prime95 works fine for stress testing a rig.

because of issues with the haswell architecture and it also doesn't show when and if your cpu is throttling inorder to keep its temps low

[Fulgrim]

because of issues with the haswell architecture and it also doesn't show when and if your cpu is throttling inorder to keep its temps low

 

Kek, AVX2 and FMA3 instructions seem to be causing the voltage to go up.

[ScottieLK]

 

[LogicalDrm]

 

 

 

 

Look bit loose to me. How are your voltages while you are doing stress testing?

[Chronos5618]

Prime has always given me grief with temperatures, and is completely unrealistic. Stick with Aida64 whenever possible

[ScottieLK]

I'm a newbie to all this, so should I just try tightening it down, or take it off and reapply paste?

[LogicalDrm]

I'm a newbie to all this, so should I just try tightening it down, or take it off and reapply paste?

 

Try first tighten and if that doesn't help, take it off and redo whole thing. Screws should so tight that you can't turn them by hand anymore. If you happen to be strong with hands, don't go over threads. You can always test how tight they can be without using mobo.

[ScottieLK]

 

Currently running at 4.2 GHz!

Thanks everyone!