Overclocking 4790k?

[Telchines]

Hello, my brother wants to overclock his 4790k that is cooled by a h60 I dont overclock my self so I was wondering if it would be even worth it 

[Cryptonite]

Hello, my brother wants to overclock his 4790k that is cooled by a h60 I dont overclock my self so I was wondering if it would be even worth it 

does he have a Z series motherboard being my first question to figuring out if this is even possible. but yes it is worth it.

 

it's free performance, why not take it?

[Telchines]

does he have a Z series motherboard being my first question to figuring out if this is even possible. but yes it is worth it.

Ya he has a asrock z97 pro4

[Cryptonite]

Ya he has a asrock z97 pro4

then overclock it, you have nothing to lose if you don't tweak the voltage and turn up the multiplier until it starts getting unstable then you either turn down the multiplier or tweak the voltage within the savezone. you can even search for guides on the specific motherboard he has. it's fairly simple nowadays.

[ProKoN]

enable xmp and hit 4.4 on all cores.

 

call it a day

[CoolaxGaming]

Why u have a liquid cooler then. -.- The only point of a LC is to Overclock right? Or is some new trend I have not been following :blink:

[i_build_nanosuits]

if hes just gaming theres no point in overclocking such a beastly cpu that already runs at 4ghz out of the box and boost to 4.4ghz on its own...you might be able to squeeze a couple hundreds more mhz out of it but his limitation in gaming will still come from hes gpu.

[Schoolofmonkey]

Hello, my brother wants to overclock his 4790k that is cooled by a h60 I dont overclock my self so I was wondering if it would be even worth it 

 

enable xmp and hit 4.4 on all cores.

 

call it a day

 

This is what I did on mine, (a little bit of extra voltage tweaking though).

Usually on Auto settings the clock speeds don't get to 4.4Ghz on all cores,

I actually never saw it hit 4.4ghz when when i was mucking around, most mine hit was 4.2Ghz (Maximus VII Hero).

 

Other than synthetic benchmark scores you're not going to see any "real world" differences going over setting all cores to 4.4Ghz.

Plus the H60 isn't going to cool it very well either.

I'm running mine under a H110, and I can still see 68c when doing heavy cpu related work.

Prime95 (don't recommend using on the new CPU's) will push the temps to 81c

[Telchines]

This is what I did on mine, (a little bit of extra voltage tweaking though).

Usually on Auto settings the clock speeds don't get to 4.4Ghz on all cores,

I actually never saw it hit 4.4ghz when when i was mucking around, most mine hit was 4.2Ghz (Maximus VII Hero).

 

Other than synthetic benchmark scores you're not going to see any "real world" differences going over setting all cores to 4.4Ghz.

Plus the H60 isn't going to cool it very well either.

I'm running mine under a H110, and I can still see 68c when doing heavy cpu related work.

Prime95 (don't recommend using on the new CPU's) will push the temps to 81c

Ya he ended up not overclocking since he only games but thanks for all the help everyone