Good Overclock?

[TheStewart1995]

I have got my 3770K overclocked to 4.9GHz with a core voltage of 1.25 and it has been stable running prime95 for about 2 hours now.

 

Would going up to 5.0GHz be possible? im using a H100i cooler on the CPU.

 

Average temps are below.

[ProKoN]

you seem to have a sweet chip.

 

run prime 95 for at least 8 hours.

 

get stable for 8 hours before pushing it further.

 

I dont think 5.0GHZ is unrealistic.

 

Gotta try to find out :)

 

nice clocks.

[d33g33]

Fantastic result! I had to go 1.344v to obtain 4.6ghz clock.

 

You've got a real good chip there congrats. Have you tried 5.0? I would say you could get to 5.0ghz no problems on the chip but the H100i might not be up for it. 85 degrees isn't alarming but personally I wouldn't want mine any hotter than that.  

[nishank93]

I'd say go for 5.0 GHz (there is a small chance you can't get there) and take a screenshot for bragging rights :D

Also, use Prime95 and something like FurMark simultaneously for stress testing. The temperatures you get in such a test you will never see in a real world situation, so you can even keep the 5.0 GHz overclock as your primary set-up without much worry for degradation :)

[tedjani]

no don't do that 

1: make sure that your cpu is 100% stable  i always run it with occt 4.4.0 for one day

2: if it get's too hot it's a fail if it crashes it's a fail

3: if you are good with those then you are good for 5GHZ

[Morfy]

Make sure it's stress stable for your everyday needs, your daily clock, then go higher but don't stress test, then just push higher and run your benchmarks like Cinebench, 3Dmark11 etc.

[TheStewart1995]

Ok, so i have pushed it up to 5.0GHz and i am able to launch into windows but running any stress tests makes the system crash, loks like 4.9GHz is the highest for stable OC.

[MegaDave91]

What makes 4.9 stable for you?

[TheStewart1995]

Was running prime95 and furmark for about 4 hours with no errors and good temps. I am going to continue running stress tests overnight to make sure it is 100% stable.

[MegaDave91]

I wouldn't call it stable just yet. I ran Prime for 20 hours; that's more what I call stable. I also ran Aida64 for 12 hours, 12 hours of Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, and did 25 passes of Intel Burn Test on very high.

 

Furmark is for your graphics card.

[skitz9417]

then u can get added to 5ghz club or the 4ghz club

[orangecat]

I got a 3570K and I'm so jello of your OC. Don't go for 5.0 because it really wont make a difference and it will only do more harm to the chip and you could even kill it. personally its fine but you don't have to listen to me also did you get a cherry picked chip r random?

[TheStewart1995]

Just ran Intel burn test on very high 20 passes and it seems to be ok, still going to run Prime95 overnight just to be safe.

And Kilobytez95 it was just a random chip that i got when i purchased my parts.