cpu overclock voltage quesiton 5820k

[runmymouth]

So when I started overclocking I cranked up voltage to 1.3 ghz and tried to do a multiplier of 45. It wasn't stable, I then went to a multiplier of 44 and it appears rock stable. Have had no issues. My question is that if it is worth trying to find the lowest voltage that is stable with 44? I don't imagine this chip will be able to drop it by a lot since it seems to be in the lower 50% of chips (45x seems to be 50% mark). Temps are high 60-70's average under aida64 load. This seems to be a non issue for 8 hour run with the temperatures appearing to be in safe temperatures. Most of the games I play at the moment never take the cpu over about 40 while playing and it idles around 34. 

[Simons]

Well it all depends, do you want to lower your tempatures? If you honestly do not care, 1.300v is fine, I've got mine set to 1.310 at 45x and thats where I've gotten mine stabled, I were able to get 46x at 1.310 stable in stress test, but it failed too much on gameplay.

 

Honestly, if you're in the 60-70's range its not bad at all, i'd say start lowering it if you were in the 70's range all or most of the time.

But then again, some want to find the sweet spot, so if thats you go for it, go for 0.05 decreasements.

[bomerr]

nah the bad chips are the ones that can't hit 42.

 

I haven't seen many people hit 46x stable on the 5820k. 

 

you could try lowering the voltage. I use 44 1.26v. 

[Simons]

I haven't really tested out mine, as my cooling unit is undoubtly not the best, its only a 120mm aio cooler, hence why I dont want to go up in voltages yet, but I reckon if I had a good cooling unit, either custom or just a really good one, i'd try and see if I couldn't hit 4.7Ghz.