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Okay I've been researching overclocking the i5 4690k and I'm worried my previous oc was to far. My normal oc is x48 100 for 4.8Ghz and core volts at 1.310. I've seen other charts for the i5 and they seem to all BSOD at 4.8. Am I just super lucky and won big at the silicone lottery or am I pushing my cpu to hard and slowly killing it. It's passed 12+ hour stress testing I'm just unsure as to why I'm able to get 4.8 and like people that know far more then I'll ever know about overclocking can't get there chips there.

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Okay I've been researching overclocking the i5 4690k and I'm worried my previous oc was to far. My normal oc is x48 100 for 4.8Ghz and core volts at 1.310. I've seen other charts for the i5 and they seem to all BSOD at 4.8. Am I just super lucky and won big at the silicone lottery or am I pushing my cpu to hard and slowly killing it. It's passed 12+ hour stress testing I'm just unsure as to why I'm able to get 4.8 and like people that know far more then I'll ever know about overclocking can't get there chips there.

"Winning the lottery" usually means high clocks at relatively low voltage. High voltage = higher temps and reduced life. There's a lot of debate about how much voltage is too much. I believe Linus said that Haswell won't start to degrade until you pass the 1.4 vcore level. It all comes down to having enough cooling to support it. If your temps are good at 1.310 then you should be just fine. I have an EVO 212 which is good for the price but not the highest end cooling so I prefer to keep my vcore down to 1.250 which only gets me 4.4 GHz on my chip. 4.8 is very good for 1.310, but check those temps!

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"Winning the lottery" usually means high clocks at relatively low voltage. High voltage = higher temps and reduced life. There's a lot of debate about how much voltage is too much. I believe Linus said that Haswell won't start to degrade until you pass the 1.4 vcore level. It all comes down to having enough cooling to support it. If your temps are good at 1.310 then you should be just fine. I have an EVO 212 which is good for the price but not the highest end cooling so I prefer to keep my vcore down to 1.250 which only gets me 4.4 GHz on my chip. 4.8 is very good for 1.310, but check those temps!

Temps have always been fine with no issues. Never hit above 60ish under full load. I water cool with the H110i so in terms of cooling I'm fine. I will be upping the cooling to a custom loop with a 360mm rad with triple push pull fans because I can....

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Temps have always been fine with no issues. Never hit above 60ish under full load. I water cool with the H110i so in terms of cooling I'm fine. I will be upping the cooling to a custom loop with a 360mm rad with triple push pull fans because I can....

Well even though overclocking is technically at your own risk... you have an awesome piece of silicon and kick ass cooling, why not overclock the crap out of it?

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