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As the title says .. Im kinda confused right now . 

 

So , have been using this rig ( first Intel one ) for around 7 months now , and i am more than pleased with the performance benefits of it over my old rig ( Phenom II .. unlocked :P)

 

Runs games no probs , stays quiet , runs cool , etc... 

 

Anyways , out of curiosity , i tried some OC on it . Got the board to do it , cooler too . I tried the ASUS auto-overclock thing , and it worked okayish , just made sure it didnt set the CPU at too high voltages ... 

 

So i tried it by myself .. raise the clock till becomes unstable , rince and repeat , play around with other settings in the bios which could affect the OC ... Only then raise the voltage by small bits etc .. 

 

And while i think its okay , i somehow feel underwhelmed by the end result . I used OCCT for testing , and set the voltage to manual during the testing . 

 

End result is 4.3Ghz @ 1.2V . 

 

What bothers me is that , compared to most other results , this is kinda on the low side , and it takes a hefty voltage to run it like so . ( 1.3V max for daily usage , and im on air cooling .. so i guess that goes even lower ) .

 

Well , is there anything that can be done ? Temperatures sit in high 50s low 60s during OCCT. Guess i got a bad bin ..

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That's the silicon lottery...you never know what you are going to get

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@ColonelThunder Looks like bad luck. 50-60 temps mean you can definitely pump more voltage if you want to push it further, wouldn't go past 1.35v though. 

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That's still respectable. That's 300mhz over the maximum single core clock on all cores with very little voltage.

 

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MOAR VOLTS!

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MOAR VOLTS!

^ 1.3v is where most people feel safe but it's fine to push up to 1.4-1.45v with adequate cooling.

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^ 1.3v is where most people feel safe but it's fine to push up to 1.4-1.45v with adequate cooling.

 

Yes. Most people on the forum think that their CPU is going to get degraded past 1.3V, but that is far from the case.

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As the title says .. Im kinda confused right now . 

 

So , have been using this rig ( first Intel one ) for around 7 months now , and i am more than pleased with the performance benefits of it over my old rig ( Phenom II .. unlocked :P)

 

Runs games no probs , stays quiet , runs cool , etc... 

 

Anyways , out of curiosity , i tried some OC on it . Got the board to do it , cooler too . I tried the ASUS auto-overclock thing , and it worked okayish , just made sure it didnt set the CPU at too high voltages ... 

 

So i tried it by myself .. raise the clock till becomes unstable , rince and repeat , play around with other settings in the bios which could affect the OC ... Only then raise the voltage by small bits etc .. 

 

And while i think its okay , i somehow feel underwhelmed by the end result . I used OCCT for testing , and set the voltage to manual during the testing . 

 

End result is 4.3Ghz @ 1.2V . 

 

What bothers me is that , compared to most other results , this is kinda on the low side , and it takes a hefty voltage to run it like so . ( 1.3V max for daily usage , and im on air cooling .. so i guess that goes even lower ) .

 

Well , is there anything that can be done ? Temperatures sit in high 50s low 60s during OCCT. Guess i got a bad bin ..

hmm, thats better than mine i think although i can't remeber well. currently doing 4.5 on 1.35, im sure if you get a better cooler you can oc pass mine.

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Well contrary to my belief , this is a good result ? 

 

Well thats nice i guess xD 

 

Tho i wouldnt really want to push more voltage , 1.2V already feels kinda high .. even tho in gaming it never breaks 56.C . OCCT does stress it more , so it reaches around 60.C after 30+ minutes of running it . 

 

Il try to push it a bit more .. tho since i dont really need it , its just for fun .

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As the title says .. Im kinda confused right now . 

 

So , have been using this rig ( first Intel one ) for around 7 months now , and i am more than pleased with the performance benefits of it over my old rig ( Phenom II .. unlocked :P)

 

Runs games no probs , stays quiet , runs cool , etc... 

 

Anyways , out of curiosity , i tried some OC on it . Got the board to do it , cooler too . I tried the ASUS auto-overclock thing , and it worked okayish , just made sure it didnt set the CPU at too high voltages ... 

 

So i tried it by myself .. raise the clock till becomes unstable , rince and repeat , play around with other settings in the bios which could affect the OC ... Only then raise the voltage by small bits etc .. 

 

And while i think its okay , i somehow feel underwhelmed by the end result . I used OCCT for testing , and set the voltage to manual during the testing . 

 

End result is 4.3Ghz @ 1.2V . 

 

What bothers me is that , compared to most other results , this is kinda on the low side , and it takes a hefty voltage to run it like so . ( 1.3V max for daily usage , and im on air cooling .. so i guess that goes even lower ) .

 

Well , is there anything that can be done ? Temperatures sit in high 50s low 60s during OCCT. Guess i got a bad bin ..

i got a 4770k that only does 4ghz when igpu is enabled. so your not to bad :D

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Silicon lottery my friend.

Been running the same CPU @ 4.5 with 1.15V without any issues. It's just a matter of luck.

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I have the same CPU running at 4.5GHz and 1.200V and the max clock is 4.7GHz with 1.285V.

I guess you are just a little unlucky. Your CPU is still pretty powerfull though!

Can someone tell me what is considered max healthy voltage on that CPU?

Maybe I just need more volts to reach higher speeds :D

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I have the same CPU running at 4.5GHz and 1.200V and the max clock is 4.7GHz with 1.285V.

I guess you are just a little unlucky. Your CPU is still pretty powerfull though!

Can someone tell me what is considered max healthy voltage on that CPU?

Maybe I just need more volts to reach higher speeds :D

Max 1.35v with a decent aircooler or something around that
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Small update , fiddled around with the base clock , which i got to 125Mhz . This seems to have helped , since with a 0.09 volt increase ( 1.2 to 1.29V ) , which gets me 4500Mhz on all 4 cores ! Stable under OCCT and maxes out at around 61.C after an hour or so . This is a screenshot while idling in the desktop : 56ba54408ae71_bandicam2016-02-0922-01-43ž

This is after around 45 mintues of Crysis 3 ( temps are a bit higher than in OCCT due to the GPU heating the ambient air up :

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I guess i should be happy ? :P

 

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