4790k overclocking

[Vegetable]

Hi all. Yeah my 4790k is super not a lottery winner (or loser for that matter) and hates me. I have literally NO REASON to be overclocking it but I gotta go fast so I have to.

 

Anyways, it does 4.6ghz stable at 1.27v which is totally fine. But I even TRY to do 4.7ghz, and it just won't. 1.3v, crashes at idle. 1.325v, it's stable enough to run CS:GO but I even open GTA V and it just crashes. At 1.35v, its 100% stable in aida64, but if I run it in GTA V it totally just poops out. Should I just say fuck it and keep it at 4.6ghz? Advice is appreciated. Thanks. 

[Imakuni]

5 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

I have literally NO REASON to be overclocking it but I gotta go fast so I have to.

Right... so you payed extra for OC capable CPU, payed extra for an OC capable mobo and payed extra for a cooler, yet you think you have literally NO REASON to OC?

 

Geez, can you share some of your money with me plz? I kinda wanna get rid of my APU daily driver.

7 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Anyways, it does 4.6ghz stable at 1.27v which is totally fine. But I even TRY to do 4.7ghz, and it just won't. 1.3v, crashes at idle. 1.325v, it's stable enough to run CS:GO but I even open GTA V and it just crashes. At 1.35v, its 100% stable in aida64, but if I run it in GTA V it totally just poops out. Should I just say fuck it and keep it at 4.6ghz? Advice is appreciated. Thanks. 

If 4.7 is not stable, then settle for 4.6. Plain and simple, there's no rocket science there.

[carsonwen]

4.6 GHz is fine really. The majority of chips wont clock any higher than that and be stable.

Voltage does not always help with higher OCs, I would leave it at 4.6, or try to clock to 4646 MHz like I did on my 6700k by raising the BLCK to 101

[Vegetable]

7 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Right... so you payed extra for OC capable CPU, payed extra for an OC capable mobo and payed extra for a cooler, yet you think you have literally NO REASON to OC?

 

Geez, can you share some of your money with me plz? I kinda wanna get rid of my APU daily driver.

If 4.7 is not stable, then settle for 4.6. Plain and simple, there's no rocket science there.

I meant it in a more literal sense. 95% of the time I'm playing CS:GO. The other 5% I'm playing GTA V or DayZ, so the extra mhz on my CPU won't gain me anything. It just pisses me off more than anything. 75% of 4790k's can do 4.6ghz. 15% can do 4.7+. I just want to join the "my 4790k is above the 50th percentile club." 

[Vegetable]

10 minutes ago, carsonwen said:

4.6 GHz is fine really. The majority of chips wont clock any higher than that and be stable.

Voltage does not always help with higher OCs, I would leave it at 4.6, or try to clock to 4646 MHz like I did on my 6700k by raising the BLCK to 101

Yeah I found the "wall" of my 4790k I guess. If I could pull off a 102 bclk, I could get as close to 4.7 as I'm going to get.

[Imakuni]

19 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

I meant it in a more literal sense. 95% of the time I'm playing CS:GO. The other 5% I'm playing GTA V or DayZ, so the extra mhz on my CPU won't gain me anything. It just pisses me off more than anything. 75% of 4790k's can do 4.6ghz. 15% can do 4.7+. I just want to join the "my 4790k is above the 50th percentile club." 

If you don't have anything to use all that computing power on, then consider joining Boinc or Folding to do some distributed computing. Even if you don't have a use for all that processing power, you can bet there are scientists all over the world that do.

18 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Yeah I found the "wall" of my 4790k I guess. If I could pull off a 102 bclk, I could get as close to 4.7 as I'm going to get.

Haswell Bclk fiddling isn't as butter as Skylake's, but I guess trying is better than nothing...

[0ld_Chicken]

have you tried:

adjusting input voltage

downclocking ram and cache

disabling c-states/all power saving features

increasing TDP limits 

bclk and bclk strap

 

edit: and I'm assuming you are using manual voltage?

 

[Vegetable]

1 hour ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

have you tried:

adjusting input voltage

downclocking ram and cache

disabling c-states/all power saving features

increasing TDP limits 

bclk and bclk strap

 

edit: and I'm assuming you are using manual voltage?

 

yeah after scouring reddit all day and trying everything that you just mentioned, I give up. My 4790k is a 4.6ghz chip. 

[Dabombinable]

Since it seems you lost out on the silicon lottery, just keep it at 4.6GHz. I myself got quite lucky, and as a result I have it doing 4.8GHz at 1.3V (24/7 stable encoding videos, 24/7 stable gaming, stable under Prime95 but not Aida64).

[0ld_Chicken]

Bummer! You could always sell it and buy another and hopefully you get a better chip. Would it be worth it? Probably not... is it fun seeing high clock speeds? For some reason, yes... Yes it is

Edited September 16, 2016 by 0ld_Chicken
Dun messed up sum werds

[4b33r]

You see I face a similar situation with my fx-6300.It overclocks well till 4.4 but to push it to 4.5 I need to shove tons of voltage through it.If you ask me i value the life of the chip more than the 100MHZ you gain so I left it at 4.4 and I suggest you do the same,it will extend the life of your CPU,save you cash on electricity and won't affect in-game performance at all except in the slightest way.

[jjohnthedon1]

9 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

Since it seems you lost out on the silicon lottery, just keep it at 4.6GHz. I myself got quite lucky, and as a result I have it doing 4.8GHz at 1.3V (24/7 stable encoding videos, 24/7 stable gaming, stable under Prime95 but not Aida64).

Same as mine, I can get 4.9ghz at 1.37v stable however I run it at 4.7 1.25v

[StanSmith]

I've been pretty happy with my overclock on my 4790K, been able to run 4.7 at 1.23v. Temps have been good and I've been running it as my daily OC for a few weeks now. I did accomplish 4.8 but not that stable. Seems pretty good though on the "lottery" standpoint. Glad to know I got a CPU chip that overclocks well as my GTX980 does not overclock much past the factory OC. 

[Maihym]

14 hours ago, Vegetable said:

Hi all. Yeah my 4790k is super not a lottery winner (or loser for that matter) and hates me. I have literally NO REASON to be overclocking it but I gotta go fast so I have to.

 

Anyways, it does 4.6ghz stable at 1.27v which is totally fine. But I even TRY to do 4.7ghz, and it just won't. 1.3v, crashes at idle. 1.325v, it's stable enough to run CS:GO but I even open GTA V and it just crashes. At 1.35v, its 100% stable in aida64, but if I run it in GTA V it totally just poops out. Should I just say fuck it and keep it at 4.6ghz? Advice is appreciated. Thanks. 

What kind of temps are you getting under load?