Need help overclocking 4690k

[Snow-]

So it will be my first time, but hey why not get as much "performance" as i can. The problem is i don't know how to overclock. (I do have a good PSU and mobo for OC'ing). ASUS Z97-A is my mobo.

 

I have watched a few videos and read a few guides, but there is always some difference in what people do. Like some guides do just setting cpu voltage to manual>1.250, and changing the ratio to 40 with sync all core (example numbers). But then i see people messing with a few other options such as initial volatage and others things (like cache). so any help is appreciated. 

 

Also my cooler is hyper 212 EVO

[VolkA]

4 minutes ago, Snow- said:

So it will be my first time, but hey why not get as much "performance" as i can. The problem is i don't know how to overclock. (I do have a good PSU and mobo for OC'ing). ASUS Z97-A is my mobo.

 

I have watched a few videos and read a few guides, but there is always some difference in what people do. Like some guides do just setting cpu voltage to manual>1.250, and changing the ratio to 40 with sync all core (example numbers). But then i see people messing with a few other options such as initial volatage and others things (like cache). so any help is appreciated. 

I'm not really the expert in OC. But I do have a 4690K and it's OC as well. Mine my voltage is Auto (If I didn't remember wrongly) and my ratio is 45 for all core. Highest voltage I remember seeing is around 1.22 or 1.27 ish. Temps are around 60C when under load (or was it 70C. Should be around there).

To start off I think use stock voltage and then just increase the ratio of your core slowly to see which is the "Max" you can push it to while on stock. Then slowly adjust both accordingly. I remember some one saying as long as your voltage is below 1.35 you should be fine.

[Snow-]

19 hours ago, VolkA said:

I'm not really the expert in OC. But I do have a 4690K and it's OC as well. Mine my voltage is Auto (If I didn't remember wrongly) and my ratio is 45 for all core. Highest voltage I remember seeing is around 1.22 or 1.27 ish. Temps are around 60C when under load (or was it 70C. Should be around there).

To start off I think use stock voltage and then just increase the ratio of your core slowly to see which is the "Max" you can push it to while on stock. Then slowly adjust both accordingly. I remember some one saying as long as your voltage is below 1.35 you should be fine.

I hear good and bad things about the auto settings for when overclocking.

 

Right now 20 minutes in aida64 with 42 ratio with 1.150 for the core volatge, seems to be getting 65c at max and spiking a lot going from 49c-59c. With a 212 evo so temps are maybe ok?

[VolkA]

1 hour ago, Snow- said:

I hear good and bad things about the auto settings for when overclocking.

 

Right now 20 minutes in aida64 with 42 ratio with 1.150 for the core volatge, seems to be getting 65c at max and spiking a lot going from 49c-59c. With a 212 evo so temps are maybe ok?

Yah. Auto setting is not that ideal for OC. But I have monitor for like 3 days or so (way back in the past when I started building my PC) and the temps at max was what I could accept. Therefore I put it in Auto for the Voltage.

 

Temps seems to be pretty good for your case, just remember those settings for now and slowly adjust your OC to see if you can get better clock speed. Worst case, you go back to your current stable OC.

[Snow-]

53 minutes ago, VolkA said:

Yah. Auto setting is not that ideal for OC. But I have monitor for like 3 days or so (way back in the past when I started building my PC) and the temps at max was what I could accept. Therefore I put it in Auto for the Voltage.

 

Temps seems to be pretty good for your case, just remember those settings for now and slowly adjust your OC to see if you can get better clock speed. Worst case, you go back to your current stable OC.

Thanks for the replies man. managed to get 4.4 ghz on 1.150 voltage (4.5ghz crashed). 1 hour of aida64 system test about same temps with 4.2ghz.

 

So i went ahead and set voltage to adaptive and set the "additional cpu turbo voltage" to 1.152 and will see how it works out. Gaming on BF4 on High actually works now without cpu lagging like a mofo. With BF4 and aida64 (Not ran at the same time) only scaled the voltage to 1.16 volts.

[VolkA]

37 minutes ago, Snow- said:

Thanks for the replies man. managed to get 4.4 ghz on 1.150 voltage (4.5ghz crashed). 1 hour of aida64 system test about same temps with 4.2ghz.

 

So i went ahead and set voltage to adaptive and set the "additional cpu turbo voltage" to 1.152 and will see how it works out. Gaming on BF4 on High actually works now without cpu lagging like a mofo. With BF4 and aida64 (Not ran at the same time) only scaled the voltage to 1.16 volts.

Nice. Technically 4.5GHz will not crash, just need to up your Voltage abit more. Mine is running at 4.5GHz at 1.25V.