8700K Overclock Question

[Fraser Cow]

So today I got my new 8700k and figured I'd play with it and see what kind of overclock I could get out of it. Since it's been a while since I overclocked an intel CPU I googled a guide and followed THIS guide exactly. When I set it to 5Ghz I couldn't get it to post so I bumped the voltage up to 1.35V and dropped the RAM to 3000Mhz, then it would post, but it kept bluescreening so I changed loadline calibration to TURBO and now it seems to be pretty stable at 4.9Ghz and 3200Mhz @1.35V. 

 

My question is, is my voltage too high? When I open hardware manager it shows "VID" hitting 1.49V Max and I've heard that 1.35V is the max you should put through intel CPUs. Also if anyone has some suggestions to get over 5Ghz I'm all ears, I plan on delidding it and applying liquid metal but I'm wondering if that's pointless considering it's not able to hit 5Ghz stock.

 

 

Any information is welcome.

[kelvinhall05]

Either you're doing something wrong (I'm not any overclocking pro), or you just got hammered in the silicon lottery.

[Airdragonz]

Try setting an AVX offset of like 2 or 3. And no one knows for certain what the proper safe voltages are for Intel cpu's, but it's commonly slated to be less than 1.45 volts if possible, and less than 1.4 volts if you plan on 24/7 and really want to be safe. 

[Fraser Cow]

19 minutes ago, Airdragonz said:

Try setting an AVX offset of like 2 or 3. And no one knows for certain what the proper safe voltages are for Intel cpu's, but it's commonly slated to be less than 1.45 volts if possible, and less than 1.4 volts if you plan on 24/7 and really want to be safe. 

I'll try that, thanks!

32 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Either you're doing something wrong (I'm not any overclocking pro), or you just got hammered in the silicon lottery.

I got it for $313 USD from walmart.com so I'm not doing too bad lol.