OC i5 4690k @4.4Ghz Need advice

[FlamingEagle978]

I'm brand new to overclocking, but I'm pretty experienced with computers and recently I decided to overclock my CPU ( an i5 4690k Devil's Canyon ) and managed to get it to 4.4 GHz. I know the basics mostly but anyone experienced in overclocking can tell me if I'm messing up horribly, or if there's a better way to overclock. My motherboard is an Asrock z97 Extreme3 If I remember correctly, and my cooler is a Hyper 212 Evo, and currently I have a jank RAM setup with 2 sticks of corsair vengeance 4gb 2400 mhz and 2 sticks of 4gb 1600 mhz Gskill ( not sure exactly what model) Ram speed is locked at 1600mhz at 1.5 volts but before I overclocked my CPU it was at 2400mhz at 1.65 volts ( I accidentally hit XMP settings and it erased the timings and all I had to custom set and I didn't have the patience to figure it out again, so now I'm fine with 1600mhz) . I have a decent amount of air flow and with the current setup, under an extreme benchmark it only maxes at about 72 degrees at 100% load, which is high but still comfortable, though I don't know how much higher I could/should go. I have only changed Core clock speed to 44 and Cache speed to 39( the block multiplier is still 100) and changed the voltages to make it stable. I did not go through many tests to fine tune the voltage but I didn't just set it high and hope it worked, I slowly went up until it was stable but didn't back down until right before it got unstable ( I realize that I could use more than enough voltage and make it run hotter ) Stock voltages were CPU Input voltage- 1.744 | Vcore- 1.009 | With the overclock they are currently: CPU Input- 1.85~ or 1.9 | Vcore- 1.3~ ( the numbers should be exact but I don't have the best memory and forgot to write them down ) Is this a safe setup, is it decent, how could I run this better, I'm looking for advice from overclockers that are more experienced than me, any and all advice or criticism is appreciated, sorry for the novel but I wanted to cover everything and give you guys enough information to help me <3 Thanks 

[Crunchy Dragon]

That looks like a really good overclock, that's about the extent at which I'd be comfortable overclocking on a Hyper 212.

[FlamingEagle978]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

That looks like a really good overclock, that's about the extent at which I'd be comfortable overclocking on a Hyper 212.

I'm new to this website so sorry if this isn't a reply or whatever I don't really know how to reply, but uh thank you and you were very fast to reply to this 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, FlamingEagle978 said:

I'm new to this website so sorry if this isn't a reply or whatever I don't really know how to reply, but uh thank you and you were very fast to reply to this 

All good.

 

Welcome!

[FlamingEagle978]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

All good.

 

Welcome!

I know this isn't quiet related to this post but if I wanted to try to overclock my ram back to 2400mhz or higher, would I need more voltage, loosen the timings, both, or just try the highest option that booted? I know more about overclocking ram than cpu's but I would still love someone else's opinion on it

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, FlamingEagle978 said:

I know this isn't quiet related to this post but if I wanted to try to overclock my ram back to 2400mhz or higher, would I need more voltage, loosen the timings, both, or just try the highest option that booted? I know more about overclocking ram than cpu's but I would still love someone else's opinion on it

I haven't overclocked RAM a whole lot, but the last time I did I just boosted the speed until it wouldn't boot any more since I was a complete noob to overclocking.

[FlamingEagle978]

9 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I haven't overclocked RAM a whole lot, but the last time I did I just boosted the speed until it wouldn't boot any more since I was a complete noob to overclocking.

Uh well I tried it and it keeps failing to boot so I guess it will just have to be another project for another day, and for now I’ll just stick with raise until it doesn’t boot, thank you so much for replying

[ApolloX75]

Your overclock is good. If you want to go higher though you'll need to replace that 212 Evo with something a bit beefier. But 4.4 at 1.3v is pretty darn good for a 4690k under a 212 though, seriously.

 

Also a side note, Cache ratio is relatively unimportant. I've done some experiments with it at 1:1 to see if the difference was noticeable and it's not, maybe a point or two in Cinebench, that's about it. In my experience it's not worth the frustration to try and get it close to 1:1. For my Haswell setups I always set it at base stock boost, so x40 for example on my 4790k and that helps stability quite a bit when shooting for a higher core overclock. Especially if you happen to have a temperamental motherboard.