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djack77
Honored Guest
11 years ago

Anyone here an expert at overclocking?

Hey all,

Im wondering if anyone knows more about Overclocking than I do. It can't be hard!!:)

Ive always built my own PC's. whenever I overclocked I would normally take the easy route and use for example, Asus AutoTune etc. I have never really spent the time to look into it further. I know I can get better clocks, and better voltages doing it manually.

Well, I overclocked my new gaming rig yesterday, manually, and I was wondering if you think I could push it further, have a good chip? etc etc.

My setup is a Rog Maximus Vii Ranger, an i5 Haswell 4760K cooled with a NZXT Kraken X40 watercooler, MSI Twin Frozr 780ti, Avexir Blitz 2311C9 Memory SSD's etc.

I have it running at 4.4Ghz atm, with a max temp on full load of 67Dec C stable with a voltage of 1.93V. I edged the voltage up until Prime ran stable. (room was quite warm) Temps never go above 56DegC gaming.

As said above, question is, would it be worth pushing it to 4.5Ghz, or 4.6Ghz? Is it worth it? Would I notice any difference in gaming?

Here is what i did in the bios to get this result.

-Activate XMP
-Synced all cores to core ratio of 44
-Cpu core Frequency to Adaptive
-Additional Turbo mode CPU Core Voltage to 1.93Volts (stable)

Many thanks in advanced for your help!

4 Replies

  • jaakpi's avatar
    jaakpi
    Honored Guest
    11 years ago
    Hello,

    At 4.4ghz it should be powerful enough.
    You won't see much gain from going higher, bar more power usage and warmer temps.
    The benchmarks will tell you higher scores, but not able to see in real world usage for what it's worth.

    Rather look into overclocking the GPU if you want more oomph.
  • sven's avatar
    sven
    Protege
    11 years ago
    I could use some assistance as well. I have a i7-2600k (3.4Ghz stock clock). I've managed to get it to a stable 4.1Ghz at 1.34V, not sure how much higher I can go with the voltage.

    I have a 620W PSU now, I managed to fry the last PSU (550W), I believe it was due to the CPU overclocking.

    My GPU is a R9 290 and i have 1 HDD 1 SSD and 2x8GB in the system on a Z68 mainboard by gigabyte.
  • Liquidpinky's avatar
    Liquidpinky
    Honored Guest
    11 years ago
    Will sound cheeky but not intentionally, Google it.
    There will be someone out there posting good stable overclock settings for the same CPU/GPU as you have and then you will just have to do the usual tweaking to get your own one stable as they all have their own personalities.
    I always find that the best way to start and then take it from there.
    My own i7-980X sits at a sedate 4.4GHz but has been run at 5GHz in anger, 4.4 is enough but you do feel the slower clock speeds when using an i5 running 3GHz at work. It feels like torture slow in comparison.
  • Las3r's avatar
    Las3r
    Honored Guest
    11 years ago
    "djack77" wrote:
    question is, would it be worth pushing it to 4.5Ghz, or 4.6Ghz? Is it worth it? Would I notice any difference in gaming?


    Short answer no.
    Longer answer of course you will but is it worth it? No probably not for the DK2.