I5 4690k Overclocking

dannywaugh1 · 22 Oct 2016 at 09:41

Hi all,

It's been just over a year since I built my new system due to my old q6600 system finally giving up.

I haven't had a change to overclock but now I have some time to spend doing it.

I haven't a clue where to start with the i5 4690k so any help will be great.

Specs are:

I5 4690k
Gigabyte z97x-sli
8gb ram @2133
GTX 970
Prolimatech 81 CPU Cooler

Main uses for the computer at the moment are mainly gaming.

Calabi · 23 Oct 2016 at 00:27

I'm in the same boat with the exact same processor and almost the same motherboard.

I've been looking at this guide but cant make too much out of it, its too complicated.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1411077/haswell-overclocking-guide-with-statistics

ScottyJKB · 23 Oct 2016 at 02:25

Fair few guides out there bud. I have a 4670k and followed a 'quick and dirty' guide, http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1722630/intel-god-quick-dirty-guide-4ghz-haswell.html

Saves you time if you don't want to go through ages of testing...

ScottyJKB · 23 Oct 2016 at 02:26

Calabi said:
I'm in the same boat with the exact same processor and almost the same motherboard.

I've been looking at this guide but cant make too much out of it, its too complicated.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1411077/haswell-overclocking-guide-with-statistics

+1

I also peeked upon this guide to give a head start on voltages / expectations.

Calabi · 23 Oct 2016 at 10:26

One thing we have higher clocked memory the XMP profile puts it at 2133mhz but I cant have that profile if I overclock, wont that make it perform worse?

Calabi · 23 Oct 2016 at 10:56

I found an even easier way Gigabyte Easy Tune software on this page.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4966#utility

I did a quick 15 min stress with it at 4.3ghz it was stable at max temps of 75.

dannywaugh1 · 23 Oct 2016 at 13:12

I will take a look them guys thanks!

Dempsey22 · 23 Oct 2016 at 13:20

Don't use any of the auto tuning software, my Gigabyte software wanted to put 1.5V through the CPU for 4.5Ghz, manually tuned it and its stable at 1.26V

Calabi · 23 Oct 2016 at 13:41

So should I be adjusting the cpu vcore offset?

David_VI · 27 Feb 2017 at 09:10

How did you do Danny?

I've got same mobo and cpu, following the dirty guide I can't suss out what the ring multiplier is on my bios?

Cheers