4930k should it stay or should it go??

Nickolp1974 said:
Thats the idea!

If i had a good one i wouldn't do it, and i'm gonna take my chance with another, but odds are that i'm gonna get one about the same, i may get lucky, you never know. Either way i shall be looking after the next one.
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This is what id be worried about tbh. Knowing my luck id end up with a chip worse than the one i have. Ill maybe just keep an eye out on members market for someone selling a decent clocker.
 
Decent 4930K etc clockers are often sold for one reason!! The owner degraded em by prime this, IBT that and other such non-sense beware of this with 4930K 4960X especially.

1.4v should be the limit on any of these chips on ambient cooling if you want em to last. No stress testing either at those volts.
 
Thanks for the advice, noted.

Next one 1.4v max, gotta last me till Q3 2015! Ish ;)

8Pack anything to gain with the RIVBE over the rivf??
 
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Scramz can you test lowest voltage boot 5ghz into windows please and lowest voltage for 4.8ghz Cinebench. Just making some binning comparisons.
 
Mine won't even do 4.5GHz at 1.4V (and I'm totally not comfortable with this 24/7, even if the temps look fine) but settles at 4.4 at 1.360 :( From what I've been told and can gather of this thread, I have been very unfortunate in the lottery.

Oh well, I'm contempt anyway. Even at stock it provides more than enough juice for my needs.

Edit: also tried the same CPU in a RIVF (with different RAM), and more or less the same results. So going to RIVBE didn't effect the attainable overclock, at least not for me.
 
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Yes mate, if a cpu passes the intel diagnostic tool at stock there are no grounds for a return, only if you have tuning plan can it be sent back.
 
I need more than luck!!

Just want my gpu here!! should have been yesterday but the lorry broke down so it spent a night in Glasgow! If it wasn't for the dreaded manflu i'd be pacing round the house :D
 
Nickolp1974 said:
Yes mate, if a cpu passes the intel diagnostic tool at stock there are no grounds for a return, only if you have tuning plan can it be sent back.
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Hopefully you have more luck this time.:)

Decided not to bother with the plan myself. This chip will run hot if tortured but for my tasks 4.5ghz is fine on it. Normal use it runs cooler than my old 930 at 4.2. I just avoid heavy stress test stuff now. Bit further down the line i might scalp it and go a bit higher.
 
My cpu has now been returned, i shall update the thread once i have it back to let you know how the service went and more importantly, what i get back! I imagine pretty much the same!
 
It is frustrating when you see people on Firestrike hitting the 18,000 mark on SBE!

"All the talk of 1.5? Is that all :D?" doesn't really apply to IVYE as it's killer voltage for them. I've 1.51v twice and it bombed on me anyway so I've given up. 1.4v is as much as I'll go for 4.7Ghz, and that's only for benching.

Either stock or 4.5 @ 1.31v for my 4960
 
There's one on OCN that's got 1.38v 5ghz. That's a damn good chip!

Ian, if you read this what's the best you've seen so far?



I think we should start up an overclock chart for Ivy-E to see what people are getting. With SuperPI confirmation or something, don't really want any of that Prime crap.
 
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