Reasonable overclock on my i75820k build?

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Hello everyone,

I have recently purchased an overclocked bundle from here. This one..

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-022-OG

It has the i7 5820k and is overclocked to 3.8ghz, I have read around many places that this CPU can do better, overclockers generally only overclock the CPU's reasonably well as they don't know their customers airflow and if someone has SLI and loads of heat by the CPU for example.

I have a corsair air 540 with upgraded fans (loads of airflow) and an Inno3D iChill GTX 780 Ti DHS HerculeZ X3 Ultra 3GB which is about 5-6 inches from the CPU.

I am no overclocking expert, a complete novice but what overclock could I be looking at on my CPU with that build? 4.0 ghz perhaps?
 
Gone are the days where you have to fiddle about with the BIOS setting constantly. You can do that but its a bind. Just install the latest version of AISuite3 and go through the settings shown on this video.


It works very very well. You should easily get 4.5Ghz with that setup with no issues. If you want ultra stability just get AISuite to tune it and then drop off 1/2 from the ratio and away you go. :)

EDIT apologies that was based on decent watercooler (H80) but that cooler should easily see 4.2Ghz with decent temps and good stability.
 
Nah the new version is very good. I tend to do it on the max voltage so I would have thought that 1.25-1.28v on air should be fine but you could also set it to the max temp you are happy with and away you go. I tend to set the stress test up to 5/10 mins a cycle which takes a while for it to work out the max overclock but it gives the system a decent workout for max stability. Run it through that and then put it on for 10/20/30 passes of Intel Burn Test/Prime and away you go. :)
 
As long as it is under 85 degree, for CPU demanding test, you should be fine.
This translates to around 65-70 degree when gaming.
 
So I watched the video and looked at the software.

I can set the overclock to never get above 85c and also set the voltage to never go above 1.25v. Is that correct? It does work that way?

If I set it to that on those two settings there is zero chance I can damage my hardware?

Thanks for any advice :)
 
How does this look?

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I ran prime95 for 10 minutes on a blend test, I saw the CPU get to 4.4MHz maximum, on 1.248 volts and the temps only hit 75c six times for aboiut 3-5 seconds at a time.
 
^^Temps voltages ect look great

Need to test for more than 10mins to be considered stable however
 
So on the extreme setting on asus suite 3 I am constantly at 1.248 Vcore and my CPU speeds are 1.2Ghz when idle and 4.4Ghz under full load.

This is all normal and fine? Should I be looking at my vcore automatically being less when idle or is 1.248v all the time acceptable?
 
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Sorry for the double post...

Does Asus suite 3 also overclock the memory whilst doing it's overclocking of the CPU? How would I even check the speeds my memory is running at and if it is above the standard 2400Mhz I have?
 
paulo7 said:
nice oc - does it not display in cpu z?
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It does, I ran prime95 very quickly to see if it jumps up, in cpu-z it says 12.01 which is right as it's obviously doubled.

In asus suite the Dram is running at 2400Mhz which is also right.

I am guessing the memory isn't overclocked, is overclocking even needed for DDR4?
 
It does overclock them memory iirc but its one of the options that have to enable. Unfortunately I cant recall what it is. Nice overclock there. I would run it overnight with 30 passes of intel burn test then 8 hours burn in tests on the rest of the components and rinse and repeat for a second cycle but that's what I use. A few hours of IBT/Prime and the same with something like Burn in tests or Realbench will do fine.

Overclocking the memory will bring you such a small improvement its probably not worth it at all unless you are a benchmark whore... :D
 
Yeah I'll leave the memory as is then!

So, when it comes to playing the latest game maxed out all seems fine.

However I tried an Intel burn test not too long ago, I got to a max 77c on heat and as 85c is max I want the seemed OK. I actually got an error...

Microsoft .Net Framework, then a blue screen with "Unhandled exception" - "Whea_Uncorrectable_Error" can anyone advise what may have happened please? If it's an unstable overclock then why would Asus suite pass it as fine? I made sure my volts don't exceed 1.250v and temps don't go over 85c...
 
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Because Asus suite only does a rudimentary stress test and Intel burn test is a full on torture beast. Bump the voltage to 1.275v and run again and check temps. If it gets too hot then go back to 1.250v and drop it to 44x multiplier and test again...
 
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