What would you consider a modest OC for an i7-8700K?

[King Mustard]

I buy K-class Intel CPUs to overclock them a little, to get some 'free' power out of the hardware.

I don't like to stress the hardware, just OC them a little.

I overclocked my i7-6700K (stock 4.0 GHz) to 4.5 GHz and it has been perfect for two years.

I have just bought an i7-8700K (stock 3.7 GHz).

What would you consider a equally modest bump? Perhaps 4.1 GHz?

I'll be running it on a Gigabyte Z370XP SLI (£115) with a generic 240mm liquid cooler (OcUK-branded) and 16 GB of DDR4-3000 RAM.

 

[Radox-0]

If your only looking to move to 4.1 Ghz, I would not bother. At stock more often then not it will be Turboing higher then that anyways, in particular if your only using 1-2 cores. By dialing in 4.1 GHz you will actually be lowering your performance. For a small bump, I would aim for 4.7 GHz on all 6 core's or 4.7 GHz on 2 core's then say 4.6 GHz on remaining 4.

 

[chrcoluk]

At stock it hits 4.3 or something like that (albeit only 2 cores).

A modest overclock I would consider 4.5-4.8. To me modest is what you can achieve either at stock or nominal increase in volts whilst still using an offet/adaptive voltage.

I have hit 4.8 on my 8600k using an offset of 10mv.

 

[8 Pack]

I would say 4.8-4.9 at 1.275v

 

[evohicks]

I would say 4.8-4.9 at 1.275v

I did 1.285v @4.8 but couldn' get all 6 cores running @100%, would an offset help?

Also I thought the Base turbo feature ran all cores @ 4.3 automatically but at its highest,4.7 on one core and less on each core thereafter.

 

[chrcoluk]

yeah its 4.3 for the 8600k and 4.7 for the 8700k, so the 8700k has a higher stock turbo.

Enabling MCE just sets the 1-2 core turbo for all cores so is like an easy moderate o/c switch.