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4670k upgrade

Drake5

Drake5

Drake5

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I have a 4670k OC'd to 4.2Ghz

I'm wondering if it's time to upgrade this? GTAV will max out my CPU quite a lot - Should I consider a step up? If so what to?
 
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I think the one word answer here really is no...... I can't imagine you will see much of any difference unless you specifically need more than 4 cores for things like video encoding / 3d rendering etc.

You would probably see just as mcuh benefit from simply pushing your overclock a bit harder.
 
No point m8 for gaming.GTA is putting your cpu under so much load because its incrediibly well optimized/threaded.Its puts me under 100% load the majoritty of the time too,runs super smooth only drop frames when i get into gpu bound situations
 
You didn’t need to look far to get your answer mate. :rolleyes:

Please consult this thread.

As you can see in GTAV specifically, there isn’t any need (or anything to upgrade too in fact) in upgrading your current cpu.

Your best bet is over clocking your cpu further if possible.
 
can run my 4670k 4.6ghz no difference in anything I run with the 4.2ghz which I use atm.
so I conclude no need to upgrade cpu the next 4 years.
well until amd get their zen cpu out that is.
Intel wont get money if amd get their act right
 
Tom_D said:
Tried..... anything more than 4.2ghz and I get BSOD
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Increase your vcore.

I would start a thread sking for help oc'ing. You need to know your max safe vcore and max safe temp, then start testing, and find your new oc.

Unless you done that already and 4.2Ghz is the mx your chip will do. Seems a bit low to me.
 
This is my 4.2GHz OC

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Increasing voltage to 1.3 and 4.4Ghz just results in lock ups
 
Get rid of the cache (ring) overclock for the time being and increase the cpu input voltage (vccin on Gigabyte boards?). Mine needs 1.90v for anything over 4.2Ghz. You probably need more vcore too. Mine needs 1.265v for 4.4Ghz and 1.285v for 4.5Ghz, after that it needs silly voltages. If you have LLC on that board set it to a level between mid range and high range. What board is it anyway?
 
Here's a stable 4.3 vcore/4.0 ring on my MSI board in case it helps. BIOS looks pretty similar. Different CPU (i7-4770K) yet not that different when it comes to O/C'ing.

To be fair, I think you've landed a worse overclocker than mine (which isn't great either), going by how high the Auto sets your ring voltage for 41 multiplier (on mine the ring Auto is 1.2v when I use 41 multiplier). Lowering the ring should be of particular benefit, as Pastymuncher mentioned.

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I need to manually tinker an awful lot to get it to bench at 4.4/4.4 (runs some benches ok but not 100% stable in all so it's not my permanent overclock) and it just refuses to work at 4.5 no matter what vcore (tried up to 1.3v) and VCCIN (tried up to 1.95). So the sweet spot seems to be 4.3 so far. Could be yours is a 4.2. Good luck anyway.
 
djshauny1 said:
Whats the temp range for the 4670ks?
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For 24/7 use 75c and under is deemed 'safe' by intel.

Wouldnt want to push past that in gaming/encoding ect personally.


Got mine at 4.5ghz

1.296vcore
1.920v Input voltage(VCCin)
40x uncore
1.20v cache voltage


LLC on Giga boards also seems to affect Cache voltage aswell as vcore for some reason


Mines an ok chip,i was running 4.4@ 1.272v on a 212 air cooler tho with gaming temps never exceeding 70c before i installed water,think i got a decent TIM job unlike most haswell owners lol
 
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