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balky12

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Looking to venture into over clocking with my 4670k, bought it a couple years ago but never got round to it.

Now with battlefield 1 and hitting 100% load frequently I want to get a bit of extra performance. Although apparently battlefield 1 isn't liking the i5 chip much.

Before I venture into over clocking anyone recommend anything else? 1150 sockets are pretty obsolete and I don't really want to spend £300 on an entry level i7 nor start paying out for newer tech with mobos chips and DDR4.

I have an old heat sink that I will use when I over clocked previously and need to. Get some thermo paste.

Any tips or other options I've missed?
 
The thing is that there is nothing that is worth the money to upgrade to so overclocking is the best option at the moment. Intel has been drip feeding us with tiny performance gains with each new release and Kabylake looks to be no different. You should get at least 4.2-4.4Ghz out of your 4670k. Mine runs at 4.4Ghz (core and cache) and I am not planning on upgrading anytime soon. What board and cooler do you have?
 
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The thing is that there is nothing that is worth the money to upgrade to so overclocking is the best option at the moment. Intel has been drip feeding us with tiny performance gains with each new release and Kabylake looks to be no different. You should get at least 4.2-4.4Ghz out of your 4670k. Mine runs at 4.4Ghz (core and cache) and I am not planning on upgrading anytime soon. What board and cooler do you have?
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Thanks - what I thought!

I have a g1.sniper z87 I believe and the cooler is fairly old. Well I have a stock low profile one on currently and an old cool master or even an Asus air cooler single fan heat sink combo.

Given that Asus seem pretty out of the cooling game I might have to purchase another one.
 
You could pop the heatsink on and see how it does?

I'd recommend asus realbench for stress testing, and hwinfo64 for measuring temps

Or you could just buy a new cooler if you cant be bothered to faff, probably not a bad idea to be honest.
 
Fit the biggest cooler you have and give it a go. Anything over 85 degrees C is too much but ideally you want it as low as you can get away with. The more voltage you give it the more heat it will generate.
 
What's your fps? dropping frames and stuttering?
What's current cpu temps?

Just because cpu is having 100% spikes in game is not necessarily a problem unless it's hitting frame rate or causing high temps.
 
Idle sits around 40. Under load I've seen it hit 93... So on the high side. Weird because it's stock cooler with no over clock.

I have it capped at 65fps on 1080p mix of high and med settings.
 
Some motherboards have been known to put silly volts through the devils canyon chips when everything is left at auto. highs of 93c is really quite high for gaming temps.
 
new boy said:
Some motherboards have been known to put silly volts through the devils canyon chips when everything is left at auto. highs of 93c is really quite high for gaming temps.
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I'll get some new thermal paste. Set up the air cooler and start locking volts and see how it goes! Any other advice?
 
Keep it under 1.3v initially, maybe 1.35v if you get a top tier cooler and under 85c.

Lock down cache to ~3.6-4.0GHz at least for now

An hour of realbench is a good indicator of stability, but you will probably find games that will crash it anyway, so it might take some time to dial in your final oc

Apart from that, just get stuck in.
 
Figured out where temps were coming from (I think). Intels Turbo Boost mode. Was bumping my chip from 3.4ghz to 3.8ghz... which is a bit strange as it has the stock low profile cooler which comes as standard... seeing as the boost is as standard yo uwould have thought it would be sufficient to avoid high temps.

Battlefield is the first game in a while that really stresses the chip however so never seen temps like it before.
 
Got the old heatsink fitted (Akasa Nero S) and temps idle around 29c and under realbench im hitting 70c @ 4.3mhz and 1.3v. So temps have improved greatly!

OC isn't as high as i would have liked but that might be the chip being battered with the previous high temps without my knowledge. No idea if the stock fan was fitted incorrectly or just inadequate.

If I go above 4.3 comp just freezes under real bench. No BSOD however which is weird. Was hoping to get 4.5 but with chips it's a lottery!

EDIT; what did you mean by lock cache? Worried I'm overlooking something.
 
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Cache clock will follow core clock if left on auto. 4.4GHz cache is fairly high and would probably take some time and cache voltage tweaks to get stable. Lock the cache multi to 40x and then try again for your 4.4GHz core clock at the 1.3v, then maybe try and get that vcore down a bit if you are sucessful.
 
new boy said:
Cache clock will follow core clock if left on auto. 4.4GHz cache is fairly high and would probably take some time and cache voltage tweaks to get stable. Lock the cache multi to 40x and then try again for your 4.4GHz core clock at the 1.3v, then maybe try and get that vcore down a bit if you are sucessful.
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I can't see what the cache clock is in bios.

I have cpu clock ratio to 43
Cpu vcore to 1.3v

Cpu base clock is on auto

Can't find anything referencing cache :(
 
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Well, if the cache is only at 3.4GHz, then it wont be that that's crashing your overclock.

Its looking like your probably going to need to give it a bit more vcore or settle for 4.3GHz

I would probably just go for 4.3GHz as a 24/7 clock, and see if you can drop the volts a bit, but you could go a little higher with the volts (say 1.35v) as long as you can keep the temps in check which I think you would struggle to do
 
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