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balky12

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?
 
pastymuncher said:
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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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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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Cheers guys appreciate all the help.

Getting a little frustrating ha. Haven't found anything stable yet even down to 4.0.

Well some pass an hour of real bench. Fine with games like wow, league, cod. But battlefield 1 it crashes after a few maps.

Maybe I just lost the silicone lottery?
 
Hopefully I understood what you meant. Ran a realbench at 4.1 @ 1.25v last night didn't crash for 4 hours. load up bf1 and crash.

Here are the readings from hwinfo however:

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No need to apologise dude! Appreciate your efforts! Maybe I'll bounce this up to the ask 8 pack area. See if he has any suggestions!
 
Brizzles said:
You try reducing the 'uncore clock' or ring clock ( think they are the same ) to 3400.

Get the vcore stable, then raise the ring
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Cheers dude, tried this in an earlier attempt. Still crashes in real world use. Well games lock up. No blue screen. Will try it again though.
 
MrMD said:
What ram kit you using?



I have the same cpu/mobo found XMP would make OC's unstable,ended up have to increase the Ram voltages to get stability with an overclock.


Disable your xmp profile and see if you still get crashes
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XMP is already disabled I believe. I have Avexir Venom 2x 4GB.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/avex...l-memory-kit-avd3u21331104g-2c-my-044-ar.html

Might try upping it to 1.65v then.

there an easy way you can show me your bios settings?

EDIT; just seen your sig, what are the chances? Going for the Green LED look?
 
Cheers for all your time and effort guys. BIOS is all up to date and I am still no closer to a stable overclock.

Perhaps I will see what Ryzen brings or save until coffeelake next year for a monster system.

Although I would like a nice build for battalion 1944 that drops in ~May.
 
BIOS Version is F3

Uncore ratio at present is 34. Can't (appear to) change the uncore voltage. Atleast I can't find a setting for it.

Vcore was 1.3 however when trying to overclock.
 
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