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4690K overclocking pointers please.

My issue with the board is not the problem i'm having with it, its also not a complaint with Intel, i just dislike the layout of the over complicated BIOS and the useless optins for fan settings, the old Asus was vastly superior there, and it seems i'm not alone in that opinion.

Other than that i like the board, i certainly think its worth its money. it even has SATA Express and M.2, add that to the Dual BIOS, Killer LAN the Sound Blaster audio Amp and the LED tracers on the board its impossible to snub it.

Anyway... i think the BIOS is a little buggy, it seems it will only save the overclock if i also turn the Speed step on or off, i don't think thats relevant to anything more than a quirky bug.

4.5Ghz seems to be holding solid at 1.24v, tomorrow i'm going to bump it up to 4.6Ghz.

Thanks for the "Classic mode" advice it is indeed better.

@ troops as it has 8 Mosfets so i assumed 6+2, meh ok :)

 
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Have you tried the SIV app in the app center for the fans Humbug?
I agree the fan control is a bit on the crappy side, but i think cpu/cpu opt are governed by cpu temps in that app.
 
troops said:
Have you tried the SIV app in the app center for the fans Humbug?
I agree the fan control is a bit on the crappy side, but i think cpu/cpu opt are governed by cpu temps in that app.
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Yes but unfortunately it looks like the Case fans are tied to the case temperatures which is completely useless, they only move by about 2c and if your looking for better air flow when the CPU gets hot while at the same time quiet operation when its not your out of luck with this Motherboard. they have a setting that goes up to 100c, really? case temps at 100c? they just copied the graph from the CPU graph and said there you go, adjustable case fans to keep the case cool.... Idiots. :p

Its those sort of little but very important things that no one seems to think about, clearly they haven't thought about it. this is what i was talking about before, with Asus you can tell this fan header to react to this component, be it CPU or GPU or case.
 
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Thanks ^^^ i got a bit of a sweat-on there :eek:

Now i have to start again with the clocking....
 
Right, i moved my Pump connector off the Opt-Fan header to a dedicated PSU Cable because i didn't trust that header was running is at max RPM with it having an adjustable speed option and not reading the RPM's.

My CPU temps dropped by 7c, the Rad Fan also spun up 100+ RMP's less, compare to here hmmm......

Fan 3 is the front 200mm intake fan, its a 900 RPM fan
Fan 4 is the top 200m Fan, thats a 700 RPM fan.
They are barely even spinning, well certainly the top one and they don't get any faster than that because, well... the case never gets to 100c and its impossible to get it setup with in the 2c band that the case does warm up, are you reading this Gigabyte? think about this for a minute, eh? :p

Speed Fan, i'll give it a go later....

 
Sweet chip. I'm also running one at 4.6Ghz, but I need 1.28v to be stable and top out at 70c. So I'd say you did slightly better than me in the silicon lottery :)

I've had this 4690k for almost a year now and it's never missed a beat, they are excellent chips and still a great choice for gamers.
 
Interesting thread, mine has sat at 4.5 1.22v now for a while and hits about 58-60c in realbench stress @ 60% fan speed, when I swap the cooler it will be interesting to see how much further it will go.
 
I'm not done yet :) its holding steady at 4.6Ghz.

Uncore is at 4Ghz - VRIN 1.85v <any benefit in that being higher?
VRING is +0.005v
XMP Profile for 2400Mhz

I'm kinda busy right now but i will try for 4.7Ghz later.

I'm incrementing it up like that because i want to see if it actually is stable by using it before going higher.
 
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I'm not done yet :) its holding steady at 4.6Ghz.

Uncore is at 4Ghz - VRIN 1.85v <any benefit in that being higher?
VRING is +0.005v
XMP Profile for 2400Mhz

I'm kinda busy right now but i will try for 4.7Ghz later.

I'm incrementing it up like that because i want to see if it actually is stable by using it before going higher.
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Outside of benchmarks, i didnt notice any real gains with clocking uncore. Voltages/temps all look pretty ok.
 
aha....

set 4.7Ghz in BIOS, BSOD During Boot.
increased Volts to 1.26v, booted into Windows but BSOD 1 min into stress testing.
Back to BIOS increased volts to 1.275v.... passed Real Bench :D
Max Temps 75c

So now at 4.7Ghz with 1.275v

To confirm again Volts are safe to 1.35v and temps are safe to 85c?

If this overclock works i'll try for 4.8Ghz


 
Yes them temps and vcore are fine.

Mine would do 5ghz with 1.31v and top 70c with a h105. Never got a chance to put it under water :(

Seems like you got a pretty good chip there!
 
I have the same chip :)

I've got mine stable @ 1.216v running at 4.4 - max temp 51C with an h100i cooler. Haven't decided to push it further as it is comfortable, good to see it has more in it.
 
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