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uksoldierboy

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Hi 8 Pack or anyone else for that matter can help,
Recently got a new system (see sig) and i love it:D it's my first intel system after using AMD for a long time and the performance difference coming from my fx4100 system is insane.
The issue i have is that i've never overclocked an Intel rig before..
After having a look in the bios there's plenty that i recognise but i guess i'm a little scared on where to start.
Can you help me with establishing a base to start for please?
Current cooling is an arctic freezer 13 but i do plan on getting a water loop setup after upgrading my Gpu when the new AMD cards hit.
I'm not after crazy speeds but 4.4 would be great until i sort better cooling;)

Thanks
David
 
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Well i tried a fair bit of gaming, everything went well tbh, tried arma 3 but even with a full server and the view distance up full, i found that it hardly uses this 4770k.
So switched to BF3 and a full server, played a couple of games and again went well.
My only concern is temps, max temp was 77c? whats the max safe temps of these cpus?
Thanks again 8 pack.
Oh one last thing, was that a "no" to dropping the vcore or leaving the ram @1866?
David
Edit-Does this score and associated pics look correct?
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Well after a long session gaming today i'm happy to report that i've had zero crashes thus far:D
stable at 4.5, my cache ratios are (min 39) (max 43) vcore @1.232.
that ok 8 pack?
There's so much more settings in the bios that i don't have a clue about like extreme tweak etc anything else i can change for more performance?
Tbh i've not really noticed much gains in gaming, but i guess my gpu is the bottleneck now as it's constantly maxed at 99% usage.
Edit- things like speedstep, all powersaving settings etc are enable, should i disable these?
And is it better to use adaptive voltage rather fixed?
 
Me again,
After watching a few Asus north america vids he recommend running the cache frequencies in sync if possible with the core for max performance?
Well i have not sync'd the core and caches to 4.5 and everything seems fine.
can you confirm this 8 pack?
Thanks
david
 
teppic said:
I'm jealous of these results, I need 1.31v just for 4.4GHz (though I can run 4.3GHz at 1.2!). I've found for me that higher cache speeds definitely cause problems, even with the voltage raised, e.g. cache at 4.2GHz is 100% stable, at 4.3GHz I get crashes under high load.
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I'm guessing i've just got lucky tbh, although i've not tested on anything like prime95 etc.
All my games run great without crashes so fingers crossed, temps have altered too where i think the AS 5 needs time to cure so chuffed to bits really.
I did try changing the Dram command rate to 1t instead of 2t and got a crash on arma 3 mind so that's gone back to 2t.
I don't know how different are boards are, maybe that's it? i don't know.
 
Just a quick update,
After fitting my H100 and my temps getting much better, i've dabbled a little more on the overclocking front.
Tried both 4.6 and 4.7, managed to get both stable pretty quickly in all my games, here's my results:

4.5
45x multi
45x Unicore
vcore @1.232
Cache @1,240

4.6
46x multi
44x Unicore
vcore @1.250
Cache @1,240


4.7
47x multi
45x Unicore
vcore @1.300
Cache @1,250

For now i've got it at 4.6 as tbh, i've not noticed any real increase in performance other than benchmarking, probably down to being GPU Limited.
 
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teppic said:
My first 4770K could only get to 3.9GHz on 1.3v :)

My 4670K is better - it's stable on 4.4GHz at 1.21v, but I can't go any higher because I'm on a low profile cooler on a mini-itx board and it reaches 90C in stress tests.
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:eek: I did get lucky!
Like i've mentioned, tbh, it's doesn't even need to be overclocked, the performance @ turbo speed is brilliant.
Glad you've had more luck with the 4670K teppic;)
 
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