4930k should it stay or should it go??

Nickolp1974

Nickolp1974

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I purchased the intel tuning plan and woud like your opinion

Currently have my chip at 4.63ghz @ 1.45v and ram at 2.4ghz cl9 and pretty tight subs.
Going by Raja's binning results I'd say my chip is average at best, going by his stats you stand a 40% chance of getting one that will do [email protected]
Oh and just to let you know I need 1.56v+ for 4.7ghz!! Ouch! :(

So my question is would YOU trade it in???
 
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MjFrosty said:
Ouch, that's not a good chip but in reflection of most IVYE chips it's not too much of a shocker.

My 4960x does 4.7 @ 1.4v - 5Ghz+ 1.52v. I'm not sure I'd be too bothered as to trade it in TBH as you could end up with the same or worse :/
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Hi bud, if I did get a worse one I'm sure I'd manage 4.5ghz(don't ya think?) and that's not the end of the world, only ever be running 2 gpu's max.
Only cost £16 for the plan and whatever postage is, gotta be worth a shot??
 
I think the percentages were something like

All at 1.4v

10% <4.4
20% 4.5
40% 4.6
20% 4.7
10% >4.8

Wasn't a big batch, can't remember if it was 50 or 100???

What board are you on frosty??
 
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Scramz said:
my 4930k needs 1.36v for 4.6 and I run offset so the volts drop off when not needed.

My 24/7 at the moment is 4.7 with offset max 1.430. When playing BF4 voltage peaked 1.424 volts and average of 1.389 volts whilst gaming for 3-4 hours, hottest cores peaked between 44-56 degrees

Stable on Prime, IBT,Adia and best of all gaming.

I am going to resit my CPU water block as i have a feeling I can drop a few degrees.

I have tested 4.8 @ 1.48 (max volts offset) fully stable. I have intel tuning plan for might try 4.9-5.0 in the 1.5v's see if i hit a wall.

I guess it is just luck of the draw.
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Yours appears better than mine, 4.8 is great on one of these chips, for me i nearly need 1.58v for 4.7 and its not fully stable :( temps are fine volts are not!

I wouldn't risk trading in your chip at all.

What mobo are you on scramz?
 
Rroff said:
Are you sure it vcore thats limiting you? and not one of the additional voltages or RAM strap or something like that?
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Positive, i always keep my ram at 1600 before oc'ing, tried sa,vtt from 1.15v-1.35v and all maner of digi combinations.
I'm at my wall with my current 4.63 oc anything over requires masses of extra voltage.
I'm not temp limited in any way.
Tried the 0020 bios and whatever is the latest, results pretty much the same.
 
pgi947 said:
Are you just working on the multi or have you pushed up the base and straps nick?

You have no luck with chips :(
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everything!!! 125 strap nets me my best results, 100 strap requires more voltage for the same clock.

i normally test multi at a voltage i'm comfortable with, say 1.4v and keep going up until crash, set multi to previous good one then work on the base clock.
Then time to work on the ram!!

and your right, i have no luck with my chips :( my classy's were pretty good mind, but i sold 'em :(

I don't think my RIVF is at fault it's still a very capable board.

Going to contact intel today and try my luck again!!! my plan became active yesterday
 
Mr 8 Pack us "amateur" overclockers do bench for records be it personal or on a FUN leaderboard. There are many people on this very forum that do this, like you we enjoy it and maximise what we can. Just because we don't use LN2 we are not inferior!! I respect you greatly, your a helpful chap and i have learned quite a bit from you for which i'm grateful. You have enough knowledge of these chips to make a better informative post than....

8 Pack said:
Your not benching for records so I dont see any issue here at all.
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8 Pack said:
1.5 and these are degrading fast!! Those Voltys are LN2 volts not water cooling or ambient stuff.

Silicon torture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thats the idea!

If i had a good one i wouldn't do it, and i'm gonna take my chance with another, but odds are that i'm gonna get one about the same, i may get lucky, you never know. Either way i shall be looking after the next one.
 
Thanks for the advice, noted.

Next one 1.4v max, gotta last me till Q3 2015! Ish ;)

8Pack anything to gain with the RIVBE over the rivf??
 
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Yes mate, if a cpu passes the intel diagnostic tool at stock there are no grounds for a return, only if you have tuning plan can it be sent back.
 
I need more than luck!!

Just want my gpu here!! should have been yesterday but the lorry broke down so it spent a night in Glasgow! If it wasn't for the dreaded manflu i'd be pacing round the house :D
 
My cpu has now been returned, i shall update the thread once i have it back to let you know how the service went and more importantly, what i get back! I imagine pretty much the same!
 
well only tweaking volts and gone on 125 strap (rams running at 2370), heres my max safe volts(1.4v) not bad and that was a good £16 spent on the tunning plan :D

 
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