Acceptable Overclock?

Rowan88

Rowan88

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Hi,

I was playing around a bit with my overclock settings as I was noticing some random blue screen errors and crashes, anyway after reformatting my PC and testing out my new overclock settings I got this:

Cooling Options: BeQuiet! Shadow Rock SR1 Pro CPU Cooler, 2x NZXT Case fans (top and rear), 2x Thermaltake Case Fans (front), NZXT S340 Elite Case.

Stock: 3.4GHz @ stock / GPU 975mhz
Overclock: 4.2GHz @ 1.185v / GPU 1150mhz


Results:
RealBench - Up to 4gb RAM, 1hour test max temperature was 69 degree
OCCT - Large Data, 1792mb RAM, 1 hour test max temperature was 75 degree.
Unigine Superposition - 1080p Medium (1299/2048mb VRAM) Min 29, Avg 36 Max 46 FPS, GPU 77 degree, 4914 Score


After these tests is it safe to assume this is a stable overclock to use and I should not have any problems using it like this?

Thanks
 
You haven't mentioned what CPU you're using at all but 1.185v is very low volts. You could easy run 1.25v and see what stable OC you get. Most people run 1.35 up to 1.45 with custom loop.
 
Sorry it was in my signature: Intel Core i5-4670K. I will set vcore to 1.25v and test 44/45 but im pretty sure when I tried before I was hitting max temps.
 
44 @ 1.25v restarted on OCCT about 10mins in
43 @ 1.25v had been running for around 3 hours then restarted PC


From here I don't want to increase past 1.250 with my current cooling so I will drop to 4.2 @ 1.250 and raise uncore to 41 @ 1.20 and see how that goes, then slowly lower both uncore ring and vcore volts till I get a stable 8 hour pass.
 
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Your voltage and temps are extremely conservative (not there's anything wrong with that if that's how you want to play it)

up to 1.3v / low 80s in realbench would still be pretty conservative.

In my experience, you can do endless hours of stress testing, and still have a game crash on you.

My ultimate stability test is GTA V. If I can get a 4+ hour session on that, then I'm good lol.
 
new boy said:
Your voltage and temps are extremely conservative (not there's anything wrong with that if that's how you want to play it)

up to 1.3v / low 80s in realbench would still be pretty conservative.

In my experience, you can do endless hours of stress testing, and still have a game crash on you.

My ultimate stability test is GTA V. If I can get a 4+ hour session on that, then I'm good lol.
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I use BF1 for the same reason, an overclock can pass all kinds of tests for hours but still crash in BF1 until completely stable.
 
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