I've had mine for about 4-5 years now, it does me for what I need it for. I started messing with overclocking it again last night though as I never did have much luck.
I'm running a Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3-CF on Air, can't recall exactly which cooler now but it's hefty one I'd need to check.
I know its luck of the draw but I've never been able to get it stable even to 4.4GHz, I was running it for a bit last night at 4.4Ghz and managed to get it to sit there for a bit on 1.4v, OCCT and CPU-Z were reporting Vcore was around 1.36-1.37v but I never like trusting the software stats.
Currently testing at 4.3GHz with the 1.35v, currently running full pelt at 1.26v and has peaked at 1.33v
Presume I've just been unlucky, not really adverse to running it at 1.4v as temps are okay even under load but was interested to hear what other people who have left these running for a few years are getting.
Edit - So I moved the voltage to 1.35v and carried on running things at 4.3Ghz got errors in OCCT using the extreme checkbox. Enabled Vcore LoadLine Calibration to High, I've since been able to put the XMP1 profile on my memory with Relax OC and so far, it appears to be alright, no errors reported in OCCT and vore is sticking at 1.33-1.34v.
Wondering if this pans out now, whether i'll be able to bump it up to 4.4-4.5Ghz with a bit more voltage and LLC. Not really a fan of running things at 1.4v but a fair number of people seem to do it without issues.
I'm running a Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3-CF on Air, can't recall exactly which cooler now but it's hefty one I'd need to check.
I know its luck of the draw but I've never been able to get it stable even to 4.4GHz, I was running it for a bit last night at 4.4Ghz and managed to get it to sit there for a bit on 1.4v, OCCT and CPU-Z were reporting Vcore was around 1.36-1.37v but I never like trusting the software stats.
Currently testing at 4.3GHz with the 1.35v, currently running full pelt at 1.26v and has peaked at 1.33v
Presume I've just been unlucky, not really adverse to running it at 1.4v as temps are okay even under load but was interested to hear what other people who have left these running for a few years are getting.
Edit - So I moved the voltage to 1.35v and carried on running things at 4.3Ghz got errors in OCCT using the extreme checkbox. Enabled Vcore LoadLine Calibration to High, I've since been able to put the XMP1 profile on my memory with Relax OC and so far, it appears to be alright, no errors reported in OCCT and vore is sticking at 1.33-1.34v.
Wondering if this pans out now, whether i'll be able to bump it up to 4.4-4.5Ghz with a bit more voltage and LLC. Not really a fan of running things at 1.4v but a fair number of people seem to do it without issues.
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