Haswell Overclock Thread

Martini1991 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:21

Yes I have.
In the classic mode the straps work fine, I can boot to 4.75GHZ with ease at 1.35v, probably even maintain stability.

I'll end up leaving it at 4.6GHZ at 1.25v though.

wazza300 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:22

You can try looser ram timings aswell that will help with stability and bclk straps

Martini1991 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:24

My stability is either a RAM or board problem, I'm 1066MHZ CL9 to maintain stability with my RAM

So I can do proper testing when it's sorted.

I await the day I can run 1600MHZ RAM with my Haswell set up.

SkyTerran · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:33

Did anybody try to overclock a non-K Haswell? A lot of conflicting info out there about how many bins up can you go with a full 4/8 thread load.

wazza300 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:33

What memory? I've seen Samsung green do 2300mhz on gigabyte x87 so far,maybe more

Martini1991 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:40

It's just some rather generic Excelram 1600MHZ.
But I think it's either my board's a DOA for RAM, or a RAM incompatibility, switching the RAM out Saturday.

apeksdiver · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:42

What ram are you changing to?

Martini1991 · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:44

Just 16GB of these, as I'm getting a swap from friends ;
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

lettuce · 11 Jun 2013 at 22:57

shadow_boxer said:
Excellent. Is that stable at 4.6GHz! Still not sure what the best stress testing method is with Haswell?

I do 30 min LinPack test in OCCT with 'AVX Capable Linpack' enabled, if it passes that then i move on to AIDA64 and run that for 3 hours, if it passes that i call that a stable OC

lettuce · 12 Jun 2013 at 11:36

Well 4.7Ghz is now stable @ 1.260v (using CPU Offset).....

The way im looking at it is 1.260v will be fine for a 24/7 OC as im using CPU Offset so i doubt that there is going to EVER be a app that i use that is going to load the CPU to 100% and cause the CPU to draw the full 1.260 volts it does when stress testing, am i right in thinking that?.
OCCT seems to literally thrash the CPU to an inch of its life, whilst ADIA64 doesnt seem to be so stressful on the CPU, this is shown in the different max temps that the 2 programs give after a stress session??

4.8Ghz on the other hand, got up to 1.36v and OCCT blue screened in the first 20 seconds. It seemed that the closer i got to 1.36v the quicker OCCT failed, at 1.30v OCCT lasted longer!. Is there any reason for this?

dcsarge · 12 Jun 2013 at 12:34

I haven't had much chance to play around since transfering my 4670K over to a 350D and H100i last night. I did try the Asus test of changing the multiplier to 46 and vcore to 1.25v, everything else except memory is on auto/default . That boots into Windows 7 and is useable but bsods if I run Prime95 blend. Temps are about 26c idle and max I saw was 62c under load (H100i stock paste and fans).

Hopefully I will have more time to play around with it tonight.

TNA · 12 Jun 2013 at 18:13

Got my Asus Maximus Hero yesterday and finally installed my 4770K.

After doing some testing today I have decided that I will stick with a 4.7GHz @ 1.25v overclock for my 24/7 use until I fancy tweaking it and adding more volts to go further. Cinebench and Handbrake temps are around 70c's and games don't even hit 60c's. Only AIDA 64 manged to go mid 80C's, but not like I will ever be running anything that will do that

Below are some results in pictures of what I managed to do with it so far at at 4.8GHz and even a SuperPi test at 4.9GHz.

There seems to be big increase in temps from 4.7GHz to 4.8GHz and I think it would be better to delid before going further. Though I don't plan to delid until next year this time, which is when I will either delid this cpu, or my new broadwell cpu.

I will make a sig for my spec soon btw.

Jokester · 12 Jun 2013 at 19:16

My chip uses 1.26V for 3.9GHz if you leave it on Auto, no wonder people are seeing high temps, quite happily runs at this speed at 1.06V it seems if you set it to manual.

Pers · 12 Jun 2013 at 19:21

Nice one TNA, some great clocking results. Can't wait to get my Hero on Friday.

TNA · 12 Jun 2013 at 19:37

Pers said:
Nice one TNA, some great clocking results. Can't wait to get my Hero on Friday.

Hey thanks man.

The Maximus Hero is well worth the wait in my opinion. Very nice board indeed

Besty · 12 Jun 2013 at 21:46

Yep, the Hero does look good, here is a long video which gives some tips, I am surprised on how far the chip gets pushed (and the stock RAM speeds!).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7063/overclocking-haswell-on-asus-8series-motherboards-video

Sal0hcine · 12 Jun 2013 at 21:54

Hmm Mine is running 4.5 @ 1.25 volts but seems to be hitting 77c. It idles around 30c.

I am running my first custom water cooling loop so was expecting better temps. I wonder if I need to re-seat my CPU cooler as my GTX 470s are running at 30c idle and 45c load which is a lot more acceptable.

I did the Asus test on my Gigabyte OC board, booted into Windows but crashed on Prime. So 4.6 might be possible.

Shiari · 12 Jun 2013 at 23:59

I haven't tested stability with other programs yet, but I've spent some time getting a lower voltage established for my 4.6 clock (I started at 1.32V). This might give me some room to increase the clock to 4.7, maybe 4.8 ... the graph in the image clearly shows the gradual drop in temperatures as I lower the voltage by ~0.1V between each 5 minute CPU Stress Test. This screenshot was taken just before it finally crashed in the next test.

I had to reset my ram to auto settings - the tighter timings caused the XTU CPU Stress test to crash (without failure) before I could even start this process. Once I'm done checking these settings for stability I'll work on the ram timings again.

TNA · 13 Jun 2013 at 09:32

Just got a newsletter with OcUK's overclocked 4770K bundles. Seems there is only 1 build that has 4.7GHz, the rest are mainly 4.4GHz.

Does seem I got lucky with my chip

lettuce · 13 Jun 2013 at 10:44

Damn really!, now I'm happy with 4.7 @ 1.255v