Hello all. Thanks to some advice in the GPU forum regards my system being bottlenecked by my old CPU ( i5 4460 ) I bought a 4670k.
My current ( cheap ) motherboard is an MSI H81M-E35-V2. It has a pretty basic overclocking section in the BIOS which allows the tweaking of the CPU multiplier but not the core voltage. I got it running stable at 4.3ghz but knocked it down to 4.2ghz to be sure of stability. First, I ran it through prime95 torture test for 12 hours and other than some down-clocking when the CPU got near 70c during the day when it was very warm, it ran well with no errors. Ive just finished a 4 hours gaming session, testing as many games as possible at max settings to get my cpu usage up and didn't have any problems. CPU never went above 60c. Mostly 45c - 50c.
Im new to OCing and constantly see articles stating the need to up voltage to get my CPU above 4ghz - which is why im concerned.
So, my question: is it safe to run my cpu at 4.2ghz without any voltage increase? Or can I assume, if it made it through prime95 torture, that its fine and I should just relax and enjoy the considerable boost in performance?
My current ( cheap ) motherboard is an MSI H81M-E35-V2. It has a pretty basic overclocking section in the BIOS which allows the tweaking of the CPU multiplier but not the core voltage. I got it running stable at 4.3ghz but knocked it down to 4.2ghz to be sure of stability. First, I ran it through prime95 torture test for 12 hours and other than some down-clocking when the CPU got near 70c during the day when it was very warm, it ran well with no errors. Ive just finished a 4 hours gaming session, testing as many games as possible at max settings to get my cpu usage up and didn't have any problems. CPU never went above 60c. Mostly 45c - 50c.
Im new to OCing and constantly see articles stating the need to up voltage to get my CPU above 4ghz - which is why im concerned.
So, my question: is it safe to run my cpu at 4.2ghz without any voltage increase? Or can I assume, if it made it through prime95 torture, that its fine and I should just relax and enjoy the considerable boost in performance?