i7 overclock too low?

[Ferdia]

Hi all,

I have a general question about my i7 2600K, I am getting my system shipped to me on Saturday, and asked to have the CPU overclocked to 4.2ghz.
In reality this will be 4.0 - 4.2ghz as per the guys who are building my PC

The reason I went for such a low overclock is basically I don't want to shorten the life of the CPU too much, I think if I start low then I can always increase later. The problem is, I really haven't a clue what I am doing when it comes to overclocking!

Anyway, in your experience, would an OC of 4.2ghz be a bit on the low side? The voltage has not gone up, and I am using a H80 to cool, in a Haf x case.
I want to use the PC for fairly intense gaming, photoshop & lightroom etc.

I know this is a very difficult thing to answer, but i suppose what I am getting at is, the components I bought, are they a bit OTT for a 4.2ghz overclock?

Thanks for any advice anyone can give me on this.

Ferdia

 

[FiXiT]

Looking around the forums and talking to others the sweet spot for this cpu seems to be around 4.5ghz and with your cooler, I cannot see any problems in keeping it there cool & stable under load, anyway when the system is not being stressed the clock will drop down to about x16 , 1.6ghz, so less volts going through the core and lower temps. At the moment I'm running mine @ 4.3 with a vcore of 1.25v under stress, for some reason can not seem to hit the 4.5 sweet spot but I think that's down to motherboard settings.

 

[Leeroy123]

it may be down to the low voltage of 1.25. that voltage was unable to hit 4.5 on my 2600k.