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***Intel i7 4790K Owners thread***

Did the 5ghz club thread get deleted? I had an entry. Think my 4.8ghz time is quicker, reduced the ram to 1600 for 5ghz worked first attempt.
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Thread is still there, this chip of mine is on the first page, (was Tonesters). 4.7 with 2400mhz ram is quicker for me too, 6.45 iirc.
 
I was running mine at 4.7 for a month, iirc 1.3125v (At work atm) and everything ran fine but one night Arma 3 would crash repeatedly without fail within 10 minutes of play. I started fixes, knocked it down to 4.6 and it's immediately fixed.

It was stable in Prime95 cpu test and memtest etc so not sure why it just started happening, but I guess these test aren't the be all and end all of system stability.

Maybe I should try knock down memory a bit, it's running at 2666 but I thought these days they were unlinked.
 
Which setting do you enable for Mhz to drop when not under load, is it C3 or C6?

Mine is 24/7 @4.7 and tbh only need it that high when I am gaming.
 
I've only clocked the ram in sig for a few benchmarks, 2600mhz. Same with cache clock. Normally run cache at stock and ram on XMP of 2400mhz. No difference for games.
 
You need all the power savings enabled, balanced power plan in windows and adaptive or offset voltage, so that voltage drops at idle too.
 
Fixed voltage here, all power states enabled on balanced plan. Voltage stays constant at idle. Using offset/adaptive under any AVX program also adds .1v at load, so be careful with using it.
 
Hello! I am now the proud owner of a 4970K on an Asus MAximus Hero VII. I am just putting the chip through its paces, with a 47x multiplier and the cpu core voltage is set to 1.2v. It's just running through AIDA stress test now (15 minutes in and all looks well). RAM is on XMP at 2666Mhz. (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-057-TG)
Am I right in thinking I can just change the multiplier value and the cpu core voltage and leave other settings on Auto?
thanks
 
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Jediben said:
Hello! I am now the proud owner of a 4970K on an Asus MAximus Hero VII. I am just putting the chip through its paces, with a 47x multiplier and the cpu core voltage is set to 1.2v. It's just running through AIDA stress test now (15 minutes in and all looks well). RAM is on XMP at 2666Mhz. (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-057-TG)
Am I right in thinking I can just change the multiplier value and the cpu core voltage and leave other settings on Auto?
thanks
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Absolutely not. Read this guide.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1401976/the-gigabyte-z87-haswell-overclocking-oc-guide
 
Hmm well I have just read it but I don't intend to teak my memory timings at all at this stage, and I can't identify what the equivalent of RING voltage is on my Asus bios. The guide seems to be an awful lot of changes that don't explain what they are outside of that particular motherboard bios.
I've seen that my bios has an Initial CPU Voltage value which has been auto set to 1.872v, but given the operating range of the chip is not much more than 1.3 I am a little worried by this now!
 
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