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

No probs, seeing a few vietnam produced chips with the X prefix in the batch code but googling your batch no throws up nothing. The two that ive owned were both L series, L3 on my first one and L4 on the current one. Both malaysian manufactured. Youve done very well in the silicon lottery.:)
 
I expect i could probably get 4.8 on a comfortable voltage, (currently 4.7 @1.300). But temps do get a bit hot when gaming, not helped by my sli cards heating up the case. Though tbh, it's plenty fast as it is.
 
Well at 4.5ghz I'm at 1.1, 4.8ghz at 1.208v.

The funny thing is that after 5000mhz nothing gets stable. I can get in windows at 5.1ghz or a bit more but no matter witch voltage I give it it never gets stable. I can benchmark and stuff but ripping a film with handbrake or stress testing with FPU the system goes down...

Do you guys have any suggestion I could try?

Also what's is your opinion/experience on overclocking with the FSB? I ask this because I've tried and my memory at the same clock frequency became allot faster then before. :) most of the sites or OC videos that I've seen just don't advise this kind of OC. But why? In the old times we used to do it like this...
 
I was so sure I was going to heavily overclock mine (like my Q6600), but TBH it's downclocking itself for everything it's doing on my PC because it's so under-taxed, so I'm more than happy to let it carry on doing that, sitting there at <40 degrees with whisper quiet fans :)
 
I tried overclocking with the FSB to get over 5ghz stable a a lower voltage, didnt have any joy either, always crashed after a few mins of stress testing. I tried increasing most of the chip voltages but all it did is make it hotter not more stable.
 
Question guys, do any of you disable turbo when oc'ing. Always noticed that my first core is the hottest when running any games or stress programs. All cores set to 47x multi.
 
I'll turn it off and see how it goes. Iirc I did run with it off on the x58 systems I had. Though its been a while since I clocked one of those.
 
Hey guys been reading this thread for weeks now

I just want to say I have a z97 soc-force with this chip I have overclocked it to 4.6ghz setting the vcore to 1.212 however in bios it shows up as 1.224 , can somebody explain this ? also under prime 95 version 26.6 my vcore goes as high as 1.236. So I go from setting it to 1.212 to 1.236 under prime , using hwmonitor to read the voltage

Any ideas why this may be ? Temps on all 4 cores vary between 68-72 after 30 mins on prime95 26.6 and go as high as 61 degrees playing bf4 for a couple of hours.

Thanks in advance
 
recon_26 said:
Hey guys been reading this thread for weeks now

I just want to say I have a z97 soc-force with this chip I have overclocked it to 4.6ghz setting the vcore to 1.212 however in bios it shows up as 1.224 , can somebody explain this ? also under prime 95 version 26.6 my vcore goes as high as 1.236. So I go from setting it to 1.212 to 1.236 under prime , using hwmonitor to read the voltage

Any ideas why this may be ? Temps on all 4 cores vary between 68-72 after 30 mins on prime95 26.6 and go as high as 61 degrees playing bf4 for a couple of hours.

Thanks in advance
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Set load line calibration to extreme. It'll keep your vcore rock solid at whatever you set it at for your overclock.
 
Temps are ok yes. But don't use any later versions of p95, particularly 28.5. Your temps will likely shoot into the 90's or hit the chips tj max.
 
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