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

I was running 1.2414 vcore tonight and 1.75 VID, though I haven't played with the VID much today at all. More fun tweaking tomorrow, but seem to be in a sweet spot at 4.7. Temps in general use staying below 60c, but peaking at 84/85 in Intel burn stress testing.

Martin
 
I've had my 4790K since launch, and I've not really done any extensive overclocking. I set it to 4.4ghz and I could not get it stable until I put 1.28v through it. (CS GO and Warface both blue screening)

What other things should I look at changing to get the voltage down, and possible the speed up?
 
Yeah after seeing the above then I'm more than happy with that voltage and temps than pushing .50 more through for an extra 100mhz. Not that it will run at 4.7 with that voltage on mine, not even with 1.350
 
Tried any of the other settings such as input voltage? 1.200v here at stock, gonna see if it will go any lower on voltage for stock speed. My first one was 1.264 but could get into os and run games etc on 1.200v.
 
Yeah I played with some settings off a Z97 OC guide for the SOC Force board but to no avail, was changing things I didn't understand but the guide told me to try. Considering how happy I am with the temps I see no reason to push further as it's not struggled yet on anything I've played even at 1440p.

I should add I'm not anything fancy like "prime95 stable", I ran Aida64 for 30m, then I played games all day Saturday and as I get no crashes I consider that stable. Also ran Asus Real Bench and no issues.
 
Gaming and something like real bench will do for me too. Theese chips just aren't designed with unrealistic loads like p95 etc in mind. Wanted to have a go at clocking today but unfortunately real life got in the way.
 
Was previously able to run at 4.75 with around 1.27v. Now takes around 1.35.

Hopefully that is as bad as it will get.

Will hit up to 90c through 3 loops of realbench tests. I can live with that I guess.
 
So I decided to try lowering my vcore and increasing speed to 4.6ghz, while reducing my RAM from 2400mhz to 2200mhz, and I seem to have stability while gaming now.
Im currently at 1.23v for 4.6ghz. Which im pretty happy with. If it remains stable, I will keep it like this. 200mhz off my RAM is nothing really.
 
Loque said:
So I decided to try lowering my vcore and increasing speed to 4.6ghz, while reducing my RAM from 2400mhz to 2200mhz, and I seem to have stability while gaming now.
Im currently at 1.23v for 4.6ghz. Which im pretty happy with. If it remains stable, I will keep it like this. 200mhz off my RAM is nothing really.
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Maybe try back at 2400mhz with a little more + on Dramv ? I have mine at 1.7v and its fine.
 
Ram can be stabilised by upping the sa, ioa/d voltages. Iirc I was using 1.15 on theese with my oc'd 4770k. Ram at 2400mhz, 10-11-11-31, 2T 1.65v, which is my xmp profile.
 
Never understood memory OC'ing, I just loaded XMP profile and that was it, it's just 1600mhz ram I don't know what else I can do with it.
 
Noxia said:
Never understood memory OC'ing, I just loaded XMP profile and that was it, it's just 1600mhz ram I don't know what else I can do with it.
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At 1600mhz the timings will be fine 9-9-9-24-1T so nothing to worry about.

Some of the 2400mhz kits are a bit slack to be frank. They can perform nicely , but take some tweaking and some voltage improvement to be the best they can.

I have my kit 2600mhz 1.7v ,,, 11-12-11-27-1T and tuned sub timings. Where as the standard XMP was 2400mhz 11-13-13-31 2T and poor sub timings though 1.65v ,,,, forgot to mention as setter said my system agent to achieve this is 1.2v though
 
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