New to overclocking, not such a great chip. Help please

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Hay there!!!!
Spent quite a while lurking in the shadows before actually biting the bullet and getting everything together for my first build/overclock.

Built my rig with no problems, and overclocked following a guide on ivy/sandy. I forget which one, it had the overclocking olympics at the top.

Anyways, i have a stable 4.5 oc. I have run it through the intel burn test at the very highest setting and it passed, i have also had it run through prime on the blend setting all day lond and no problems.

My only problem it that at full load it is at 1.304v -1.312. I know this isnt the highest voltage ever, i was just expecting it to be about 1.25v.

I have a noctua nh-d14 cooling it. under full load my temps are min - 61 62 62 58 and the max temps are 73 80 76 73. I am guessing that these higher temps are due to the higher voltage.

I can live with tese temps and the voltage as i undersatand that they are below the max, its just a bit annoying i picked up a i5 i5 3570k and the noctura for a hefty oc and cant manage it ( my mobo is the asrock extream 4 z77)
I also have 8 gb (2x4gb) corsair vengence ram.

The setting i have in bios are all the same as the guide i followed. I am in offset with a setting of -0.010, additional turbo voltage of 0.047 and llc level 2.

Cpu z reads the idle voltage as 1.032 and the bios reads it as 1.080. When i open cpuz it peaks at 1.320.

When idle cpuz gave a xs bench score of 1885 and under load it came in at about 1400.

Any of you guys have any ideas as to what i could to so that i can get my oc higher or my voltage down??

As i say, i dont think that this OC is to to bad, maby just not the best out there. My only concern is that at the moment i dont have a graphics card in there, just the on board one, i know that when i get a higer end one my temps will rise a bit.

Anyways,, over to you..If you need any additional info just let me know. Any help would be great :)
 
That's just your chip, hefty OC? that is a hefty OC! It's pretty similar to a lot of chips out there, including mine and setters. I run at 4.5ghz v1.3 too.

If you want to drop your temps you could delid your chip but it won't help with voltage.
 
easy,
thanks for the quick reply.
Yeah i kinda figured that it was just my chip. The more i have looked around the more i have seen people talking about stubborn chips. Guess its time for me to stop tinkering with it and to start saving for my GPU.,
thanks again
 
It could just be your chip but remember a guide is only a guide. Not every cpu is created equal.

Have you tried going for a manual voltage instead of an offset?

Have you change anything like LLC and VCCSA?
 
When i looked for advice/tips on clocking mine, the general concensus that i found was that the latest batches are needing voltage in and around the 1.3 area. Tbh, 4.5ghz is a decent oc, and your temps will never reach that high in games or normal tasks.
 
i found with mine it was fine up to 4.4ghz,needs about 1.32 volts offset,but the temps are very good(dont go above 70*c)above 4.4 and i need 1.35+ and ive even clocked to 4.7ghz but im hitting 1.4v and the temps hit about 90,im currently running at [email protected] and for everyday use this seems good(temps dont go over 65*c)
 
yeah it def seems like there are some random chips out there. Been running fine but just got the blue screen!! was watching something in windows media player and it crashed on me. I took 2 fans out just 5 mins before, think it might be something to do with that.

thanks for all the advice guys.
 
Mine does 4.5 ghz at 1.24V but as mentioned its a lottery and 1.3V isn't unusual and fine as long as your temps are ok ...which they look to be.
 
You'll find with overclocking that the volts/gains ratio gets very steep with diminishing returns the higher you go. I can run 4.2GHz at nearly stock volts, but to get 4.6GHz I need 1.28V, and I'm not 100% sure that was 100% stable. I backed it off to 4.2GHz just so that I have some headroom for the future if I need it, because I certainly don't now.

The good news is that you have a huge overclock on your chip (I remember when 4GHz was crazy!) and it was dead easy to achieve with good temps :)
 
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