Testing 7600k potential

[kaku]

Been having a bit of a play around with a new system I've made at work. It's meant to be an office PC so relatively budget motherboard and cooler, but it's got no problem running RealBench and SuperPI @ 5.2GHz/1.4v which struck me as surprisingly high.

It's a fairly quick and dirty OC and like I said it's a budget build (Z270-D3H and Raijintek Themis cooler) - what else can I do to test the potential of this chip? I've spent more time benching than I did on the overclock so I think it can go further.

Worth buying a replacement CPU and keeping this one?

 

[voidshatter]

It appears that you've found yourself a gem. Congratulations! Recently I've seen others winning the lottery more frequently.

Run LinX 0.6.5 for 4 threads and 8GB of memory, and verify that you have at least 240 Gflops performance without error. Then lower the voltage step by step. When you get errors, just up the voltage for a notch so you can run it for 24x7 without concern.

 

[mattyfez]

If voltage and temps are sensible I think I'd be inclined to buy another and swap the chip out

That said I don't know what's good going for that chip, I would imagine most should be able hit 5ghz, and you might not want to run 1.4v 24/7.

 

[iBSOD]

Doubt that cooler can keep it under 80 at load with 1.4v...