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Want to push CPU harder

Techen

Techen

Techen

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Quick question for you guys,

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Looking to push this CPU upto 4.8 Ghz, Max temp is normally around 52c. Anyone had any luck pushing this CPU any higher than I've got?
 
depends on the chip,and cooling might be an issue at 4.8ghz and above

4.5ghz-4.6ghz is usually the limit due to too high temps,to go higher you would need to delid it

what motherboard you using?
 
I would say delid and give it a try. Quite often tho you will find that there is a plateau of speed in relation to voltage. For instance you have your cpu at 4.5ghz and it looks like its running at 1.35v(less vdroop) and that may be its plateau. You may find that getting it past that or up to the speed you want could take 1.45-1.5v and that's where you would need to improve your cooling dramatically. You could do a rudimentary test by ramping up all your fans and slowly increase the multi till it starts to have issues then start adding voltage until it stabilises or the temps get worrying.
 
Techen said:
Quick question for you guys,
Looking to push this CPU upto 4.8 Ghz, Max temp is normally around 52c. Anyone had any luck pushing this CPU any higher than I've got?
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52C° is very improbable with an Ivy Bridge and under load it is probably in high 70s or low 80s.W hat cooling are you using and what is the motherboard.
 
Depends what the op's definition of load is, 58c looks about right for gaming load. However synthetic tests such as ibt etc will often see temps in the 80c plus range.
 
setter said:
Depends what the op's definition of load is, 58c looks about right for gaming load. However synthetic tests such as ibt etc will often see temps in the 80c plus range.
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It's not like you can test for stability with gaming. It will take you forever. :)
 
setter said:
Ive had prime/ibt stable oc's fail within minutes on the right games.
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If you test with the right combination of settings, it's very unlikely that it will fail. And anyway, at the end you can always check with a fast 30-60 minute Crysis 3/Battelfield 4/any multithread optimized modern game test. :)
NoNameNoNumber said:
:rolleyes:

But at least it's being tested under real world conditions.
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What happens if it freezes on 2 hour 31 minutes? The advantage of stress testing is that a person is not required. :D So you can leave it for as long as you want and the longer it loops, the lower the chance for a real world condition failure.
 
Ive always found the bf games to be great for testing an oc'd system, pretty demanding games. Due to owning a very hot running 4770k, normal use is the only stress testing i can use. Synthetic testing with prime will hit the mid 90's in seconds, i daren't even load up ibt or LinX.
 
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