can you overclock past whats specified?

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g'day mates,
im looking at the i7-4930k (http://ark.intel.com/products/77780), and intel says you can overclock it to 3.9ghz, but ive read articles where they talk about overclocking processors to 4.5 or 5+ ghz. is it possible to overclock a processor more than they say on the website?
thanks, and cheers!
 
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Turbo is the "stock" overclock. CPU frequency will jump from stock to the turbo frequency but wont STAY at that frequency. so if you TURBO up to 4.5 ghz for example it will reach that under heavy load and but wont stay there. if you do an manual overclock to 4.5 it will stay at 4.5 ghz all the time.
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thanks mate, what is the difference between turbo frequency and overclock? and how should i approach these in order to get the best possible performance and power out this thing?
 
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Turbo is just a boost of speed which comes in as the cpu needs it, i think. Overclocking is changing the speed to make the processor faster manually. (At least this is how i see it, someone can probably give a much better definition/description than i can).

I don't know how to get the best performance out of that processor. But I would say just overclock through the bios. I would just change the multiplier and go up slowly until you hit an unstable point. Then either back off if you're satisfied, or if you're not you can up the voltage until it's stable and keep going. if that makes sense.
 
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Turbo is the "stock" overclock. CPU frequency will jump from stock to the turbo frequency but wont STAY at that frequency. so if you TURBO up to 4.5 ghz for example it will reach that under heavy load and but wont stay there. if you do an manual overclock to 4.5 it will stay at 4.5 ghz all the time.
 
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