Hey people,
I'm really new to overclocking. I know the basics of stability, core voltage, base clock and multipliers, but I've run into a massive wall overclocking my 4670k. I'm using a hyper 212 plus, and I can't get my system to run stable past 4.1ghz. I had to turn up the voltage to 1.275 just to get that stable, which are voltages that many people (even with bad chips as are many haswells) use running their systems at 4.4ghz.. At first I thought I had applied the thermal paste really terrible, so I completely re-applied it (spreading it with an old creditcard until it was an even, thin layer. The thermal paste itself is 98% silver compound btw, I just bought the most expensive one they had.
I have now overclocked my system to 4.0 ghz with OCgenie (I have an msi g45 z87 board) and my idle temps are around 25°C. However, when I fire up prime95 my temperature skyrockets to around 68°C with peaks of up to 75°, and a core voltage of 1.333v!!
I've attached a picture of both my temps and the thermal paste.
img]https://imageshack.com/i/nl5gucj[/img]
Is it just my bad overclocking, the thermal paste, or have I received the worst haswell chip ever?
Kind regards,
Cheeki.
I'm really new to overclocking. I know the basics of stability, core voltage, base clock and multipliers, but I've run into a massive wall overclocking my 4670k. I'm using a hyper 212 plus, and I can't get my system to run stable past 4.1ghz. I had to turn up the voltage to 1.275 just to get that stable, which are voltages that many people (even with bad chips as are many haswells) use running their systems at 4.4ghz.. At first I thought I had applied the thermal paste really terrible, so I completely re-applied it (spreading it with an old creditcard until it was an even, thin layer. The thermal paste itself is 98% silver compound btw, I just bought the most expensive one they had.
I have now overclocked my system to 4.0 ghz with OCgenie (I have an msi g45 z87 board) and my idle temps are around 25°C. However, when I fire up prime95 my temperature skyrockets to around 68°C with peaks of up to 75°, and a core voltage of 1.333v!!
I've attached a picture of both my temps and the thermal paste.
img]https://imageshack.com/i/nl5gucj[/img]
Is it just my bad overclocking, the thermal paste, or have I received the worst haswell chip ever?
Kind regards,
Cheeki.