- Jun 30, 2012
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Ok, so after putting my system together I decided to oc my CPU (i5 4670k), I did some light research on oc guides, but I guess I left misinformed in general. My final result was 4.2ghz at 1.4v believing I would be ok, I was, everything was fine and I got no errors with prime95 for 1 hour, however I stupidly didn't watch my temps, the next day I decide to bump it up to 4.4ghz, but this time I did watch my temps and I saw they reached 100C, which is way too high, and I got a clock_watchdog_timeout error from Windows after a bit of tweaking. This led me to my more informative research and realized that 1.4v was insanely high. I dropped it to 1.2v and back to 4.2ghz, which oddly was still unstable, so I most likely just have a bad chip. My CPU is now stable at 4ghz and 1.1v and max temps of 68C. Most of this is just my stupidity so I don't need you telling me how foolish it was, I was just wondering if any long term damage to my CPU could have occured during that time, I think I only left it at the insanely high voltage for around an 1 hour and maybe 20 minutes. Everything is fine now, a thing I am noticing however is when windows boots up and it prompts for my password, it lags weirdly and is grayed out, and I have to wait a few seconds before I can start typing it in. Thanks for any help, and again refrain from calling me a fool, you'll be wasting your time.
If the lag at boot is the only observable difference in and of itself it may not be indicative of a problem as result of the high voltages. Otherwise unless you had logged some benchmarks before the OC you have nothing to compare with now, which makes it real hard to conclude anything with certainty. Opinions ?? I've seen a whole lot of folks put real crazy volts through their systems in benchmark competitions day in day out. Where damage will be noticed is over time in that the CPU will require higher volt settings to accomplish what it used to at lower setting. CPU's i suppose it could be said are a bit like us in that what you did at a young age will influence how things go later on... so I...
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