i5 4670k Oc advise

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davemaster84

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Hi guys. Recently I have purchased a i5 4670k paired with an asus maximus vi hero board, so far it-s been great but I have a little problem. After following the asus advise I found out that my cpu wont boot into windows with a 4.6 Oc and 1.25v, meaning I can-t expect the chip going further 4.3 or 4.4 Ghz at near 1.3v, I think I can make 4.2 or 4.1 stable at 1.25v but that would increase a lot my temps (I'm using a hyper 212 evo cooler) so the question is. Does it worth to Oc my cpu to 4.2 regarding game performance? Or should I keep it under the stock 3.4/3.8 clock. Thanks a lot.
 
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Hmm, the "winning chip" test is to set in bios multiplier to x45 in all cores and vcore to 1.2v. If it gets past post, is a step, if it boot windows and can login the session, another step. Then comes the stress tests for stability and whatnot. I recommend you to set BIOS to optimized defaults and then run the 4-way optimization that should it take it to a stable 4.2Ghz @1.2v-ish
 
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Ya, must be a less than average chip. I have a hyper evo cooler also and the same cpu, I'm running 4.4 Ghz with 1.155v. Honestly, it's a top of the line cpu for gaming so It should still crush any game out right now at stock speeds if your gpu is good.
 
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Well I tried 4.2 Ghz on 1.25 v and it worked, it seems stable enough for now, it stays below 60c and the voltage is around 1.26 (dunno why). In my opinion this O is good enough, but is that voltage safe enough or it would cripple the cpu life span. Thx

Update: Damn I tested it in games and was a complete failure, even on 4.1 Ghz, I reverted the overclock 'cause it is pointless to tune voltages to 1.3 only to get 4.2 Ghz, I got very bad luck with this chip :(
 
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With haswell chips the max you should use in a safe oc is 1.3vcore. Then again, the 4 way optimization with the ai suite III software should give you the most stable overclock for your chip. If not satisfactory, then factory specs will have to do :c
 
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