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adamjosiah

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Hi all,

So I just ordered an asus z97e and i5 4690k as well as an evo 212 to cool it.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with a similar set up and if you could give me advice on where I should start and what I might be able to expect for an overclock .

One of my main reasons for wanting a fast core speed is that I use flight simulator x and that particular software is all about how much you can get out of a single core.
 
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I have a z97 mobo with the same chip and cooler @ 4.4ghz 1.2v with a 44x multiplier. some people can get away with 1.9v but id rather have the assurance of a little extra heat for stability sake. I noticed your sig is updated with "i5 4690k 4.4 GHz w/ EVO 212" and this post is 10 days old so you may have figured it out already. Let me know if you have questions anyway!
 
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Is that the lowest voltage you can use for 4.4Ghz? I use 1.19v at 4.5Ghz, it's a different chip and they are all different but I'm wondering if you tested a lower voltage or went straight to 1.275. You can use either, whatever you choose, some say adaptive is better and some say static. Adaptive should give less voltage when the CPU is idle.
 
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It's best to leave it at a stable stress test voltage so you don't risk bluescreening during CPU intensive games. How are your temps? At 1.21v I was starting to get to around 75c I think (I believe it was a hot day but it wouldn't have made that much difference), you must be running quite hot.
 
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adamjosiah

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My temps are fine, I actually made another thread about my voltage because I wanted to ask everyone if I should worry about a vcore close to 1.3 if my temps never seem to go above 65C. Usually my temps don't rise above 60c, and room temp is about 23c.
 
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Are these gaming temps or stress test temps? 1.3v is the max you want to go really, being a bit under it shouldn't be a problem.
 
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adamjosiah

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Could you see what RealTemp says for you please? I'm just trying to compare it to mine.
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RealTemp said 70c under full load. It seems that AIsuite will get up there eventually, but is extremely "laggy" with its temp refreshing. In light of this, I have adjusted my fan profile a bit though since all my fans were only running at 25% at this temp.

I also brought my vcore down to 1.250. I don't think it will hold stress tests such as intelburn at this voltage, but in all real world applications as well as Cinebench, it works just fine.
 
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synthetic stress tests are only meant to test the heat dissipation of your components and cooling system. Real world applications never achieve those kind of temps. Even the hardest games/video rendering/3D rendering applications always only get to ~70% of synthetic results.

Also, unless you are doing it for the benchmarks, that kind of overclock never gets you the desired performance, comparing to the stress you put on the CPU.

From a certain point (~1.25v?), the performance gain just does not compensate for the temps and the stress put on the components.

In my 4790K, I just "overclocked" all cores to be on 4.4GHz, and managed to greatly undervolt all kind of voltages, getting pretty low temps (max ~60º on CPU demanding games and processes), while having great performance.
Also, when i put it @4.7GHz, the temps go up to ~73º (I used to get better temps with case open. guess i have bad airflow ^^), and I get +2FPS for that..... In benchmarks, the points go up, but in real world applications, its just not worth it.....
 
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