Intel's Core i7-4770K Overclocked to 5.0 GHz on Just 0.904 V
It appears that someone has managed to overclock the i7-4770K to a whopping 5.0 GHz using just a measly 0.904 V.
So far, we've seen the i7-4770K overclocked to both 7.0 GHz and 8.0 GHz, and now we see another overclocking something that's possibly even more impressive. While the overclock shown here might just be one that goes up to 5.0 GHz, it appears that the overclocker has managed to pull this off at just 0.904 V.
Now, what is clear from the CPU-Z screenshot is that the overclock has been pulled off with HyperThreading disabled.
In the meantime, another overclock was shown as well; one where the chip ran at 3.8 GHz at a mere 0.719 V. 
Of course, while these overclocks are impressive, it remains to be seen whether they are actually stable. It is very possible that once a load is applied, the CPU destabilizes and the system crashes.
They mentioned a limit of or around 8Ghz because of the multiplier limitations.
the computer would have to go under load when loading up windows, even if it is for a short while... i wonder HOW stable it is... if this is true, and the person got it to 5.0ghz, an upgrade from ivy bridge may actually seem worth it!
just sayin.
Haswell should scale down nicely!
1 netbook with a 2Ghz 1 core while hyperthreaded please, @ 0.5 V please
I really want to see the temperatures of these things.
They mentioned a limit of or around 8Ghz because of the multiplier limitations.
They mentioned an limit of or around 8Ghz because of the multiplier limitations.
Interesting, well I just hope this is true, this chip can have a lot of overclocking potential.
1.maximum recommended volt/this one 1.5/0.9 = 1.66666666
2.1.666666 * 5=8
it looks like 8Ghz is really the max clock for this epic CPU
I bet those overclocks are done under idle condition and since Haswell has 10X lower idle power than Ivy Bridge, this means the CPUs will be at close to ambient temperature.
I am expecting most of those overclocking results to get thrown out the window as soon as you enable all cores, HT (where applicable) and give the CPUs an actual workload.
~7% gain from SB to IB, ~10% from IB to Haswell so apart from software optimized for new instructions, we are talking maybe 20% more stock performance.
If I were you, I would wait for Skylake in about two years but even then, we may still be talking about only a ~50% gain.
~7% gain from SB to IB, ~10% from IB to Haswell so apart from software optimized for new instructions, we are talking maybe 20% more stock performance.
If I were you, I would wait for Skylake in about two years but even then, we may still be talking about only a ~50% gain.
it would be roughly a 17.7% gain clock per clock, but if you really can push 6+GHz stable then you are talking about a huge raw performance boost. Lets say that you have a SB @ 4.5GHz which is a normal and respectable OC without going crazy. An OC to 6GHz would be a 35% boost alone, plus being faster clock per clock of an added 17% would mean over a 50% performance boost in only 2 generations... which is crazy and rather unexpected.
Personally I will be waiting for the Sky series. Mostly because I am not made out of money and cannot afford to upgrade every 2 years, but also because my i7 2600 is frankly overkill for everything that I do. I would love some bigger/faster SSDs, I really need a GPU with more onboard memory, and I could do with an upgrade from my DDR3 1333 to some 1866... but really, the bottlenecks of the system are in those support parts, not the CPU itself. There is no added CPU performance that would be noticeable to me, so I am simply going to wait until we start seeing SATA4, DDR4, and some other faster busses to become standard before updating, because I will notice those upgrades much more than the upgrade of the CPU itself.
1.maximum recommended volt/this one 1.5/0.9 = 1.66666666
2.1.666666 * 5=8
it looks like 8Ghz is really the max clock for this epic CPU
Last time I checked, voltage to clock ratio wasn't linear in the slightest.
So Tom's is wrong because it says "core voltage" and then says ".904v" and they say it has a vcore of .904v because of that?
If Haswell chips could be pushed that high that easily with all features enabled under burn-in conditions, I think Intel would have factored most of that headroom in stock clock rates in the first place and the stock lineup would be 3.5-5GHz instead of 2.9-3.9GHz. The whole point of the non-K lineup is to burn up most of the high-yield headroom with multiplier-locked chips and force overclockers to buy the highest-binned chips. It would make no sense to give overclockers over 1GHz of extra headroom if yields really were that good.
Haswell is built on the same process as IB, has a wider execution pipeline, a deeper register file and deeper OoOE buffers all of which make it a substantially more complex chip and means almost certainly more combinational logic and propagation delays between DFFs in those critical blocks. In principle, those should actually make Haswell a worse overclocker than SB/IB under real-world scenarios.
That's why I'm saying most of the ridiculous overclocks - assuming they are real - are likely nothing more than artifacts of Haswell's exceptional idle caracteristics.