Trying to OVERCLOCK I7-4770k to 4.4

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ajpalmeter

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Hey there, first time trying to overclock, had this cpu chip for about 2-3 years now, though I'd try to push her to the max, okay so let us start

This is the operating system I'm working with.
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Using Corsair H80I V2 water cooling for CPU COOLING.

I've first tried to use OC TUNER, that came with my motherboard, was trying to figure out how to do it without, but still would like some advice if possible...

I know it possible to get to 4.4 due to CINEBENCH has a benchmark with someone getting 4.4. I don't even mind getting her to 4.2 Currently it's at 3.5 and turbo boost at 3.9 It is not terrible by any means, but just want to push to the limit.

I only have about a 550-watt power supply, Do you think I need to upgrade that before it will work.

I TRIED to use OC TUNER, and it crashed both times using RATIO FIRST, AND BCLK FIRST.
It was stable for a bit, till I used INTEL BURN TEST, and it crashed at the 9th phase of the test.

The CPU was getting to almost 90C though so i was thinking its to hard on the system, and maybe 4.2 won't get that hot, let me know, been trying to do this for a few days! thanks!

More pictures of the system itself.

Cinebench test.
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CPU-Z showing status
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Max 1.3V. Try 4.3ghz @1.280 and stress with Prime95 Small FFT's for at least 30 mins. Post max temp if there's no crash.
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What do you mean this is a, AIO water cooling, It has two fans and the cooling radiator?

I thought this would be fine ?
 
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Currently, I'm overclocked at 4.0, not far from the original 3.9 my temps are much hotter using intel burn test, temp went to 82C max via x10 test phase on standard. I don't know if i can get any better without burning out my system, going to try at 4.2 next but i don't want to go over 85c ,, Already hit 82c at 4.0ghz

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My previous score in cinebench aswell looks like it went up a couple numbers.

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Don't use Intel Burn Test, I haven't used it in a long time however it was the same issue with other versions of Prime95 where the voltage gets overridden and causes higher temps then need be. Just use Prime95 Small FFT's.

Also make sure your manually setting the voltage, don't use auto settings.

From the guide.
"Overclocking should not be attempted with Vcore settings in “Auto” because BIOS will apply significantly more voltage than is necessary to maintain stability. We know that excessive heat over time damages electronics, so even when using manual Vcore settings, excessive Vcore and Core temperature may result in accelerated "Electromigration"
 
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I'm working with a sabertooh z87, I don't see an option to set the V core? I need to figure this one out asap!

Currently im doing the prime98 small tests and seems like its getting only to about 65c max currently on test 3 out of 8


Okay so its stable at 4.0 ghz from 3.5
Tested and it worked fine, restarted and turned on XMP for my ram to run at 1866mhz

Tested and works
gained some points aswell

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Going to restart now and try and get more out of it, might go to 4.2 if i crash, going to up the voltage to 1.250v and try again!
 
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what i mean is that cooler is a lower end AIO and i can not handle the amount of heat that your overclocked cpu is putting out. you could try a AIO with a 240 radiator like a h100 or if you are confident in your skills you can delid your cpu and get far better temps and overclock.
 
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Currently looks like I'm stable at 4.2 at 1.200v
temps are looking alright at 72c

Might just stick here, but might try 4.4 my goal!

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How long exactly should i run the prime95 benchmark for ?
And WHAT ARE THE MAX TEMPS I SHOULD WORRY ABOUT? anything above 80c ??

its been going for about 20 minutes almost now and it hasn't crashed yet, and the max temp is at 73c

I'm thinking about stopping the benchmark running cinebench and checking the scores, i want to pass the 4.4 ghz user with my 4.2 ghz :) :na:

Please let me know, you've been extremly helpful


Currently checked my specs in cinebench, noticed it freezes a bit when it almost finishes but it actually got a better score then the 4.4ghz already and it's only 4.2ghz

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I tried to overclock to 4.4ghz it crashed before post , switched to 4.3 ghz crashed after post on prime95 test

Switched back to 4.2 ghz doing the prime test again, i think shes stable at 4.2 ghz,

4.3 ghz WITH Xmp for the ram might of been the problem, might try again in the future to get 4.3 ghz - 4.4 ghz without xmp for the ram, tons of other overclockers say ram might be the problem so don't do that till the end, gonna keep this for now, testing another half hour to make sure its stable at around 73c if so keeping that for now :)
 
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Voltage - 1.200v at 4.4 ghz crashed before post

Voltage 1.250v at 4.3 ghz crashed testing prime95

Went back to Voltage - 1.200v at 4.2 ghz stable

( i heard 1.350v was safe ) but haven't tried that yet. ( don't really want to )
 
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Currently, I'm getting decent temps of 72-74c while stress testing max!
I don't think I'm going any higher, I didn't buy the CPU cooler to overclock at all.

I just had a basic Noctua fan on their before because of my ram slots are big.
the aio water cooler helped for the summer heat that always makes my computer way to hot!
 
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Max 1.3V. Try 4.3ghz @1.280 and stress with Prime95 Small FFT's for at least 30 mins. Post max temp if there's no crash.
 
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My 4770k shoots right up to 100 degree celcius within a second of any stress test starting and starts thermal throttling in any stress tests, and I stop it right away because... at 4.0Ghz or even 3.9 which is the stock turbo speed for 4770k... my AIO water cooler doesn't even have a chance to absorb the heat even one bit before. Mine must be a lottery ticket that doesn't match even a single number.. grr.. I'll be delidding to see if it helps even a bit, since I don't care at this point if my 4yr old 4770k dies or not lol may as well have some fun destroying it.

My 4770k mostly sat for ~ 3yrs after I stopped using my hypervisor lab machine maybe the thermal stuff beneath IHS has gone bad? I re-seated the water cooler a couple of times with no luck with different paste...
 
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That just sounds like (assuming your cooler is decent) you have a bad mount between the CPU and the cooler, especially if it just instantly hits 100C. My 4690K could do 4GHz on the stock cooler and stay in the 80s!
 
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pininfarina575

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well, I tried remounting my H80i several times with different compounds (cooler master and Arctic Silver 5) but didn't help one bit. Changing some settings in the BIOS helped a little bit, but still hit throttling every time.

I did get a different AIO for $69 - 240mm one, and that helped A LOT. I'm now on 4.3Ghz with 1.235v vCore with 38 uncore and on IBT maximum it only hits 82~83 a few times.

Still wanting to delid later to see if I can hi 4.5Ghz or something.
 
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Hello, the h80 is capable with the 4770k on 4.4 mine has been running like that for a year now with the h80i v2. Mind you mine is delidded. Its very easy to do so.
I stumbled on this thread because im currently trying to get it higher.
My settings were
100 x 44 on all cores with vcore 1.3
I have set the rgb led of the corsair to turn read above 50 degrees. And it rarely does. Last time it was because my aorus 1080ti puts out a lot of heat in the case.
 
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