1st overclock, these results look ok?

[jjlee138]

Hello gentleman,
This is my 1st overclock. I've been reading everything I can find for weeks and trying my best to assimilate the information. I've got what appears to be a semi-stable OC on my i5-4690k at 4.7ghz @1.27v. It's never crashed on me, but I'm referring to it as semi stable due to the fact that the longest I've run synthetic tests on it is 30min with P95 small and then blend. I'll run longer tests as I get things dialed in. As you can see in HWinfo it shows that I've only overclocked the CPU Turbo. Is this all I should be overclocking on the Haswell's? Please let me know if you see anything else here that might be concerning, as it's my 1st OC I'm a bit nervous that I missed something... Thank you for the assistance, this is a fantastic thread!

Also I'm using air cooling and I'm running about 5-8c hotter under synthetic tests (as pictured) with the case closed so I'm assuming I can bring that down with more than 1 exhaust and 2 intake fans.

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

I'd run p95 for an hour just to check its properly stable. Nice overclock, but do you really need to oc that cpu? I had mine at 4.5Ghz but have put it back to stock for now because it doesn't need the extra power. 84c is getting hot even for prime, what temps are you getting while gaming?

 

[jjlee138]

I'd run p95 for an hour just to check its properly stable. Nice overclock, but do you really need to oc that cpu? I had mine at 4.5Ghz but have put it back to stock for now because it doesn't need the extra power. 84c is getting hot even for prime, what temps are you getting while gaming?

Thanks for the response, honestly no, I really don't need to OC it that high. I just got a little greedy and started pushing the numbers when I saw how well things were responding. I ran p95 for just about an hour later that night on small and it stayed stable for the duration. Large runs about 10c cooler at 4.7.

Since then I've decided to back it down to 4.6 at 1.21v which hovers around 70c and spikes at 74c on p95 small. I've tortured it briefly with IBT (Which I've since read is unnecessarily harsh heat wise for stability testing) at 4.6 and it stayed under 84c and stable as well, so I think I've found my daily driver OC for now.

As far as gaming, all I've tried so far is a couple hours of GTA V maxed out as far as it can go and I think the CPU peaked at 53c if I remember correctly? I'd have to specifically check that out again. But no, you're correct, I don't really need it dialed up to 4.7 for daily use.