Question 4770k Overclock Not getting Performance Increase

[Remedies]

Hello,I began my first overclocking attempt ever a few days ago and have currently reverted back to my base clock on my 4770k.
I used 3d mark firestrike extreme for my benchmarks. At stock 3.5 GHz I got a score of 9150. I then overclocked to 4.3 GHz which got me to 9200. This difference should be higher based on what I had seen around on the internet.
My specs are:
intel i7-4770k
Cooler Master v8 GTS
GTX 1080 FE stock
2400 mhz Gskill 2x8gb
msi gaming 7 z97 mb
Is there anything that stands out about my build as wrong, should I overclock the GPU to get results or is overclocking not worth it in my system? Could it also be that my CPU is 5 years old and just not what it used to be or that I lost the "silicon lottery" that I hear people mention.

 

[jimmysmitty]

When it comes to Overclocking there are a few ways to do it. Now when you do overclock you are setting the multiplier to always be 4.3GHz, correct? When the benchmark is running does it show all 4 cores at 4.3GHz? There are boost levels and if it is just the boost clock going to 4.3GHz then it would only be for 1 or 2 cores.

Have you checked what the CPU temperatures are at when benchmarking/stress testing?

Also the "Silicon Lottery" refers to overclocking headroom. For example I won the Silicon Lottery on my old Q6600 G0 because not only could I get it to 3GHz by just changing the BCLK I could also downclock it from the stock voltage while overclocked. It has nothing to do with the performance gains per say.

 

[Remedies]

When it comes to Overclocking there are a few ways to do it. Now when you do overclock you are setting the multiplier to always be 4.3GHz, correct? When the benchmark is running does it show all 4 cores at 4.3GHz? There are boost levels and if it is just the boost clock going to 4.3GHz then it would only be for 1 or 2 cores.

Have you checked what the CPU temperatures are at when benchmarking/stress testing?

Also the "Silicon Lottery" refers to overclocking headroom. For example I won the Silicon Lottery on my old Q6600 G0 because not only could I get it to 3GHz by just changing the BCLK I could also downclock it from the stock voltage while overclocked. It has nothing to do with the performance gains per say.

I will put the links to before and after of my results, it along with my bios shows 4.3ghz at 1.25 V.
OC'd: https://www.3dmark.com/fs/18279356
Default Settings: https://www.3dmark.com/fs/18283133
I believe these test don't share temp information along with them but I do remember in 3dmark my cpu being around 60c and in a 4 hour stress test averaging around 76c which i read was fairly cool for a 4th gen i7.

 

[spentshells]

Well the first thing I see is you have the voltage too high for such a small overclock. 1.15 should be plenty.

Disable the turbo boost features on the motherboard.

 

[Rodrigodrt]

theres a small bench tool in CPU-Z that will compare your CPU and bench it with others, 4.3 is not a bad overclock, specially if you can keep it with up to 1.20v, i frankly noticed something in the between 15-20% improvement by going 4.5ghz of course not in every field, for instance, rendering had the most of it, while in gaming, in some titles i could see 5 fps diffrence, and in some others 10 fps

just to check, try rendering something or maybe compressing a large file, see the time difference and then you can get figures out of it, but i too think firestrike should come up with some more.