Can I overclock my i5-4690K with these specs?

[CreedForce]

I'd like to know how much I can overclock my i5-4690K safely with these specs-

CPU- i5-4690K
PSU - Corsair VS650
GPU - GTX 970(Zotac)
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8GB

Thanks.

 

[Karl_oh]

What sort of cooler you got on your CPU

 

[CreedForce]

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.

 

[Karl_oh]

Get a temperature monitor like real temp and slowly work your way up with the overclocking. You wont get as far as you would with a closed loop watercooler (Or a fully watercooled rig) but you should be able to overlclock a bit.

Make sure you stress test for a prolonged period of time to make sure temps are fine

 

[CreedForce]

Thanks.
How much do you think I'll be able to get to?

 

[Karl_oh]

Depends on whether you got a golden chip or not. Most 4960K's will all overclock to at least 4GHz and the golden chips max at like 4.5/4.6 (But thats watercooled) Im thinking maybe 3.8/3.9 GHz

 

[CreedForce]

What is a golden chip??

 

[Karl_oh]

A really lucky chip that overclocks really high and is stable at those high GHz As it is silicon there is a lot of variation and some times you get lucky!

 

[CreedForce]

Oh, I get it. Well, I haven't even seen my new PC yet. It's probably being assembled right now at home. It sucks that I'm not back for another 4 days. Can't wait to see my new rig. You know the craziest part...
I'm upgrading from a 550 Ti to a GTX 970. The last processor I had was a Core 2 Duo E7200. Heck I didn't even have a 64-Bit system!!!

 

[Karl_oh]

Wow man! Congrats and hope it all goes well 😀

 

[Undying89]

Dont give up at 4ghz, try to push it more to like 4.3/4.4 if you can.

 

[CreedForce]

Yep, will do! Thanks for the help and support!!

 

[DubbleClick]

4.4ghz is easily doable with the evo, if you don't push in too much voltage. Expect about 1.15v for 4.4ghz. You'll probably get limited around 4.5-4.6ghz with the evo, only high end air coolers or high end closed loop coolers (noctua nh-d14, dark rock 3, corsair h100i or even better noctua nh-d15) will do more than that.