Core i7 4770K overclocking help

[theonerm2]

I'm trying to see what my maximum OC is on my 4770K and I need as much help as I can get.

Right now I'm testing 4.4GHz at 1.43v vcore. Temperatures are fantastic despite the high voltage. I'm getting upper 60's to mid 70's with spikes that only last for a second or 2 in the 80's. My cooler is awesome. It's a Corsair H105. I'm running the AIDA64 stress test. Been running for about 30 minutes. I think it's going to be stable but I'm going to run this test as long as I can to be sure. I was getting higher temps but I lowered my RAM speed to 1866MHz and now it's running a lot cooler. I've already tried 4.5GHz and it bluescreens all the way up to 1.52v vcore. 4.6GHz just gives an error as soon as I try to stress test on occt. So 4.6GHz just isn't happening. Also my cooler can't handle 1.52v vcore so I think 4.4GHz may be as far as I can go.

Anyone know of some settings I can try to reach 4.5GHz? I'm on an Asus Z97-A motherboard and 2801 bios.

 

[Snipergod87]

1.52v core is way to high for anything other than benching. In general the 4770k's do not overclock well. Sounds like 4.4 may be your limit which is about normal.

 

[theonerm2]

1.52v core is way to high for anything other than benching. In general the 4770k's do not overclock well. Sounds like 4.4 may be your limit which is about normal.

I see you have a 4770K. Have you overclocked? If so what to?

 

[Snipergod87]

Max I got was 4.2 Dont remember the voltage. Mines a terrible overclocker 🙁, I set it 4.0 on all cores without a voltage change and its stable there)

 

[theonerm2]

Well mine is still running. It's been 2 hours now. I was just going to leave mine at 4.0GHz at stock voltage and call it a day but something inside of me keeps saying MORE MORE MORE.

 

[theonerm2]

Well I found my max stable oc. It's very close to 4.5GHz. In fact it's so close to 4.5GHz I'm just going to say I now have 4.5GHz. I got bluescreens with 100x45 so I tried 102.2x44 which equals 4496.8MHz Might as well say 4497MHz. Stable under AIDA64. Isn't it something that I couldn't get 4500MHz but got 4497MHz just fine? I didn't even have to increase the voltage any extra.

 

[Snipergod87]

That 3 Mhz might make the difference, the OC may be stable in real world workloads or it may not, sometimes perfectly stable benchmarking OC's are not stable for day to day usage. So if you start crashing back off the OC a little and see if it fixes it.