CPU overclocking help?

[Potato Joe]

My motherboard typically doesn't actually save my overclocking settings (Gigabyte X99 SLI board) unless I use a Windows program to overclock (Gigabyte's own EZ Tune software, go figure). Beyond just getting the actually BIOS overclocking to work, is 4.2GHz on a 5820k running 1.226V good? EZ Tune wouldn't raise the clock any higher and I'm assuming it lowered the voltage to the lowest it could at that clock speed. It's worth noting that I used the AutoTune feature instead of just using any of the presets.

 

[djreedj]

That seems about right. How are your temps?

 

[Potato Joe]

Thermaltake Water 3.0 ultimate cooler, in most stress tests (Prime 95 26.6) I don't see anything above 60C, with GPU stress tests running I don't go above 65C.

 

[djreedj]

Thats good.

 

[Potato Joe]

Well yeah but I was hoping to get a higher overclock.

 

[djreedj]

fool around with it just dont let temps go over 80-85 degrees

 

[Potato Joe]

...That is probably the second most unhelpful answer I've gotten on this website, just behind someone telling me to use Freon to improve the performance of my air cooler once.