I managed to overclock my i7-4770

[Samuel Marlow]

hi.. i have manged to overclock my i7-4770 to be at a constant 4.13GHz... basically i did this because i was noticing some CPU spikes in battlefield 4.. now that i have overclocked it to that (it won't let me go higher) it seems to be MUCH smoother while playing games.

But what i want to know is.. now that it has been overclocked to that speed.. will it get damaged soon in the future?

My system specs are:

Motherboard: Z97-A Asus 5 way optimization.
CPU: i7-4770
CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U9B SE2
GPU: Asus 780ti DirectCU OC.
Power: Cheftek 850W
Chasis: Xigmatek 3 fan system mid tower.

hope this helps.. the CPU cooler manges to keep the temps down to around 62 while gaming.

 

[Danbuscus25]

it should be just fine, it will age faster, but only slightly.

 

[Samuel Marlow]

it should be just fine, it will age faster, but only slightly.

sorry... i posted that wrong... so its fine even though it is a non K version?

 

[LightningStriker]

Non-k versions can't be overclocked.....

 

[Danbuscus25]

yes they can, just not with the multiplier. you can raise the fsb to get an overclock, thats what i do.

 

[Samuel Marlow]

Non-k versions can't be overclocked.....

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this is the speed in which CPU-Z tells me it is now running at? Is this wrong?

 

[13thmonkey]

yes and no.

if your voltage is not too high then it should be ok, and at that OC then it should be fine.

HOWEVER - I assume you have OC'd by adjusting the base speed up from 100 to a higher number. Be very aware that this clock speed affects the many of the base operations of a PC including how it writes to the disks, at higher clock rates there is a very real chance of a corrupted writes, once it has happened, that's it, reinstall windows. So personally I wouldn't touch that clock speed, if you have a good backup mechanism in place (daily over the network, although the network operations might also be affected) then maybe it's worth the risk.

 

[Samuel Marlow]

yes and no.

if your voltage is not too high then it should be ok, and at that OC then it should be fine.

HOWEVER - I assume you have OC'd by adjusting the base speed up from 100 to a higher number. Be very aware that this clock speed affects the many of the base operations of a PC including how it writes to the disks, at higher clock rates there is a very real chance of a corrupted writes, once it has happened, that's it, reinstall windows. So personally I wouldn't touch that clock speed, if you have a good backup mechanism in place (daily over the network, although the network operations might also be affected) then maybe it's worth the risk.

I pressed the wrong dam button... and picked as solution.. oops... well.. that is what i did... but only by 6.. so 6% increase on the base speed.. that is getting to the dangerous side of things?

 

[Danbuscus25]

no, it should be just fine, ive increased my fsb by 20% with no problems.

 

[Samuel Marlow]

no, it should be just fine, ive increased my fsb by 20% with no problems.

oh right, and do you have the same CPU as me??

 

[Danbuscus25]

no.

 

[13thmonkey]

yes and no.

if your voltage is not too high then it should be ok, and at that OC then it should be fine.

HOWEVER - I assume you have OC'd by adjusting the base speed up from 100 to a higher number. Be very aware that this clock speed affects the many of the base operations of a PC including how it writes to the disks, at higher clock rates there is a very real chance of a corrupted writes, once it has happened, that's it, reinstall windows. So personally I wouldn't touch that clock speed, if you have a good backup mechanism in place (daily over the network, although the network operations might also be affected) then maybe it's worth the risk.

I pressed the wrong dam button... and picked as solution.. oops... well.. that is what i did... but only by 6.. so 6% increase on the base speed.. that is getting to the dangerous side of things?

I'd say anything above about 3 is getting into dangerous territory. Look at the early sandy bridge reviews about overclocking. It'll be fine for a while and then be a problem, which will be catastrophic.

According to danbuscus's profile he has an athlon, it's a completely different beast, and not comparable in this respect at all.

 

[Danbuscus25]

i have an amd cpu, but if increasing my fsb by 20% doesnt hurt my hdd, mobo, ram, gpu, or anything, i think 6% should be fine.

 

[Samuel Marlow]

no.

but you have a non K version CPU right? different CPU's work very differently i heard...

 

[Samuel Marlow]

i have an amd cpu, but if increasing my fsb by 20% doesnt hurt my hdd, mobo, ram, gpu, or anything, i think 6% should be fine.

Ok thanks for your help i picked your first answer as the solution because it just gives the most simple answer

Thanks again

 

[Danbuscus25]

no problem

 

[13thmonkey]

i have an amd cpu, but if increasing my fsb by 20% doesnt hurt my hdd, mobo, ram, gpu, or anything, i think 6% should be fine.

But this isn't the FSB, it's the bkclk, different clock, coupled in different ways to other components.

I urge you both to learn how it works from the early sandybridge OC articles where the limits of overclocking the later iseries processors were understood. socket 2011 for instance separates out the base clock speed from the rest of the bus speeds (more like the old FSB) so that you can do bclk and multiplier OCing.

 

[13thmonkey]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/3

 

[13thmonkey]

posted in error

 

[Xibyth]

BCLK, or base clock, is a frequency oscillator that controls how much data is sent in a "burst" or the actual term is tick. The rate of increase is heavily reliant on the CPU (individual, not very much based on the model though some models prove better). The downside is the gains from this are minimal but if they are helping then why not leave it. To be clear though, this feature is generally also used by overclockers to fine tune if they are nearly stable but need to drop it back a bit, or to get a tiny bit of extra juice out of their CPU (for instance the K series). Bear in mind if you start getting memory issues you may want to tone it back. The memory controller does not have it's own multiplier and is tied to the base clock, so as you increase the base clock the memory timing is overclocked as well. If you feel really adventurous at that point you could always give the controller a bit more voltage to stabilize it again VIA the VTT Voltage control in the BIOS.