I7 3770k Overclock

[tekki88]

How are all of you today? Well I know this is an older cpu and there are prolly a good bit of information out there about it. But I recently obtained an un-opened 3770k from ebay for a great deal and ended up upgrading from an i5. But the first thing I did was run it for a while with default settings then after a few days started overclocking it. Well it seems I may have hit the silicon lottery on this older gen chip. Atm with little testing I have been able to hit 4.8 with 1.2 voltage. Which from what I have seen is pretty darn good. Have ran many turns of intel burn test and about 6 hours of prime95 with no issues. Seems my temps are around mid to high 70's breaking 80 on one core. (using a hyper 212 evo with plans of water soon). It almost seems to good to be true. But I guess my question is does cpu's have a break in period at first use that they run better before settling in after this period and require more voltage and less clocks? Thanks for checking out my question everyone.

 

[2sidedpolygon]

I've never heard of a "break-in period" in all my time in the hardware community. I think you really did just hit the silicon lottery, so that's pretty cool. That thing will probably get some awesome performance on water.

 

[tekki88]

Yea I have never heard of any type of break in period either. But I currently have a delid tool, some conductonaut, and kryonaut on the way with plans and an open loop in near future.