I've had a 7700K for quite a while now, or about 1.5 years.
I've done some overclocking tests since I recently got a Corsair H100i v2 liquid cooler. I got mine to 4.8GHz at around 1.3 volts. I know it's not great, but it's the best stable voltage I could get.
Side note: it's not delidded and on 4.8GHz @ 1.3V I get around 88°c stable on cinebench with quiet mode on (100% CPU usage)
My question mainly lies in should I have a static or adaptive voltage? Electricity costs are really cheap here so that's not a problem. I'm fairly new to overclocking but have done some basic stuff before. I've seen people say that static is better for testing stability on an overclock. I've tried going to 4.9GHz 3 times now at stock voltage and it crashed instantly (yes I'm retarded). I haven't tried giving it more voltage to get over 4.8GHz but I got a stable 4.8GHz at ca. 1.3V.
Right now on idle (sorta) while I'm writing this post it's running 50°c on quiet mode. It occasionally fluctuates to 70°c randomly and it's something I'm concerned about (on idle). When I benchmarked my marks on Intel XTU I got a peak of 99°c so I didn't get to TJUNCTION.
I still don't know if I wanna delid because I really don't trust myself. I've heard people say it's easy but I canxxxx mess up the easiest things really bad.
My second question (sorta) is what stuff do I need and where to get it, what do you recommend. What are the mains do's and don'ts if I decide to delid and try for 5GHz-5.2GHz?
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I've done some overclocking tests since I recently got a Corsair H100i v2 liquid cooler. I got mine to 4.8GHz at around 1.3 volts. I know it's not great, but it's the best stable voltage I could get.
Side note: it's not delidded and on 4.8GHz @ 1.3V I get around 88°c stable on cinebench with quiet mode on (100% CPU usage)
My question mainly lies in should I have a static or adaptive voltage? Electricity costs are really cheap here so that's not a problem. I'm fairly new to overclocking but have done some basic stuff before. I've seen people say that static is better for testing stability on an overclock. I've tried going to 4.9GHz 3 times now at stock voltage and it crashed instantly (yes I'm retarded). I haven't tried giving it more voltage to get over 4.8GHz but I got a stable 4.8GHz at ca. 1.3V.
Right now on idle (sorta) while I'm writing this post it's running 50°c on quiet mode. It occasionally fluctuates to 70°c randomly and it's something I'm concerned about (on idle). When I benchmarked my marks on Intel XTU I got a peak of 99°c so I didn't get to TJUNCTION.
I still don't know if I wanna delid because I really don't trust myself. I've heard people say it's easy but I can
My second question (sorta) is what stuff do I need and where to get it, what do you recommend. What are the mains do's and don'ts if I decide to delid and try for 5GHz-5.2GHz?
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