mild overclock on a stock cooler?

[nimonster]

I have a 4690k and I just want to do a small overclock since I do have a stock cooler. Would I do this in the bios? by how much?

Also would it be worth it removing the stock thermal paste and replacing it with the acrtic silver one that i have?

 

[Karsten75]

The stock cooler can barely keep up with cooling the i5-4690K. We hear endless issues here about people trying the burn-in tests and getting unreasonably high temps. If you love your processor, you wouldn't. The difference the thermal paste would make would be minimal - at the best. 2-3C

 

[Gam3r01]

The only processor that can "OC" on the stock cooler is the new pentium lineups, and those arent great under stock coolers.
For such a high performance processor such as the 4690k, get an aftermarket cooler before attempting any OCs.

 

[sportsfanboy]

What are your temps in the most demanding apps or games you currently use? i have had no issues overclocking friends and families cpu for many generations of chips, including the current chips on stock cooling. You aren't going to achieve much more than 5 to 10 percent without heat issues, but you can test and see.

 

[nimonster]

What are your temps in the most demanding apps or games you currently use? i have had no issues overclocking friends and families cpu for many generations of chips, including the current chips on stock cooling. You aren't going to achieve much more than 5 to 10 percent without heat issues, but you can test and see.

Like around 60 C

 

[sportsfanboy]

If those are core temps, you have about 10c load temperature to play with. That chip can run 24/7, 365 days, for three years and more at that temp.