My i7-7700k won't overclock to anything higher than 4.5ghz

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My specs
motherboard: Msi Z270 sli plus
Cpu: i7-7700k oc (4.5)
Ram: 64gb ddr4 oc (3000)
Gpu: Gtx 1080 ti
Psu: 1000 watt

My Bios Settings:
https://ibb.co/bbVRZpj
https://ibb.co/WfYF9L8
https://ibb.co/WBF2jmk
https://ibb.co/1zXtKPH

I seen lots of people with the same cpu and motherboard and overclock their cpu to 4.8ghz and have it boot to windows and run benchmarks with good temps. Then I try, I changed the settings around making the cpu ratio x46, x47, and x48 with core voltage at 1.280. Only x46 was able to boot and run a benchmark, then after an hour it crashed and I had to lower it back. both x47 and x48 weren't able to boot they either freeze at the when loading windows or windows 10 just says something is wrong with your pc and it gave me that blue screen with the repair button. I tried so many things I turn up the core voltage slowly and it reached to 1.4 with no sign of improvement, still doesn't boot, I changed the core/gt voltage mode Auto, Adaptive, Override, I changed the cpu loadline calibration control and cpu gt loadline calibration control from mode 1 to mode 2 and 3. I don't know what to do I'm really new to overclocking please help me.

Thank you
 
Solution
Ok. I guess I feel I should clarify the testing method further since I'm getting the feeling you don't know much about overclocking.

Set the voltage to 1.4v and multiplier to 47 to get a 4.7Ghz clock.

Run the heat test (small FFT test) in Aida64 and no other stress. Make sure only the heat test is check marked and nothing else.
Run the test for 15 minutes.

If you crash, freeze, hang, etc. before the 15 minutes is passed, you cannot get 4.7Ghz at 1.4v and it is not a good idea to go any further than 1.4v with the cooler you have.
If this happens you will have to settle for 4.6Ghz at 1.3v which you said seemed to be able to run the stress tests just fine.

However, if you do pass the 15 minute mini test stop the test and restart the PC...
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yeah that's what I did, but it failed on 4.7ghz at 1.4v only ran for 12 minutes. So now i'm on back 4.6ghz on 1.32, I guess 4.6ghz is as far as I go.
 

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Guess so.
But hey, at least you are getting faster than turbo speed on all of the cores.
That's pretty good compared to stock settings.

And 4.6Ghz is totally fine to run at.
I run my 6700K at 4.6Ghz and it handles everything I throw at it just fine.
I don't get any bottlenecking in the latest AAA titles at 1440p on my 1080Ti.
(can run 4.7 but temps are warmer than I want them to be. Still within safe operation, just more than I want them to be)
 

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