[SOLVED] No 5.0 ghz i7 7700k

[rayzen_20]

Hy i have i7 7700k delid liquid metal on i cant have 5.0 on 1.440 even not working

 

[Supahos]

Delidding doesn't make it oc better, it just makes it cooler when you try

 

[stevenjemint]

Its down to the silicon, you may have just been unlucky and got a chip not capable of it

 

[BringerOfTea]

even the 1,440 volts are not viable in the long run... think max recommended voltage was 1,4 for overclocking kabylake

 

[Supahos]

That's why you baseline it's voltage and clock speeds before delidding to see if it's worth doing

 

[robax91]

1. Are you using a quality motherboard? Using a cheap Z board might lead to worse or unstable overclocks. You want quality power delivery and a beefy VRMs.

2. Are you manually overclocking the chip? Using something like AI Tuner or the "easy one click OC" are not going to give you good results. You're going to need to do specific research on your motherboard to really fine tune the OC in the bios directly.

3. It really is a lottery, some chips can do 5.0 on all cores at 1.4 or less, some can't. But there is another option rather than getting a better motherboard or better chip. Try just overclocking 1 or 2 of the cores at 5.0 and leaving the other ones at 4.8 or lower. The benefit of 5.0 on all cores only works for programs and games that utilize them all, whereas windows and most programs (and some games) really only use 2 cores. Having the 5.0 on those specific cores will give those programs the benefit without having to have all the cores at 5.

Hope any of this helps.