Overclocking Intel i7 4770K on ASRock Extreme4

[Pshaw98]

I'm a little lost on overclocking this. The BIOS settings are very different than guides I have been following, at least it's using different vocabulary that I'm not sure I understand. For example, I have that the stock voltage for this cpu was 1.25v, but when I look at my fixed voltage, it says 1.9v. I know I'm looking at something weird. My heat sink is a Hyper 212 Evo and I would like to get the chip up to 4.4ghz, but I might have to settle for 4.2ghz. When ever I would overclock before, I would just do the CPU clock to 4.2, then Intel Burn Test would say it was stable after 15 runs. I would then play a game and after 20 mins or so, the fps will drop down to around 15-20 fps, and I would try to reboot the computer, but it wouldn't boot. I would have to clear the CMOS for it to boot again. What is this issue and how do I fix it?

 

[madsmagnus]

It might be the input voltage? In that case it seems a bit high.

 

[Pshaw98]

It might be the input voltage? In that case it seems a bit high.

And thats what the default voltage is too... Im really confused.

 

[madsmagnus]

Have you tried googling around?

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/135091-asrock-z87-extreme4-i7-4770k-overclock-help/