Some confusion about OC’ing my 4770K

[krapton]

Hi all!

i recently bought myself this CPU and i want to overclock it! i followed your guides and all but i still cant get it to work and i get some odd reports:

1) when i set my clock to 4.4 GHz and my CoreV on auto, the voltage instantly jumps to 1.400 V, which i find wierd because ive heard people saying that it would get roasted at that amount of volts, but my CPU runs just over 80 C with my H100i and its not even stable :s

2) so i tried a lower clock: 4.2 GHz and 1.27V. Worked, but when i tried to stress test the multiplier wouldnt go above 37, so i thought: maybe its throtteling but my temps were 70 C max



any advice from you guys?

EDIT:

specs:

MoBo: Z87X-UD4H, Cooler: H100i, RAM: Vengeance Pro 1886 Mhz (lowered to 1600 for OC’ing), GPU: GTX 770

Thanks

 

[HugoStiglitz]

Overclocking is a trial and error process. You can spend months finding just what your CPU's sweet spot is.
I would not recommend using volts on auto as this tends to try and use too much power. As your temperature is directly tied to volts this will raise ur temps also.

You want to find what is the minimum volts required to run your exact CPU at the desired overclock (every cpu is different, not just by model but every 4770k will be different)

Using this minimum stable volts will ensure the longest possible life from your CPU as well as lowest operating temperature.

Make sure you follow the guide closely and disable / enable the bios features it tells you to (C1E, Data Execute Bit & ETC)
set your ram to the XMP mode to lock in the volts and frequency.

The guide should list a starting voltage. Set your multiplier to the overclock you want to achieve. start by setting your voltage manually to this starting value boot the system and see if it works ok, if it seems ok run a Prime95 Torture test and this will show if there is even a small problem.

keep increasing the volts slowly until your able to run Prime95 stably for 24hours. Monitor your temps closely as just because you "CAN" overclock the CPU that far doesn't mean your cooling solution will cope with that thermal load.

I do not recommend overclocking for systems that stay turned on most of their life. the higher the overclock the less life you will get from the CPU, that combined with in order to overclock for best results you need to turn off all the power saving features you can, this causes high power usage from your system.