Testing my 4670k

[stesea]

Hi guys !

I just got new pc and i wanna play with my 4670k just a bit.

I've seen people that set their 4670k to 4.6 with 1.2 voltage and see if it booted, just to see how good their chip is.

I would like to do the same ( if this can harm my cpu in any way please let me know ), but my problem is, what if does not boot ? Will I be able to get in the bios and set it back to the defaults ? Or is there another way ?

Cheers

My system:
Asus Maximus VI Hero / Intel i5 4670k / 2x4gb Gskill Sniper 1600mhz / Corsair TX 650 V2 / Asus GTX 770 DCII

 

[rolli59]

Reset CMOS with jumper or remove board battery for few sec (both with power off), both will set BIOS at default values

 

[markwp]

Rather than just shooting the moon, take it one step at a time. While I doubt you would kill your chip doing what you suggest, why not bump the multiplier 100mhz at a time? You'll get there eventually, and if you have a "maybe" chip, you'll see potential issues as they arise.

Mark

 

[stesea]

Reset CMOS with jumper or remove board battery for few sec (both with power off), both will set BIOS at default values

Thanks for the help rolli .
In Asus Site they say I have to move the jumper cap to pins 2-3 ( from 1-2 ) for 10 secs. Then when I boot up I have to press delete to re-enter data. This "re-enter" data means if I want to make any change from the default that would be set at that time right ?

Rather than just shooting the moon, take it one step at a time. While I doubt you would kill your chip doing what you suggest, why not bump the multiplier 100mhz at a time? You'll get there eventually, and if you have a "maybe" chip, you'll see potential issues as they arise.

I don't want to overclock my cpu this way, I just want to have an idea of how good my chip is. If it boots with this settings, I'll be happy , then i'll restart and reset settings.

 

[stesea]

Well, I've just tested it, but it didn't boot into windows 🙁 .
Anyway, should I be using "sync all cores" or the "auto" option to overclock these cpu's ?

 

[markwp]

Do you want to learn to overclock or do you want to just plug and play? Sync all cores just enables the standard turbo mode. Auto lets bios twiddle the system to what it thinks is best, which may or may not be true.

If you choose auto, make sure you know what your cooling requirements may be.