Very low voltage overclock i5 4690k

Raymbo123

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I'm very new to overclocking and want a stable small overclock to 4.2ghz.
I'm reading everywhere that people have the voltage set to 1.14v and 1.15v for 4.2ghz, while I'm having it on 4.2ghz with 1.095v and it runs good. I will post pictures of my BIOS settings to show you guys what I did and maybe u could help me and give advise, because I'm not sure if I changed the right settings.

EDIT: Here are the images of my BIOS

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As you can see my multiplier is set to 42 and mode to fixed, should I keep this on fixed or change it to dynamic?
I changed the CPU Core voltage to 1.095v (Is this the good thing to change when changing voltage?) and it's set to override mode, should I keep it on this or set it to adaptive?
Any further suggestions/feedback?

 
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Looks like you won the silicon lottery. You seem to have ended up with a chip that can overclock well without needing a voltage increase.

What is meant by the silicon lottery is that CPUs are made so quickly that each of them carries a unique imperfection. Whether or not that imperfection affects overclocking depends on where the imperfection is. For example, if the imperfection is in core #0 then it's not going to overclock very well. But if the imperfection is in the fetchers/decoders then this would not affect overclocking very much at all. Chips that don't need a voltage hike usually have their imperfections in the memory controllers, so I would be careful about pushing memory frequencies above 2400MHz.
Looks like you won the silicon lottery. You seem to have ended up with a chip that can overclock well without needing a voltage increase.

What is meant by the silicon lottery is that CPUs are made so quickly that each of them carries a unique imperfection. Whether or not that imperfection affects overclocking depends on where the imperfection is. For example, if the imperfection is in core #0 then it's not going to overclock very well. But if the imperfection is in the fetchers/decoders then this would not affect overclocking very much at all. Chips that don't need a voltage hike usually have their imperfections in the memory controllers, so I would be careful about pushing memory frequencies above 2400MHz.
 
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I consider myself Lucky then, but are all the settings in the bios good? As they should be or should I change a few things?
Thanks in advance!
 


To be perfectly honest, I'm still getting used to overclocking on Intel so I can't tell you what the more advanced settings should be.

However, I can tell you that your power delivery and CPU core speed settings look like they're right where they need to be.