Haswell overclocking tips?

mistersprinkles

Active Member
I'm ready to overclock my 4790K... mainly out of boredom. I have experience overclocking many other CPUs, but I have no Haswell OC experience, and I know that to get optimal OC you need to tweak more than multiplier and voltage settings.

Can anyone recommend a good Haswell OC guide as well as tell me what people are using for voltage and temperature monitoring as well as stress testing for stability these days?

I remember that there was a version of P95 or two that were no good for Haswell as they stressed AVX and that overheated the chip. has that been resolved? is there something better than P95 out there now?

Thanks folks.
 

mistersprinkles

Active Member
Piece of crap. Arctic Freezer 7 Pro. (much) worse than a 212. I know it'll take 1.28V though so... looking for a low voltage OC, whatever I can manage.
 

beers

Moderator
Staff member
4.2 or 4.3 shouldn't take too much in the voltage department.

I usually set everything manually (no auto) in BIOS and then start ramping up the multiplier and testing. The extreme tuning utility helps a lot.
 
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