Hows this overclock look?

Mez

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Alright, im new to overclocking so I'm taking this slow, especially after my first mishap. Right now im at 4.2Ghz, but will eventually push for 4.5.

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Your temps are good, voltage is ok... you are ready for 4.5GHz! ;P
I would bump the voltage about 0.050v more then run cinebench or something fast and stressing.
If your screen freezes or you get a blue screen, try to up the voltage by small amount until you can run the bench without an error. After that run prime and watch your temps to not exceed 85c, best is to stay below 75c.

If you can run the bench directly w/o errors do it the other way around and lower it by small amounts until you get an error, then up it again and run prime and the rest of the stuff I said.
Overclocking is fairly easy lol.
 
Well I jumped straight from 1.25v to 1.3v to give me headroom. So I might be able to push the multiplier up without actually having to push the voltage up, we'll see how that works out.
 
UPDATE: Got my CPU overlocked to 4.5Ghz with a 1.250v voltage. Temps are a little high at 100% load on Prime95 (~80c MAX), but my NH-D14 might not be seated good enough/not enough MIT/thermal paste so i'll look into that tomorrow.

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i think the vore can go done at little bit.
try 1.230v i did 47 on 1.255vcore, but not every chip is the same,
80 i think is a little hot, i want the go not over 75 degrees with stress testing.

of course i,m talking also abouth a 3570k, not the 4670k i have now.
 
80's not too bad at 100% load at 4.5GHz, admittedly it's slightly on the toasty side though. How often is your PC going to be at 100% load? If the answer is 'often', you might want to see if you can reduce the temperature a bit by slightly reducing the voltage or as you say, by checking your cooler.

If you can get it down to 75 or 70, that would be a bit more ideal. So long as it doesn't get any hotter than 80 or 85 though, you'll be OK.
 
I do a some video editing/rendering so that's the only time my CPU will usually reach 100%, other than that it's just gaming on games like Battlefield 3 and such.
 
Yeah you might want to try and reduce the voltage a tad or check your cooler in order to try and reduce the temperatures a little bit. 80C is a tad toasty, as I said, 70-75 would be better. :)
 
Yeah, it is a bit strange that my NH-D14 is letting the temps get this high, im going to try reseating and re-applying some thermal paste today.
 
How is the airflow in your case? That might be affecting your temperature too (likely is). Do you have decent cable management and a good fan configuration?
 
I have a 140mm intake in the front, 140mm out take in the back, then the NH-D14, and the Powersupply.

Cable management is all in good order. Its just strange to me because Fractal Design cases are known for their good air flow/quality.
 
I don't think the temps are out of control for that voltage. 22nm chips are a bit harder to cool.

Yes, however, my case got the worst airflow possible but I keep my temps under 70c at 4.7Ghz. (silver arrow sb-e with extreme ed. fans)
So I think you should try lowering the voltage and maybe re-apply the thermalpaste, because ivy and sandy bridge have a difference in temps when overclocked, but not that big. + you can compare your cooler to mine in terms of cooling performance.
 
Yes, however, my case got the worst airflow possible but I keep my temps under 70c at 4.7Ghz. (silver arrow sb-e with extreme ed. fans)
So I think you should try lowering the voltage and maybe re-apply the thermalpaste, because ivy and sandy bridge have a difference in temps when overclocked, but not that big. + you can compare your cooler to mine in terms of cooling performance.

Agreed, he might be able to lower it. The point that I was making was that 80c when stress testing is not something to freak out over like 80c when gaming would be.
 
I think it may be the thermal paste I'm using. I'm using Antec Solution 7 and I've read that it needs to be manually spread instead of letting the heatsink spread it out because of it's unusual thickness, so I'll try reapplying it after I go buy some rubbing alcohol
 
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Alright, got my temps down.

I figured out what was wrong, I had the fans on my Noctua put on backwards so they were trying to pull air from my exhaust fan.

But, got everything all good now.
 
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