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  1. I Just got a new 4770k. I was fully aware beforehand that overclocking isn't as clean and easy as a sandy bridge or even ivy bridge CPU, but myn seems to be worse than I've seen on any thread. With the stock heatsink, my temps at stock were getting to about 37-39 idle with 85-87 load. Verified it was seated properly multiple times, and finally switched to Arctic Freezer Pro, with 35 idle 83 load, then finally to Corsair H80i with 29 idle 69 load. Ambient temps only about 20c, high up in idaho.. Now I have been trying to overclock, but no matter what I try, at just 4.2ghz, it will be completely unstable at anything under 1.295 vcore. Everyone else seems to get "unlucky" ones that take 1.20v at 4.3ghz. What am I missing? I've tried not messing with the ring ratio / voltage, and also putting ring ratio to a variety of voltages and clocks, but no change in stability. I cant go a hair above 4.2ghz either without being unstable, and even with the h80i, my temps at this voltage are hitting 83c at load. MSI Z87A-GD65 motherboard, 16b DDR3 1666mhz 1.5v ram kept at stock voltage and clocks.
  2. Yeah, ive tried CPUz with load and idle, it tells me my voltage is 1.068 no matter what. As for my water-cooling setup, it's toast, I'm going to spend a few days cleaning it, I took it apart to see what the fogginess was, and it's a thick oily subtance that slowed my pump, clogged my waterblock, and lined the complete system and all the tubes with a layer of oily grime.. Can't believe it happened within a few days, I hope I can clean it out good enough to prevent it.. As for the tubes, they are just going in the trash. Any 1156 socket heatsink works fine with 1155, and if you don't have a bracket, I'm sure you could find an adapter for one easily enough, those 9700's are pretty popular . Before I got my water-cooling, I was using an NH-D14 with 1156 setting, worked perfectly, but water saved me about 10c.
  3. my processor isnt lapped, but the waterblock came lapped to a mirror like surface, my rad is 40mm thick, 360 long with 3 110 cfm fans (scythe slipstream), and my waterblock is snug against the cpu with arctic m4 paste. my temps jumped up to 80c when i woke up this morning after running prime for about 12 hours :/ the small FFT's heat it up way more than large or blend. Also my tubes and res have now become foggy and its only been 3 days. i cleaned out everything but the waterblock with distilled water and the rad with vinegar.. maybe i didnt get all the vinegar out of the rad before i installed it? I'm going to clean all my components with hot water again and refill with a more purified solution of distilled water, less concentration of anti-corrosives and anti-algae. btw what are your temps with the stock cooler at those speeds?
  4. UPDATE: Ok, so far, things are getting better. Im at 4.9ghz 1.375 voltage in bios, and 1.428 in windows via gigabytes EasyTune6 program for the ud7 motherboard since cpu-z refuses to work for me. Stability increased when i lowered PLL voltage back to stock, and increased my timings on my memory to 9-9-9-24 as compared to 8-8-8-24. Max temps are 72c. Question now is, on this watercooling loop I have for just my cpu, does anyone know wether it would actually lower my temps to shorten my tubes down? Or any other ideas to get better cooling would be nice as well. I have a nice chunk of excess sagging tubing as seen below http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o145/Soundchaos/jpg.jpg
  5. UPDATE: Ok, so far, things are getting better. Im at 4.9ghz 1.375 voltage in bios, and 1.428 in windows via gigabytes EasyTune6 program for the ud7 motherboard since cpu-z refuses to work for me. Stability increased when i lowered PLL voltage back to stock, and increased my timings on my memory to 9-9-9-24 as compared to 8-8-8-24. Max temps are 72c. Question now is, on this watercooling loop I have for just my cpu, does anyone know wether it would actually lower my temps to shorten my tubes down? Or any other ideas to get better cooling would be nice as well. I have a nice chunk of excess sagging tubing as seen below http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o145/Soundchaos/jpg.jpg
  6. I agree, it baffles me. Im on CPUZ 1.57 now, ive tried to uninstall/reinstall, as well as use multiple other older versions as well. Good idea though, Im looking for some gigabyte utilites to see if any will work better for me
  7. Thanks for the reply, your post there definitely helped with my comparisons, another problem ive been having is that I cant find a way to measure voltage accurately in OS, cpuz shows 1.068 no matter what i set it at in bios, other programs like coretemp show it as 1.39 or stock Everest shows 1.42 right now and doesn't fluctuate at all, so its possible thats right, but i cant image it means im at 1.49 in the bios
  8. Yeah, yet another 2600k, but I'd sure like some suggestions and comparisons if anyone is willing. I'm looking to get the highest possible max overclock to run my computer 24/7, and right now my thoughts on voltages is to stay at 1.49v or lower with 79c or lower. I've been playing around with it for quite some time and right now I'm at 1.49 voltage in bios, with 4.89Ghz. been running prime for about 3 hours now and temps have peaked at 78c and sit around 75c load. If I lower voltage even by .005, i BSOD within an hour. My PLC voltage is at 1.84 and my LLC is at level 1. Level 2 lets me run prime stable at much lower voltages with a little bit higher temps, but for some reason it seems to BSOD my computer completely randomly when I do stuff like open a game or watch a youtube video. System specs due to not enough posts for sig quite yet: Win 7 Ultimate x64 i7 2600k @4.7ghz 1.4v Gigabyte P67A-UD7 B3 F2 2x GTX 460 SLI @ 865 / 1983 2x 2gb gskill 1866mhz @ 1600mhz 2x 750gb wd Corsair 850w. Haf 932 Watercooling with apogee XT / MCP655 pump, black ice xtreme III rad
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