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JustAnEngineer
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:13 pm

Athlon XPs overclocked so easily.  Every one of them that I laid my hands on was bumped up from its default of 1500-1800 MHz to a dizzying 2.2 GHz.  Before that, I had a few Spitfire Durons that were originally 600 MHz parts that I used a combination of the pencil trick and FSB changes to push to 933 to 1100 MHz.   Before that, I pushed a couple of P54C Pentium-75 CPUs from 75 MHz to  90-100 MHz.  Going way back, I had a 7.16 MHz Motorola 68000 in an Amiga 2000 that I clock doubled to 14.3 MHz before I bought a 68030 upgrade for it.  8)
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Wed Jan 18, 2017 10:03 pm

I still have a 1700+ DLT3C sitting on my desk. I cut the traces and had it bumped to just over 2.5 GHz (from 1.47 stock) and ran the "wire mod" in the socket to bump up the vcore to make it stable.

I miss the old days. :lol:

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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:46 am

Been stable @ 5 GHZ since more than 1 year now

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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:06 am

Holy thread necro batman! :lol:

Modern CPUs simply do not have the thermal headroom like they did back five years ago and earlier. You can get ~4.0Ghz without too much trouble but going beyond 4.5Ghz it starts becoming dicey. De-lidding IHS might buy you a little more headroom but exposed cores don't take too kindly to the physical stress of modern HSF/waterblocks.

I'm more than content with my aging 3570K which is able to handle 4.0Ghz at stock voltage since 2012. I suppose it could probably handle 4.4Ghz-4.5Ghz if I wanted to be more adventurous but it isn't really worth the headaches.

At this point, I might as well save up for a complete overhaul. It mostly due to DDR4, NVMe and USB 3.1 Type-C support though.
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:51 am

My highest OC is 4798 Mhz. My 4690k is only stable enough to get to CPU-Z on cold boots at that frequency. I keep it at 4.4 Ghz for everyday use.
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:09 am

Krogoth wrote:
De-lidding IHS might buy you a little more headroom but exposed cores don't take too kindly to the physical stress of modern HSF/waterblocks.

Delidding and replacing the thermal paste is what I tend to do. It's easy, low risk, and gets you MUCH better temps. The wife's 4770K dropped 30+ degrees under load after replacing the compound with liquid ultra.
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:41 am

Waco wrote:
Krogoth wrote:
De-lidding IHS might buy you a little more headroom but exposed cores don't take too kindly to the physical stress of modern HSF/waterblocks.

Delidding and replacing the thermal paste is what I tend to do. It's easy, low risk, and gets you MUCH better temps. The wife's 4770K dropped 30+ degrees under load after replacing the compound with liquid ultra.


Unless it was a poor job at the factory (Likely story with that 4770K and other earlier 22nm parts). You probably get closer to a 10-15C drop with just replacing the paste and correcting the placement of IHS. You still void the manufacturer's warranty though.
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:45 am

Krogoth wrote:
Waco wrote:
Krogoth wrote:
De-lidding IHS might buy you a little more headroom but exposed cores don't take too kindly to the physical stress of modern HSF/waterblocks.

Delidding and replacing the thermal paste is what I tend to do. It's easy, low risk, and gets you MUCH better temps. The wife's 4770K dropped 30+ degrees under load after replacing the compound with liquid ultra.


Unless it was a poor job at the factory (Likely story with that 4770K and other earlier 22nm parts). You probably get closer to a 10-15C drop with just replacing the paste and correcting the placement of IHS. You still void the manufacturer's warranty though.

Yup. My 6700K throttles at stock under a good waterblock and a big 360mm rad...it's especially poor.
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:57 pm

Waco wrote:
Krogoth wrote:
Waco wrote:
Delidding and replacing the thermal paste is what I tend to do. It's easy, low risk, and gets you MUCH better temps. The wife's 4770K dropped 30+ degrees under load after replacing the compound with liquid ultra.


Unless it was a poor job at the factory (Likely story with that 4770K and other earlier 22nm parts). You probably get closer to a 10-15C drop with just replacing the paste and correcting the placement of IHS. You still void the manufacturer's warranty though.

Yup. My 6700K throttles at stock under a good waterblock and a big 360mm rad...it's especially poor.

That's insane, I thought hitting 93C~ on my 6700K in P95 @4.6ghz and 1.36~ vcore on my cheapy 212 evo was bad, I'm actually going to replace that cooler pretty soon, in well threaded games(and handbrake for that matter) I get around 70-75C which is fine except for the noise.
 
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Sun May 12, 2019 8:45 am

Core 2 quad 3.2 ghz
2600k 4.8.

Core 2 quad is still running at 3ghz in my son's computer.

The 2600k is in my gaming machine at 4.5ghz all core.
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Re: Post your Highest OC'

Wed May 13, 2020 5:14 am

Core i7 7700 3.2 gHz enough for me)
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