i7 4770k overclocking with intel extreme tuning utility

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It booted and ran well but the temps, even with the Corsair SP120 HP fans on full were in the very high 70s to low 80s (actually pretty good). I ALWAYS run IntelBurnTest at least 20x, Prime95 torture test at least a few hours and AIDA64 stability test on a overclocked chip.įor example, with my 3930k on my Asus X79 Sabertooth, I watched the Asus X79 overclock video (quite good and detailed) and used the recommended settings for a 4.8 Ghz clock. Is this cooling overkill for these cpus? Some may say so but I found that once you start overclocking and cranking up the vcore thermals tend to take off exponentially. For cooling I'm using a custom water cooling for the 3930k (SWiftech Apogee HD cpu block and 2 360 rads as I am also watercooling 2 GTX 670 FTWs) a Kraken X60 AIO for the 3770k and a Corsair H100 for the FX 8350. You can see from my sig that I'm running rigs with a 3930k at 4.4Ghz and a 3770k at 4.5 Ghz. I'll chime in with my 2 cents of observation on heat and Overclocking. Also I used a CM Blademaster fan for my Hyper 212 EVO which I find it to slightly better cooling than the stock fan that came with the Hyper 212 EVO With 2 of those fans on my Hyper 212 EVO, still the 4770k that I had hit 83C in Intel Burn Test within a few minutes. My i7-4820k does not go over 57C during Intel Burn Test with my Hyper 212 Evo and same thermal paste used, for the record. So I just RMA'd both items back to the store. I thought to myself that it should not get this hot with the stock cooler installed especially when it is hitting boiling point very quickly. With the stock cooler installed the hottest core reached 100C in about 1 minute and then throttled down from 3.7GHz to 3.6 then down to 3.5GHz and basically just stayed at 3.5GHz with 100C core temp as checked with the Intel Turbo Boost Monitor. In about 3 minutes into Intel Burn Test the hottest core reached 83C with the Hyper 212 Evo installed. The reason I returned the i7-4770k was because I think it was overheating during Intel Burn Test whether I used the stock cooler or my Hyper 212 Evo. I recently bought an i7-4770k and a new motherboard and returned both items and went back to my i7-4820k.

I7 4770k overclocking with intel extreme tuning utility