JT! Wrote:Certainly didn't over heat.
How do you know that? 78C is already pretty hot. And you pushed the voltage and clock rate higher. Your system will crash from overheating well before it triggers thermal shutdown or throttles when overclocking.
JT! Wrote:I'm saying that there doesn't appear to be one right way to do it
CPU overclocking is usually a nearly identical process on almost any platform or chip.
And since you're just looking at haswell overclocking guides that limits variation even more. Most of the guides you'll be looking at pretty much tell you to do the same things the same way. So I don't really agree with that statement. They might slightly vary certain things based on the personal results of their own system or include/leave out certain tidbits of extra info. But the process pretty much remains the same.
1. Raise clock rate a tiny bit.
2. Stress test and check temperatures.
3. If temperatures were high lower clock rate or increase cooling. If system or application was unstable continue to step 4.
4. Raise voltage a tiny bit.
5. Stress test and check temperatures.
6. If temperatures were high you've hit your limit. Revert your settings back to the highest ones you were able to use with a stable system and good temperatures.
7. If system was still unstable repeat from step 4.
8. If system is stable and temperatures good repeat from step 1.
Use .1 GHz for clock rate bumps and 0.025v for voltage bumps.
Some users prefer to work it backwards. In other words they deliberately start way too high and lower it slowly until they find the sweet spot. It doesn't really matter which way you do it but I always preferred my way because I consider it safer. For extreme overclocking use smaller increments and add some other fancy stuff in there that guides mention. I've never really tried to push a cpu to its absolute limit with my cooling since I like to leave myself some headroom when overclocking for 24/7 stability with a long lifespan. Keep in mind that 4.4GHz is a very ambitious overclock for haswell with your cooling. Unless you have a good chip you may not be able to hit it safely. And if that's the case you'll just need to accept that.
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