(12-18-2013, 09:11 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: 4.5GHz cannot be done safely without water cooling and delidding. Be happy with 4.2GHz.
I was pretty much getting 4.5ghz stable without ever exceeding 75 degrees celcius in a hot room even on the more strenuous stress tests, with an uncore at 4.4ghz and voltages kept below 1.25v . Seemed pretty safe to me, and I didn't delid it. That said I was getting a bit sick of tweaking and stability testing so I'm running it at 4.4 ghz which so far has passed all my stability tests with much lower temps and voltages. But I really don't doubt I can get it 4.5ghz if I had the patience for it.
(12-18-2013, 10:39 AM)LordVador Wrote: Is this even needed? Most games should work just fine at 4.2GHz (and even at stock clock btw)
I dunno, I feel like there were some frame dips here and there based on a bit of testing, and I know it wasn't the GPU since these were happing at lower internal resolutions and AA. Perhaps I just have to optimize the software for every game.