Thursday, January 28, 2016 6:22 AM
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Motherboard: EVGA z87 FTW
Processor: Intel 4770k 3.9ghz
I've had this bad boy for a long time and everyone keeps telling me with this combo, I can overclock to 4.6ghz. I've never tinkered with OC'ing and I would very much like to OC it. Help me out if I'm wrong.
I read about a few stuff. I used Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, ran a benchmark and got 809. When I analyzed it, it showed someone had the same board and cpu as I did with a 87% compatibility. So I downloaded the profile and loaded it. My CPU was showing a clock of 4.4ghz. When I restart my computer, the OC is gone. I haven't played with E-leet because I don't want to mess anything up. Computer keeps locking up when I set cores to 44. Under Extreme tuning, everything runs fine.
Here's the kicker. When my computer is running at 4.4ghz, Heaven Benchamark shows 3.8ghz. What's going on here? If I tweak my system through E-leet, what do I change first so it doesn't lock? I'm trying to reach 4.6ghz. 44x100=4.4ghz. I did that. I set CPU Override to 1.2. Showed the cpu was barely over 3.8. When I changed the BCLK from 100 to 110 it locked.
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