I don't even tried to OC mine.
Before I bought i7-3770K my only wish was full stability on 4.5GHz because rumors that Ivy is bad and not good for overclocking.
Later I figure out that i7-3770K was best i7 with DDR3 memory, and I reached 4.8GHz Prime95 AVX Stable 12h+...
Only temperature stop me to reach 5.0GHz prime stable and shock to all people who blame Ivy.
He worked on 95C as on 55C, while SB couldn't behave good on over 80-85C.
Than when I didn't had money for custom loop I completely stop to pay attention on silicon lottery. It's pointless, I mean pointless for me, no matter what I get I only have H100. When I had very good chip with 1.3V on 4.8GHz I would reach 5 with 1.4 or 1.425V and both voltages was not so high for watercooling, not for every day but for benchmark OK.
Before I bought i7-5820K my only wish was 4.0GHz stable without voltage increase and I tried that, he never crash, he was tested very good with 4.0GHz and 3.5GHz Cache voltage didn't touch. I suppose that he could work on 4.3-4.4 GHz at least only is question how much voltage need. But for 4.4GHz I have no cooling.
Maybe not even for 4.3 depend of voltage. But I could keep with lower voltage on 4.2 when I replace fan, because silence is important factor.
But I would like to have one i7-6850K capable to work on 4.4GHz without insane voltage.
That would be awesome. For him 4.4GHz is same distance as 4.0GHz for me, maybe is even 4.5GHz not so hard, but I doubt, Intel increase clock and that influence on
overclocking.
You see how middle of CPU on back side is nicer than on Haswell-EX...
But I don't lose hope maybe I will find one. i7-6800K is not so interesting for me, with i7-6850K I could beat two with one hit, and 40 PCI-E lanes and higher frequency new generation.
post edited by Vlada011 - 2016/09/08 10:23:56