NoxTek
The Geek Redneck
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I wasn't sure if I should drop this here, or in the overclocking subforum... oh well, here is as good a place as any.
Anyway....
Did anyone else get an 8700k and wind up with an overclocking turd?
Here I see everyone else getting 5ghz with moderate voltages (1.3 to 1.35v, sometimes lower!) and my special little guy is riding the short bus. I can't even hit 4.9ghz stable without bringing the vCore up to a toasty 1.42v... and although that IS stable after 20 minutes of stress testing it hits a thermal limit flag on my motherboard's VRMs and causes momentary throttling down to 3.7ghz (the base multiplier of the 8700k is 37).
I've de-lidded and re-lidded the chip (using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut as the TIM) and while that dropped the load temps over 25C it didn't make any difference as for the max overclock this chip will do.
Motherboard is an ASUS Z370-I ROG Strix
2x16GB G'Skill DDR4 3200
CPU cooling is done by a Thermaltake Floe Riing 280mm CLC
Anyway....
Did anyone else get an 8700k and wind up with an overclocking turd?
Here I see everyone else getting 5ghz with moderate voltages (1.3 to 1.35v, sometimes lower!) and my special little guy is riding the short bus. I can't even hit 4.9ghz stable without bringing the vCore up to a toasty 1.42v... and although that IS stable after 20 minutes of stress testing it hits a thermal limit flag on my motherboard's VRMs and causes momentary throttling down to 3.7ghz (the base multiplier of the 8700k is 37).
I've de-lidded and re-lidded the chip (using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut as the TIM) and while that dropped the load temps over 25C it didn't make any difference as for the max overclock this chip will do.
Motherboard is an ASUS Z370-I ROG Strix
2x16GB G'Skill DDR4 3200
CPU cooling is done by a Thermaltake Floe Riing 280mm CLC