Sabertooth Z87 + 4770K + 16GB Ballistix Elite (CL9) stable OC settings

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IanA87

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Hey. I was wondering if someone could enlighten me on a 'guaranteed' stable overclock for the 4770K and the requisite motherboard settings. I am not interested in pushing the chip to its limits. I have an H80i, so thermals should not be the limiting factor.

Oh, one more question: Should I use the default thermal paste that comes with the H80i or would arctic silver premium make a noticeable difference?

Thanks so much for any assistance.
 
IanA87 said:
Hey. I was wondering if someone could enlighten me on a 'guaranteed' stable overclock for the 4770K and the requisite motherboard settings. I am not interested in pushing the chip to its limits. I have an H80i, so thermals should not be the limiting factor.
Oh, one more question: Should I use the default thermal paste that comes with the H80i or would arctic silver premium make a noticeable difference?

Thanks so much for any assistance.
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you'll be surprised how wrong you are.
 
Try 4.2 or 4.3 @ 1.2V

These things heat up crazy fast once you go past 1.2V--even with an AIO cooler (I have an h100i myself)
 
IanA87 said:
Hey. I was wondering if someone could enlighten me on a 'guaranteed' stable overclock for the 4770K and the requisite motherboard settings.
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Impossible. You have to figure it out yourself for your hardware. CPUs vary a lot in how much they'll OC.

I have an H80i, so thermals should not be the limiting factor.
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They will be. Clearly you haven't done much research on Haswell, so you should probably do some of that first.
 
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