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Jon
Newbie Joined: 26 Apr 2015 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 62 |
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Nice, I like the KILLER and the gold heatsinks. How many RAMs do you have in there? Looks like a full load.
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ASRock X99E-ITX/ac | Intel i7-5820K | ASUS GTX 970 mini | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | Crucial Ballistix (2x8GB) | Corsair CX600M | CoolerMaster Seidon 120V | CoolerMaster Elite 110 | Windows 10 64-bit
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Illegalseagull
Newbie Joined: 24 May 2015 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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Hey Guys!
I just wanted to share a few pics of my recent desktop build, and what I learned about overclocking the i5-4690K on an ASRock mobo. This is my second computer build, and my first with an ASRock motherboard. My first build was an Intel E8500 on an atx-size Gigabyte board which I overclocked for daily use. Getting to 4.21ghz was easy, but getting an extra few mhz beyond that meant faster ram($$), more voltage, and a lot of tuning. I lapped the processor to a mirror shine, tweaked and adjusted a lot of settings...Overall, it was a good computer, but after 5 years of hard use, it was showing its age...it was time to build again My old computer was a large ATX build, and I really wanted the new build to be smaller, and more powerful. The rig below is built around an ASRock Z97M OC Formula micro atx motherboard. I wanted to be sure that I got the highest overclock I could, so cutting corners on a cheap board was not an option...at the same time, I also don't see much point in shelling out over $200 for some "high end" board where you're basically just paying an extra $100 for the name. After a LOT of research and comparison shopping, I decided on ASRock's OC Formula. With the 1150 socket processors, I've heard people suggest that OC'ing actually easier and more enjoyable than it's been in the past, because the basic OC adjustment settings are very simple, and getting a nice overclock can be very straightforward. This is true. My friends and I were amazed how the OC Formula made a ridiculously-high clock speed so easy...in the UEFI Bios that you access from Windows, there is are a bunch of overclocking settings, including one labelled "Overclock to 4.5ghz". We just lauged and said, "Sure, why not try it?" To our surprise, it worked--and ran great!! Even the temps were reasonable. Booting and using Windows was flawless. No crashes, nothing. I played War Thunder online for hours, etc. I meant to "dial it in" and play with it more, but I didn't get around to it until a week and half later...it was more fun just using it. I have since gone back, of course, and manually set some voltages and other settings, but I'm still amazed how easy it was to blow past my old computer's hard-earned overclock. My i5 runs at 4.5ghz all day long...Well done, ASRock!! In further tuning, I am able to play games at 4.7ghz, and I can scoot around Windows at 4.8ghz, but it really seems like the stability sweet spot for my chip is going to be 4.5ghz. Core voltage is a very reasonable 1.23v, and with my 2x120mm Corsair all-in-one water cooling, I average about high 50's/low 60's peak temps from AIDA64 stress testing. This thing rocks. My wife and I play multiplayers online, and needless to say, she wants a desktop gaming rig now, too! Can you build a smaller, more powerful rig than this? If so, I want that... Any questions, just let me know! **post edited to add new screenshot at 5ghz. woohoo!!** Edited by Illegalseagull - 25 May 2015 at 12:40pm |
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ASROCK Z97M OC Formula
Intel i5 - 4690K @ 4.5ghz Stable Overclock |
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