My ASRock Build - X99E-ITX Campaign - NEW PICS

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.