Hello everyone,
My system specs are
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 Gaming.
CPU: i5 4690k.
GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC.
RAM: 8 GB Kingston HyperX Beast @ 1600Mhz.
PSU: OCZ GameXtreme 850 watts.
CPU cooling: Zalman CNPS 10x Quiet.
Case: Cooler Master Storm Sniper.
I mainly use this system for gaming but I am new to overclocking and don't know much about it. Previously I had i5 2500k but I haven't overclocked it much but now I have i5 4690k and would like to try some increase, in fact I actually did but then took it back to stock due to curiosity.
My system runs on performance power profile so the CPU always remains at 3.9 Ghz instead of oscillating between 3.5 and 3.9. Recently I took it 4.2 Ghz from bios (20% OC as shown in OCCT), I did this by increasing the multiplier 1 by 1 to 42 and left everything else on auto because I don't know anything about voltage tweaking and honestly beside VCORE I don't understand all other voltage settings.
Now I have tested the CPU at this overclock in Prime95 (for an hour or so), OCCT for 10 mins and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for 10 mins (note I tested every multiplier increment) and it ran well without any BSOD or something, I also played several games on it without any crashes.
Temps at 3.9 were (32 Idle, 60 - 64 benchmarking, 45 - 48 gaming).
Temps at 4.2 were (32 Idle, 63 - 67 benchmarking, 45 - 50 gaming).
Now my question is how safe are these temps for prolonged use or if I want to increase it a bit more like 4.4 ? I am asking this because I usually leave my system in idle state with some programs running like Photoshop for long time without turning it off so does that shorten the life of CPU if it runs at higher frequency ? I know idle temps are okay but I just want to be safe.
Also how safe it is to overclock your GPU without touching voltages ? does that also shorten the life of GPU ?
Thank you and sorry if these are noobish questions.
My system specs are
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 Gaming.
CPU: i5 4690k.
GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC.
RAM: 8 GB Kingston HyperX Beast @ 1600Mhz.
PSU: OCZ GameXtreme 850 watts.
CPU cooling: Zalman CNPS 10x Quiet.
Case: Cooler Master Storm Sniper.
I mainly use this system for gaming but I am new to overclocking and don't know much about it. Previously I had i5 2500k but I haven't overclocked it much but now I have i5 4690k and would like to try some increase, in fact I actually did but then took it back to stock due to curiosity.
My system runs on performance power profile so the CPU always remains at 3.9 Ghz instead of oscillating between 3.5 and 3.9. Recently I took it 4.2 Ghz from bios (20% OC as shown in OCCT), I did this by increasing the multiplier 1 by 1 to 42 and left everything else on auto because I don't know anything about voltage tweaking and honestly beside VCORE I don't understand all other voltage settings.
Now I have tested the CPU at this overclock in Prime95 (for an hour or so), OCCT for 10 mins and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for 10 mins (note I tested every multiplier increment) and it ran well without any BSOD or something, I also played several games on it without any crashes.
Temps at 3.9 were (32 Idle, 60 - 64 benchmarking, 45 - 48 gaming).
Temps at 4.2 were (32 Idle, 63 - 67 benchmarking, 45 - 50 gaming).
Now my question is how safe are these temps for prolonged use or if I want to increase it a bit more like 4.4 ? I am asking this because I usually leave my system in idle state with some programs running like Photoshop for long time without turning it off so does that shorten the life of CPU if it runs at higher frequency ? I know idle temps are okay but I just want to be safe.
Also how safe it is to overclock your GPU without touching voltages ? does that also shorten the life of GPU ?
Thank you and sorry if these are noobish questions.