4670k strap overclocking results

[Kenmitch]

Well I guess somebody had to waste the time and see if there is any reason/benefit of doing it. To me it looks like it's nothing to worry about if your motherboard/cpu doesn't want to cooperate. Guess in some things you get a slight boost and others not so. Not sure if with more tweaking of voltages, settings, etc would make the above normal straps of benefit or not. Guess the biggest advantage of the additional straps would be memory overclocking as it brings more options to the table.

Maybe some super duper uber high speed ram would make a greater difference using the higher strap settings.




1.25x strap



I guess in the end I learned my ram has some overclocking headroom at least. Now I guess I'll have to tighten up the timings a little and test it.

I can run with the 1.66x strap but couldn't get memory close enough to get what I'd think was a fair comparison.

System specs:
Intel i5-4670k (Costa Rica)
Gigabyte Z87M-D3H
G-Skill Sniper DDR3-1866 (2x4GB)
Corsair Obsidian 350D
Corsair H100i
Roswill Capstone-450-M
His IceQ HD 7870
Samsung 830 128GB
Hitachi 1TB (Storage)

 

[ricardo.vix]

temps??

 

[Symcy94]

temps??

Probbably not that low ^^

 

[Kenmitch]

temps??

The temps stayed the same testing with both strap settings. Cinebench and XTU pushed the temps into the mid 70's on a couple cores. Other testing 50-60's with Intel Burn Test topping out in upper 80's on a couple cores.

Guess a temp graph would have been nice to include. Was more interested in if the additional strap setting would increase performance. Doesn't look like it helps much if at all.