got a stable 4.5Ghz with 1.25v Vcore right now and i think thats the lowest voltage i can get stable with my chip or is there some tweaks i can do to lower it more

got it stable earlier @4.6Ghz with 1.30v but it was kind of hot over 80s in the intel burn in test and prime95 didnt try 1.29 etc on 1.25v it crashed @4.6ghz

have to but some new thermal paste i have applied it too much at one side and core 0 and 3 are 10c lower at load. using artic silver cermanique and its been a really good paste this far on every cpu i have used it.

How are you applying the paste ? Always use a pea size amount and let the heatsink spread it with preasure .

I would leave the voltage alone and push the cpu as far as you can on stock volts to see how far you can go before you blue screen .Then start with the small voltage increases .If your a noob at overclocking then be carefull

am using the pea size allways with 1155 but this time i must have leaned to one side or something. with my i3 in the other pc i got 30-35c with the stock intel paste on stock cooler. after i changed to artic silver it dropped to 26c

Set the cpu voltage at the defualt manually before increasing the multiplier otherwise the board will add voltage as its needed . Use cpuz to find your defualt volts and start from there . You should be able to hit 4.2 at stock easy

disable turbo also

Not sure of the features on msi boards but anything to do with powersaving disable

To be honest 4ghz is more than enough for anything you will need

disabled c-state and turbo the first thing i did before oc-ing. this much i have read .

was you cpu a retial or oem chip ?

you may be limited on what stable clocks you can achive becuase your rm doesnt match .

the performance gain is more than i expected. on passmark cpu mark from stock 9600p @3.5ghz to 11000p @4.5ghz is not bad at all.

Do you need 4.5ghz daily though or just for benchmark score as running the chip at that speed is not really needed

it has intel 3 year warranty

might just stick to oc genie default 4,2ghz when im done messing around. im mostly doing this for learning purposes.

oc-ing a k-series cpu is a must otherwise paying the extra for it is useless. gonna squeese everything it has out some day when im more experienced

I leave my i7 930 at stock speeds unless there is a game that is CPU dependent. There's no point in overclocking if it's not needed, imo. It will just shorten the life of the CPU. All it takes is a reboot and to load a profile in the BIOS

It is if benching etc is your thing . I know guys with quad graphics cards and 6 core intel cpu's that do nothing but benchmark , bitmining and folding and very rarley play a game . A 4ghz plus cpu is not really needed for gaming as 90 percent of games are gpu bound .I have a 980x and its at 4ghz and will go faster but the increase in heat and power usage makes a neagative impact against the performance increase.