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Might OC system I'm getting in 6 days Thoughts?

Post Date: 2017-12-15

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    Posted: 15 Dec 2017 at 2:09pm
At this time I did not get the free boost because I'm not sure I really need it and it use to be that it takes life off the CPU. In your option should I OC when I get my system? I play World of Warships, 7 Days to Die. Battlefield Games Total War games, Arc and many others.

This is what I'm getting in 6 Days

Chassis Model: Digital Storm Lumos
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 (6-Core) 3.20GHz
Motherboard: MSI Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (Wi-Fi) (Intel Z370 Chipset) (Up to 3x PCI-E Devices)
System Memory: 16GB DDR4 3000MHz Digital Storm Performance Series
Power Supply: 600W Corsair / EVGA (Supports up to an NVIDIA GTX 1080 Graphics Card)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Optical Drive: External USB - DVD/CD 8x Multi-Drive (Writes and Reads DVDs, CDs)
Storage Set 1: 1x SSD M.2 (500GB Samsung 960 EVO) (NVM Express)
Storage Set 2: 1x Storage (2TB Western Digital - Gold Datacenter Edition)
Storage Set 3: - No Thanks
RAID Config: - No Thanks
RAID Card: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Graphics Card(s): 1x GeForce GTX 1080 8GB (Performance Edition) (VR Ready)
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
HPC Processor: - No Thanks
Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 1: High-Performance Copper Heat Pipe Cooler
HydroLux Tubing Style: - Not Applicable, I do not have a custom HydroLux liquid cooling system selected
HydroLux Fluid Color: - Not Applicable, I do not have a custom HydroLux liquid cooling system selected
Cable Management: Premium Cable Management (Strategically Routed & Organized for Airflow)
Chassis Fans: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Remote Controlled Advanced LED Lighting System (Multiple RGB Color Modes)
Airflow Control: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
LaserMark: Option Not Available
CPU Boost: Stock Factory Turbo Boost Advanced Automatic Overclocking
Graphics Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
OS Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the

Thoughts??

Edited by Loneshadow - 15 Dec 2017 at 2:10pm
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Dec 2017 at 2:55pm
Turbo is decent on 8700k, play on it first then if needed we get higher
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  Quote bprat22 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Dec 2017 at 2:23am
Agree. The cpu Turbo is very good.   Not much benefit pushing it a little higher.   

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  Quote Loneshadow Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Dec 2017 at 6:21pm
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Dec 2017 at 6:24pm
Our pleasure if you ended up wanting to oc anyways let us know but for gaming turbo boost on 8700k will do it.
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  Quote Archaeus Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Dec 2017 at 7:26pm
I have a system arriving next week hopefully and I did opt for the free CPU boost, but now i keep seeing it might not have been a wise choice.

How do i go about disabling it once i get it?
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  Quote hoserator Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Dec 2017 at 5:09am
The OP's specs show a non K chip. ? Crazy
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Dec 2017 at 6:05am
True but turbo is good on 8700 non k also. Its just one tick behind


But we won't be able to really oc across all cores with same speeds with non k.

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  Quote Meller Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 21 Apr 2018 at 9:05am
I mean, and I could be wrong here, but the 8700 only turbo boosts all 6 cores to something like 4.3ghz.  Only one core hits 4.6ghz, 2 is like 4.5ghz and 3 is 4.4ghz.  I think.

But at the end of the day, it has a locked multiplier on it, so you'll have to mess with the base clock really to get over clocks.  Which I can not recommend enough that you do not do. 

One of the biggest reasons people "Overclock" is so that they can get 4.6ghz across all cores.  Not against a single core.  But kind of pointless for you since you went with the non-k variant.
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