How far to push voltage with stock cooling on i7 3770?

[Brat Gvidon]

Win7 x64 SP1 rates all my hardware 7.9, except for the CPU, which is rated at 7.8... My goal is 7.9 and I am not sure what else I can do with my CPU, except overclock it higher.

It's a non-K (43 is the maximum multiplier), but it runs at 4.3Ghz with stock cooling and voltage. My only way up is through BCLK, which can cause corruption... How far would you push your CPU voltage with stock cooling/setup like mine?? My system and CPU temps are great - I think my case has a great airflow system and the motherboard has its own thermal features. What can I do to reduce BCLK-related corruption and increase its speed? I already disabled Spread Spectrum, but I am sure there are other settings that can be adjusted.

EDIT: I keep reading guides that say SpeedStep ruins overclocks, but mine is enabled and everything is fine with it being enabled...

[dracom_ma]

Win7 x64 SP1 rates all my hardware 7.9, except for the CPU, which is rated at 7.8... My goal is 7.9 and I am not sure what else I can do with my CPU, except overclock it higher.

It's a non-K (43 is the maximum multiplier), but it runs at 4.3Ghz with stock cooling and voltage. My only way up is through BCLK, which can cause corruption... How far would you push your CPU voltage with stock cooling/setup like mine?? My system and CPU temps are great - I think my case has a great airflow system and the motherboard has its own thermal features. What can I do to reduce BCLK-related corruption and increase its speed? I already disabled Spread Spectrum, but I am sure there are other settings that can be adjusted.

EDIT: I keep reading guides that say SpeedStep ruins overclocks, but mine is enabled and everything is fine with it being enabled...

You won't get 7.9 on that CPU. I have a 3930k running at 4.6GHZ and I don't get 7.9 either.

Couple of us were talking about this subject and I believe the consensus is you need to go well past 5GHZ to score 7.9 on the CPU.

[Brat Gvidon]

You won't get 7.9 on that CPU. I have a 3930k running at 4.6GHZ and I don't get 7.9 either.

Couple of us were talking about this subject and I believe the consensus is you need to go well past 5GHZ to score 7.9 on the CPU.

Really? I swear I saw someone with a 7.9 and 4.5Ghz, I think. Well, I guess I'll just stick to stability and leave BCLK at 100Mhz, but disabling Spread Spectrum upped my memory bandwidth a bit - looking into the issue had a good result.