I don't want this blog to turn into a bunch of update posts, but it is fated so at least for now.
School is even more stressful than I thought it would be this year, so almost all of my time is spent doing schoolwork or sports. Accordingly, I have almost no time for overclocking. The little time, I have had for overclocking, I have spent roaming the Fleebay for deals or attempting to sell my i5 4690K and Z97 motherboard to fund more hardware or on the /r/overclocking discord.
There has been one brief overclocking session during this time in which I managed to achieve 1312.7 MHz on my Crucial stick of DDR3. Otherwise, I have done no overclocking during this time. My lack of overclocking is partially due to lack of time, but it is mostly due to being out of hardware to bench.
My 4690K was by no means a good overclocker and made overclocking my great AMD Fury pointless. I could get the highest score in the Graphics portion of Firestrike out of everyone using a Fury on HWBOT, but still get placed 14th in the hardware rankings because my Physics score was so bad.
To amend this, I ordered a Asus Maximus VIII Impact today. With 7700K (which I still need to buy), I could potentially take first in a lot of hardware rankings. Before anyone asks, Newegg had the Impact on sale for under $150; otherwise, I would have gotten the Z370 platform with the six core 8700K instead.With that in mind, it's time to revise the buy list (which I'm writing more for my sake than yours). Here follows the list:
2x4GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX 2000 MHz 19-23-23-45 1.35V DDR4 -This memory is some cheap highly binned Samsung E-Die. I expect it to clock well on the Impact based on the results here.
A cheap Skylake Celeron - I just need this to test the board and DDR4 and update the BIOS on the Impact while I save up for a 7700K.
i7 7700K - I don't think this CPU needs any sort of explanation.
An AIO with a large radiator - Upgrading from the Hyper 212 Evo, I currently use, to a large AIO should help with temps and OCs quite a bit.
An LGA 775 motherboard and Core 2 Quad - LGA 775 has a diverse range of CPUs that should provide lots of fun to bench.
A Test Bench - Sometimes a cardboard motherboard box just doesn't cut it.
With the money I get from selling the Haswell i5 and the ASRock motherboard, I intend on buying the DDR4 and cheap Celeron. All of this should happen soon, so keep your eyes out for some more posts near Thanksgiving when I'm out from school.
-DrDominodog51
