[SUCCESS] Overclocked GA-Z87X-UD5 TH - Core i7-4770K - GTX770

[SUCCESS] Overclocked GA-Z87X-UD5 TH - Core i7-4770K - GTX770 RedRocket

Components

Fractal Design DEFINE R4 Titanium Grey Window Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352023

Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116901

Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5 TH Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128650

Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR3 1600 SDRAM (Timing 10-10-10-27)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233280

ASUS GTX770-DC2OC GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121770

Corsair Hydro Series H60 CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181030

3x Cool Master Blade Master 120 Cooling Fan
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103069

5x Samsung 840 EVO Solid State Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W00YW3563

2x Western Digital WD VelociRaptor 500GB 10000RPM Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236244


Already Owned

2x Seagate Barracude 1TB 7200RPM HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840

Lite-on DVD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289

2x NEC PA271W 27" Monitor


Comments

I knew Black Friday was coming and i was increasingly receiving harddrives from clients with Thunderbolt and i figured it was a good time for me to build a new ideal Video Editing System. Plus TAX Write-offs!! All the components are from the Tonymac list.
I also wanted to try Overclocking both the CPU and RAM.

MultiBeast Settings

Overclocking CPU
Here are a few tweaks to make before even making changes to speeds
Turn off C1E, C3, C6/C7, EIST Function as these are power saving options that will slow you down.
Also one of the most crucial thing to change is the
VRIN Loadline Calibration to "EXTREME"
This is to stabilize and reduce VDroop.
Turn off Turbo-Boost, and enable Hyper Thread.

Limits in 10.9 Mavericks
i clocked up to 4.7Ghz and noticed that OS X didn't boot.
i kept going down 100mhz at a time and 4.3Ghz was the # that worked.
It seems that Mavericks 10.9 at this stage will not read anything above that.
I ran Prime 95's torture test 8 passes and temperature went no higher than 41 Celsius.
Safe temperature is somewhere around 90 C.

My BIOS Settings for Overclocking CPU
Tested Prime95 Torture Test 4pass. No errors.

About this Mac

Benchmarks

Geekbench 3 32bit score
I'm a little disappointed and hope to boost my RAM a bit more because Mavericks cannot handle faster CPU Speeds currently.

Cinebench Score


UPDATE 1/9/14:
Unigine HEAVEN Test Scores
720P

Extreme Test


UPDATE 1/10/14:
RAM Overclocked to 2133Mhz.
No Errors with Prime95 Torture Test for 5+ hours.

New Geekbench Score



UPDATE: 1/22/2014
4.7Ghz/Uncore 4.3Ghz/2133Mhz




Getting to 4.7Ghz and 2133Mhz RAM stable simultaneously was bit of a challenge for me.I don't think i got a very good batch of CPU.
At 4.6Ghz i had a boot up problem but increasing the Vcore up 0.02V did the job.
Did a brief test for 2 hours while doing other things but the goal for me was 4.7-8 range.

I brought the RAM speed back down to 1866Mhz for this initial "4.7" realm.
i must have restarted 50+ times increasing incrementally for
VCore, VRin Override, Ring Voltage.
Though it booted, it would fail the Prime95 Torture test instantaneously.
So i rebooted and ran the Basic, Medium, Extreme testing sequentially and adjusted them until i was able to run Prime95 for 2 hours, then it froze. Adjust again and this time we completed 4 hours.

I now bumped the RAM back up to 2133Mhz and CRASHED.
Adjustments were made and tests repeated until stable for 4 hours on Prime95 Torture.
Increased the Uncore CPU Clock up to 4.3Ghz from default 4.0Ghz
as i've read about OC'ing should be within 300-500 mhz from CPU Speed to prevent being a bottleneck.

My initial goal with this machine was 4.8Ghz but with the fatigue and troubles i had with this particular chip i decided to call it OK at 4.7Ghz. For my first attempt at over clocking i am pretty happy not with the results and feel i have a better understanding of how the components actually work.

We have an editing job starting tomorrow which will take up 2+ weeks so i am going to bump this back down to 4.5Ghz & 2133Mhz where i was comfortably stable.
It'll be fairly intense real world job with 6K material editing down at 4K with delivery at 1080p so it should give me a good sense of what this machines can really do.

My BIOS Settings for Overclocking CPU
VRIN Override Voltage 2.010V
VCore: 1.31V
Ring Voltage: 1.25V
CPU Multiplier: 47
BCLK: Auto
Turbo: Auto

Overclocking RAM
Enter Bios
Turn on XMP
System Memory Multiplier 21.33
Memory Timing (both Channel A & B)
CAS Latency 10
tRCD 10
tRP 10
tRAS 27
CPU System Agent Voltage +.250V
CPU I/O Analog Voltage +0.250V
CPU I/O Digital Voltage +0.250V

UPDATED 01/28/2014
Red Rocket Card Installation.
It's now time to put this bad boy to work!
i installed the red rocket card in the 3rd PCI Slot and booted.
Installed the latest mac drivers and launced RCX. Software recognizes the card no problem.
Then i plug in a usb thumb drive and BOOM. The computer freezes.
Reboot. Repeat. FREEZE again.
So i Rebooted and tried the USB on all other ports.
They either freeze or unmount by itself and eventually freezes the computer.I try a different USB drive and same thing.
Remove the Red Rocket and everything is back to normal.I was not able to find any answer or solution on this site but found something on Red User Forum.
It's a frequent problem with the Gigabyte UD5 Series motherboards.
The specific article are on z77-ud5h/th boards.
If anything is inserted into the 2nd PCI-E Slot, the speed of the 3rd slot drops down from 8x to 4x.
The Red Rocket Required a 8x.

So i moved the video card to slot 3 and moved the Red Rocket up to the 1 slot at 16x.
Reboot.
Everything seems to be working.... for now.

[SUCCESS] Overclocked GA-Z87X-UD5 TH - Core i7-4770K - GTX770 OC

I'm looking to do a similar build (4th build now).

I noticed you said you were a commercial director. I'm a composer/producer with credits.

[SUCCESS] Overclocked GA-Z87X-UD5 TH - Core i7-4770K - GTX770 OC

Sorry dude. i can't PM, and i'm really just here to discuss the build

*[SUCCESS] Overclocked GA-Z87X-UD5 TH - Core i7-4770K - GTX770 OC

What thermal paste did you use with the H60?

I have a similar build but went with the H100i just to be safe because I want to overclock. I'm currently running into temps of close to 80 degrees with OCCT on a windows partition!!

Also, how tight do you go with the H60 cpu brackets?

*[SUCCESS] Overclocked GA-Z87X-UD5 TH - Core i7-4770K - GTX770 OC

I used a H60 with 2600K (which runs at higher temperatures) and never had a problem even at 4.7Ghz, so i thought it was safe to go with it.

I just used the cheapo paste that came with the cooler as always.
The screws should be tight enough to be snug. you don't want to over tighten to damage the motherboard

What your problem may be is the heatsink unit is not flat and places correctly on the CPU. ive done that before in my very first build. Make sure its flat and secure on the CPU

Can you comment on ur Thunderbolt functionality? Have u done any testing?

I found the solution here but with Windows 8.1 Home Edition

http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-h...z87x-ud5-th-other-tb-boards-2.html#post727269

in addition i installed the Thunderbolt driver from the Gigabyte website in Windows 8.1.
Connected my G-Technology Thunderbolt

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AT12S9848

Wait til it auto installed necessary drivers and mounted.
Shutdown, restart into Mac OSX with it connected.
Worked No problem with Thunderbolt 1.0 speeds.

One warning. If you unplug or unmount your computer will freeze. It is not hot swappable as others have mentioned already.

I have exactly the same build but can't make it boot with the bios settings abc123kazu provides.
May I ask you for a little step by step tutorial (damn I hate to ask for tutorials )?

in fact, if I touch any memory settings, the hack won't boot (well pass the bios test...)

First this i did was make sure the CPU was stable, with memory clocked at all regular speeds.
Also note that the original timing on my RAM is 10-10-10-27.
Im very conservative when it comes to testing step by step so it's always easier for me to find problems so you will be doing tons of rebooting.
Very first thing was to turn on XMP. Profile 1. make sure none of those automatic boosting settings are on as they kind of override all manual changes you may make.
Try rebooting.
Then i simply booted the multiplier to 18.66
putting stability aside see if it boots.
Then i changed the

CAS Latency to 10
tRCD to 10
tRP to 10
tRAS to 27
CPU System Agent Voltage to +.250V
CPU I/O Analog Voltage to +0.250V
CPU I/O Digital Voltage to +0.250V

Reboot.
Then do a memory torture test.
i ran without errors for roughly 4 hours.
Since this wasn't the final, i didn't bother doing a full run but was convinced i'll be stable.

Then i clocked the multiplier up to 2133Mhz.
Ran Prime95 Torture test for 5+ hours with no errors
and computer temperatures all stayed under 45.

I tried clocking up to 2666Mhz, then i had that error of OSX not booting.
so i went back to 2133Mhz and stuck with it.

Ive been editing 4K AE files with 50+ layers and not one crash or overheating yet so it's safe to say it's reliable.
(though I've only had the build and ran it for a week)
But like CPU's kinda they're not all the same...
give it a try and let me know how it goes.
The important thing is patience..... and testing..... countless rebooting....