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With cstates/c1e, no, it will clock down. Many ways to skin the cat.
Silicon Lottery!
Some say 1.4V, others 1.45V. But I guess 5 years later, I will need to change my whole computer anyways, so perhaps this whole thing is irrelevant It's almost a crime NOT to overclock the CPU
After a bit more reading:
4.8GHz at 1.392V (Offset of +0.005V, yes still) at full load. Stressed it for a couple of hours now with AIDA64 with no failures. Played a game for several hours with no failures.
1.392V appears to be reasonable with 72C being top temperature which isn't bad I suppose.
I had to switch from Balanced to High Performance power profile mode because Balance withheld full 4.8GHz CPU capability in game which dropped frame rate considerably.
Yet, CPU still down throttles to 1.2GHz at 0.8V~ when idle with sub 40C temperatures on all cores.
Going with lower offset results in instability when pushed to full load so I think this is my sweet spot.
I will try experimenting with manual voltage at some point, but this is good enough for what I need.
Thanks a lot for all your help guys, really appreciate it.