Patchouly

Thank you. I'll stay at 4.6 or 4.7, I'll see the best voltage:clock ratio I can get. I'm going to return my DDR4 though and change it for a 3000mhz. I saw some benchmarks and 2133mhz is way below. Next step will be watercooling my Asus Strix 980 Ti, but I've spent enough money this month

It seems that watercooling helps a bit because I was able to achieve a stable 4.7 today. But I'll check my LLC. I have chosen a lvl 4 I think. Maybe it's too low. Don't you think also that RAM might be a problem?

As you say... luck

Did build my water loop today, got to 4.7Ghz stable (at 1.39 but I didn't have the time to try lower voltage), that's a start . I probably should have bought better RAM. I'll see what I can do with it. If I'm brave enough. Watercooling is so rewarding

Hello, First, I am perfectly aware that 4.6Ghz is perfectly fine vs 4.7Ghz I have been working on the OC of my new i7 6700k (on Asus z170 Pro Gaming, 16Gb Corsair ddr4 2133mhz) and found a stable result at 4.6Ghz - 1.36V. With air cooling the temp can go up to 80 degrees but it's usually in the 70 range. I have tried working at 4.7Ghz but even with a 1.4 voltage, I get immediate errors on OCCT and Realbench can get me through 2/3 benchmarks before BSOD. The temperature stays ok, though (83 degrees big max). I am waiting for my custom watercooling loop and I was wondering if getting my CPU to lower temps would have enough impact on the stability for me to reach 4.7Ghz. I actually know you can't answer for sure because there are many parameters involved, but I read somewhere that temperature has an impact on stability, even when critical temps are not involved. What do you think? Also, I never changed VCCIO nor VCCSA, should I try? I'll keep you posted with my results with watercooling Thanks!