Beginner overclocker seeks assistance

Niftey · May 7, 2019

Pretty much since I had this setup, I decided to be quick about it and use the easy Asus Ai tweaker to overclock 17% of my processor and 15% of my ram because I don't actually know a lot about overclocking. After a recent dust cleanup, I kinda wanted to do something more to the overclocking cause of the low temps. When stress testing in AIDA64 I'll get a constant 51°c - 54°c. I tried to follow the video linked below, but as I followed the first steps: Turning the CPU core to "sync all cores" and setting it to ratio to 45, then changing the "CPU voltage" to 1.3 volts, and then making sure all the other settings are at default. After the reboot, my system crashed. That's where I'm stuck.

If anyone out there can help me achieve a stable overclock and learn something about actually overclocking, I really do appreciate it deeply!

Labeled · May 7, 2019

on intel it is pretty simple, turn voltage to manual and pick a starting point seems like you picked 1.3v, after that start at base clock and boot. if it works, back to uefi. Increase the multiplier by 1 or 2, then repeat until you don't boot and increase voltage by either .05, not .5. and rinse and repeat. there are other settings you can change for more stability but I never overclocked broadwell-e so I'm not sure what they're called in uefi. there are guides on overclock.net, but I'm not sure if haswell or skylake would be more useful because the 6800k was broadwell-e or something? https://www.overclock.net/forum/5-intel-cpus/1570313-skylake-overclocking-guide-statistics.html

Niftey · May 8, 2019

On 5/7/2019 at 10:36 AM, Labeled said:

on intel it is pretty simple, turn voltage to manual and pick a starting point seems like you picked 1.3v, after that start at base clock and boot. if it works, back to uefi. Increase the multiplier by 1 or 2, then repeat until you don't boot and increase voltage by either .05, not .5. and rinse and repeat. there are other settings you can change for more stability but I never overclocked broadwell-e so I'm not sure what they're called in uefi. there are guides on overclock.net, but I'm not sure if haswell or skylake would be more useful because the 6800k was broadwell-e or something? https://www.overclock.net/forum/5-intel-cpus/1570313-skylake-overclocking-guide-statistics.html

I'll give this a try! Thank you for your reply!