Awful 6700k luck

[IAcKI]

So I've had my 6700k for a few years now, I noticed when I first got it always ran a little hot. I gave it a a few months before trying to get an overclock.
I was able to get a 4.4GHz OC but the voltage was up at around 1.4 to achieve that and honestly I didn't feel much noticeable improvement but the chip was running much hotter.
When return to just standard settings I noticed the voltage even on stock was rising to 1.35 when in auto on base Turbo.
I tried setting it to manual and wasn't able to get it to boot with less voltage than 1.25.

I was just wondering if anyone has had a worse CPU than what I appear to have gotten and if there is anything to remedy this?

I've tried reseating many times with different compounds but my temps are regularly at 75C while gaming even with an ambient of around 15C.

[Mister Woof]

IIRC skylake is still toothpaste. Delid could help reduce power leakage and get you slightly better overclocking results, and will help with temps. It's been a few years and possibly the toothpaste has dried up anyway. 

 

Also if you've been running it at 1.4v it might have degraded a little.

[IAcKI]

1 minute ago, Mister Woof said:

IIRC skylake is still toothpaste. Delid could help reduce power leakage and get you slightly better overclocking results, and will help with temps. It's been a few years and possibly the toothpaste has dried up anyway. 

 

Also if you've been running it at 1.4v it might have degraded a little.

I looked at delidding but when the chip was still new and I was a little earlier in my career a bust chip wouldn't have been good on the bank account. I may give it a go now then.

I've been running at 1.25 on stock clocks for 2 years but to get anything more than turbo from it is when I need to crank it. Or for the short while I left it on Auto.

[Jurrunio]

Did you get it new?

 

7 minutes ago, IAcKI said:

I've tried reseating many times with different compounds but my temps are regularly at 75C while gaming even with an ambient of around 15C

maybe the thermal paste cracked?

[IAcKI]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

Did you get it new?

 

maybe the thermal paste cracked?

Yep was bought new and was a problem from day 1.
 

[Mister Woof]

Just now, IAcKI said:

I looked at delidding but when the chip was still new and I was a little earlier in my career a bust chip wouldn't have been good on the bank account. I may give it a go now then.

I've been running at 1.25 on stock clocks for 2 years but to get anything more than turbo from it is when I need to crank it. Or for the short while I left it on Auto.

Just the luck of the draw really. Voltage requirements for overclocks aren't linear. I need 1.25v for 4.7ghz all-core and then 1.365 for 5.0, and 1.425 for 5.1 lol.

 

Have you done any other adjustments when trying to overclock besides just raising the core voltage?

[RGProductions]

I’ve had very mixed luck with skylake. My old i5 6500 was pretty chill with a voltage of 0.89, but my 6600 needed ≈1.2 to get the same clocks.

[Mister Woof]

Just now, RGProductions said:

I’ve had very mixed luck with skylake. My old i5 6500 was pretty chill with a voltage of 0.89, but my 6600 needed ≈1.2 to get the same clocks.

There there.....Intel has taken 4 generations of Skylake to get it right. Maybe the next one (10th gen, still Skylake) they'll finally get it!

[IAcKI]

1 minute ago, Mister Woof said:

Just the luck of the draw really. Voltage requirements for overclocks aren't linear. I need 1.25v for 4.7ghz all-core and then 1.365 for 5.0, and 1.425 for 5.1 lol.

 

Have you done any other adjustments when trying to overclock besides just raising the core voltage?

I've honestly not looked into it massively. I was completely disheartened by it and knew about the crap Internal Thermal pasted I thought that's what I'd got and knew I'd never achieve much with it.

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, IAcKI said:

I've honestly not looked into it massively. I was completely disheartened by it and knew about the crap Internal Thermal pasted I thought that's what I'd got and knew I'd never achieve much with it.

There's some other things you can do to get it stable. Look up some guides. It's really not as difficult as it sounds. 

[IAcKI]

Just now, Mister Woof said:

There's some other things you can do to get it stable. Look up some guides. It's really not as difficult as it sounds. 

I've dabbled 3-4 years ago so will have to brush back up on it all and give it a try! Thanks.

[Mister Woof]

Just now, IAcKI said:

I've dabbled 3-4 years ago so will have to brush back up on it all and give it a try! Thanks.

Good luck.