i5 9600K overclock - first overclock, looking for tips

[Oli515]

Hey everyone,

 

first things first: This is my first overlock like ever, so sorry if I am no expert on it.

 

Hardware:

CPU: Intel Core i5 9600K

Mainboard: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PLUS ATX Intel 7B51-00

Cooler: EKL Alpenföhn Matterhorn Black Edition Rev. C

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 2x8GB DD4 3200MHz C16 XMP 2.0

PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 10 cm ATX 600W BN278

GPU: ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 Super ROG Strix Gaming OC 8 GB

 

I was kinda unhappy with my i5 the last couple of months, so I decided to try overclocking it a bit. 

 

I left all the voltage things on auto, because I did not know any better. Base Clock is 100 MHz, Multipliers are set to 45 base and 46 ring. Task Manager shows 4.47 Ghz. 

 

I am using StressMyPC 3.77 (Because I searched for a random stress test, which I do not need to buy). My CPU is running for like 15 minutes now at 4.47 Ghz with 67° Celsius. 

 

I also turned XMP on, it got my RAM from like 2166 MHz to 3200 MHz (I just wanted to reach its rated speed, nothing more crazy), its still like 50% faster clock speeds. 

 

Now, my CPU overclock seems to run okay with that stress test.

 

My questions:

 

1. Did I do something like really wrong in your opinion? 

 

2. Do you think I could/should push it further? If so, for what should I go?

 

3. Is there a way for me to test i my RAM is stable (with XMP)?

 

4. Does someone got similiar/identical hardware and has reference values for me?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Haro]

3 minutes ago, Oli515 said:

Do you think I could/should push it further?

We can't know. Only way to find out is to try.

 

3 minutes ago, Oli515 said:

there a way for me to test i my RAM is stable (with XMP)?

Memtest86 and OCCT.

[Oli515]

21 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

We can't know. Only way to find out is to try.

 

Memtest86 and OCCT.

Thanks so much for the OCCT tipp!

 

But well, bad news for me:

 

XMP: nope, crashes after like 5 seconds of test....

 

CPU: well I just wanted to post: well it works with 4.5 GHz but crashes with 4.6...then it crashed with 4.5...

 

I am running OCCT now with normal - non overclocked - settings to see is that runs okay. 

So what I get from that: either my hardware won't overclock well, or I need non auto voltage levels I guess. 

So I take from it: no super fast overclock here, I will at least to read up on things so I might try again, thanks for the help!

[xg32]

4.6 is 9600k's stock. u can easily do 1.35v 4.8ghz and check temps. After that, either lower the voltage or keep going up on clocks.

[Haro]

2 minutes ago, Oli515 said:

what I get from that: either my hardware won't overclock well, or I need non auto voltage levels I guess. 

Getting to the advertised speeds should be easy especially with intel's imc 

Set the dram voltage to 1.35 and try manually setting to 3000 with docp / xmp on 

If that worked and it passed with no errors 

Try setting the vccio / vccsa to 1.1 and then try 3200

Make sure your ram is set in slot 2 and 4.

[Oli515]

1 minute ago, xg32 said:

4.6 is 9600k's stock. u can easily do 1.35v 4.8ghz and check temps. After that, either lower the voltage or keep going up on clocks.

well, 4.6 is only the single core turbo I think, mine turbos mostly to 4.3 with all cores. But thanks, I will try that!

[Oli515]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

Getting to the advertised speeds should be easy especially with intel's imc 

Set the dram voltage to 1.35 and try manually setting to 3000 with docp / xmp on 

If that worked and it passed with no errors 

Try setting the vccio / vccsa to 1.1 and then try 3200

Make sure your ram is set in slot 2 and 4.

thanks will try! RAM is on slot 2 and 4 already!

[Oli515]

12 minutes ago, xg32 said:

4.6 is 9600k's stock. u can easily do 1.35v 4.8ghz and check temps. After that, either lower the voltage or keep going up on clocks.

 

11 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Getting to the advertised speeds should be easy especially with intel's imc 

Set the dram voltage to 1.35 and try manually setting to 3000 with docp / xmp on 

If that worked and it passed with no errors 

Try setting the vccio / vccsa to 1.1 and then try 3200

Make sure your ram is set in slot 2 and 4.

 

 

Well I tried both, everthing by its own, combined. PC crashed before I could fire up the stress test. Maybe its just a question of fine tuning it, I will read up on it and try it on the weekend. Thanks so much guys!

 

[Haro]

1 minute ago, Oli515 said:

Maybe its just a question of fine tuning it,

Try a lower frequency like 3000 for example and set the vccio and vccsa to 1.1 and then check

[Mister Woof]

seems weird to have your cache higher than your core

 

 

[Oli515]

15 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

seems weird to have your cache higher than your core

 

 

Well yeah...tbh: I thought it was turbo speed.... as I said: no experience so far...

But well: I got it to 4.8 GHz right now with a ring speed of 4.5 Ghz and 3000 MHz RAM and it seems to work! at least the last 5 min stress test are working!

I got voltage 1.35, 1.1, 1.1 and 1.35!

 

my temps are at like 73-75° Celsius, which should be fine? 

 

Looking forward to test it out in games tomorrow! 

 

After that, fine tuning voltages Thanks you guys so much!

[Mister Woof]

1 hour ago, Oli515 said:

Well yeah...tbh: I thought it was turbo speed.... as I said: no experience so far...

But well: I got it to 4.8 GHz right now with a ring speed of 4.5 Ghz and 3000 MHz RAM and it seems to work! at least the last 5 min stress test are working!

I got voltage 1.35, 1.1, 1.1 and 1.35!

 

my temps are at like 73-75° Celsius, which should be fine? 

 

Looking forward to test it out in games tomorrow! 

 

After that, fine tuning voltages Thanks you guys so much!

temps are fine

[-rascal-]

1 hour ago, Oli515 said:

Well yeah...tbh: I thought it was turbo speed.... as I said: no experience so far...

But well: I got it to 4.8 GHz right now with a ring speed of 4.5 Ghz and 3000 MHz RAM and it seems to work! at least the last 5 min stress test are working!

I got voltage 1.35, 1.1, 1.1 and 1.35!

 

my temps are at like 73-75° Celsius, which should be fine? 

 

Looking forward to test it out in games tomorrow! 

 

After that, fine tuning voltages Thanks you guys so much!

 

Your Cache / RIng frequency should be 200 ~ 300 MHz less than your CPU frequency... at least that is what is recommended.

4.8 GHz with 1.35V Core Voltage is good.

Same with ~75*C for temperatures.

 

AIDA64 also has a nice bulit-in Stability test program.

It's not free, but you can run the trial for 30? days

 

As for monitoring temperatures and such...HWinfo

https://www.hwinfo.com/

 

Other good tools include:

• CPU-Z -- https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
• GPU-Z -- https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

[Oli515]

7 hours ago, -rascal- said:

 

Your Cache / RIng frequency should be 200 ~ 300 MHz less than your CPU frequency... at least that is what is recommended.

4.8 GHz with 1.35V Core Voltage is good.

Same with ~75*C for temperatures.

 

AIDA64 also has a nice bulit-in Stability test program.

It's not free, but you can run the trial for 30? days

 

As for monitoring temperatures and such...HWinfo

https://www.hwinfo.com/

 

Other good tools include:

• CPU-Z -- https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
• GPU-Z -- https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Thanks!

 

I am monitoring my temps with Speccy, which works fine I think

 

yeah found that out about ring frequency aswell...should have read up better! I might try an get RAM 3200 and maybe trying to lower the core voltage a bit when I got time. 

 

Thanks for the input  might try that AIDA 64 trial!