i5 9600KF Overclock

[tQuantum]

I watched YouTube videos and read up about i5 9600K overclocking, and saw that in everything I've read/watched, the chip gets overclocked to at least 5.0ghz. So I played it safe and overclocked mine to 4.9. I didn't touch any voltage settings or anything else, I just put the all-core multiplier to 49. I booted into windows fine, but then I clicked start on my cinebench r23 benchmark, my computer restarted. So I went into BIOS to reset my OC, only to see that it was ready reset. So I thought "ok that OC was just unstable." But when I tried to boot into Windows, it said Windows had to "fix itself".

 

 I'm back up and running now, but I still would like to overclock my CPU. I was wondering whether I tried to overclock too hard, or maybe the fact that the chip is F series makes a difference, or maybe I just lost the silicon lottery. Anything that I'm missing here that will help me get a stable OC?

[Stahlmann]

You have to also tweak voltage, otherwise you won't get a stable OC over stock settings.

[EpiCheeseTime]

Increase voltage to get stable. But take note at what the voltage is at 4.9 Ghz and increase ever so slightly and work from there. Don't do massive jumps and assume you'd be fine.

 

Take the extra time and extra reboots to dial it in perfect and ensure you don't brick anything.