13900KS Overclock Help

SightUp · April 3, 2023

I am going for what I would consider to be a very modest overclock on my KS. I would rather push my DDR5-8000 kit a little harder as that has greater results in games supposedly.

Right now, I am stable in all of my preliminary test at 56P/45E/45C. I am using 1.4v in the BIOS with a LLC4. I am using an AVX Offset of -5 in the BIOS. In Windows 11, I am seeing max voltage of 1.368 while idle and 1.137 while under load testing AVX2 Small.

Games, Windows, anything I have ran so far, I have not seen the ratio frequency fluctuate what so ever. I have played BF2042, D2R, and a few others to test, no fluctuation down to 5.1. The only fluctuation I have seen is in stress testing.

My max core temp is 80c while running AVX2 Small. I am not sure I care to push my overclock anymore or try to stabilize a non AVX Offset 56 overclock. I would more than likely require going up to 1.45 to 1.5v which would cause me to hit even higher temps.

With that, am I cheating? Can I call myself stable? If I don't need AVX or AVX2, why would I want to stress test without the Offset? Why would I want to put in the BIOS 1.45 to 1.5 just to be AVX or AVX2 non offset stable if it has 0 impact on what you are doing?

Maybe I am wrong here??? Hopefully someone can chime in and tell me for sure what I should do!

Shimejii · April 3, 2023

Going beyond 7200 on the 13th gen IMC is fairly pointless at this time with intels IMC. There just isnt enough of a gain for the amount of work you have to do to get stability to work all the time. This forum is not really good for doing such specific ram OC, a more oriented OC forum would be better honestly. https://www.youtube.com/c/actuallyhardcoreoverclocking would be a interesting if you already arent following him.

Generally AVX2 Workloads are just a mess.

Stability would be doing mem tests and the like, which will make you pull you r hair out going over 7200 wheras you can do a 4+ hour stability test and be fine, but 4 hours 5 minutes in it starts spitting out errors lol.