OC vcore 6600k

Lucas Cubile · October 29, 2024

Ok guys so here's the thing.

I have my old system just doing nothing it has 6600k in it and I wanna gift to my little cousin. I want to give it to him OCd (which was back when i used to use this rig IIRC 4.5 / 4.6) But I've been out of the OC game for a loooooong time. I've found my stable OC using XTU (don't worry my intention is to set bios) at 1.28V IN XTU but when I run the stress test the Vcore fluctuates a tad. At idle im at like 1.344 (this is just cause I'm in high performance mode I do plan on going back to balanced) and I get Current / Min / Max Vcore (max is the idle one) Min was 1.284 and AVG was 1.302 what I don't understand is which value to use in my BIOS judging by these. Any tips?

BTW before you recommend trying for higher, I've already tried. I need to ramp up the voltage like almost a full point to achieve 4.6 so not worth it

ki8aras · October 29, 2024

9 minutes ago, Lucas Cubile said:

Min was 1.284 and AVG was 1.302 what I don't understand is which value to use in my BIOS judging by these. Any tips?

you should set the value you set in xtu, fluctuation will happen anyways its not a fault of xtu
so if its stable with these fluctuations then it'll be stable when you set it from the bios

WereCat · October 29, 2024

Voltage fluctuation is heavily impacted by Load Line Calibration setting and it's normal.

Finding good LLC setting is a key. I'm not going into details here, you should definitely look up more info about LLC though as it can greatly impact stability when set correctly.

Lucas Cubile · October 30, 2024

4 hours ago, WereCat said:

Voltage fluctuation is heavily impacted by Load Line Calibration setting and it's normal.

Finding good LLC setting is a key. I'm not going into details here, you should definitely look up more info about LLC though as it can greatly impact stability when set correctly.

Yep I know what it is but I was wondering about baseline Vcore more than asking why it fluctuates. Cause after Setting my Vcore in XTU to 1.275V my stress tests pass no issue whatsoever but when i put 1.275V in bios at same frequency and set LLC to high, OCCT finds errors within the first 10 minutes thats why I was asking.