How should I OC and stress-test a 6700K

[UnknownEngineer]

Title pretty-much sums up everything, I wan't to try OC:ing my CPU a little.

 

OS: Win 10

CPU: 6700K

Cooler: Arctic cooling Freezer i30

Mobo: Maximus VIII ranger

RAM: 16GB ballistix, 2400Mhz.

 

Guide me.

 

1. What programs should I use for monitoring the voltages and temps. I am using Win 10, and coretemp for some reason freezes my PC, it does this by pumping all my 16GB of ram full of data, and then even fills the additional 16GB I apparently have on my HDD's. So a total of a 32GB memory leak... Quite worrying. Could be just an old version of the program but...

 

2. What programs should I use to stress test my CPU. IIRC Prime 95 isn't recommended for Haswell, I can't see how it would be recommended for Skylake either then, any insight to what I should use here?

 

3. What voltages are fine, what settings should I modify in the BIOS. I have an Asus Maximus VIII ranger, options are a plenty, I just don't know what all of them do. And if I do know what does something do, I won't necessarily know if it needs to be changed, and if it can help.

[Rusty_Shackleford]

I've never OC'ed but a tip I can give is have a good cooler. 

[soaringchicken]

I would normally do a big explanation, but I'm really tired so I'd just go on the internet and look for some overclocking guides, even better go to Linus' youtube and look at his overclocking guides since overclocking methods don't usually change from chipset to chipset.

[harrynowl]

OC Via the UEFI and stress test with Intel's own XTU software.

 

You can actually OC with the software as well but you get better voltage options in the UEFI.

[ManIkWeet]

1. What programs should I use for monitoring the voltages and temps. I am using Win 10, and coretemp for some reason freezes my PC, it does this by pumping all my 16GB of ram full of data, and then even fills the additional 16GB I apparently have on my HDD's. So a total of a 32GB memory leak... Quite worrying. Could be just an old version of the program but...

 

Ah, so my ancient laptop isn't the only one with this problem, interesting...

 

(Though my Windows wouldn't be able to do anything, probably because the laptop is really bad)

[Nena Trinity]

[gt403cyl]

Title pretty-much sums up everything, I wan't to try OC:ing my CPU a little.

 

OS: Win 10

CPU: 6700K

Cooler: Arctic cooling Freezer i30

Mobo: Maximus VIII ranger

RAM: 16GB ballistix, 2400Mhz.

 

Guide me.

 

1. What programs should I use for monitoring the voltages and temps. I am using Win 10, and coretemp for some reason freezes my PC, it does this by pumping all my 16GB of ram full of data, and then even fills the additional 16GB I apparently have on my HDD's. So a total of a 32GB memory leak... Quite worrying. Could be just an old version of the program but...

 

2. What programs should I use to stress test my CPU. IIRC Prime 95 isn't recommended for Haswell, I can't see how it would be recommended for Skylake either then, any insight to what I should use here?

 

3. What voltages are fine, what settings should I modify in the BIOS. I have an Asus Maximus VIII ranger, options are a plenty, I just don't know what all of them do. And if I do know what does something do, I won't necessarily know if it needs to be changed, and if it can help.

1. I like CPU-z for monitoring voltage, Aida64 for temps, voltage and stressing.

2. Aida64 again here.

3. Google "overclocking with Asus Maximus VIII ranger" this will get you going in the right direction.