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Hey everyone so I have an i7 6700k on a Gigabyte gaming 7 mobo with 16 gb of corsair ram. I currently have my chip at 4.5 ghz with a vcore of 1.32 volts with the temp never rising over 60 c using a corsair H110i GTX. When I try and Overclock to 4.6 ghz I need to use 1.4 volts to have the OC be stable. To me that seems like a really big jump in vcore. Does anyone have any suggestions or do you think I just lost the silicon lottery with my chip.

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Hey everyone so I have an i7 6700k on a Gigabyte gaming 7 mobo with 16 gb of corsair ram. I currently have my chip at 4.5 ghz with a vcore of 1.32 volts with the temp never rising over 60 c using a corsair H110i GTX. When I try and Overclock to 4.6 ghz I need to use 1.4 volts to have the OC be stable. To me that seems like a really big jump in vcore. Does anyone have any suggestions or do you think I just lost the silicon lottery with my chip.

Sorry, but I think you got a really bad chip. You could probably play with cpu core cache ratio/uncore ratio but you'll have to look up a guide on that. 

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Jeezious why isn't 4.5 good enough?

Maybe he wants a higher OC? I don't know. But if anything, considering 1.3v VCORE is slightly high to me for 4.5 GHz and 4.6 GHZ demands 1.4v VCORE, he lost the Silicon Lottery.

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Hey everyone so I have an i7 6700k on a Gigabyte gaming 7 mobo with 16 gb of corsair ram. I currently have my chip at 4.5 ghz with a vcore of 1.32 volts with the temp never rising over 60 c using a corsair H110i GTX. When I try and Overclock to 4.6 ghz I need to use 1.4 volts to have the OC be stable. To me that seems like a really big jump in vcore. Does anyone have any suggestions or do you think I just lost the silicon lottery with my chip.

um you probably lost the lottery becasue my 6600k can get to 4.6 at 1.36vcore

CPU: i5 6600k OCed to 4.5Ghz @ 1.35v, GPU: R9 390 Nitro, Motherboard: Asus z170-A, CPU Cooler: H100i GTX, RAM: HyperX 2x8 16gb DDR4, PSU: Seasonic x650, Storage: 850 EVO 500gb, WD 1tb blue, Case: H440 White/Black

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I think I just lost the lottery. Sucks but it's happened before. Oh well. Anyone else here have a 6700k that's had similar OCing abilities?

Currently overclocking mine im at 4.74GHz stable at 1.45v in bios but lack of LLC on my mobo and vdroop means 1.415v under load. Not sure if I can get this any further without having a board that has LLC. If I had LLC i reackon 4.8GHZ would be possible under 1.45v. Past 4.8GHz I think this chip would need much more voltage than i'd be willing to provide.

Have you checked your actual load voltages vs your bios voltages in something like HWmonitor? Could be like me and having some vdroop.

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Currently overclocking mine im at 4.74GHz stable at 1.45v in bios but lack of LLC on my mobo and vdroop means 1.415v under load. Not sure if I can get this any further without having a board that has LLC. If I had LLC i reackon 4.8GHZ would be possible under 1.45v. Past 4.8GHz I think this chip would need much more voltage than i'd be willing to provide.

Have you checked your actual load voltages vs your bios voltages in something like HWmonitor? Could be like me and having some vdroop.

Ya I have checked and there is some vdrop, but i think I will try tweaking the VCCIO and the SA as it may make a big difference and be the reason I need so much more voltage for 100 mhz. Have you tweaked either of those settings?

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Ya I have checked and there is some vdrop, but i think I will try tweaking the VCCIO and the SA as it may make a big difference and be the reason I need so much more voltage for 100 mhz. Have you tweaked either of those settings?

Not touched them yet, still fairly new to ocing so I'm sticking to tweaking what I know for now =) And im pretty happy with my overclock currently and doubt im gonna push it further. Unless I get a better mobo with LLC.

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