Overclocking the 6600K

[ANOXIA]

Hi,

I am quit new to PC's and PC gaming. My rig is as follows:

CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K

GPU: PowerColor Radeon R9 380

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110

Mobo: MSI Z170A Krait Gaming Edition

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200Mhz

Power Supply: Corsair VS550

Case: Corsair 100R

 

I have seen people overclocking their 6600K to 4,6Ghz+ and it runs stable. Will my Mobo be strong enough for such an overclock or will I need an MSI M board or equivalent?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

[DocSwag]

3 minutes ago, ANOXIA said:

Hi,

I am quit new to PC's and PC gaming. My rig is as follows:

CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K

GPU: PowerColor Radeon R9 380

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110

Mobo: MSI Z170A Krait Gaming Edition

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200Mhz

Power Supply: Corsair VS550

Case: Corsair 100R

 

I have seen people overclocking their 6600K to 4,6Ghz+ and it runs stable. Will my Mobo be strong enough for such an overclock or will I need an MSI M board or equivalent?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Usually motherboards make next to no difference in overclocking unless you get into really high or liquid nitrogen overclocking (for skylake there usually isn't much of a difference until you get to around 5 ghz).

Generally CPU cooler is a lot more important for OC then your motherboard until you get into liquid nitrogen overclocking.

You have a pretty decent CPU cooler so 4.6 ghz should be purty easy. 4.7 could be possible and if your lucky you might hit 4.8.

[ANOXIA]

Thanks a lot for the quick reply

[Hunter7263]

28 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Usually motherboards make next to no difference in overclocking unless you get into really high or liquid nitrogen overclocking (for skylake there usually isn't much of a difference until you get to around 5 ghz).

Generally CPU cooler is a lot more important for OC then your motherboard until you get into liquid nitrogen overclocking.

You have a pretty decent CPU cooler so 4.6 ghz should be purty easy. 4.7 could be possible and if your lucky you might hit 4.8.

This was true during haswell thanks to its architecture. I know ive seen a video or two already where they compare the M5 and M7 boards from MSI and in them you see better voltages for the same overclock when going up in boards. The Krait and the M3 i believe are pretty much on the same level. That being said 4.6 shouldnt be unreasonable even on the cheaper boards. I know the M5 is 14 power phase and the M7 is 16 phases. I think the M3 is only 10 phases.