Overclocking i7 6700k - Voltage Issues

[McOnie]

Hi,

 

As the title suggest, I have been attempting an overclock on my i7 6700k. The issues I have run into are my voltages exceeding 1.45v and sometimes as far as 1.52v when on adaptive voltage (using HW Monitor and Ai Suite 3). I had a stable overclock of 4.6GHz with 1.325v using manual and decided (after watching Linus' video) to use adaptive.

 

Can anyone help me out and give me advice on what I'm doing wrong and how I can learn from it.

 

Thanks,

Martyn

[Imakuni]

Don't use adaptive. Simple as that.

 

At max, run in Offset mode. But even then, it's absolutely fine to run on fixed voltage all the time.

[McOnie]

Thanks, that's the type of direct answer I have been looking for. I had posted in other forums, but it was all indirect answers and not really helpful. Again, Thank you.

[MageTank]

3 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Don't use adaptive. Simple as that.

 

At max, run in Offset mode. But even then, it's absolutely fine to run on fixed voltage all the time.

100% perfect information. Offset is easily the best way of getting a stable amount of voltage without letting adaptive over-do it. Best way to save power while still overclocking.

[McOnie]

Just now, MageTank said:

100% perfect information. Offset is easily the best way of getting a stable amount of voltage without letting adaptive over-do it. Best way to save power while still overclocking.

Not too bothered about power saving, just wanted to make sure using something like a constant manual voltage won't severely degrade my CPU over time compared to adaptive or offset. I do understand however that overclocking will most likely shorten the life span compared to stock, but hey that's what the K series is for.

[Trioxide]

15 minutes ago, MartynMc said:

Hi,

 

As the title suggest, I have been attempting an overclock on my i7 6700k. The issues I have run into are my voltages exceeding 1.45v and sometimes as far as 1.52v when on adaptive voltage (using HW Monitor and Ai Suite 3). I had a stable overclock of 4.6GHz with 1.325v using manual and decided (after watching Linus' video) to use adaptive.

 

Can anyone help me out and give me advice on what I'm doing wrong and how I can learn from it.

 

Thanks,

Martyn

What motherboard are you using? I'm running stable 4.8GHz @ 1.296V...

Below is a screenshot I posted a few days ago in another thread on the forum (don't mind realbench, it's there because of the other thread).

[McOnie]

1 minute ago, Trioxide said:

What motherboard are you using? I'm running stable 4.8GHz @ 1.296V...

Below is a screenshot I posted a few days ago in another thread on the forum (don't mind realbench, it's there because of the other thread).

Using an ASUS ROG VIII Hero.

[Trioxide]

Hmm I'm using an Asus (ROG) Maximus VIII Hero Alpha, but there shouldn't that much of a differnce...

Try setting the bios as I did: 

And then run Aida