6600k OC Tips?

[arch_linuxos]

Anyone have some tips for OC a 6600k? Mine is at 4.5GHz @ 1.3 V... I have a feeling its just a sh**** bin but if anyone has any suggestions that would be great! Preferably would not fry my CPU/drastically shorten its life by adding too much voltage lol.

[Samppa221]

You can go safely up to 1.4V if your temps are low enough. With that H110i GTX i would assume they are.

[arch_linuxos]

1 minute ago, Samppa221 said:

You can go safely up to 1.4V if your temps are low enough. With that H110i GTX i would assume they are.

I know people have said that, but isn't it still bad for the transistors? The temps as of now max around 67C. Might try 1.35V, just to be on the safe side, since this needs to last a decent while (lol).

[Samppa221]

I got my 6700k running @ 4.8GHz with a voltage of 1.385V and my temps are about 70C

[arch_linuxos]

1 minute ago, Samppa221 said:

I got my 6700k running @ 4.8GHz with a voltage of 1.385V and my temps are about 70C

Nice, sounds like you got a well-binned chip! I'll try increasing mine some, thanks :).

[Zyndo]

35 minutes ago, Samppa221 said:

I got my 6700k running @ 4.8GHz with a voltage of 1.385V and my temps are about 70C

damn man. my 6700k doesn't even do 4.7 @ 1.45 =( The bloody thing wont do anything past 4.6 before getting over 80 C

 

44 minutes ago, arch_linuxos said:

Anyone have some tips for OC a 6600k? Mine is at 4.5GHz @ 1.3 V... I have a feeling its just a sh**** bin but if anyone has any suggestions that would be great! Preferably would not fry my CPU/drastically shorten its life by adding too much voltage lol.

Realistically, the CPU will last for years even if you had it at 1.4V. and then by the time its going to fail, you're likely going to replace it with something much faster. Unless you're going for EXTREME overclocks with massive voltage, you aren't really going to kill your  CPU before you want to upgrade it anyway. It should last a several years at 1.4V, and thats assuming you leave it on all day long, and aren't speed stepping it (it also assumes you have an adequate cooling solution). if you run 1.4, turn it off or hibernate or sleep or whatever when its not in use, and set up some voltage offsets so its not 1.4 when it doesn't need to be, then it should last many years. But again, you're likely going to replace it long before it dies anyway.

[arch_linuxos]

2 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

damn man. my 6700k doesn't even do 4.7 @ 1.45 =( The bloody thing wont do anything past 4.6 before getting over 80 C

 

Realistically, the CPU will last for years even if you had it at 1.4V. and then by the time its going to fail, you're likely going to replace it with something much faster. Unless you're going for EXTREME overclocks with massive voltage, you aren't really going to kill your  CPU before you want to upgrade it anyway. It should last a several years at 1.4V, and thats assuming you leave it on all day long, and aren't speed stepping it (it also assumes you have an adequate cooling solution). if you run 1.4, turn it off or hibernate or sleep or whatever when its not in use, and set up some voltage offsets so its not 1.4 when it doesn't need to be, then it should last many years. But again, you're likely going to replace it long before it dies anyway.

Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely look into that once I'm back from work.