Good overclock or not?

[Ichibanson]

Just put together my first rig composed of 

• i5 6600K
• EVGA Superclocked 1070
• 16GB HyperX Fury 2133 Ram
• EVO 212 Air cooler
• Sandisk 250 GB SSD
• 1TB WD Blue HDD
• NZXT S340 Case

 

Currently running an AIDA 64 test with current results listed below. In case it's not there somehow, 

CPU Core volts :1.21 or 1.22 @ 4.4GHz

 

Is  everything safe and checking out?

 

Thanks!

[FireFlame9222]

pretty good, you can probably bump it up too becase temps are good.

 

unless its unstable if you up it

[Ichibanson]

Unstable like it won't post and blue screen? Just making sure.

@FireFlame9222

[FireFlame9222]

1 hour ago, Ichibanson said:

Unstable like it won't post and blue screen? Just making sure.

@FireFlame9222

yes unstable is when you BSOD or it crashes during a stress test,

 

i usally stress my OC for 24 hours, others do it for longer.

[Ichibanson]

Okay, I'm currently 30 mins into AIDA and I'll probably stick at 4.4 for now, but may jump to 4.5/6 in the future, you say for 24hrs, you mean just leave it running in the background? 

Thanks btw

[-rascal-]

6 minutes ago, Ichibanson said:

Okay, I'm currently 30 mins into AIDA and I'll probably stick at 4.4 for now, but may jump to 4.5/6 in the future, you say for 24hrs, you mean just leave it running in the background? 

Thanks btw

 

No, just run AIDA 64 Stability test (or any other CPU) testing program with no other programs running.

 

It is recommended that you run it for 12 or 24 hours, but these days, it's not necessary -- especially if it is just a daily / gaming PC. Plus, not everyone has all the time, and having to check up on a computer every so often in between.

 

If you are overclocking a computer used as a home server (I don't know WHY you would overclock a server PC anyways...but people do it) that runs 24/7, then yes, it would be strongly recommended to run a full 24 ~ 48 hour stress test.

 

Most problems will come up within the first 30 minutes ~ 1 hour, but it would be good to run a stability test for a few hours (I've seen unstable overclocks act up ~2 hours in a stability test). Then run a few programs / games, and see if that causes any issues.

[Ichibanson]

@-rascal-

What will those problems look like?

And this pc is a daily driver plus gaming rig (College life woo)

[Ichibanson]

Shoot, just hit a hardware failure at 40 minutes into AIDA  64, what now?

[-rascal-]

29 minutes ago, Ichibanson said:

@-rascal-

What will those problems look like?

And this pc is a daily driver plus gaming rig (College life woo)

• Computer crashing and restarting on it's own
• Computer locking up completely (only the power or reset button can resolve it)
• Blue Screen of Death
• AIDA64 just stopping due to a failed core, error, etc.
• CPU throttling down (4.4 GHz...and..say 1 hour in it is only running at 1.6 GHz or something much lower than your 4.4 GHz)

24 minutes ago, Ichibanson said:

Shoot, just hit a hardware failure at 40 minutes into AIDA  64, what now?

Build up your skills in overclocking.

• Increase the Core Voltage up a bit  (e.g. 1.22V..or 1.25V)
• Your minimum and maximum range is swinging quite a bit (1.208V low, and 1.240V high) -- try increasing your Load-Line Calibration settings