Should i add more voltage

[Mineu999]

So i recently built my first gaming PC and I was overclocking my 6700k and i got to 4.6Ghz with 1.320v (haven't tried lower because i didn't have the time also i get 64°C on aida64 and 66°C on realbench with the hottest being 69°C) but i tried to get to 4.7Ghz and i went all the way to 1.345v however it was unstable with aida64 crashing 4mins in and realbench only running for 3mins. My question is should i try to get to 4.7Ghz by going over 1.345v or should i stick with what i have. Temperature doesn't seem to be an issue. 

 

 

 

PC specs:

6700k

Gtx 1070 

Hyper 212 evo

Asus z170 pro gaming

Corsair vs550 watt psu

Samsung 850 pro 256gb ssd

2tb harddrive western digital 

16gb ddr4 ram 2133mhz

Corsair 100r

[Matias_Chambers]

You can go up to 1.45V as long as temps don't go over 85C at all. 

[SnowyMus]

I'd try setting the voltage to 1.375 V, then try 1.4 V. If you can't get an additional 100 MHz from overclocking all of the way to 1.4 V, it's probably not worth it trying any higher.

 

Intel's max operating voltage for 6th generation CPUs is 1.52 V. I highly recommend against running your CPUs anywhere near this hard, but you can if you really want to and your temperatures were in check.

 

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/desktop-6th-gen-core-family-datasheet-vol-1.pdf

[Mineu999]

2 minutes ago, Kavawuvi said:

I'd try setting the voltage to 1.375 V, then try 1.4 V. If you can't get an additional 100 MHz from overclocking all of the way to 1.4 V, it's probably not worth it trying any higher.

 

Intel's max operating voltage for 6th generation CPUs is 1.52 V. I highly recommend against running your CPUs anywhere near this hard, but you can if you really want to and your temperatures were in check.

 

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/desktop-6th-gen-core-family-datasheet-vol-1.pdf

That's a bit high for every day use

[Mineu999]

23 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

You can go up to 1.45V as long as temps don't go over 85C at all. 

I thought for every day use you should keep it under 1.36

[SnowyMus]

Just now, Mineu999 said:

That's a bit high for every day use

Definitely. People who run it this hard or harder are probably going to be using exotic cooling like liquid N₂ and probably don't care about longevity, or if it'll explode or not.

 

1 minute ago, Mineu999 said:

I thought for every day use you should keep it under 1.36

That's purely subjective. If you keep your temperatures in check, you can run your CPU higher, but if you feel like it's not worth it, then don't.

[Matias_Chambers]

52 minutes ago, Mineu999 said:

I thought for every day use you should keep it under 1.36

That's more true with Haswell. Skylake is different. 

[Matias_Chambers]

49 minutes ago, Kavawuvi said:

Definitely. People who run it this hard or harder are probably going to be using exotic cooling like liquid N₂ and probably don't care about longevity, or if it'll explode or not.

 

That's purely subjective. If you keep your temperatures in check, you can run your CPU higher, but if you feel like it's not worth it, then don't.

On LN2 you can use like up to 1.95V if it's just for a benchmark. 

[Matias_Chambers]

55 minutes ago, Mineu999 said:

That's a bit high for every day use

If you have proper cooling it is fine.

[Mineu999]

On 19/11/2016 at 3:00 PM, Kavawuvi said:

Definitely. People who run it this hard or harder are probably going to be using exotic cooling like liquid N₂ and probably don't care about longevity, or if it'll explode or not.

 

That's purely subjective. If you keep your temperatures in check, you can run your CPU higher, but if you feel like it's not worth it, then don't.

 

On 19/11/2016 at 3:50 PM, Matias_Chambers said:

If you have proper cooling it is fine.

Thanks for your help I'll see if I can get above 4.6

[Matias_Chambers]

43 minutes ago, Mineu999 said:

 

Thanks for your help I'll see if I can get above 4.6

Just make sure temps don't go over 85C at any time.