Can't overclock without crashes.

[Carboonicus]

Greetings,

 

I've recently updated my rig with a 6700k, an asrock fatality k6+ motherboard, and 16gb of 3200mhz corsair vengeance ddr4, the system is running fine but whenever I attempt to overclock my cpu I can't attain anything stable and the system will crash after about 10-20 minutes... Similar story with my new RAM, rated at 3200mhz but when I activate the XMP profile to get it to 3200mhz the system won't boot. I've tried a number of things to get them to work as I hope they can but so far have come up empty. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated as i'm seriously considering dismantling my rig and sending the new parts back if I can't overclock them successfully. I realise that i'm not guaranteed to be able to overclock but I really feel it shouldn't be too much to ask to at least get the ram to run at advertised speed and to squeeze a few hundred extra mhz out of the cpu. Thanks in advance and praise be to the 3 great gods Linus, Ganesh, and Gaben! 

 

*Edit*

Apologies for my noobery, It slipped my mind to include my psu and what frequencies/ voltages i'd attempted.

 

PSU:  Corsair cx750m psu

CPU cooler: I'm unsure of the exact model but it's a Titan universal cpu cooler if memory serves

 

As for what overclocks i've attempted, the first thing I tried after watching Pauls Hardwares video on skylake overclocking, was just to crank the multiplier to 46 at stock voltage (i believe 1.264v) as that's what he did, alas it wasn't stable and crashed after about 10 minutes... I then went through all 4 of the OC presets in the bios (4.2 4.4 4.6 4.7) making the assumption that at least one of them would work... nope

Next I did a little research around safe + stable OC's that others had achieved and emulated there profiles, attempted 4.7ghz and 4.6ghz at both 1.35v and 1.375v and neither worked. Also tried for 4.5 ghz at 1.35v but to no avail.

As far as my RAM goes I simply activated the xmp profile aas I wasn't sure how to even go about altering the memory frequency any other way.

 

As of right now I cleared the CMOS after all my issues and went back to stock, starting fresh

[EPPHO]

Inb4 30$ PSU

[pwn_intended]

Including your frequencies and voltages are a must when asking for OC help. Along with whatever settings you have changed up in your bios helps a lot. Also, listing what cooler you have doesn't hurt.

[corrado33]

14 minutes ago, Carboonicus said:

Greetings,

 

I've recently updated my rig with a 6700k, an asrock fatality k6+ motherboard, and 16gb of 3200mhz corsair vengeance ddr4, the system is running fine but whenever I attempt to overclock my cpu I can't attain anything stable and the system will crash after about 10-20 minutes... Similar story with my new RAM, rated at 3200mhz but when I activate the XMP profile to get it to 3200mhz the system won't boot. I've tried a number of things to get them to work as I hope they can but so far have come up empty. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated as i'm seriously considering dismantling my rig and sending the new parts back if I can't overclock them successfully. I realise that i'm not guaranteed to be able to overclock but I really feel it shouldn't be too much to ask to at least get the ram to run at advertised speed and to squeeze a few hundred extra mhz out of the cpu. Thanks in advance and praise be to the 3 great gods Linus, Ganesh, and Gaben! 

Post your system specifications including power supply and CPU cooler etc.

 

Are you overclocking from the bios or some some other utility? 

 

Did you up the voltage at all? What are you trying to overclock the CPU to?

 

It is weird that the XMP profile didn't work though.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

What @pwn_intended said, what Voltages and clock speeds are u running on the CPU ?

[Carboonicus]

have updated with more info  

[oskarha]

You might have lost the silicon lottery, some chips just don't overclock that well 

[msammy93]

Have you tried updating your bios? On my 5820k the best I could do for a long time was 4.4 ghz @ 1.3 volts. After I updated my bios I am completely stable at 4.6 ghz @ 1.25 volts. Can get 4.7 @ 1.3 volts as well but then max temps hit around 74c. So, yeah, try to update your bios and see if that helps. 

[Carboonicus]

On 16/01/2017 at 8:28 PM, msammy93 said:

Have you tried updating your bios? On my 5820k the best I could do for a long time was 4.4 ghz @ 1.3 volts. After I updated my bios I am completely stable at 4.6 ghz @ 1.25 volts. Can get 4.7 @ 1.3 volts as well but then max temps hit around 74c. So, yeah, try to update your bios and see if that helps. 

My BIOS was already updated when I was attempting to OC. Sad times.

[App4that]

Get a better power supply, it matters. If it still won't overclock try a little more voltage.

[Carboonicus]

27 minutes ago, App4that said:

Get a better power supply, it matters. If it still won't overclock try a little more voltage.

I'm fairly confident that my power supply is more than sufficient as it is

[App4that]

Just now, Carboonicus said:

I'm fairly confident that my power supply is more than sufficient as it is

So overclock. Have it be stable. A power supply is the heart of your PC, everything in your PC relies on it. For a office computer that power supply of yours is fine, but you want to overclock. That takes clean stable power. My RM750 allows my 4790k to overclock to 4.6 max, my 1000G2 lets it go to 4.7 with less voltage.

[Carboonicus]

26 minutes ago, App4that said:

So overclock. Have it be stable. A power supply is the heart of your PC, everything in your PC relies on it. For a office computer that power supply of yours is fine, but you want to overclock. That takes clean stable power. My RM750 allows my 4790k to overclock to 4.6 max, my 1000G2 lets it go to 4.7 with less voltage.

Keep it calm friend, I'm not criticising your hypothesis but I just happen to know that my psu is sufficient in my current rig. My power draw is less than 400w as is.

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, Carboonicus said:

Keep it calm friend, I'm not criticising your hypothesis but I just happen to know that my psu is sufficient in my current rig. My power draw is less than 400w as is.

I am calm, sarcastic but calm. My power supply lets me overclock  

[Carboonicus]

As does mine, I guess we're lifelong friends after all.

[App4that]

A power supply isn't a gas tank. Simply supplying the required wattage isn't everything. The quality of that wattage matters just as much, and can have an impact on things like stability. Especially if your motherboard doesn't have a crazy amount of power phases. 

[Carboonicus]

I see you're point. I'll look into it