Overclocking help

[Creed1]

I am looking at OCing my 6600k and I am wondering what voltage I should use to aim for 4.6GHz. 

 

Also how long should I stress test for?

 

What software should I use to stress test?

[phongle123]

10 minutes ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

I am looking at OCing my 6600k and I am wondering what voltage I should use to aim for 4.6GHz. 

 

Also how long should I stress test for?

 

What software should I use to stress test?

Since I don't own a 6600k, you can easily find some user voltages on Google. Or if you want to find out how good binned yours is, you can set voltage to auto and use a program (like CPU-Z) that measures voltage and then you'll find what voltage you should be close to because it will show the max voltage the CPU goes to at that overclock. Then you can change the voltage but use less than the max voltage you saw at auto then start benchmarking.

 

2 hours is the normal.

 

Use RealBench. Synthetic benchmarks will only crash your computer if its really unstable but keep working even if it's minorly unstable (which can be bad, becacuse you could think it's stable then when you're using your computer for 5, 6 or 7 hours and it crashes you don't know what happened because you thought it was stable). Realbench will tell you if it's unstable by even a little.

 

For example, My auto voltage was was set to 1.128 shown from CPU-Z and I manually set it to 1.116 for a 4.2GHz overclock and it was stable.