I need help oc'ing :(

[Jezmund1]

Hi i have a i5-6600k and a corsair h100i v2 and i i was thinking of a small oc like 4.2 or 4.3GHz.

What's a good voltage to be at idle and load? And what about the windows power plan options? Should i have it at the power saving option? I see it only changes the clock speed at idle? Is that a bad thing when oc'in?

And how much stress testing should i run with such a small oc? Big thanks!

[Max Caulfield]

I think 1.3v for starter. 

As for power plan, always set it at high performance 

Use AIDA or Prime95 to stress test. A single run of Cinebench would work too. 

[AresKrieger]

11 minutes ago, Jezmund1 said:

What's a good voltage to be at idle and load? And what about the windows power plan options? Should i have it at the power saving option?

Don't bother with using windows power setting to adjust cpu voltage just use an offset when setting the overclock that way the bios controls it not windows, so keep windows on 100% or high performance

 

I'd say high 1.3's (so 1.37,8,9) or 1.4 (maybe even lower) would be fine for a mild to moderate overclock, just stay below 1.45 as that is the max it should ever be on skylake for normal use.

 

(oh and the min voltage will be determined by the bios if you use an offset so no need to worry about idle)

[Jezmund1]

39 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Don't bother with using windows power setting to adjust cpu voltage just use an offset when setting the overclock that way the bios controls it not windows, so keep windows on 100% or high performance

 

I'd say high 1.3's (so 1.37,8,9) or 1.4 (maybe even lower) would be fine for a mild to moderate overclock, just stay below 1.45 as that is the max it should ever be on skylake for normal use.

 

(oh and the min voltage will be determined by the bios if you use an offset so no need to worry about idle)

So what should i do with tge voltage settings? I am using a asus board. There's auto, manual, adaptive and offset modes? Which one should i pick? 

[AresKrieger]

3 minutes ago, Jezmund1 said:

So what should i do with tge voltage settings? I am using a asus board. There's auto, manual, adaptive and offset modes? Which one should i pick? 

Offset mode is what you want if you want it to idle at low voltages then ramp up to higher ones when needed, now I don't know how asus sets it but on my gigabyte board you set a max voltage for the offset then it it uses that voltage as the max and runs auto using the max as the cap instead of whatever auto normally sets as the cap.

[Brett_Bst]

if you have never used offset voltages before be careful when doing it, also on asus boards the total power will be displayed and if its to high it will turn a different colour, I just use manual on mine, set at 1.35v I think and drops to like 0.700 or somethink when idle

[Jezmund1]

3 hours ago, Brett_Bst said:

if you have never used offset voltages before be careful when doing it, also on asus boards the total power will be displayed and if its to high it will turn a different colour, I just use manual on mine, set at 1.35v I think and drops to like 0.700 or somethink when idle

Does the light you speak of lie in tge bios or a is it a physical feature like a led on the mb? Also when you but it in manual isin't the vcore supposed to stay on a certain voltage constantly? At least mine did when i tried it. Weird.

[Brett_Bst]

yes it does lol don't know what I was thinking, anyway its not a light but in the bios where you set the voltages it will display total and it will go orange if its to high, I will get a pic

[TahoeDust]

7 hours ago, Max Caulfield said:

I think 1.3v for starter. 

As for power plan, always set it at high performance 

Use AIDA or Prime95 to stress test. A single run of Cinebench would work too. 

A sinlge run of Cinebench definitely does not show stability.

[gbergeron]

47 minutes ago, TahoeDust said:

A sinlge run of Cinebench definitely does not show stability.

I was about to say the same lolll

 

Even Aida and prime might not be enough..

 

You can run these all for 1 hour and feel like it's stable but to have a 100% stable you need to run OCCT / Real Bench / Prime 95 / Aida64  for hours at least 2 of them for like 8 hours ( not at the same time, like 1 night while u sleep let it run, other night do the same with nother program )