Overclocking My I7 8700K

[Johoni]

Hello

Today is the first time ive had an unlocked cpu so as you can probably tell im eager to tinker with the overclocking

 

So far i have got it to 1.25 volts at 4700mhz, the temps are around the 65-70 average. was wondering if everything looks normal in the screenshot i have provided.

 

Should i push it any further than 1.25 volts or 4700mhz, what do you guys think?

When i set it to 1.3volts and 5000Mhz aida 64 stopped the test due to failing hardware so i dialled it back to what it is now and it is stable which some awesome performance. 

 

Edit: changed the image to one of it underload from aida 64

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

If it performs as good as you want it to, no reason to change anything.

 

Looks like a good overclock

[hconverse02]

5ghz might take some fine tuning, like pushing the clock speed on 1.25v, then slowly increasing the voltage as you begin to fail stress tests until you comfortably can hit 5ghz under 1.35v (which would be good) EDIT: 4.7 is a good overclock at 1.25v

[Armakar]

Make sure your tweaking things like LLC and SVID support to keep your voltages as low as possible. Temps seem normal for an 8700K, they're terrible chips in terms of heat.

You really can push it more if you want. Your fine for up to 1.35v (I don't go over 1.33 personally) so you could likely get away with 5GHZ, try around 1.32v.

[Streetguru]

13 minutes ago, Johoni said:

 

Quick googling gives me 1.35V - 1.4V as maybe the max you want for daily use

May also be worth delidding it.

[Johoni]

Little update, i decided to try and push another 100mhz on the same voltage and its stable with temps around 65 adv and not reaching above 75 degress. 

Im think im going to leave it at this. Low voltage, 1.250 at 4800mhz doesn't seem too bad to me

[Ebony Falcon]

Coffee lake is good up to 1.4v but u need to delid and cool it well so if u Felix and have a 280 rad you could run 5.3 or what ever dayly 

its all about the temps 

[pas008]

only using aida64 to stress?

any avx offset?