|HELP| 8600k OC Fine Tuning

[coconuthead212]

Sup guys

So I have a 8600k, and I'm having issues getting a stable overclock

CPU just won't go any higher 4.7GHz, needing 1.35v on cpu to get Prime95 running fine, with high temps.

I tried getting vcore up to 1.36v, but it just gets 100ºc at blend test and it fails.

Well I'm not an expert on OC and the new bios voltage features these days (used to overclock on lga775, old times), so I attached a few images from BIOS and the Prime95 test.

 

Any tips on what should I change to go a little higher?

 

[tikker]

Don't know how it is nowadays, but from what I remember Prim95 would be the "utlimate" stress test so to speak, running hotter than you'd find in relatively normal usage due to the synthetic load. Try other benchmarks as well. The only other options would be a better cooler or delidding, or you may have just lost the silicon lottery.

[coconuthead212]

4 minutes ago, tikker said:

or you may have just lost the silicon lottery.

I'm afraid I have.

Any tips on other benchmarks I can use to stress ?

[tikker]

4 minutes ago, coconuthead212 said:

I'm afraid I have.

Any tips on other benchmarks I can use to stress ?

Realbench, AIDA64, bit of gaming if you're into that. Stable is a relative term in overclocking. Personally, it if manages my day to day stuff that I do with maybe a crash once a month I'm fine with it Though if you're Prime95-stable you're probably solid in 99% of the cases.

[Jasmin]

5 minutes ago, coconuthead212 said:

I'm afraid I have.

Any tips on other benchmarks I can use to stress ?

I recommend OCCT and second the opinion - P95 runs hotter than anything else I've ever done on my PC ever.

 

Also repeats of Cinebench to test for a more real workload stability. I had OC's that run Cinebench just fine and never crashed, even though they couldn't handle P95 due to temp spikes

[coconuthead212]

I'll check those benchmarks...

Any tips in  the BIOS settings?

anything that I may have gone wrong?

 

also I have a Thermaltake 600w SmartSeries power supply.. thats fine, right?