i7 6700K

officialbjorn

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Hey, I have never done anything overclocking before and I need some help doing this. I have an i7 6700k and a Noctua NH-D14 cooler and a MSI mobo.

Can somebody tell me exactly how to do this?

Thanks in advance,

officialbjorn
 
Locate the four turbo multipliers (core 1/2/3/4) in the BIOS, and bump them all up to 45 (4.5GHz). Don't touch the main CPU multiplier for now. Turbo multi OC is ideal for 24/7.

Locate the ring/cache/uncore (same thing called different names by different board makers) multiplier and bump that up to 44.

Begin a process of upping those values by 1, and restarting the computer, until you can't boot into Windows or it crashes shortly after booting into Windows. When that happens, reduce the values by 1 and begin benchmarking/stress testing. Stuff like Asus RealBench, Cinebench, Firestrike.

If all goes well, you'll have discovered your stable overclock at stock voltages.

From there, if temps are within reason, you can start increasing the Vcore along with upping the multiplier values by 1, etc. To see the max stable overclock you can get without too high temps/excessive voltage. Try to stay around 1.35 Vcore max for now. There might be more wiggle room but that's a good target to begin with.

The ring/cache multiplier is debatable. I like keeping it 100MHz behind the cores, but you could leave it on default till you find your max cores overclock.

Same for the RAM, you may want to run it at the motherboard's default speed (usually 2133/2400 unless your RAM XMP's by itself) till you find your max stable OC.

Make sure to have voltage/temp monitoring programs like HWiNFO64 and CPU-Z, and keep an eye on them while you test. Especially Vcore value and CPU temp, along with the CPU frequency.

Which RAM and which mobo are they?
 
What MSI mobo do you have?

I have the M7 and I found the overclock feature in the bios to be good, I normaly do overclcoks manually and with this board it was just so easy. I just set it to level 6 which gave me 4.7GHz and that was it.

But like others have said, make sure you have good airflow through your case :)
 
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It could be great with a screenshot of how yours looks like, like I said, I'm a total noob. My idle is around 30, no idea what my load temps are. I have the MSI Z170A KRAIT Gaming.
 
Do a stress test on your system stock before you even think about overclocking.

As I said before, check out what our case airflow is doing and what your temps are before overcocking.
w00dy85 said it too. ;)
 
I have to admit I'm not one for running stress tests software, I just use the PC like I would normally. If it seems stable when doing all the tasks you use your PC for on a daily basis, then overclock.

Once you have it overclocked and think its stable, test using it like you would normally. By playing games and using whatever software you generally use and keep doing this and till you are happy or feel you have maxed out your overclock. while doing this I use CPU-Z and realtemp to monitor the system and also the MSI mobo software, which I also use to change the fan profiles for the CPU and case fans.

The option my M7 has for setting different levels of overclock does not seem to be on your board, as it is part of the game bost options. Yours just seems to have game boost on or off.
 
I don't use Prime because I want real use temps at 100% CPU load. I use two sessions of Handbrake running at same time. Two because one puts CPU at 90-95% .. things stills function. With two running, the system stutters along. Even HWInfo64 gives jerky readings. Idle is 25-28c, but if core load goes up so do temps, sometimes up to 40-45c in a short spike.
Here are two screenshots. One at end of load run and one just surfing web.
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w00dy85 said:
I have to admit I'm not one for running stress tests software, I just use the PC like I would normally. If it seems stable when doing all the tasks you use your PC for on a daily basis, then overclock.

Once you have it overclocked and think its stable, test using it like you would normally. By playing games and using whatever software you generally use and keep doing this and till you are happy or feel you have maxed out your overclock. while doing this I use CPU-Z and realtemp to monitor the system and also the MSI mobo software, which I also use to change the fan profiles for the CPU and case fans.

The option my M7 has for setting different levels of overclock does not seem to be on your board, as it is part of the game bost options. Yours just seems to have game boost on or off.
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While I agree it is whatever user's maximum load is that is critical, If user does not run CPU at or near 100% load, if in the future they do run a heavier load the will likely have problems. A mate did this when he decided to encode a movie to watch on his ipad. He had 2 candles on top of his computer. When he came back his system had crashed and the candles had completely melted all over his case. Luckily no serious damage. I gave him a a couple of better case fans and better cooler. But the moral of the story is case needs to be supplying cool air to CPU and GPU coolers, and these coolers need to be up to the task.

Stock CPU coolers are adequate for stock setting when getting a good supply of cool air, but not for overclocking or if the case airflow is not supplying them with cool air.

I think I've said 'supply them with cool air' enough now. :D
 
Danny75 said:
Locate the four turbo multipliers (core 1/2/3/4) in the BIOS, and bump them all up to 45 (4.5GHz). Don't touch the main CPU multiplier for now. Turbo multi OC is ideal for 24/7.

Locate the ring/cache/uncore (same thing called different names by different board makers) multiplier and bump that up to 44.

Begin a process of upping those values by 1, and restarting the computer, until you can't boot into Windows or it crashes shortly after booting into Windows. When that happens, reduce the values by 1 and begin benchmarking/stress testing. Stuff like Asus RealBench, Cinebench, Firestrike.

If all goes well, you'll have discovered your stable overclock at stock voltages.

From there, if temps are within reason, you can start increasing the Vcore along with upping the multiplier values by 1, etc. To see the max stable overclock you can get without too high temps/excessive voltage. Try to stay around 1.35 Vcore max for now. There might be more wiggle room but that's a good target to begin with.

The ring/cache multiplier is debatable. I like keeping it 100MHz behind the cores, but you could leave it on default till you find your max cores overclock.

Same for the RAM, you may want to run it at the motherboard's default speed (usually 2133/2400 unless your RAM XMP's by itself) till you find your max stable OC.

Make sure to have voltage/temp monitoring programs like HWiNFO64 and CPU-Z, and keep an eye on them while you test. Especially Vcore value and CPU temp, along with the CPU frequency.

Which RAM and which mobo are they?
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Danny - I have Team Group elite 2400 RAM in my ASUS Z170 pro gaming motherboard. In my BIOS the XMP function is disabled and can't be toggled - I did call OC tech support when I first bought the rig to query it and they mention something about it being built in. I'd like to understand more the implications of this - why some do it/some don't. Can you explain a bit more about XMP and pros/con of having it built in?

Thanks
 
heartburnron said:
Danny - I have Team Group elite 2400 RAM in my ASUS Z170 pro gaming motherboard. In my BIOS the XMP function is disabled and can't be toggled - I did call OC tech support when I first bought the rig to query it and they mention something about it being built in. I'd like to understand more the implications of this - why some do it/some don't. Can you explain a bit more about XMP and pros/con of having it built in?

Thanks
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By built-in they were probably talking about the XMP profiles which are loaded on the RAM and perhaps this one doesn't bring any, or, the motherboard cannot obtain/read it from the RAM, or something.

It shouldn't be a problem. I run two pairs of different frequency-rated kits (4x4GB) and don't use XMP. And sometimes XMP enabled works worse than without. It's nice when it works as it saves on clicks and a bit of testing, I suppose. A more thorough explanation I'm not able to give.
 
Danny75 said:
By built-in they were probably talking about the XMP profiles which are loaded on the RAM and perhaps this one doesn't bring any, or, the motherboard cannot obtain/read it from the RAM, or something.

It shouldn't be a problem. I run two pairs of different frequency-rated kits (4x4GB) and don't use XMP. And sometimes XMP enabled works worse than without. It's nice when it works as it saves on clicks and a bit of testing, I suppose. A more thorough explanation I'm not able to give.
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Yes the XMP profiles being loaded on the RAM rings a bell. Thanks for replying, appreciate it.
 
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