i7-6700K gone from 4.6GHz to 4.0

Rezident

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I think my CMOS battery died, I got a new one, but now the CPU (i7-6700K) seems to be running at 4.0 instead of 4.6, it had been stable at 4.6 for a couple of years. I have not changed anything in the BIOS yet, it was already overclocked when I got it, what settings do I need to change in the BIOS to get it back to 4.6?

Motherboard is an ASUS Maximus VIII Ranger.

Thanks.
 
Every piece of hardware is somewhat unique, so the settings from someone else, even with the same hardware, will not work the same on your rig.

Do you know anything about your bios settings from before. LLC, manual or adaptive voltage, vcore, vcore offsets etc.?

The only thing we know for definite, so far, is that your core multiplier was x46. As an aside, double check that your RAM is using XMP, that might have got reset.
 
Rezident said:
I think my CMOS battery died, I got a new one, but now the CPU (i7-6700K) seems to be running at 4.0 instead of 4.6, it had been stable at 4.6 for a couple of years. I have not changed anything in the BIOS yet, it was already overclocked when I got it, what settings do I need to change in the BIOS to get it back to 4.6?

Motherboard is an ASUS Maximus VIII Ranger.

Thanks.
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Has the bios reset to defaults? From memory my 6700k needed 1.33v for 4.6 and 1.38v for 4.7
 
Yes I think it all went back to default so CPU was down to 4.0.

I tried the inbuild 'Gamers OC Profile' in Extreme Tweaker in the BIOS, and that gets it back up to 4.6GHz but when I stress test it (Prime95 and RealBench) it passes but the Max CPU temp was 90 degrees on one core (in Core Temp)! That seems very hot.

It seems to set the core voltage at 1.44 V.

Any suggestions?
 
OK I lowered voltage to 1.35 V based on some random googling and it still passes RealBench Stress Test at 4.6GHz (Max Temp: 80). Why on earth would the ASUS default be 1.44 V!? That seems way too high. I'll try a few more stress tests.

What is the max CPU temp we should be aiming for, is it around 80C?
 
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