Voltage for 6850K/RAM Question

[trawetSluaP]

Hi all,

May start OC'ing the 6850K I have soon and was wondering about the voltage requirement.

At stock the 6850K is using 1.115v, does that seem a little high? I bumped up the Core Speed to 4.0 using the same voltage and was able to boot and run CPUz's stress test.

Secondly, the RAM I have is 3200MHz but doesn't run at this speed at stock so I'm gonna bump that up to it's advertised speed and was wondering what the best settings are to help with stability. I know upping to System Agent voltage can help. Should I adjust anything else such as the VCCIO etc?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

 

[Burr]

Hi all,

May start OC'ing the 6850K I have soon and was wondering about the voltage requirement.

At stock the 6850K is using 1.115v, does that seem a little high? I bumped up the Core Speed to 4.0 using the same voltage and was able to boot and run CPUz's stress test.

Secondly, the RAM I have is 3200MHz but doesn't run at this speed at stock so I'm gonna bump that up to it's advertised speed and was wondering what the best settings are to help with stability. I know upping to System Agent voltage can help. Should I adjust anything else such as the VCCIO etc?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

Firstly, 1.115v is not high for stock. Secondly, if you get a stable 4.0 at that voltage that's great, though you may want to run realbench, play games etc to check stability.
Thirdly, for RAM OC'ing the SA (and possibly the CPU VCCIO) voltage will likely have to be increased. To what values depends on your system though take it in small increments.
For the CPU you may want to disable CPU spread spectrum. You're mileage may vary.

This is a good guide: http://edgeup.asus.com/2016/06/17/broadwell-e-overclocking-guide/

 

[Hugo_Sanchez]

Hi all,

May start OC'ing the 6850K I have soon and was wondering about the voltage requirement.

At stock the 6850K is using 1.115v, does that seem a little high? I bumped up the Core Speed to 4.0 using the same voltage and was able to boot and run CPUz's stress test.

Secondly, the RAM I have is 3200MHz but doesn't run at this speed at stock so I'm gonna bump that up to it's advertised speed and was wondering what the best settings are to help with stability. I know upping to System Agent voltage can help. Should I adjust anything else such as the VCCIO etc?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

Trawet,

I'm running mine OC'd 1.171v @ 4.2 and RAM is 2666MHz so you should be fine mate, but as per Burr's comments look into stability etc.

Hugo