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My first overlcock i7 8700k

Drecan
Level 7
I would like to get some help on overlcocking my sons i7 8700k on a Asus rog strix z370 e mobo.*

Specs.
*Cpu: i7 8700k
*Gpu: Asus rog strix 1080
Mobo: Asus rog strix Z370- E
Cooler: *Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Memory:*G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Psu: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G3, 80 Plus Gold

Nate152 if your on maybe you can give me a hand.
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Nate152
Moderator
Hi Drecan

Sure I'll give you a hand overclocking your cpu, before we begin I want to say the quality of your cpu and cooling will determine how far you can go. You have a good cooler so that's a good start.

First you'll need a monitoring program and a stress testing program, would you have any installed ?

If not I'll recommend HWinfo for hardware monitoring and ROG Realbench for stress testing.

HWinfo - Click the green "Download Installer" in the middle.

https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

ROG Realbench

https://rog.asus.com/rog-pro/realbench-v2-leaderboard/

If you have a hardware monitoring program and stress testing program already installed, list what you have.

Nate152 wrote:
Hi Drecan

Sure I'll give you a hand overclocking your cpu, before we begin I want to say the quality of your cpu and cooling will determine how far you can go. You have a good cooler so that's a good start.

First you'll need a monitoring program and a stress testing program, would you have any installed ?

If not I'll recommend HWinfo for hardware monitoring and ROG Realbench for stress testing.

HWinfo - Click the green "Download Installer" in the middle.

https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

ROG Realbench

https://rog.asus.com/rog-pro/realbench-v2-leaderboard/

If you have a hardware monitoring program and stress testing program already installed, list what you have.


Ok both programs are downloaded, im ready to rock and roll.

Nate152 wrote:
Hi Drecan

Sure I'll give you a hand overclocking your cpu, before we begin I want to say the quality of your cpu and cooling will determine how far you can go. You have a good cooler so that's a good start.

First you'll need a monitoring program and a stress testing program, would you have any installed ?

If not I'll recommend HWinfo for hardware monitoring and ROG Realbench for stress testing.

HWinfo - Click the green "Download Installer" in the middle.

https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

ROG Realbench

https://rog.asus.com/rog-pro/realbench-v2-leaderboard/

If you have a hardware monitoring program and stress testing program already installed, list what you have.


Hey guys,

Do you recommend overclocking my setup just for gaming? And, any hardware upgrade suggestions?

Here's the setup:

CPU: i7 8700k
GPU: Asus ROG Strix 1080ti OC
Mobo: Asus ROG Strix Z370-E
Cooler: Corsair H115i Liquid CPU Cooler
Memory: G.SKILL RIPJAWS V 16GB (2X8GB) DDR4-2400MHZ CL15
Psu: Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 850W Full Modular
Case: Fractal Design r5

Cheers

Nate152
Moderator
All right

Open HWinfo and click the sensors tab.

At the bottom left click the the blue arrow pointing to the left three times, Hwinfo should now show all hardware readings.

Open Realbench and run the benchmark, when the benchmark has completed post us a screen shot of HWinfo.

The readings in red are the current and maximum cpu core clock, cpu temp and cpu voltage, this is what we're paying attention to for now.

Click the pic to make it bigger.
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Nate152
Moderator
Thank you

We want to see the maximums for all readings.

At auto it's drawing 1.296v with core 3 hitting 77c, that's not too bad.

Before we overclock your cpu, I see your ram is up to speed at 3200MHz with CL14, nice !

On the Extreme tweaker tab change these two voltages...

CPU VCCIO voltage - enter in 1.15v
CPU System Agent voltage - enter in 1.15v

F10 and enter to save and exit.

You can run the Realbench benchmark again to see it's stable, if it is we'll move on to overclocking your cpu.

Post a screenshot with the maximums and confirm if you passed the benchmark after changing the two voltages.

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Nate152 wrote:
Thank you

We want to see the maximums for all readings.

At auto it's drawing 1.296v with core 3 hitting 77c, that's not too bad.

Before we overclock your cpu, I see your ram is up to speed at 3200MHz with CL14, nice !

On the Extreme tweaker tab change these two voltages...

CPU VCCIO voltage - enter in 1.15v
CPU System Agent voltage - enter in 1.15v

F10 and enter to save and exit.

You can run the Realbench benchmark again to see it's stable, if it is we'll move on to overclocking your cpu.

Post a screenshot with the maximums and confirm if you passed the benchmark after changing the two voltages.


Extreme tweaked tab? Were is this located ? *