Hi there,
Been messing around with overclocking my PC recently (I am pretty new when it comes to this kind of stuff so bear with me).
So far I have only been able to achieve stability at 4.8ghz (with 1.30V voltage). I also have 16GB (2x8GB) G.skill DDR4-4133 RAM running on the XMP profile (19-19-19-39) if that matters. Even the RAM is requiring about 1.45V DRAM voltage to be stable which I don't really mind.
I have CPU VCCIO voltage set to 1.15 and System Agent voltage set to 1.20 as that is what seems to keep my system stable. Higher/lower voltages here seems to cause instability.
Is there any other settings I could take a look into in order to achieve 5.0ghz stable? I would like to avoid having to increase CPU voltage further than 1.30V (or perhaps 1.35V max) because my temperatures shoot up to 95+ degrees when running stability tests such as Prime95. I am using a NZXT Kraken X62 cooler for my 8700k.
Other possibility relevant BIOS settings:
- I have AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset set to 3
- CPU Load-Line Calibration set to Level 6
- CPU Core/Cache CUrrent Limit Max set to 255.50
- Min/Max CPU Cache Ratio: 42
- BCLK Aware Adaptive Voltage: Disabled
I got all of these settings from this Youtube vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoUtA7DKXhUI feel like I obviously did not hit the silicone lottery when it comes to overclocking and I don't really mind keeping my current settings as they are but just wanted to see if anyone had suggestions that I could try to push even further.
Thanks!
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