First Time OC'ing... Any help or advice appreciated!!

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Hello All!
This is my first time OC'ing and it is very exciting. My current set-up....
CPU - Intel 6700k Skylake 4.0Ghz
GPU - MSI GTX 980Ti
Motherboard - Asus Z-170 Deluxe
Cooler - Corsair H100i
RAM - 4*4 Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666
PSU - EVGA G2 Supernova 850W

So I went into the UEFI BIOS and started tinkering, synced all cores to 4.5 and changed the CPU voltage to 1.315 ( If I have made any mistakes so far... Please let me know). Afterwards, I ran ASUS ROG Realbench and put it on a 15min stress test. No bluescreens, errors, etc, ran what seems to be fine. During the stress test, I was observing the " Package Temp " via CPUID HWMonitor. It peaked at 77C at the end of it! (Holy Cow I think that is hot) Afterwards, went back into UEFI BIOS and changed the CPU Core Voltage to adaptive mode ( this makes it to where its not running a flat 1.315V all the time, right? ) and booted her back up. Immediately had a crash after entering in password on Windows 10. Changed back to manual mode... and it works how it was before, just fine.

So I have questions!!

1. Is the 77C at a FULL LOAD something to be expected/acceptable?
2. Why cant I seem to use the adaptive mode without crashes?
3. Do you think my hardware is up to spec with what I am attempting to do?
4. Is there any settings that you would recommend me to change/do differently?
5. And finally... Do you think it would be safe to push it even further?

Sorry for all of the questions!

Thanks to anyone in advanced if they can help a noobie out, it is greatly appreciated! I hope to hear from you! If you need anymore information to help please let me know I have tried to put in as much as I can think of! And if I had made any mistake posting this post like in the wrong area or I have missed information in a sticky post please let me know as well

Have a great day,
Cheers!!
 
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77 is totally fine under stress test. Basically you want to find the least amount of voltage that you can run at a certain frequency, so you know 4.5 runs stable for 15 min so you can do it a couple ways. Fine tune 4.5 overclock and then go higher or go higher now, find the max you want and then set up a couple different profiles in the bios at lower overclocks so you can easily switch back and forth.

Your hardware is fine and you can push it to 4.7 or 4.8, whatever you feel comfortable with voltage wise....Right now, you really don't even need that power, the i7 is already very strong stock because of the higher base frequency compared to I5.

I have 4.8 Ghz stable and everything below and after a few months of testing, I end up...
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77 is totally fine under stress test. Basically you want to find the least amount of voltage that you can run at a certain frequency, so you know 4.5 runs stable for 15 min so you can do it a couple ways. Fine tune 4.5 overclock and then go higher or go higher now, find the max you want and then set up a couple different profiles in the bios at lower overclocks so you can easily switch back and forth.

Your hardware is fine and you can push it to 4.7 or 4.8, whatever you feel comfortable with voltage wise....Right now, you really don't even need that power, the i7 is already very strong stock because of the higher base frequency compared to I5.

I have 4.8 Ghz stable and everything below and after a few months of testing, I end up now pretty much running stock and save the high overclocks for a couple years down the road when it may be needed.

EDIT: If I didn't have 980 ti, I may be overclocking the i7 more but this gpu is so strong it doesn't make a big enough difference for me.
 
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Thank you very much for the insightful response!

I am very satisfied with it so far and was just wanting to tinker and explore the uncharted world of overclocking!

I will keep what you said in mind and set up some profiles in the BIOS.

I really like what you said about the " basic idea " of it all, it kinda made it simple for a new person like myself. And putting my mind at ease about the 77C haha.

Thank you very much again for the help, it is greatly appreciated!



 
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Yeah man I hear ya, you're welcome, that's what I did at first too and it's good to push it to the max and make sure you have a good chip. Just Keep doing what you're doing and keep lowering the voltages to fine tune, then come back in and test. You just have to do that over and over until you're satisfied and then save that profile for each frequency level.

I think the voltage for skylake is pretty much the same as haswell refresh, so under 1.3V is still kind of where you want to be for 24/7 overclock, although people do run in the 1.3-1.4V range and above 1.4V is a no no or at least isn't recommended at all.

To get yours to work adaptive with an overclock takes a little more fine tuning and you use the offset + and - section underneath to either add voltage or take away voltage but it's not plain as day easy like a regular overclock. It is better to use adaptive/offset voltage though in the long run but you do it after you have figured out your lowest voltage for each frequency.
 
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