... Well that's not really my question, but now that I have your attention... 
(sorry)
I've just built a PC with an i7 6700K in the socket of an ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming. The CPU fan is a Phanteks PH-TC14PE (Noctua NH-D14 "wannabe"), and the RAM is 4x8 DDR4 2666MHz.
Now, it's not the first PC I've built, but it's been a while and I'm very rusty when it comes to OCing. Still, I wanted to give it a shot. What I did after my build was finished, was to run the ASUS AI Suite 3 "Dual Intelligent Processors" to automatically calculate the OC values for me. The result I got was a frequency of 4700 MHz and a high 1.4V+ CPU core voltage (can't remember exact value). Boldly I then tested this configuration with Prime95 and used coretemp to monitor the temperatures. I had to hit stop as fast as I could (with a scream) when very quickly the temperatures rose to 99 degrees celcius.
I tweaked the setting manually after that and found that a setting of 4400 Mhz and a voltage of 1.32V would give me stable results: 25 degrees idle and 80 degrees full load (Prime95 small FFTs), reported by coretemp.
So what I'm wondering now is (1), why the heck does AI Suite 3 set OC values that fries my CPU during heavy load? And (2), what about my final results? 4400 Mhz, 1.32V, 25-80 degrees, given the mobo, CPU and fan specified above, is that decent or does it suck (ie should I reinstall the CPU fan for the hope of better results)?
I'm very grateful for any input! And please excuse my ignorance!
(sorry)I've just built a PC with an i7 6700K in the socket of an ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming. The CPU fan is a Phanteks PH-TC14PE (Noctua NH-D14 "wannabe"), and the RAM is 4x8 DDR4 2666MHz.
Now, it's not the first PC I've built, but it's been a while and I'm very rusty when it comes to OCing. Still, I wanted to give it a shot. What I did after my build was finished, was to run the ASUS AI Suite 3 "Dual Intelligent Processors" to automatically calculate the OC values for me. The result I got was a frequency of 4700 MHz and a high 1.4V+ CPU core voltage (can't remember exact value). Boldly I then tested this configuration with Prime95 and used coretemp to monitor the temperatures. I had to hit stop as fast as I could (with a scream) when very quickly the temperatures rose to 99 degrees celcius.
I tweaked the setting manually after that and found that a setting of 4400 Mhz and a voltage of 1.32V would give me stable results: 25 degrees idle and 80 degrees full load (Prime95 small FFTs), reported by coretemp.
So what I'm wondering now is (1), why the heck does AI Suite 3 set OC values that fries my CPU during heavy load? And (2), what about my final results? 4400 Mhz, 1.32V, 25-80 degrees, given the mobo, CPU and fan specified above, is that decent or does it suck (ie should I reinstall the CPU fan for the hope of better results)?
I'm very grateful for any input! And please excuse my ignorance!
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