How to do a safe overclocking?

Christian SP

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Hello everyone :)

I've bought a new rig and I'd like to know how to do a safe overclocking. By safe I mean I won't overclock to the max, I just wanna overclock to a safe level :)

I already messed around with it for some time, but I keep getting blue screen sooner or later, and I'm tired of it. So it always end up with using optimized defaults in BIOS.
So if anyone could help, especially if you got experience with the same BIOS version I got. Or if you got experience with Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, don't know if that's a good program to use for this, but it seems more easy to do some of it from there. Anyhow, how ever it should be done, that's how I'll do it.

So here's my rig:

Graphic Card: Gigabyte GV-N1070G1 GAMING-8G, ATX, NVIDIA, GeForce GTX 1070 8 GDDR5 SDRAM.
CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K 4 GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING 7
Memory: 3200 16GB C16 Corsair Ven K2 - D4
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master v8
PSU: Corsair 750W
Case: Level 10 GT Full Tower

Any help would be appreciated, if I need to give any info please let me know.
 
Solution
Disable auto reboot from blue screens
1. Manually set voltages for RAM, CPU, and motherboard (there's a few mobo voltages, don't have time to list them)
2. Manually set your RAM timings & Frequency, CPU frequency, and mobo frequencies to their default settings
3. Boot your computer to desktop. If it works, you set the defaults correctly.
4. CPU frequency = bus speed x multiplier. With Intel, Bus speed is 100mhz. For a 6700k, the multiplier is defaulted at 40.
-adjust the multiplier by 1. If you blue screen, boost the voltage a very small amount, you shouldn't need to go above 1.35v for a safe and decent overclock. My 6600k (which starts at 3.5ghz) i overclocked to 4.7ghz at 1.335v.
5. rinse and repeat until you get to 44 multiplier...

Kurz

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If you want to be completely safe don't change the default voltage on the CPU.
I've overclocked my CPU (2600k) from 3.8ghz to 4.5ghz using stock volts.

My suggestion is to update your UEFI of your motherboard to the latest version.
Then Google for 'Overclock guides 6700k' learn how to overclock through the UEFI.
Software overclocking is not as stable as the UEFI overclocking methods.

Prime95, is a good test for stability, though I am not sure if they fixed the problem with the 6700k. Look at the Guides for how to overclock.
A forum post isn't a good place to learn.

Read several different guides, and see which method makes sense to you.
You are the one taking the risk.
 

Christian SP

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It seems possible for me just to increase the base overclock, and maybe just increase the voltage a tiny bit if it's causing trouble. My problem is when I enable XML on my memory my computer makes 5 long beeps, which I'm pretty sure means the memory doesn't work. And that kinda sucks, that might be what keep giving me blue screens, not sure though.

I've read many many post, can't find any exact info about the memory, CPU is all around though =)
Thanks for the answer, if I could get some help with my memory I think I would be fine, it runs at 2133 MHz atm. I want it up at 3200 MHz as I paid for ;)

Sincerely Christian SP
 

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Disable auto reboot from blue screens
1. Manually set voltages for RAM, CPU, and motherboard (there's a few mobo voltages, don't have time to list them)
2. Manually set your RAM timings & Frequency, CPU frequency, and mobo frequencies to their default settings
3. Boot your computer to desktop. If it works, you set the defaults correctly.
4. CPU frequency = bus speed x multiplier. With Intel, Bus speed is 100mhz. For a 6700k, the multiplier is defaulted at 40.
-adjust the multiplier by 1. If you blue screen, boost the voltage a very small amount, you shouldn't need to go above 1.35v for a safe and decent overclock. My 6600k (which starts at 3.5ghz) i overclocked to 4.7ghz at 1.335v.
5. rinse and repeat until you get to 44 multiplier. That will give you an overclock to 4.4ghz, which is safe and decent. Getting to 4.5ghz and above requires a bit more legwork, more than I have time to put here, but there are guides. If you got to 1.35v and can't get 4.4ghz stable, there are other settings you need to adjust, which you can always ask here with your BSOD stop code.
 
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