i7-6700k speed for gamin.

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Hi guys,

I recently purchased the i7-6700k and have it cooled with the corsair H115i on an Asus maximus viii hero board. I have a small overclock at the moment to 4.4GHz at about 1.28V. Is this sufficient for gaming or should I push the chip further? Essentially, with this particular chip, what is a reasonable speed to run games comfortably?

***I have a GTX 1080 founder's edition GPU on the predator acer x34***

Thanks in advance guys and happy Holidays!
 
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Be aware that what you set in BIOS and what your CPU will actually see are two different things. I have a BIOS setting of 1.375 but when AVX instructions are present, it will climb above 1.50. It's been that way for 3 years now and obviously it hasn't negatively affected the OC or CPU as, using applications or application based stress tests (as opposed to synthetics) the boost is in microseconds .

If your intent is to stay safe below 1.4, then you may have to keep BIOS setting @...
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1. The FE card will be the only real gimp on system performance. The AIB cards stay over 1900... the FE cards throttle down to mid-high 1600s

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2. The CLC cooler isn't going to bring you any additional performance over say a NH-D15 air cooler.

IIRC, the median 6700k OC is 4.7 Ghz

http://www.overclock.net/t/1570313/skylake-overclocking-guide-with-statistics

Just looked... Sample Size = 92 (Only includes K skus.)

Average OC 4.68
Median OC 4.70
Average Vcore 1.38
Median Vcore 1.38
Click to expand...

So you could go higher.
 
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Oh wow, thanks a lot for your help. I think I will try and push the chip to ~4.6-4.7GHz while also keeping the voltage <1.4-1.45V. Hopefully I can achieve this and, hopefully, this will be more than enough to run most games maxed out at 3400x1440!
 
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Be aware that what you set in BIOS and what your CPU will actually see are two different things. I have a BIOS setting of 1.375 but when AVX instructions are present, it will climb above 1.50. It's been that way for 3 years now and obviously it hasn't negatively affected the OC or CPU as, using applications or application based stress tests (as opposed to synthetics) the boost is in microseconds .

If your intent is to stay safe below 1.4, then you may have to keep BIOS setting @ 1.275 as the MoBo will automatically boost voltage when AVX is present. I remember on Haswell seeing 0.13v as typical, can't remember Skylake numbers or effect of BIOS AVX settings

 
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