Trev6450w :
weberdarren97 :
Trev6450w :
weberdarren97 :
Mate you've only got 4 VRMs to the CPU. That board is not going to give you a very good OC but it'll probably get you to at least 3.8GHz.
Which would be the safest overclock without my board catching on fire?
There is no fire issue. Your board will shut down to prevent damage before the MOSFETs (a vital part of the VRMs) reach 130C since they're rated for 135C continuous voltage output.
Just go as far as you can before you start getting instabilities or it seems to start slowing down. The VRMs will not literally just explode. They'll start to throttle which will reduce CPU input voltage in an effort to reduce MOSFET heat output and cool them back down. When this happens, the CPU may suddenly slow down unexpectedly. This behavior tells you that your OC is too aggressive for the board, but does not indicate damage to the board. You'd really have to try if you wanted your VRMs to actually fail. Stay under 1.4V and you should be fine.
If I had to take a guess, I'd say around 3.8GHz will be the maximum OC that doesn't crash.
I am at 3.8GHZ with 1.21 volts right now. Playing ARK and I am seeing temps of about 29 C. Do you think I should go higher?
Games are not an accurate stress testing platform. How to stress test:
1) Download and install AIDA64 Extreme
https://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xe use the download.aida64.com location for security sake
2) Drop down the Tools menu across the top, select System Stability Test and take a moment to familiarize yourself with the layout. (general directions below)
3) Check everything except for Local Disk and run the test for at least an hour. If something goes wrong, AIDA64 may stop the test by itself. If an error occurs and the test does not automatically stop, just press Stop at the bottom left.
How to read the information offered by AIDA64 Extreme System Stability Test:
1) CPU Usage and Throttling Graph. This graph is shown at the bottom of all tabs except for the Statistics tab. This graph shows current CPU usage and CPU throttling. It is natural that this graph moves faster than the other graphs because it takes information at a faster rate. CPU Usage (default: yellow) when the test is running should be at least 99%. CPU Throttling (default: green) should always be at 0%. CPU Throttling monitors a behavior known as thermal throttling. If thermal throttling occurs, your CPU is getting too hot. If throttling occurs: stop the test within a minute and shut down to allow the system to cool off. Back off on your OC settings and try again.
2) Temperatures tab. This graph shows current temperatures of all major system devices. Sometimes AIDA64 doesn't recognize your graphics card right away. To get it to show on the Temperatures tab, select Preferences across the bottom, drop down whatever color line you wish to represent the GPU and select the GPU. Press OK and the GPU will begin displaying in the Temperatures tab.
3) Cooling Fans tab. This graph shows information about the current speed of system fans. Mine often tells me that my CPU fan is running at upwards of 10,000 RPM (it exceeds the height of the graph) so I'm not really too sure if this is a bug with my BIOS not wishing to report CPU fan RPM or if this tab just isn't very accurate.
4) Voltages tab. This graph shows current system voltages as measured by sensors on the motherboard. CPU Core voltage is the only one that should be trusted because the other sensors on motherboards are not accurate. BIOS gets its information from these sensors as well so it shouldn't be considered accurate either. If you wish to know PSU output voltages, use a multimeter to directly connect to the PSU and measure output voltage at a hardware level.
5) Clocks tab. This graph shows information about the current clock speed of system devices measured in MHz (1GHz=1,000MHz). This graph sometimes doesn't show all relevant information by default. Press Preferences across the bottom and navigate to the Clocks tab within Preferences. Drop down the desired color and set it to the desired device just like with the Temperatures tab. Press OK to begin showing changes.
6) Statistics tab. This tab does not show the CPU Usage and Throttling graph. This tab shows a roundup of all information gathered so far in terms of current, minimum, maximum and average values.
Your CPU's maximum allowed temperature is 55C on the CPU and 61C on the core. Anything below this is acceptable. Note that some motherboards will begin CPU throttling before it gets all the way up to these temperatures, so say 50C as the max temperature that your CPU would be comfortable with.
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