Is Overclocking my Gaming PC over 15 percent safe?

LazorEffect · Mar 25, 2017

I plan on getting a new Gaming PC and i customized it to the best performance i can afford.
The processor is a Intel® Core™ Processor i7-7700K 4.20GHZ 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Kaby Lake) (All Venom OC Certified)
I know 4.20 GHZ is really fast but its cool to see if it could even go faster but i just need to make sure that my PC wont overheat or break.
It also has a GeForce® GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X (Pascal)[VR Ready] Graphic card in it and a Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler (All Venom OC Certified).

If anyone knows a answer to this i would appreciate it

chenuki · Mar 25, 2017

Can't be certain you won't have heat problem with that cooler. If you have option to go with bigger radiator that would help

J_E_D_70 · Mar 25, 2017

Seems the 7700k runs really warm so I wouldn't count on much OC with such a small AIO.

You realize you could save a lot of money and get better parts if you built it yourself instead of buying from CyberPower right?

LazorEffect · Mar 25, 2017

Would be doing some overclocking be fine like just 10 percent overclocking and that's it?

J_E_D_70 · Mar 26, 2017

I wouldn't even guess at a number. What I would do is:
- install OCCT to stress cpu and monitor temps
- go into bios, turn off turbo, lock a four cores to the same multiplier, leave everything else auto (i'll get beat up here for saying auto but it's fine for mild overclocks), leave multiplier at 42
- run OCCT stress for about 15 min and watch temps (<70) n volts (vcore <1.4)
- if stable, up multi to 43 and test - rinse repeat until too hot/unstable/bsod then back down to last stable multi and stress for an hour

Keep in mind since that cpu already starts at such a high clock you won't see a lot of difference in a few 100mhz in real life.

Good luck! Especially with CyberPower... although I have bought from them twice in the past, the build quality was meh and each one had an issue I had to fix right out of the box. Having said that, one is 9 years old, one is 7 years old, and both are still used daily.

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