Are These Temps Good for My System Overclock?

[risenSHADOW]

I just overclocked my system .5 gHz. Im running a 6600k with an h60 liquid loop cooler. You can imagine I will not be able to go far with overclocking as this is not the most intensive cooling loop. However, I used a preset that came on my z170a m7 motherboard to put my cpu at 4.0gHz and set my ram to 2666mHz by activating the XMP. I am now getting about 35C idle temps and when I ran cenabench I got around 55C. Is this a decent OC to keep my system at or can I push it a little more. Im pretty sure its 4.0gHz at 1.320V.
Also this is my first time overclocking
Thanks for the help

 

[MeanMachine41]

Hi risenSHADOW

You can OC more if you wish as your temperatures are OK.

Method to OC is:
Download AIDA64 and HWMonitor and put them on your desktop side by side for stress testing.

Go into Bios and raise the Bclk to your desired frequency. Don't raise it in one big hit .5GHz at a time.
Leave core voltage as is for now, then stress test using AIDA64. Go to the Tools menu and select to stress test the CPU, FPU and Cache. run for 10 mins. Observe temperatures in HWMonitor and stop the test if temps reach 80C. If stable then rinse and repeat.
If at any stage the OC fails then back off the frequency to when it was tested stable each time adding small Voltage increments. Do not apply more than 1.4V on the Core.
You can also save profiles for stable OCs as you go. Saves you from starting from scratch if things go belly up.

You can take screen shots at the 10min mark in AIDA64 and use IMIGUR as a file host. Once uploaded, go to Images and obtain the BBurl to link here for analysis.

Heat is your nemesis and Core voltage controls this and your Cooling system. Your MAX OC varies depending on your Lottery Draw as no two chips are the same.
There are other Bios Tweaks available in Bios to help with stability.

 

[risenSHADOW]

Hi risenSHADOW

You can OC more if you wish as your temperatures are OK.

Method to OC is:
Download AIDA64 and HWMonitor and put them on your desktop side by side for stress testing.

Go into Bios and raise the Bclk to your desired frequency. Don't raise it in one big hit .5GHz at a time.
Leave core voltage as is for now, then stress test using AIDA64. Go to the Tools menu and select to stress test the CPU, FPU and Cache. run for 10 mins. Observe temperatures in HWMonitor and stop the test if temps reach 80C. If stable then rinse and repeat.
If at any stage the OC fails then back off the frequency to when it was tested stable each time adding small Voltage increments. Do not apply more than 1.4V on the Core.
You can also save profiles for stable OCs as you go. Saves you from starting from scratch if things go belly up.

You can take screen shots at the 10min mark in AIDA64 and use IMIGUR as a file host. Once uploaded, go to Images and obtain the BBurl to link here for analysis.

Heat is your nemesis and Core voltage controls this and your Cooling system. Your MAX OC varies depending on your Lottery Draw as no two chips are the same.
There are other Bios Tweaks available in Bios to help with stability.

I probably wont OC too much more, Ill leave it as is for now. Ill start working on its stability limits tomorrow, thanks again!

 

[MeanMachine41]

Your Welcome risenSHADOW and please report back with your results.