How do i overclock my 7600k?

[eirikskjorstad]

I just bought a Corsair H100i v2 and now i am ready to overclock my i5-7600k. Not looking for a spectacular overclock, just something safe like 4.4ghz. Would be awesome if you guys could help me with the voltage stuff that i do not understand.

 

[erykkrol]

Here are my settings, using the nzxt kraken x61 for cooling.

The voltage is pretty high but I haven't tried lowering it since I'm happy with the temps, (it has never actually reached more than around 70c during normal use despite what benchmarks above say.) I probably could get 5.2 GHz but I am happy at the moment.
You could easily get 4.4Ghz with out touching the voltage since it's only 200Mhz higher than the boost clock.
You have a pretty beefy cooler so if you got a good chip and your other hardware allows it you can try and copy my settings.

 

[10tacle]

You don't say what motherboard you have. Motherboard vendors have different BIOS menu layouts between them. I'm only familiar with ASUS. But there are four key basics to overclocking:

1) Manual control of the bus speed (BCLK) to 100MHz.

2) Manual control of the CPU multiplier (44x for a 4.4GHz overclock with a 7600K).

3) Manual CPU voltage control including setting the voltage control from auto to adaptive mode (downvolts on non-load use).

4) Start out overclocking slowly without upping voltage and see how high your CPU can get (on all four cores, not single core boost). That gives you a baseline to work with when slowly upping voltage. For example, when I built my i5 4690K rig, I got it to 4.2GHz on all four cores in an overclock (42x multiplier and 100Hz BCLK) before I needed to up the voltage beyond the stock load 1.05v (if I remember correctly). Remember that leaving voltage to "Auto" in BIOS generally means the motherboard is pushing more juice than it really needs. This is where experimentation with clock speed, voltage, and stability need to find a happy medium. Cooling won't be an issue for you with a decent AIO water cooler and not wanting to push too high. Nobody can give you specific numbers as no two CPUs nor builds are the same.

Good luck and have fun!

 

[eirikskjorstad]

You don't say what motherboard you have. Motherboard vendors have different BIOS menu layouts between them. I'm only familiar with ASUS. But there are four key basics to overclocking:

1) Manual control of the bus speed (BCLK) to 100MHz.

2) Manual control of the CPU multiplier (44x for a 4.4GHz overclock with a 7600K).

3) Manual CPU voltage control including setting the voltage control from auto to adaptive mode (downvolts on non-load use).

4) Start out overclocking slowly without upping voltage and see how high your CPU can get (on all four cores, not single core boost). That gives you a baseline to work with when slowly upping voltage. For example, when I built my i5 4690K rig, I got it to 4.2GHz on all four cores in an overclock (42x multiplier and 100Hz BCLK) before I needed to up the voltage beyond the stock load 1.05v (if I remember correctly). Remember that leaving voltage to "Auto" in BIOS generally means the motherboard is pushing more juice than it really needs. This is where experimentation with clock speed, voltage, and stability need to find a happy medium. Cooling won't be an issue for you with a decent AIO water cooler and not wanting to push too high. Nobody can give you specific numbers as no two CPUs nor builds are the same.

Good luck and have fun!

 

[eirikskjorstad]

Thanks a lot guys. I have the ASUS Z270E motherboard by the way.