How to use overclocking on Asus Z170 board

[photon123]

I bought Asus Z170 pro gaming with 6700k. I am familiar with overclocking on old boards, where everything is manual. Now I ran this automatic Asus overclocking utility. It said my cpu was stable up to 4.9GHz with voltage of up to 1.35v. I thought great. I also ran some automatic utility in the bios. I then ran some computation and saw that the CPU went to 4.55GHz and 1.45v. What is going on here?
What is controlling the settings? This software? The bios? How do I disable these things and get back control?
I want to have things under control and set a lower voltage.
I basically want a system 100% stable or as close to it as possible. If I can get a safe overclock, great, if not default is fine too. I don't want the system to degrade with time. I have experience with stable systems becomming unstable after a few months due to the harmful effects of overclocking.
How would be best to use overclocking here?

 

[TechyInAZ]

Don't use the bios automatic utility, it's a very strange piece of software. ONLY use the overclocking utility on the AI suite.

But even better, do it yourself, I personally used the ai suite to get my max overclock on my CPU, then all I had to do was lower my voltage and bingo I had a final overclock (manually put the vcore and multi in the BIOS).

 

[photon123]

I can't figure the voltage thing.
I read that the default voltage is 1.2v, yet for almost every setting the board sets it higher. I can set the voltage at manual, but then it doesn't drop when the load is low. How do I limit the voltage, yet leave the power saving mode on? I prefer to be conservative with it.
Is there a set of recommended safe overclocking settings somewhere?
Also, how do I just set everything to stock settings?

 

[TechyInAZ]

I can't figure the voltage thing.
I read that the default voltage is 1.2v, yet for almost every setting the board sets it higher. I can set the voltage at manual, but then it doesn't drop when the load is low. How do I limit the voltage, yet leave the power saving mode on? I prefer to be conservative with it.
Is there a set of recommended safe overclocking settings somewhere?
Also, how do I just set everything to stock settings?

Put the voltage on adaptive mode not manual, sorry my bad.

 

[photon123]

I now set everything to auto. The CPU frequency under load is now 4Ghz. Yet the voltage is 1.3v, and sometimes a bit higher. Shouldn't it be 1.2v? When I allow CPU overclocking, the voltage rises higher to 1.4v and beyond. How can I cap the voltage, yet allow the voltage to go down when the CPU is in light use?
Is the default overclock safe? I am just afraid to damage the CPU. I saw more than once in the past gradual degradation in stability for overclocked systems and don't want to get there.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Manually put in the turbo core voltage to something like 1.25v and see if it's stable.

Always do manual for your final overclock.

 

[bmcelvan]

I'm new to overclocking and want to overclock if possible but also want something very safe for my hardware. What does stable mean exactly? Will the computer not boot if unstable, does it just randomly shut down under load if unstable, etc? How to you know if it is stable? Do you just run a stress test, like the Asus real bench or the intel xtu?

Thanks

Ben

 

[TechyInAZ]

I'm new to overclocking and want to overclock if possible but also want something very safe for my hardware. What does stable mean exactly? Will the computer not boot if unstable, does it just randomly shut down under load if unstable, etc? How to you know if it is stable? Do you just run a stress test, like the Asus real bench or the intel xtu?

Thanks

Ben

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