Is there any chance at all to get a intel i7 6700k to 5GHZs?

[andrewsasseman]

I have been recently overclocking my cpu and so far I’m at 4.5 GHZ on 1.3 volts,I was hoping to see if getting to 5GHZ is possible at all,or is it an extreme stretch?

Specs:
Cpu:Intel i7 6700k

Mono:gigabyte z170 sli

Ram😀DR4 16GB

Gpu: 2x GeForce gtx 950 SLI liquid cooled by Corsair h55

Psu: 700w 80+

 

[Barty1884]

Pro overclocking with LN2 etc, absolutely.

In the real world, probably not, especially not for 24/7 usage.
You'd need to shoot completely past the max recommended 1.35V to have any chance.... and that's just not worth it.

In addition, you'd need a very good motherboard.... the Z170XP SLI (i assume the same board) doesn't have the best cooling on the VRM.
As per TweakTown:

If you overclock over 4.5GHz, I recommend using active airflow over the VRM: GIGABYTE's VRM is capable of supporting the majority of air cooled overclocks, but if you overclock over 4.5GHz, I strongly recommend active airflow. On more expensive motherboards, you might not need it.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7401/gigabyte-z170xp-sli-intel-z170-motherboard-review/index11.html

 

[Dugimodo]

Other than bragging rights, what's the point? My 6700K has been sitting at 4.4 OC for 2.5 years now and I've yet to gain any tangible benefit from not just leaving it at stock. The majority of the time whether gaming or whatever it is not being fully utilised and my GTX 980 is more likely to limit games performance.

For my next build I'm seriously considering going for the non K on a cheaper motherboard, all that extra money for the motherboard and cooling and I end up playing the same games at the same settings anyway and can't tell the difference.

4.4 - 4.5 is easy, any more is down to luck and good cooling and probably not worth the effort IMHO.

 

[Barty1884]

In fairness @Dugimodo, +200MHz was never likely to be groundbreaking differences to begin with.

If you can do 4.7-4.8GHz, stable, there's definitely some gains to be had..... Are they worth the effort though? Probably not.

 

[Dugimodo]

I guess I didn't make my point clearly, I was more getting at the fact that there is enough performance at stock speeds already to play anything you want which makes overclocking in general largely pointless. Especially if you aren't trying to push a high end graphics card at very high frame rates which might be the one case where overclocking is worthwhile.

I stuck with a mild overclock because there's really been no need even for that much performance. I basically felt I "had" to overclock to make having a K series CPU worthwhile. But 4.4 is after all just matching the single threaded turbo across all 4 cores so it's pretty effortless. I am even under volting a little to make it run cooler and only using a hyper 212 evo.

 

[andrewsasseman]

Pro overclocking with LN2 etc, absolutely.

In the real world, probably not, especially not for 24/7 usage.
You'd need to shoot completely past the max recommended 1.35V to have any chance.... and that's just not worth it.

In addition, you'd need a very good motherboard.... the Z170XP SLI (i assume the same board) doesn't have the best cooling on the VRM.
As per TweakTown:

If you overclock over 4.5GHz, I recommend using active airflow over the VRM: GIGABYTE's VRM is capable of supporting the majority of air cooled overclocks, but if you overclock over 4.5GHz, I strongly recommend active airflow. On more expensive motherboards, you might not need it.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7401/gigabyte-z170xp-sli-intel-z170-motherboard-review/index11.html