Looking to Overclock to 5ghz

[princeroyce0209]

This is my 2nd rig, but this time I have a K series processor. I have a i5 8600K, CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i Pro Liquid Cooler, MB: Asus Prime Z390-A, RAM: G.Skill TridentZ 16gb (2x8gb), GPU: Zotac GTX 1070 ti AMP Edition......anyways you kinda get the idea. I overclocked the cpu to 4.6ghz with the voltage at 1.375 ran it on cinebench and my max temp on HWMonitor was 92*C. Tested my gpu on heaven (oc: +175mhz core/+500mhz memory) and got score of 6081. I went to bios cranked cpu up to 4.8 same 1.375 voltage, cinebench with hwmonitor running behind got up to 97*C and got around -20 in my heaven score. 1. Should I still try to increase the voltage cpu

2. Will increasing the voltage make it worse and not be able to run windows

3. If not will higher voltage increase my temps

4. Should I just stick to 4.6ghz at 1.37 volts

5. 4.6ghz vs. 5ghz

Any other suggestions or concerns I should look at please let me know! Thanks!

 

[gxdofsiege6]

Im not the best when it comes to overclocking but I would recommend lowering your voltage a tad while keeping the overclock u have on ur cpu and see if its stable. Lowering the voltage will definitely keep the cpu cooler. If u experience any crashes while benchmarking then it isnt stable and u must change either the voltage or the clock. You have to play around with the clock/voltage and see whats the best considering every cpu is different and not everyone is going to achieve the same overclock. I would aim for a high clock and try and keep the voltage as low as possible to the point where its enough power being delivered to ur cpu but not too much to the point where its thermal throttling.

 

[princeroyce0209]

Im not the best when it comes to overclocking but I would recommend lowering your voltage a tad while keeping the overclock u have on ur cpu and see if its stable. Lowering the voltage will definitely keep the cpu cooler. If u experience any crashes while benchmarking then it isnt stable and u must change either the voltage or the clock. You have to play around with the clock/voltage and see whats the best considering every cpu is different and not everyone is going to achieve the same overclock. I would aim for a high clock and try and keep the voltage as low as possible to the point where its enough power being delivered to ur cpu but not too much to the point where its thermal throttling.

 

[princeroyce0209]

Okay so I’ll start with the default voltage and increase my cpu core from there to see if it’s stable! I’ll get back with the results, thanks!

 

[gxdofsiege6]

Okay so I’ll start with the default voltage and increase my cpu core from there to see if it’s stable! I’ll get back with the results, thanks!

Good luck!

 

[princeroyce0209]

Okay so I’ll start with the default voltage and increase my cpu core from there to see if it’s stable! I’ll get back with the results, thanks!

Good luck!

 

[The Original Ralph]

below are two links to OC guides - one on MSI's web is pretty decent "by the numbers" with shots of each BIOS page - the nomenclature they use for some of the selections differ from your BIOS but it won't take you a second or two to recognize them.
THe second link is by DarkBreeze, here on Tom's, that's explains a lot the MSI guide doesn't

https://www.msi.com/blog/intel-9th-cpu-overclocking-5ghz-with-z390-motherboards

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3761568/beginners-guide-overclocking-cpu-explicit-testing-guidelines.html

 

[princeroyce0209]

below are two links to OC guides - one on MSI's web is pretty decent "by the numbers" with shots of each BIOS page - the nomenclature they use for some of the selections differ from your BIOS but it won't take you a second or two to recognize them.
THe second link is by DarkBreeze, here on Tom's, that's explains a lot the MSI guide doesn't

https://www.msi.com/blog/intel-9th-cpu-overclocking-5ghz-with-z390-motherboards

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3761568/beginners-guide-overclocking-cpu-explicit-testing-guidelines.html

 

[princeroyce0209]

So I was able to achieve up to 5ghz with voltage on auto, stress test it for an hour and it passed! My question is trying to overclock my gpu (Zotac 1070 ti Amp edition). I tested it on Heaven with the previous overclock I had before which was +175 core, +500 memory. I kept the gpu at stock and no crash on heaven. I tried +100 core, +200 memory and it didn’t crash at all, not a crazy overclock but I feel it can be higher but then again idk cause I little later I got blue screened. As of right now I have my cpu at 5ghz with voltage at 0.990 or 0.995, forgot which one but I’m doing a stress test on HWBOT for an hour to see if my cpu is stable. I’ll get back to the results once it’s complete

 

[princeroyce0209]

below are two links to OC guides - one on MSI's web is pretty decent "by the numbers" with shots of each BIOS page - the nomenclature they use for some of the selections differ from your BIOS but it won't take you a second or two to recognize them.
THe second link is by DarkBreeze, here on Tom's, that's explains a lot the MSI guide doesn't

https://www.msi.com/blog/intel-9th-cpu-overclocking-5ghz-with-z390-motherboards

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3761568/beginners-guide-overclocking-cpu-explicit-testing-guidelines.html

 

[princeroyce0209]

I passed the hour stress test based off the link provided, thanks @TheOriginalRalph ! The only thing left now is to overclock my gpu, I wanted to go for the CPU stress test first with stock gpu. Now that I got that handled I’m starting with the +100 core and +200 memory with the power limit and temp limit cranked up (140%,92*C). I got a score of 5561...when I had it at 4.6ghz with voltage at 1.37 and gpu oc at +175 core and +500 memory I got a score of 6081. If someone can help me know the reasoning to this please help! Thanks!