Is this too much of an overclock?
Is this too much of an overclock?
Hey, I just bought a new PC and saw it was overclocked. I'm not sure if the adjustments are too much.
Good news, it looks like Skylake handles higher vcore better than Haswell. Silicon lottery tests chips around 1.4v. As of February 16, 2016, about a third can be overclocked at a reasonable 1.40v setting. For the I7-6700K, the percentages are: 4.8% for 18%, 4.7% for 56%, 4.6% for 87%, and 100% for 4.5%. I’d suggest using adaptive voltage and speedstep to lower the voltage and multiplier when the CPU isn’t busy.
Good news, it looks like Skylake handles higher vcore better than Haswell. Silicon lottery tests chips around 1.4v. As of February 16, 2016, about a third can be overclocked at a reasonable 1.40v. For the I7-6700K, the percentages are: 4.8% for 18%, 4.7% for 56%, 4.6% for 87%, and 100% for 4.5%. I’d suggest using adaptive voltage and speedstep to lower the voltage and multiplier when the CPU isn’t busy.