Once you've determined your latest settings are stable, raise you multiplier and stress test again. For whatever reason, the Battlefield series seems to seek out instability. I would also look at a stress test program called RealBench made by ASUS, it uses a few realworld workloads to stress test with. It will also cause Vcore to be raised (the reason it heats up so much) if voltage control is on anything but manual. If you use Prime 95, use version 26.6, anything newer uses AVX which will heat your CPU beyond anything reasonable. The best approach is to leave your voltage alone and see how far you can push your multiplier before it becomes unstable.
Add voltage to make it stable and test again if your temps allow. Once you are at your desired/max, go into OCCT and stress test infinite for about 15-30 minutes and watch your temps because OCCT puts out alot of heat. Rinse and repeat until you have your desired/ max overclock. Once the system is unstable, add 0.025v to the core until stable again. I try to keep mine under 70 but im also on a closed loop.Īs long as you pass stress tests and your temps are alright, keep upping the multiplier. Make sure to keep your temps under 75c max. Now boot into windows with 36x and stress test again. If it passes, go into the bios and set the multiplier to 36x. Now boot into windows and stress test in XTU for 5 minutes.
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Go into the bios and set the core voltage to manual and set 1.0v, next set the multiplier to 35x Once you have those installed you can start overclocking. So to start overclocking you will need Hwmonitor, OCCT, XTU, and CPU Z.
Thats kinda hypocritical because i run my haswell chip at 1.432v but oh well. Skylake can handle voltages up to like 1.4ish.