Pretty sure you can crank voltage safely up to around 1.4v with Kaby Lake. Idle temperatures are irrelevant but 50c at idle is not good. It also depends on your cooler obviously. Also, thought you had a 7600k?

13 wrote Pretty sure you can crank voltage safely up to around 1.4v with Kaby Lake. Idle temperatures are irrelevant but 50c at idle is not good. It also depends on your cooler obviously. Also, thought you had a 7600k?

I put a little extra money towards the i7.


and i didnt touch a thing, in the bios was a game boost thing,

I took it off and kept the 4.2 stock,on cs:go its around 70-80C. but only 40 idle.

I wouldn't really use auto OC stuff in the BIOS, it's better to just manually OC IMO. Again, it'll depend on your cooler what voltage and clock speed is safe. You're going to need to stress test the CPU. Just make sure that the CPU is stable and in the 80c range under full load, at most. TJ Maxx is like 105c, but honestly, the 90c range is a bit toasty so I'd recommend keeping your CPU below that, even though 90-100c is technically safe.

I really dont feel confident oc'ing manually, i set the voltage to 1.150v and im getting 35 on idle. seems to be doing okay, do you think i should still stress it? i havent touched frequencies. what do you recommend to stress it?

(just to clarify, its stock speed with the voltage down to 1.150 from auto)

I mean, I'd stress test the CPU anyway, though if you're at stock clocks and voltage it doesn't really matter. If you manually set the voltage, then yeah, you'll need to make sure the chip is stable because you might be undervolting it which could cause instability when the CPU ramps up.

Honestly, I'd just run a stress test at stock settings, see what voltage and temperatures you're sitting at, and then manually OC. It's not even hard, you literally just have to up the clock speed a little bit at a time, and when it starts to become unstable, bump the voltage up a little. Then repeat until you can't up the clock speed and/or voltage anymore without becoming unstable or until you reach your preferred temperature limit under load. Pretty much ignore idle temperatures though, they're not important, load temp is what is important.

Typically safe clock speed for Kaby Lake is around 5GHz, a lot of people are hitting 5GHz. That being said, they're using higher end coolers mostly so I think you're running a 120mm AIO(or am I wayyy off on that)? 120mm AIO should be fine for a decent OC, but if you really want to get the most out of the chip, you'll want to upgrade cooler. Of course, it's all down to silicon lottery in the end.

Typically safe voltage for Kaby Lake is 1.4v, I've heard some people say 1.45v is safe. Again, it'll be different for everyone so this is why you need to stress test to make sure all is well, but as a rough guide, 1.4v or so should be fine.

13 wrote I mean, I'd stress test the CPU anyway, though if you're at stock clocks and voltage it doesn't really matter. If you manually set the voltage, then yeah, you'll need to make sure the chip is stable because you might be undervolting it which could cause instability when the CPU ramps up.

Honestly, I'd just run a stress test at stock settings, see what voltage and temperatures you're sitting at, and then manually OC. It's not even hard, you literally just have to up the clock speed a little bit at a time, and when it starts to become unstable, bump the voltage up a little. Then repeat until you can't up the clock speed and/or voltage anymore without becoming unstable or until you reach your preferred temperature limit under load. Pretty much ignore idle temperatures though, they're not important, load temp is what is important.

Typically safe clock speed for Kaby Lake is around 5GHz, a lot of people are hitting 5GHz. That being said, they're using higher end coolers mostly so I think you're running a 120mm AIO(or am I wayyy off on that)? 120mm AIO should be fine for a decent OC, but if you really want to get the most out of the chip, you'll want to upgrade cooler. Of course, it's all down to silicon lottery in the end.

Typically safe voltage for Kaby Lake is 1.4v, I've heard some people say 1.45v is safe. Again, it'll be different for everyone so this is why you need to stress test to make sure all is well, but as a rough guide, 1.4v or so should be fine.

Yeah your correct I have a seidon 120v ver2

I'm keeping it stock, forever on Csgo I'm hitting 78C which to me says something is wrong, what do you think 13?

Also I tried stressing at stock but with the voltage at 1.150 and it blue screened on prime 95

If you're not overclocking at all, don't manually set voltage or anything, just let it do it's thing.

What utilisation is the CPU at when you hit 78c? If it's 100% load at 78c, that's fine. If it's at like 10% load and hitting 78c, definitely not good.

13 wrote If you're not overclocking at all, don't manually set voltage or anything, just let it do it's thing.

What utilisation is the CPU at when you hit 78c? If it's 100% load at 78c, that's fine. If it's at like 10% load and hitting 78c, definitely not good.

Yeah ive reset it all, and its 100% its when i was on cs:go and battlefield 1, saw on sites that those temps are about right for that cooler

Yeah, 78c is perfectly fine for 100% load.