Delid will reduce the core temps by 15-20C.

Nice try but one minute Prime95 won't suffice.
Pretty sure the core temps will shoot up drastically (at least +10C) at/after 20 minutes of priming.
Need a few hours to confirm stability, 3-6 hours etc

Exactly, bcos of the identical core performance between KBL and Skylake.
But to get that 6700K overclocked to more than 4.8GHz is quite a challenging task LOL.

Hi all, glad that I found this thread. Just built myself a Core i7-7700K with Asus Z270E motherboard PC. I used Asus ROG forum Kaby Lake overclocking guide.

I was doing this stress test at room temperature last night, ~29'c room temp.

I can only achieve 4.7GHz @ 1.29v and stable with 16GB memory XMP to 3200 MHz. Stress test using RealBench v2.43.

I started with:
i) 1.3v and 4.9GHz it rebooted right away when I ran RealBench. Memory at default 2133MHz.
ii) Then 1.3v and 4.8GHz it ran OK, if I memory XMP it to 3200MHz it blue screen during RealBench
iii) Then 1.3v and 4.7GHz it ran OK, XMP memory OK, but quite hot when running RealBench, hit 87'C
iv) Then down volt to 1.29V with similar setting, temperature ~80'c to 83'c full load.
I will follow the guide here to try out other stress test software. Will post some photos this week if time permit.

Some question to bro owikh84:
1. owikh84 you have really good overclock results at such a low Voltage. Congrats! And your temperature runs cool too. Can you share with us your cooling solution?
I'm using 3 fans as front intake (2 fans from Corsair AIO H100i v2), and another 3 fans as exhaust for hot air (2 at top, 1 at rear). Using Corsair Carbide 400C case.

Draw of luck.
For record, only 56% of 7700K has ability to do 5.0GHz+.
6700K would be less and rare.

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Source: https://siliconlottery.com/

Anyone experiencing wrong readings on HWmonitor and CPU-Z?

I set my core voltage to 1.280 in BIOS on manual mode, 4300MHZ (100x43)
But when I run stress test at 100% CPU load
CPU-Z give 1.3+ to 1.38+ voltage used.