Hi Sifu's,

I am planning to over clock my i5 7600k. I got up to 4.6 @ 1.3v stable using the auto overclock feature on my Asus Z270F mobo. Temps was around 60-70 running on my AIO Corsair H100i v2.

Any tips or guide on doing the overclock manually? Im looking to get around 4.8 to 5.0. My biggest concern is what kind of temp I should look at and the max amount of power I should go to get those results. Thank you.

Hi Bro,

Thanks for the insight. I did try the pre-set for 5.0Ghz. The voltage was automatic as you said and it was set at 1.4v.

I was able to boot and used Aida64 to do a simple stress test. Temps was hovering around 70+celcius. However after pass 5 min into the test It went to blue screen. I did not have time to trouble shoot so I reverted back to standard config. But my guess it blue screen because of not enough voltage. So concluded that my chip may not be able to push at 5.0 in low voltage. That's why I want to do a manual over clock.

My question is, would it be blue screen even if the voltage are too high?

Hi Guys,

Well here are my latest update over the weekend.

I am pretty pleased with the results. I am stable at 4.8Ghz with 1.35volts after 4 hours of stress test on Aida64 and 3 hours on intel extreme stress test. I am however facing issues with ROG stress test tool. The error I keep getting is "Luxmark is unresponding". I read somewhere that it is bugged.

The leading up to this results there are funny issues I faced. I did try the 5.0Ghz preset settings from asus but the voltage was set at 4.2volts which is too high for my taste. I tried bring the voltage down but anything below 4.2 would crash once I start Aida64. Even if I put 4.9Ghz at below 1.40v would crash.

What I find ironic is that even it is a 0.1 difference but the voltage increment is substantial.

Well as for temps @ 4.8Ghz I am hovering around 70-85 Degress on max load. It is below 80 degrees for most time during gaming.

I have a question. I am now using manual on my cpu volt/cache @ 1.35v. I plan to change it to adaptive. My stock volt is below 1.2v. So from what ive learnt is that 1.35v - 1.2v = +0.15v to be placed in the adaptive field. Can someone advise me on this? thank you.

Btw I will be uploading all my screen shots tonight.

This post has been edited by frozenkid: Jun 6 2017, 09:27 AM

Thanks a lot bro. Ill go check it out tonight. Cheers.