QUOTE(ktek @ Oct 12 2016, 11:02 AM)
hyper 212 not enough.
i tell u the risk from my past oc.
cpu broken. zero
ram broken. at least 30-40 pcs
mobo broken. 6pcs
psu broken. 3pcs
graphic. 3pcs
heatsink. zero
fan. 2pcs
Wow. How do you actually OC your GPU until broken
And I found a little problem with
zenho's wished rig, I don't think a 500W PSU is capable of doing OC for both i5 6600K and GTX1070, when GTX1070 may pull somewhere near half the power that psu can supply after overclocking core clock (increase power draw linearly), if also increasing the voltage (increase power draw exponentially). I would suggest a PSU with more than 600W though.
Just sharing to zenho, I did my first overclocking 2 weeks ago, my 6600K reached stable OC of 4.4GHz with around 1.4V (not maximum OC, for this I didn't go too far).
For GPU (mine's GTX1060), at least for Pascal, I don't think it's easy to damage a GPU while overclocking anymore. Mine would reset itself back to base clock if the OC is unstable, in some cases when I OC too much, like for instance +120MHz more than its maximum stable OC, PC went BSOD for minutes and the gpu would too perform the formal action.
For GPU voltage I did overvoltage as well, as most GPU OC software will allow you to increase voltage IN PERCENTAGE from the "base voltage" to its safe voltage which makes overvolting safe and sound in my opinion, such that normally it would use around 1.06V load, while increasing voltage to 100% it would make use of additional 43mV which is the max voltage (1.093V) for the card can "safely" handle (and I figured out sometimes my GPU will reduce its voltage to 1.081V while load too, even if I maximise the voltage). You may go past that voltage but its BIOS will not let you to do that unless you flash custom BIOS.
After all of these nothing breaks so far. Above are all my 2 cents worth.
This post has been edited by lolzcalvin: Oct 17 2016, 02:17 PM